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FOREIGN NOBLEMEN FROM HOME

The Strange Vicissitudes in America of Many Scions of Illustrious Houses.

PRINCES, DUKES, EARLS BARONETS AND BARONS

Wlio Have Become Journalists, Dentists, Brewers, Riding Teachers and Day Laborers.

The day when noblemen and the aristocracy in general can be called the drones of society is fast disappearing, says the New Vork Herald. Like everybody else, advancing civilization forces them to work for their living if they do not want to be pushed to the wall.

Pew people know how many scions of nobility are earning their daily bread in this republic. Hundreds come over every year—English lords and baronets, German counts and barons, French and Italian princes and Russians of high degree. Driven out of their own countries for political or financial reasons, and either afraid or ashamed to work in a country where their forefathers wielded the sword and the lance, they come over to accept the shelter of these hospitable shores and join in America's gigantic hunt for the almighty dollar. In the course of one's rambles one meets many of these. Some have adopted a mercantile pursuit, some are artists, some journalists. Some succeed in their fight for life, others sink to the lowest scale on the ladder of society and some disappear never to be heard of again.

Among the artists in New York who are well known members of the aristocracy of Europe are two German barons, one of whom is remarked by everybody here. Who has not admired those clever caricatures and those sweet women's faces drawn by C. de Grimm. Baron de Grimm comes of one of the oldest families of Saxony, and served for several years in the Imperial German First regiment of the guards. He fought through the whole of the Franco-Prus-sran war and received the iron cross from the hands of King William for personal bravery at the battle of St. Privat. Although a thorough soldier, he was a still more passionate artist aud exchanged the sword for the painter's easel. The baron came to this country a few years ago, and is now the proprietor of the Illustrated Associated Correspondence and of the Etelka Fashion Album.

And who has not noticed on upper Broadway a tall, military-looking man with the enormouB mustache and full beard which distinguish the Baron Bernhard von Paleske? Once an officer in one of Prussia's crack regiments of the guards, the Cuirassiers, the baron preferred the brush to the sword, and although only two years in this country is beginning to make a name for himself as a painter of maritime subjects. The baron comes of an old family of Pommerania, and is a widower.

Among the journalists we find a French nobleman, belonging to a family of the Vendee, which has not yet abandoned the traditions of its ancestors and still clings loyally to the fortunes of the Bourbons. Count Valcourt Vermont, who has been some time in this country, was at one time connected with the Courrier iles Etats Unis and is at present engaged in compiling a heraldic album.

Another knight of the pen is Count William BernBtorfl, a son of the late Count Bernstorff, for many years German ambassador at the court of St. James, and a great-grandson of the celebrated Andrew Peter Bernstorff, the Danish prime minister in ttie latter end of last century. The count is an ofiicer in the Imperial German Sixteenth Hussar regiment. He was in active service for ten years and came to this country about five years ago.

In the latter part of the fifties a German prince, Karl Ludwig of Wurtemberg, was obliged to leave Germany very suddenly, on account of a duel with a cousin of his, through which he incurred the bitter displeasure of his uncle, the present king of Wurtemberg. The prince came to this country, and dropping his litle, called himself only by iiis christian name, taking the second one as a surname. After going through the great civil war, he established himself as a dentist at New Orleans, where Dr. Ludwig is well known. He has married an American, and his son is his partner in the business.

A prominent Englishman, who is lighting against hard odds in this country, is Sir Francis Osborne, fourteenth baronet of his line. Sir Francis had the misfortune of inheriting the title from his uncle, who died withaut iesue, while the estates, being unentailed, reverted to his aunt, the dowager Lady Osborne. With a comparatively small capital Sir Francis emigrated Jto Florida^tive years ago. Like many others, he was swindled out of what capital he had by a south Floridian real estate agency, the investment he had made proving utterly worthless. He is now eking out a poor living at a small town called Acton, on the South Florida railway, working as a common laborer in a sawmill at the rate of SI a day. Sir Francis is nearly related to the duke and duchess of St. Albans and has rich relatives living in New York.

Another prominent Englishman who, after beiug financially shipwrecked in the old country, made his way across the water to the United States and is fighting hand baitle with fate amid great privations, is the brother of the Right Hon. Sir Henry Drummond Wolff, Iv. C. B., her Britannic majesty's minister plenipotentiary at the court of Teheran. Mr. Wolff, whose mother was a daughter of the great earl of Clarendon, is at present in Jacksonville, Fla., acting as porter in a wholesale grocery store. Although an Oxford man, he has at various times filled the poet of dry goods clerk, bill collector and bartender.

Going up the Bowery, shortly after passing Grand street, one arrives at a museum of wax figures, and seeing the somewhat pale cashier sitting at the entrance no one would imagine that he had at on6 time been a dashing Prussian cavalry officer. Von Dassel-Vellersen belonged to one of Germany's crackeet cavalry regiments, and is a nephew of the director of the celebrated government horse-breeding establishments of or»rl

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self comes of an old Prusaian family. The New York riding academies can boast of a fair share of German noblemen. Mostly cavalry officers, all good horsemen, they preferred to stick to their old work rather than enter a profession they knew nothing about.

Prominent among these is the head riding master at Dickel's well known academy on Fifty-seventh street—the Baron von Vietinghoff. The baron comes of an old Russian family and has been in this country several years. He is a good looking man of about thirty yearB of age, talented and distingue, and was married last year to a charming American lady.

At Durland's Ailing academy is a well known figure, tall, and, although past his prime, still as straight as an arrow. This is Captain von Bach, once a captain in the Olga dragoons of the kingdom of Wurtemburg. Now the captain passes most of his time in training horses for the saddle, at which work he is a most efficient hand. Whoever has been at Cohen's riding school on Seventh avenue and Central park will remember the figure of an old riding master. Count Mensdorff is a member of an old Mecklenburg family, and has been in this country a very long time. Another riding master of noble birth is the young Baron von Veltheim, who is employed at the Seventy-fifth street academy. The baron is a scion of a noble Hanoverian family arftl was for several years an artillery officer in Hanover.

Who does not know the jovial figure and hearty laugh of Baron Von Graberg, the malt king, the quondam officer of the imperial artillery of the guards. Baron von Graberg is married to an American lady and is becoming a regular thoroughgoing American.

Among other German noblemen who have well served their adopted country must not be forgotten General von Schack. Von Sohack was an officer in the Prussian First regiment of the guards, and came to this country before the war. He fought on the federal side and attained the rank of major general. He served after the war for twenty years in the United States custom house. The general is married to an American lady, and his wife is co-pro-prietor of the Etelka Fashion Album.

An ex-officer of the German regiment of the garde du corps is Baron Radowitz. He is a brother of the governor of Altona ana of the Imperial German ambassador at Constantinople. The latter is a great protege of Prince Bismarck. The baron has been a great while in America and is now one of the prominent coal merchants of this city.

The kingdom of Holland has also its contingent among the merchants here. Baron de Geer, of The Hague, is an importer, having his office on Fourteenth street. The baron is as yet unmarried.

The Marquis de Moree, who was atone time well known here as the great importer of meat and proprietor of the firm of "From Ranch to Table," which failed here a year ago, will still be fresh in the memory of New Yorkers.

Another nobleman, this time of an old Italian family, is the Marquis de Croisic, the propietor of the Croisic fiats, orf Twenty-Bixth street.

Of course every one remembers the Marquis di Lanza's sudden turn of fortune when the beautiful daughter of Dr. Hammond fell in love with him.

And now it is said that the noble duke of Sutherland has expatriated himself and settled in Florida, where he will cultivate the orange tree and crown with orange blossoms the lady with whom he has traveled so much.

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And Mrs. Monroe, who, sayB the Waterbury (Conn) Herald, keeps a candy store on north Elm street, with a shawl around her head, ran after a little fellow who could be seen flying as fast as his nimble limbs could carry him, far ahead of his ponderous victim.

Mrs. Monroe was greatly disadvantaged on account of her store apparel and weight of years, which left her far behind the object of her clutches, while the iittle man, who is not as high as the counter in her store, was evidently in good trim for a run.

The race was kept up for about ten minutes, when Mrs. Monroe gave up the contest and returned, panting as a stout woman will pant. "It's a shame," cried Mrs. Monroe, when she got her breath, "that Scovill's allow their men to bring out these 5 cents, passing them off on honest people who are trying to make a decent living. This is not the first time I was trapped this way, but in the future I'll be up to them. See here, young man," and she showed a handful of unstamped five-cent pieces.

The Scovill company has the contract with the United States government for the supply of unstamped five-cent pieces. These coins are exactly the shape and size of five-cent piece, and only await the government stamp to make them currency. It is stated that certain employes of the Scovills are stealing unstamped coin and passing them for genuine five cent pieces wherever the bad light or poor eyes of store and saloon keepers will permit.

TEN GOOD THINGS TO KNOW.

That cool rain-water and soda will remove machine grease from washable fabrics.

That ripe tomatoes will remove ink and other stains from white cloth, also from the hands.

That a tablespoonful of turpentine boiled with white clothes will aid in the whitening process.

That boiled starch is much improved by the addition of a little sperm salt or gum arabic dissolved.

That kerosene will soften boots and shoes that have been hardened by water and render them as pliable as new.

That salt will curdle new milt hence in preparing milk porridge, gravies, etc., the salt should not be added until the dish is prepared.

That clear boiling water will remove tea stains and many fruit stains. Pour the water through the stain, and thus prevent it spreading over the fabric.

That kerosene will1 make tin tea-ket-tles as bright as new. Saturate a woolen rag and rub with it. It will also remove stains from varnished furniture.

That blue ointment and kerosene mixed in equal proportions and applied to the bedsteads is an unfailing bedbug remedy, as a coat of whitewash is for the walls of a log-house.

That beeswax and salt will make rusty fiatirona as clean and smooth as glass. Tie a lump of wax in a rag and keep it for that purpose. When the irons are hot rnb them first with the wax rag, then scour with a paper or cloth •prinked with salt.

THE TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS, SUNDAY MORNING, FEBRUARY 24, 1889,

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A BABY COUNTERFEITER.

What Waterbury Storekeepers Have to Look Out for.

"Wait now till I ketch that little bla'guard. I'll give him more for his 5 cents than he bargained for."

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LITTLE RED RIDING HOOD.

ANEW VERSION.

A sorrowful tale It Is that Is told In tne nursery story, quaint and old, Of the wolf that strayed

In the forest's shade.

And captured the maid with his cunning bold.

Now listen to me—'tis a version new— Which, If not so strange. Is all of It true But the maiden, Instead

Of a hood of red,

Wears a soft little knitted one of blue.

Beneath It her hair, ss golden and bright, In crisp shining lulnkles catches the light And no fairer brow

Could be found, I trow.

Than the one It shelters, so smooth and white.

And early and late, and every day, Be the skies benign, or gloomy and gray, On an errand she goes,

Through suns and snows,

And tarries no moment upon her way. But as for the wolf—I am somewhat In doubt. Suppose we dispense with him—leave him out-

Though ott In the streets A wolf one meets,

Who after his prey is roaming about, The wolf of the world, whose fangs are long, Whose tongue is hungry, whose c!aws are strong,

Who stealthily stalks 'Mid crowded walks,

Unheeded by all of the hastening throng. Though scarce do I know if my own heroine Ha* ever this presence so grim e'ea seea,

But should he arise Before her eyes,

A different tale could be told, I ween.

Than that of the maid who walked In the wood, For at the brave glance of our Bed Riding Hood, He would shrink back dismayed,

Defeated—afraid,

As evil Is e'er overcome with good. So she walks to and fro to her dally work. Through shining and storming, through mists and murk-

Bed Riding Hood new, In her hood of blue,

Unharmed by the dangers that round her lurk.

PLAYED WITH ORANGE SEEDS.

Chinamen Invent a Curious Variation of the Fan-Tan Game.

A brand-new method to play the fantan has just been introduced by some enterprising Chinese gamblers in New York, who expect to elude the police. The game, as is well known to most detectives of the Sixth ward, is usually played with a lot of little Chinese coins upon along table. By this new method it is played with a box full of Mandarin oranges, which the dealer buys at wholesale rates from the fruit dealers downtown.

According to the New York World, one who does not know the ins and outs of the heathen's civilization would think he was before a Chinese fruit dealer peddling out his oranges by retail at an immense rate of profit.

This unique gambler carries his box of oranges on one 8rm, while a sharppointed knife and a square choppingboard are also parts of his equipment. With these he goes from one store into another, or wherever he sees a crowd of Chinese laundrymen, but instead of selling the fruit he lays down the choppingboard and selects a good-sized orange, removes the skin carefully, and places it upon the board. In the middle of this board, or chopping-block,is the figure 20.

The gamblers bet on the number of seeds in the orange, twenty being taken as the mean. It is "even money" where there are more or lees than twenty, and if the player is so disposed he places his money on that figure itself and wins three for one if there are just twenty seeda The dealer gets 7 per cent, commission. When the bets are laid the dealer cuts the orange and counts the seeda Those who lay money on the right of the figure play for lees than twenty those on the left for more.

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Their money is not taken in case twenty wins. By a curious oriental irony the heaviest loser gets the fragments of the fruit.

One fellow on Mott street recently disposed of half a dozen boxes of oranges in this way and won 810.

HISTORICAL NOTES.

Envelopes were first used in 1839. Anaesthesia was discovered in 1844. The first steel pen was made in 1803. The first air-pump was made in 1654. The first daily paper appeared in 1702. The first lucifer matcn was made in 1798.

The first iron steamship was built 1830. Mohammed was born at Mecca about 570.

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The first balloon ascent was made in 1798. Coaches were first ueed in England in 1569.

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The Franoiscans arrived in England inl224-first The steamboat plied the Hudson in 1807.

The entire Hebrew bible was printed in 1488. Ships were first "copper-bottomed 1783.

Gold was fist discovered in California in 1848. The first telescope was used in England in 1608.

Christianity was introduced in Japan in 1549. The first watches were made at Nuremberg in 1477.

The first sawmaker's anvil was brought to America ift 1819. The firet almanac was printed by George von Furbach in 1460.

The first newspaper advertisement appeared in 1652. Percussion arms were used in the United Statee army in 1830.

The first use of a locomotive in this country was in 1829. Omnibusses were first introduced New York in 1830.

Crusoe's Cave a* a Resort.

Consul Moses H. Sawyer at Trinidad sends the state department a report for everybody who has read Robinson Crusoe. Consul Sawyer says: "I have to report that the annexation of Tobago to Trinidad takes effect January 1, 1889. This small, fertile, and healthy island is situated twenty miles northeast of Trinidad, in latitude 11 deg, 9 sec north, and longitude 60 deg. 1- sec west. It has an area of (3,313 acres, only 10,000 of which are under cultivation. The population in 1881 was 18,051, engaged in the cultivation of sugar, cocoa, and coffee. In 1885 the exports were £38,437 imports. £30,758 revenues, £10,826 expenditures, £12,031. There are two towns, Scarborough (the capital) and Plymouth, each having a good harbor. At Scarborough the royal mail steamers for Southampton await their time to sail bi-monthly from Trinidad. Tobago has the honor of having been inhabited by a celebrated shipwrecked mariner, as described by the genius of De Foe, and many travelers visit the island out of curiosity to see the famous Crusoe cave that is said to have been the abode of him and his tamed cannibal, Friday."

A brother of Legitime, the Haytian leader, lives in Pomona, Cal. It is to be hoped that he is a better citizen than Murchison-Osgoodby.

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L&DIES LOSING WATCHES.

An Investigating Scribe Tells Where They Should Wear Them.

Going into some of the large storeB up town, one may notice that many of the young women behind the counters who are so fortunate as to possess watches have the rings at the Btems of their timepieces drawn through holes in their jerseys and fastened down securely by a button, so that a watch could not be removed without quite an effort, and certainly not without its wearer knowing about it, says a writer in the Boston Herald. This is a scheme of wearing a watch that has gone into fashion in the stores, and it has a substantial and sensible basis. Recently a great many watches have been stolen or lost, and in the lost and found columns of the Herald a larger number than usual have been reported. From the small number reported as found compared with the large number reported as lost, it is apparent that either the honesty of the people who have been finding watches on the curbstones lately is at a very low standard, or else the watches were really not lost in the sense intended by the advertisers, but stolen. It has been quite fashionable for ladies, especially those engaged in the stores, to wear their watches in their bosoms, with fob chains hanging out of the bottonholes of their jerseys.

In most of the cases where watches have been lost the wearers had grown careless, and to save time and to have the timepieces as available as men have theirs, they had just tucked them in between their corset covers and the corsets, instead of inside the corsets as most ladies, it is believed, do. Thus worn, they were an invitation to a pickpocket, and in the crowds on the horse cars and ferries just after the closing hours of the stores it was an easy matter for an expert thief to make a "haul." A lady who lives at the other end of Beacon street had the misfortune to find a watch on one of the streets down town the other day, and she advertised it in the Herald. The applicants who called right away after the appearance of the advertisement were so numerous that it was one person's work to attend the door. The lady was surprised that so many people could have lost watches. The police will say that there are no thieves in the city—they always do but the young ladies up-town know better.

Burglars Foiled by Cat.

John T. Lester claims to have a cat in his house that is gifted with human intelligence. About two years ago Mr. Lester was awakened in the middle of the night by this cat, which was jumping about on his bed and yowling around the room as if the house was on fire. Mr. Lester chased the cat away and resumed his slumbers, but Thomas returned and persistently refused to be ejected. Finally Mr. Lester arose and determined that he should have rest, though at the expense of throwing the cat into next township. But he made the discovery that burglars were endeavoring to enter the house, frightened them away, and thereafter placed Thomas upon an honorary pedestal. [Chicago Tribune.

King Charles's Latest Craze.

One of the fancies of the king of Wurtemberg is to ascertain whether the moon is inhabited, by causing photographs to be taken of that luminary ana then magnifying the negatives a

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hundred thousandfold. The pictures produced by this process show nebuke with little dots, and the king declaree the dots to be men and women. He hopes eventually to get some of them into distinct shapes. People will not believe in the result till the king is by his system enabled to give the names of the individuals.—[London Court Journal.

Talk With a Man Who Was Hangod.

"When the rope first squeezes a man's neck it hurts the skin somewhat. My throat and neck were sore ana swelled for a week after I was robbed. But soon as the pressure is on he knqjvs no more about it. I just went to sleep, and that was the end of it until I began to come to. They strung me up three times, but I just said I had no dust. The last time, I judge, I was a

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coming to I guess they thought I was dead. When I woke up, kind o' dazed like, I was sitting in the chair, and they were hunting around the place. Then they threw the rope over the beam again' and I pointed to a stone in the hearth they dug there and got a tomato can full of dust—about six thousand dollars. It was getting daylight then, and they went off. I sat quiet and stupid till the neighbors came in and put me to bed."—[Joseph. Krickland in America.

Beaten to Death by a 4-year-old.

An extraordinary crime, if the deed can be called a crime, owing to the offender being a child of only 4 years of age, was committed in this city yesterday. It appears tfcat a poor woman living in the vicinity of the Plaza Triunfo left her room, leaving her baby of enly a few weeks old fast asleep, and a second child, aged some 4 years, playing in the room. On her return, to her consternation, she found that her 4-year-year-old child had beaten the baby so severely over the head with a stick that the little thing was dead. The only theory advanced is that the baby had awakened, and in order to quiet it the older had innocently beat it over the head and caused its death.—[Panama Star and Herald.

KNOW THYSELF.

The full capacity of the lungs is about three hundred and twenty cubic inches. The human skeleton consists of more than two hundred distinct bones.

Each perspiratory duct is

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of an inch in length of the wholb, about nine miles. About two-thirds of a pint of air is inhaled and exhaled at each breath of ordinary respiration.

The weight of the heart is from eight to twelve ounces. It beats 100,000 times in twenty-four hours.

The skin contains more than two million openings, which are the outlet of an equal number of sweat glands.

An amount of blood equal to the whole quantity in the body passes through the heart once every minute.

The stomach daily produces nine pounds of gastric juice for digestion of food its capacity is about five pints.

A man breathes eighteen times a minute, and 3,000 cubic feet or about three hundred and seventy-five hogsheads of air every hour of his existence. *,

The average man takes five and onehalf pounds of food and drink each day, which amounts to one ton of solid and liquid nourishment annually.