Greenfield Evening Republican, Greenfield, Hancock County, 13 January 1896 — Page 4

1AR CLOUD CLEARING

7 England and Germany Not' Going to Fight Just Yet.

LATER COMPLICATIONS EXPECTED

Movements on the Part of tlte British Government Guarded as State Secrets. Prepared For War If It Is Necessary.

The Feeling in Germany Is For Peace.

Affairs in South Africa. LONDON, Jan. 13.—Interest in the

Transvaal question in its immediate bearings has revived to an appreciable extent, while the incidental straining of relations between Great Britain and Germany, which so completely placed the Boers in the background of the picture for a time, has in its turn receded but by no means disappeared. There is little apprehension of war with Germany over the present complication at least, and the British public has a reassuring1 sense that if there is to be a war England is right ready for it. The prompt and efficient measures of the naval authorities and the formidable show of strength that is the result, gives John Biill a feeling of confidence.

There are no further explicit announcements of movements looking to an alliance of the powers against England. Nevertheless, it is keenly perceived by the public that the sentiment displayed by the German government has a far wider bearing than the present dispute in Transvaal, and there are visions of future complications on questions of conflicting interests.

Saturday's cabinet council and the meetings at the colonial office remain largely" a subject of speculation, and whatever decisions may have been taken are sedulously guarded as state secrets and the greatest carc taken to avoid publicity.

Mr. William H. Mercer, private secretary to Colonial Secretary Chamberlain, said to a representative of the Associated Press that the secretary had no further telegrams to communicate to the public which had been received from South Africa. The visit of the Priwe of Wales to the colonial office on Saturday, he said, just when several of the directors of the Chartered South Africa company were {here, was purely an accidental coincidence. His royal highness called, he said, to show his interest, and had mode seme kind remarks in recognition to Secretary Chamberlain's labors. Thiw explanation is hardly likely to satisfy the public, in view of the repeated statements published, that the directorship of the Duke of Fife, husband of Princess Louise of Wales, in the Chartered South Africa company, is a subject of concern to the royal family, and especially to the queen.

It is understood that the difficulty over the manner of disposal of Dr. Jameson's followers was settled on Saturday, the Transvaal government simply stipulating that the rank and file of the Jameson expedition should be deported from South Africa. According to the Transvaal law the punishment for treason is banishment and a large fine. It is not believed here that President •KrugejjA'is demanded the abrogation of nilinden convention, which provides for the suKcrrin'ty of Great Britain over the Transvaal as the price of sparing Dr. Jameson's life.

A dispatch from sources sympathetic with the Transvaal government in Johannesburg asserts that the plot for Dr. Jameson's raid and the coincident uprising of the uitlanders was the most shameful in history. The blackest part of the plot the dispatch asserts was the intention of the agents of the Chartered South Africa company to set loose the jsavages to invade the Transvaal from all points and to kill every white man. It had been arranged that all over South Africa provision stations should be erected on the lines of the route, and the points had been fixed. The object was to destroy Pretoria and to present England with a fait accomplix before any interference could reach them. Sketches of Pretoria and of the Rand made by military men have, it is said, been seized.

This story is denounced in London as a gross exaggeration, and, it is regarded as being intended to prejudice the South Africa company in the negotiations it is vxoaking.

A dispatch received by the Chartered »cmth Africa company from Buluwayo Announces that the outcome of a mass•e.ting of the English colony, bankers auk lerchants, there was a declaration passeKunauimously to obey the imperial govermiK I

The Feeling IT*. Ccmany.

"BERLIN, Jan. 13.—There is distinctly less stress of feeling here in regara to the international complication growing out of the Transvaal crisis, and the German press, as a rule, devotes less space to it than for some time. The tone of the comment of the newspapers, which means so much in this land of press censorship and inspired expressions in newspapers is rather more peacable and there is less talk of active hostilities and more hope expressed of an unarmed setelement of the question at issue. Expressions of irritation at the British .. government and of rancor against the N

fSnglish people are still more or less ,rf tntter, however.

Affoira at Johannesburg.

FX JOHANNESBURG, Transvaal, Jan. 18.— passport restrictions which were imposed during the crisis have been re- £. m©red, and further commandeering haa iJ- Iwen stopped, but the burghers are already under arms, and have been ordered to remain in the vicinity of JoN tumnesburg.

Dr. Jameson and his officers are still Pretoria, where Sir Walter Hely:^Hntchinson, governor of Natal, has & arrived.

The high court has placed an injunction on all bank balances and other property belonging to those arrested for complicity in the revolution.

Disposing of Jameson and His Party. PRETORIA, Transvaal, Jan. 13.—The

•fntilr and file of the prisoners who composed Dr. Jameson's raiding party have started for Natal. Dr. Jameson and frtia officers remain here, but it is exjpcted that they will leave shortly for ^deportation to England. '•, A large safe which was consigned to

Farrar, one of the imprisoned Rand Aeaders, was opened by the customs' officers and was found to contain 100 rea 7,000 rounds of cartridges. t-

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MINES TOUCHED OFF."

How* I«aliana Killed Ten Thousand Abys- .. sinians. LONDON, Jan. 18.—A special dispatch received here from Rome says that 10,000 Abyssinians were killed or wounded in the attack made upon Makale on Jan. 8.

Later reports received here are to the effect that the heavy Abyssinian losses in the attack upon Makale, on Jan. 8, when 10,000 natives were killed, was due to the explosion of mines laid by the Italians outside the fortifications.

General Baratiroi, in command of the Italian forces in Abyssinia, telegraphs the government at Rome that the Italians have repulsed several fresh attacks by the Shoans on Makale, the losses being slight.

TELEGRAPHIC M-

TAPS.

Condensed Xrws by Wire From Different Parts of tlie Globe. At Hicksville, O., the little daughter of O. H. Kiger was found drowned in a cistern.

D. A. Mitchell, one of the leading grocers of Marysville, O., made an assignment.

Professor Clark, aged 74, and Mrs. Margaret Welch, aged 68, were married at East Liverpool, O.

The Warren County National bank has indicted W. A. Boynton, ex-cashier of the First National bank at Franklin, O.

At Salem, O., a fine of $20 and costs was assessed in every case where a street car was found to be without a vestibule.

Frank Hall, aged 18, living near California, O., received injuries which caused his death by having a horse fall on him.

John and Charles Clendennin have been arrested at Gallipolis, O., charged with bribing court witnesses in a civil case.

An unsuccessful attempt was made to secure §10 from Gertie Ditinan, a clerk at the Greenville (O.) postoffico, by a "flimflam" scheme.

M. Kosteby, the Russian minister to the United States, arrived in New York on the La Champagne, and left for Washington at once.

J. R. Miller, living near Bucyrus, O., was struck on the head by a tree which he was felling, and received injuries from which he died.

A brabeman named Fredricbs, on his first trip, fell from a Norfolk and Western train at Wilsondale, W. Va., and had his leg cut off.

John A. Kendig of Chicago, a prominent attorney and classmate of President Garfield, was found dead at his residence. Apoplexy the cause.

Tlie congregation of the New Light church, at Winchester, O., are divided over a question of re-establishing the oldtime mourner's benches.

Rev. Joseph E Ebben Powell of Findlay, O., the minister, who, to illustrate his theories, committed fraudulent registration, has been indicted.

The crown sheet of an engine on the Toledo and Ohio Central railroad blew out near Bucyrus, O., aud Fireman Sam Shearer was badly scalded.

At Poughkeepsie, N. Y., Mary Welch, a servant, became insane recently and began worshiping a pet cat. She has been committed to an asylum.

The grand jury at Wilkesbarre, Pa., Saturday returned true bills against seven murderers, all foreigners, who are now in the county prison awaiting trial.

Dillon Cotton, colored, has been held by Justice McKane of East St. Louis, Ills., for the grand jury, on the charge of murdering C. H. Thompson on Dec. 27.

Boys found a box containing a lot of old foreign coins near Shreve, O., which is supposed to have been buried by some of General Anthony Wayne's soldiers.

John Smith died at his home near Jonesboro, Ills., Saturday at the advanced age of 105 years. was born in North Carolina, and has live in Illinois over 75 years.

Maid Marian, the famous racing mare and star of tlie Kendall stable, at Memphis, died Saturday, kicking herself to death because of frenzy over severe blistering.

General Francis Channing Barlow, the former attorney general of New York, and widely known lawyer, died at his home in New York city Saturday in his 61st year.

A general revision of the banking laws is contemplated by Senator Knute Nelson of Minnesota. It provides for decreasing the capital stock of banks in cities having less than 5,000 inhabitants.

The state insurance commissioner of Ohio has issued an order debarring the Fraternal Mystic Circle from transacting business in the state. The order numbers about 14,000 members in Ohio.

An express train going south on the Grand Rapids and Indiana railroad, instantly killed Louis Scheifstine, one mile north of Decatur, Ind. He was a prosperous farmer about 40 years old and unmarried.

A Louisville and Nashville freight train rac into a rock pile two miles south of Middlcchoro, Ky. Hal Looney, the engineer, was Fred Jones, the fireman, had a leg broken and his head cut. Both live at Corbin, Ky.

Governor Holcombe of Arkansas has given John Walker, formerly of Lawrenceburg, Ky., a respite of 60 days. Walker was to have been hanged for the alleged murder of a man named Stevens, in Arkansas, three years ago.

At Frankfort, Ky., Judge Barr of the United States district court sentenced County Attorney Frank Prater of Grayson, Carter county, Ky., to 80 days in jail for obstructing justice. Prater's particular offense was an assault on Commissioner Gregory.

Brother Dominic, who Is the miller at the grist mill of the monastery at Gethsemane Abbey, near New Haven, Ky., was almost Instantly killed while oiling the machinery. His garb caught and his body was rapidly whirled around in the machinery and terribly mangled.

An Italian miner named Gabel Daller, employed in No. 10 mine, at Brazil, Ind., endeavored to jump on the cage as it was being drawn from the mine, and in gome manner fell. His head was caught between the cage and the side of the shaft and completely torn from his body and crushed into a sha^less mass.

Cincinnati Tobacco Market.

Hhds.

Offerings for the week 979 Rejections for the week 344 Actual sales for the week 769 Receipts for the week 1,125

The range of prices on the week's offerings was as (allows: 419, tl@iJ 95 808, $4@6 95 136, $6®7 95 43, $8@9 95 89, $10@11 75 28v |12@14 50 6, flo@15 75.

Indications.

Fair coldir weather northwesterly winds.

AID FOR ARMENIANS

Detroit People Extend Relief and Sympathy.

SEVERAL MEMORIAL ADOPTED.

The United States Government and the Queen of Great Britain Urged to Take Action to Prevent Further Atrocities by the Turks—Don. M. Dickinson Defines

International Law. DETROIT, Jan. 13.—A representative gathering of men and women of Detroit yesterday afternoon took action expressive of keenest sympathy with the Armenian sufferers, and also by the gift of over $500 made a substantial beginning in rendering financial aid to that oppressed people. The meeting also adopted memorials to the United States government and to the Queen of Great Britain, urging action which shall forever end the atrocities perpetrated by Turks against Christians. The gathering filled the Central M. E. church auditorium to the doors. General Russel A. Alger presided and urged that Americans should solemnly protest against the Armenian outrages, and if words were not sufficient should man their guns and go there and help put a stop to it.

Don M. Dickinson sent regrets that absence from the state prevented his attondance. Cn the international law feature of the subject Mr. Dickinson wrote that it was naturally and morally legal to interfere where the general interests of humanity were so infringed by the excesses of a barbarous and despotic government. In view, however, of the remoteness of the United States from the scene and the presence of representatives of the powers there, Mr. Dickir.son did not believe that intervention by the United States by force would be either wise, necessary or effective. Neither would it be wise to send our ships out of American waters now.

Stirring addresses were made by Bishop Ninde of the M. E. church, by several local pastors and by Horan M. Kirctclcjian, general secretary of the Armenian Relief association.

A collection of $501 was taken, to be disbursed through tlie Red Cross association and resolutions were adopted, petitioning the United States government to bring to be ir on the Christian powers of Europe all possible moral influence to end the Turkish atrocities, and declaring that if tlie European powers continue to consult diplomacy rather than humanity, America's right to interfere will be a solemn and binding duty.

The following cablegram was sent to Queen Victoria: "We, the citizens of Detroit, in massmeeting assembled, appeal to you to use your great power, without further delay, to stop the slaughter of the Armenians, This is, in our judgment, the supreme duty of the hour resting upon the Christian powers of Ei#jpe. If circumstances beyond your control prohibit action on your part, we respectfully suggest that the European powers jointly invite the United States, or some other Christian power, to exercise their .iglit under the provisions of international law, where (as now in Turkish Armenia) the lives of missionaries and the general interests of humanity are infringed by the excesses of a barbarous and despotic government, and intervene to end this outrage on humanity and modern civilization. We beg to pledge the co-operation of our people in every practical effort to end these atrocities."

MISSION OF RELIEF.

Miss Clara Barton Will Start For Turkey Within Two Weeks. BOSTON, Jan. 13.—It has just been learned here through Mr. Hagob Bogigian, who is prominently connected with the Armenian relief movement, that Miss Clara Barton, secretary of the Red Cross society, will start for Turkey on her mission of relief to the suffering Armenians within two weeks. This decision was reached at a conference held in New York Thursday, at which Mr. Bogigian, Philip W. Moen of Worcester, Spencer Traske of New York, Miss Barton and Rev. Judson Smith, D. D., of the American board, were present.

The gentlemen mentioned represent committees engaged in raising the required funds for Miss Barton's work, and on the latter's consent to sail as soon as she received $50,000 they pledged that amount, feeling sure it can be raised immediately.

Miss Barton will take 15 assistants, three or four of whom will be women, and will locate in Constantinople, and after a survey of the field, will send her agents into the afflicted districts.

FROM A BURNING BUILDING.

Five People Badly Burned and Another Severely Cut With Glass. STURGEON BAY, Wis.,Jan. 13.—Fire in

the residence of Banker James Keegh, at an early hour Sunday morning, came near resulting in a terrible holocaust, and as it was four members of the family and the domestic were badly burned and one severely cut with glass.

Mrs. Keegh was ill and the shock and bums she received, it is feared, will cause her death.

Mrs. Keogh saved four children by heroic dashes through the flainies. Upstairs were two daughters. When awakened, the downstairs part of the house was ablaze, but one of them rushed down and out of doors, receiving only slight injuries. The other feared to follow and broke the window to eall for aid. By this time the young men outside had formed a human ladder, several high, by standing on each other's shoulders, and were enabled to rescue the distracted girl, who was badly cut about the body in getting out, being clad only in her night dress.

The Jokers Joked.

LAWRENCEBTJRG, Ky., Jan. 18.—Four young boys living at Waddy, a small station on the Southern railroad north of Lawrenceburg, had a narrow escape from sudden death in attempting to perpetrate a joke. They went to the 1 town's edge to explode a stick of dynamite in a tree to make the inhabitants believe there was an earthquake.. A p) e: nature detonation broke down the I tree, knocking the quartet of jokers unconscious, but not fatally injuring

them. ,JV

BOUNDARY.

Senator Davis Explains Why England Wants Part of the Territory. WASHINGTON, Jan. 13.—Senator Davis of the committee on foreign relations has given considerable attention to the Alaskan boundary dispute. He has found nothing in his investigations which would cause him to change the lines which have always been understood as the boundary, and upon which both countries have been proceeding for many years. He says that the only question in dispute is whether the 10 marine leagues from the ocean meant from the main land or from the adjacent islands.

Mr. Davis says that this does not even present a case for arbitration, because it is manifestly plain that tlie shore of the main land of the continent is the basis of the true line. It is also evident from the selection of the mountain range as a line that the men who drew the boundary agreement meant that the line should be 10 leagues from the ocean where it touched the main land. Island, he says, always go with the shore and when a question arises as to whether an island, no matter at what time settled or claimed belongs to one country or another it goes always to the country owning the main land, if the main land is adjacent. So it is with the islands of the Alaskan archipelago. They become the property of Russia because Russia owned the main land of the shore and became the property of the United States when Alaska was sold to this country.

The desire of Great Britain for a portion of the Alaskan c#ast is plainly appatent, declares'Senator Davis, when it is considered that there is a vast country in the northwest territory which can reach the seaboard only through a pass in the north Rocky mountains and thence across the strip of land owned by the United States. East of the Rocky mountains and east of the Alaskan coast is a country of almost inestimable extent, known as the Peace river countiy There may be 100,000,0JO acres of tillable or pastoral ground there. It has the benefit of the warm air currents from the Pacific, which makes it a milder climate than in those portions of the northwest territory still farther east.

It is desired by Great Britain to open up this great wheat and stock produciug country and secure a short route to the sea. A branch of the Canadian Pacific road could be built through this Peace river region, and by a pass through the mountains reach the sea coast without much trouble, and by a much shorter haul than by railroads further south. This would give the Canadian Pacific another western terminus, and would build up a British city right upon the flank of the Alaskan ossession of the United States. There would be another great nayal station and a military post commanding our Alaskan territory and the protection which the Alaskan coast now gives to this country would be largely nullified.

The object of Great Britain is quite plain. Upon the great fertile lands to be opened by building a road to the coast through the Peace river region there would be vast fields of cereals competing with the grains raised in our states along our northern bor ers. At present these fields can not ue opened nor the lands developed because of the long rail haul to the terminus of the Canadian Pacific road. Without another terminus in Alaska these great fields can not be opened -without the consent of the United States. Senator Davis does not think this government will ever seriously consider the question of arbitrating the Alaskan boundary.

SHOT AND BURNED TO ASHES.

Terrible Fate of a White Man and His Colored Wife. .NEW ORLEANS, Jan. 13.—PatrickMorris, a white railroad hand, and his colored wife met with a terrible fate Saturday night. They lived in a flatboat near the Westwego wharf of the Texas and Pacific railroad, a few miles above the city on the opposite side of the river. On account of their difference in color, as well as the charge that they kept a disorderly place for negroes, there has been a growing sentiment against them. They were sitting up in their boat when a body of men came down and set fire to the hull. They sought refuge on shore and as soon as they made their appearance they were riddled with bullets. The woman was killed outright, but the man fell crippled and the two were burned to ashes on the boat.

The authorities of Jefferson parish where the affair occurred, claim they can not discover the perpetrators, but the 11-year-old son of the victims who escaped with his life and is now in charge of the society for the prevention of cruelty to children, says that a business rivalry was at the bottom of the burning, his father having had trouble with a saloonkeeper in the vicinity. He claims to have identified several of the crowd, all of whom^were white men. The citizens in the Vicinity, however, say that the place was a nuisance and that the couple had been run away from several places. They think that the men went there for the purpose of giving Morris a whipping, but that he showed fight and infuriated his oppressors to encompas his own doom.

HE PLANTED A WALNUT.

From the Tree That Grew He Made His Own Coffin. GRBENSBURG, Ind., Jan. 18.—Oren

Farthing, a wealthy fanner of Bartholomew county is quite an eccentric character. He is about 80 years of age. Thirty-five years ago he planted a walnut at his front doorstep, from whioh he expected to raise a tree to furnish the timber for his coffin. From the walnut grew agflne large tree.

The other day he ordered the tree felled and made into lumber, for, as he said, he "might need itj»urty soon." He had his carpenter take his measure and begin work on the coffin at once. Mr. Farthing has been in poor health for some time, having suffered a stroke of paralysis a few weeks ago. Saturday his physician reported him decidedly worse, and the carpenter is hurrying with all his might to have the coffin ready for burial in case he should need it soon.

Bernhardt Again With Ufc

NEW YORK, Jan. 18.—Among the passengers on the steamer La Gascogne, which arrived here yesterday, were Mme. Sarah Bernhardt, the actress, and the members of her oompany, which opens at Abbey's theater on Jan. 80.

A CAR'S ESCAPADE.

IT STARTED A NEW BREED OF CATTLE IN THE DELAWARE VALLEY.

Coe Little's Bills and His Train Failed to Agree When He Reached Port Jervis. The Explanation Offered For the Car's

Strange Freak.

"It isn't likely that there is any of the Coe Little breed of cattle left in the upper Delaware valley," said a veteran railroad man, "because, by this time, their identity must have been destroyed though mixture with other breeds. It doesn't matter, for there was nothing of particular aote about that breed of cattle, except the way they happened to be introduced into that locality. "In those days live stock transportation was one of the Erie's big items of traffic. Trains half a mile long, loaded with horned cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, used to pass over the road two or three times a day. Such a thing is almost a curiosity nowadays. Coe Little was conductor of one of these stock trains between Susquehanna and Port Jervie. He left Susquehanna one night, in those good old days of railroading, with a long train of cattle cars. Those trains were next to passenger trains in class, and were run over the road a-hum-ming. Conductor Little delivered his train at Port Jervis on time, and handed over his way bills, which he had received at Susquehanna, and on which the number, character and contents of every car in his train were recorded. When the agent at Port Jervis compared Little's train on this voucher, one car was missing. The car was entered on the way bill as having left Susquehanna all right, but it wasn't in the train. Its place, according to the bill, was about in the middle of the train. "Well, here was a situation. Coe Little declared that every car was in the train when he left Susquehanna, for he had checked the number of each one on the way bill himself. He certainly hadn't delivered the missing car to any one on the way, and he couldn't see how any one could have sneaked in and stolen it, especially as the train had been on the move pretty much all the time between Susquehanna and Port Jervis. A telegram was sent to the agent at Susquehanna, asking for information about the missing car. The reply was that nothing was known there that could throw any light on the subject quite the contrary, for the agent corroborated Little's report. The car was in the train when it left Susquehanna. "During the efforts of the puzzled railroad men at Port Jervis to solve the mystery of the lost car, some one discovered that the car that should have been just behind the missing one was coupled to the one that should have been just ahead of it without the aid of a coupling pin, the link being broken in such a way that it had become a hook, which was fast in the pinhole in the coupler of the other car. This didn't help matters a little bit, and rather deepened the mystery. "They were still deep in efforts to solve the mystery, and a car tracer was about to be sent back over the road to see if he could find the car, when a telegram came from Shohola, a station 16 miles west of Port Jervis. The agent at that station said in effect that somebody's cattle car was astray in a field along the Delaware river just beyond Shohola station, and that somebody had better come and look after it. The wrecking gang was sent up from Port Jervis, and, sure enough, in the middle of a field, 100 feet or more from the railroad, stood the missing cattle car, right as a trivet, except that its doors were open and its cattle gone. To get where it was the car had run down a ten foot embankment, across a wagon road and through a stout rail fence. "There was only one way to explain the freak of the car in quitting its train so unceremoniously. Going east along that part of the Erie the track is on a heavy down grade. Just before reaching Shohola the coupling pin that held the car to the one ahead of it must have broken. This divided the train in two parts. The head car of the rear part jumped the track, and breaking the .link that held it to the car behind it, went on down the bank, getting out of the way of the cars following on the track. "When the leading section of the divided train got to the foot of the grade, its speed slackened. The hind section oaught up with it, and ran into the rear car, but not with force sufficient to do any damage or attract attention. The broken link, then a hook, happened to fall into the pinhole of the coupler ahead of it. The train was thus recoupled and went on to Port Jervis without the loss of a car right out of its very center having been discovered by any one. There is no parallel to this one in the record of mishaps to railroad trains, and it has never ceased to be a wonder to all old time railroad men. "Well, whether the doifrs of the fugitive oar were broken by the jar and jolt of its trip down the bank, through the fenue, and across the lot, or whether the cattle inside kicked them open, I can't say. They were open, and the cattle jumped out It was winter, and the Delaware river, only a few feet away, was filled wMk running ice. The cattle must have been in a panic, or must have known that they were in Pike oounty, Pa., or something of that sort, for they plunged into that icy flood and made their way across the river into Sullivan county, N. Y. Searchers, accompanied by the drover who owned them, found and recovered them all. One cow, a deep red animal with a white star in her forehead, took the fancy of a farmer on whose premises some of the oattle were found, and he bought her. She had twin calves in the spring, each marked exactly like the mother. One was a bull calf, one a heifer. Because of the way in which the stock happened to be there it was called the Coe Little breed, and for some years was a favorite breed among the farmers of that part of the valloy."—-New York Sun.

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THOUGHT THE KAISER STUPID.

A Coachman Told Him He Wonld Never Set a River Afire. .'-'V An amusing little story about the present emperor of Germany, William II, and a Vienna coachman was narrated at a banquet lately given at Vienna by some diplomatists, the narrator being himself a well known and prominent member of the corps diplomatic.

In the year 188? the present Emperor William II of Germany, then Prince William of Prussia, came to Vienna, visiting his particular friend and chum, the late Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria. Joined by the Prince of Wales, who was at that time also a frequent visitor to the Vienna court, the three princes took a fancy to mingle with the commons of the Vienna population. Dressed in ordinary clothes, they visited places which are not in the least regarded as suitable for princely guests.

One day they entered a hotel, but instead of going into the dining room they walked into the "schwemme," a place which answers in some degree to the barroom of an American hotel in this room coachmen and the servants of the hotel guests take their meals.

Tbe three princes took seats at an empty table, and listened, highly amused, to a fierce debate about politics between several stout members of that class of fashionable Vienna coachmen who are known all over Europe as "fesche Wiener fiaker." The distinction of those charioteers is a kind of good natured boldness and droll familiarity toward their customers as well as to perfect strangers.

After listening awhile Prince William put in a word, and soon was drawn into the excited discussion. Suddenly a stout, red faced coachman walked up to the table where the three princes were seated, and, tapping Prince William gently on the shoulder, said, "Now, if you should ever have anything to say in politics, you wouldn't set a river on fire, I'm sure!"

As every public coachman in Vienna wears a number, this coachman was— upon a special request of Prince William —easily identified. The prince sent him a handsome scarf pin with his initials as thanks for tbe amusement he had furnished, and thus the man learned in amazement whose political abilities they were that he had so belittled.— Vienna Letter in New York Press.

IN PLAGUE TIMES.

How Iondon Handled the All Devouring Sickness In the Seventeenth Century. During the plague of 1603 Francis Hering, "Doctor in Physicke and Fellow of the Collfidge of Physitians in London published certain Rules and Directions for the prevention of the spreading of that contagious and all devouring Sickness." These he reprinted, "somewhat inlarged," in the nextplague season of 1625, "to the view and vse, and I hope good of my Cittizens and Countrimen.'' Among his rules are: "Concourse of people to Stage playes, wakes or feasts and May pole dauncings are to be prohibited by publique Authority, whereby, as God is dishonored, the bodies of men and women—by surfetting, drunkennes and other riots and excesses—disposed to infection, and the contagion dangerously scattered both in Citie and Countrie. "Let not the carkasses of horses, dogs, cats, etc., lye rotting and poisoning the aire (as they have done) in More and Finsburie fields, and elsewhere round about the Citie. "The burying of infected bodies in churches, churchyards and, namely, in Paules Churchyard, where the chiefe Magistrates of the Citie and many other Citizens meete weekly to hear Sermons, must needs be not onely inconuenient, but verie dangerous for spreading the contagion, and poisoning the whole Citie."

Some folk ate breakfast then, others did not: "For breakfast you may vse a good draught of wormewood beere or ale, and a few morsels of bread and butter, with the leaues of sage, or else a toste with sweet salade oyle, two or three drops of rose vinegar and a little sugar. They that haue cold stomaokes may drinke a draught of wormewood wine or malmsey, instead of ale or beere. But take heed (as you lone your life) of extreme hot waters, as aqua vitse, Rosa soils or other compound waters of like nature, which Empericks prepare and set out with vaine and boasting words they were devised to kill not cure men. "—Notes and Queries.

A Remarkable Tree.

There is a wayward white oak tree near Laporte, Ind., that may well puzzle naturalists with the vagaries of its growth. The tree is 9 feet in circumference at the base, and there are no branches of any size below 15 feet from the ground. There the great bole divides into a number of limbs. Two, leaving the trunk about 20 inches apart, grow west, their lines diverging for some 6 feet, and then each rending toward the other. Twelve feet from the body of the tree they unite again, making a perfect oval, and out of this grow two smaller branches. As if not satisfied with that expressed disregard for the laws of nature, this old tree has performed anether feat. Six feet from its base grows another white oak, less than half its size, and no sooner does the smaller tree arrive at the charmed circles of those branching limbs than one of them grows right into it, and is absorbed. The second tree is very much larger 20 feet from the ground thfln at its base.

Noah's Business.

While teaching a class of girls in a school recently, the master asked the following question: "What was Noah supposed to be doing when the animals were going into the ark?"

He received several answers. At last a little girl put up her hand. "Well,"he said, "what do yonsay?" "Taking the tickets, sir."—Buffalo Times.

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