Indianapolis Journal, Indianapolis, Marion County, 28 July 1889 — Page 4

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" SEW YORK Gilsey House and Windsor HoteL PHILADELPHIA A. P. Kemhle, 3735 Lancaster avenue, CHICAGO Palmer House. CINCINNATI J. r. Hawiey A Co., 154 "Vine street. LOUISVILLE C. T. Peering, northwest corner Third and Jefferson streets. 6T. LOUIS Union News Company, Union Depot and Southern Ho teL WASHINGTON, D. C.-Rlggs House and Ebbltt House. TWELVE PAGES. The Sunday Journal hat double the circulation of any Sunday paper In Indiana. Price five cents. FALSE SOCIAL STANDARDS. It is debatable whether the alleged defense of Airs. John Mackay, recently puDlisneu in L,onuon, in tne iraii iunu Gazette, and wired to this country as special information, savors more largely of absurdity or culpability. That friends of Mrs. Mackay should feel called upon to refute the statement that she was formerly a laundry woman or boarding-house-keeper, and to assure an alarmed English public that she was the daughter of an American army officer, highly educated, and speaking French and English fluently, is sufficiently ridiculous, hut that such matter should be sent across the ocean as news of value to an American public is certainly sorrow's crown of sorrow. It is to bo profoundly regretted that Americans who go abroad cannot carry with them the true American spirit, and present it everwhere, not in flaunting mood, but in self-respecting insistance, in opposition to the false and unreliable society standards of etteto dynasties. On a true republican basis, ancestry amounts to but little; men of a long Hue of noble ancestors have oceasionallj ornamented the penitentiary, and men of the obscurest origin have sat in the highest seats of national honor. The most indefatigable lineagehunter can trace no further back than Adam, who was of the laboring class a mere gardener, and of questionable credit to even that occupation. From a universal stand-point, then, the nature of Mrs. Mackay's origin is wholly unimportant and irrelevant. If she is the daughter of an American army officer, reared in a cultured home, and qualified to say boo to a foreign goose in many languages, who. is to bo congratulated upon her good fortuno in life. If, on the other hand, she formerly occupied tho inconspicuous lot of a washerwoman or boarding-house-keeper, she is still luoreto be felicitated upon her accession to tho ease and comfort implied in the jiacKay millions, mrs. aiacKays iatner r nii i r ir i might have been an American army officer, and still have been deficient in some of the finest elements of true manhood; and even as alaundry-woman or landlady, she herself could have been, consistently, a true and respect-inspiring woman. Minions ot Amen can men are incompar ably tho superiors of some of the foreign princes, and' a grand-niece of Thomas Jefferson has been known to keep a boarding-houso in tho United States with credit to herself and no stain rmon her illustrious ancestor. Nevertheless, " there is a circle, known incorrectly as . "the best society," and whose standards ere borne in contempt by just-minded people, which would receive on bended kneo tho profligate prince, anu debar with cold shoulder tho landlady niece of .Jefferson. It was, doubtless, by this class that the careful exposition of Mrs. Mackay's origin was rendered requisite and consideied acceptable; and only in ' the process of suns can the extermina tion of such faulty standards bo hoped for by the saner varieties of mankind. THE ORIENTAL YEEDIOT. farewell address, his chief grievance against the United States is the treatment of his master, tho Shah, by the American press, no came miner wiin his ears filled with tales of tho hospitality and courtesy that "Western civil iza- . ir. i !ii n ia' would extend to him as represent ativo of tho Shah; and, on arrival, found that all his time would bo occupied in collecting newspaper clippings humorously commentativo of his Oriental ruler. This was certainly a gigantic contract, and no justifiable surprise can be entertained that the Persian representative should flee the task, and also the country wherein such things are possible. On leaving bo characterized these press comments on his master as insults, and departed with the final fling that he is no barbarian, and came to this country expecting to learn something. Every candid critic of the American press must admit that tho Persian minister's censures are founded in fact. If a for eigner came upon an American lecture platform, and was greeted with smiles of amusement or hoots of derision at his manner of garb, he would be justified in indignantly leaving the stage, and public opinion would support him in denouncing the ill-breeding of the audience. This should be equally true of a similar situation on a larger scale, but unfortu nately it is not. The national sense of humor is a lively ghost that will not

down; and, consequently, is always

getting its adherents into trouble. Tho press recognizes that a great republic of readers demands its daily smile in ts morning paper, and naturally regards as grist all that comes to that mill. If Mr. Ghooly Khan had staid long enough to study this national peculiarity, and had witnessed tho wholesaleness :with which the greatest grandees of this country civil, literary, and po liticalgo into its hopper and are ground into "quips, cranks, and wanton wiles to minister to the universal humorcraving, the interpretation might have tempered his verdict into one of intelligent sympathy, and he would have tarried longer. As it is, he is gone, bearing away rancor in his breast, and may return with reinforcements, to claim blood for the appeasement of his injured amour propre. In tho meantime, cannot something be done to check tho ravages of the . national smile! Culture, so efficacious in other channels, does not appear to have made any head way in this department of public Idiosyncracy; and, from the present ground of occupancy, the future of this great Nation looks dismal indeed. INTERSECTION AL MISTAKES OF JUDGMENT. As this is an off year in politics, an in cident of the recent meeting of the National Educational Association at Nash ville, Tenn., may be canvassed in a spirit of fairness and candor by those who dwell on either side of Mason and Dixon's line, and with profitable results. It is well understood by those who have given the matter any- serious considera tion that the average Southern estimate of the Northern man and tho average Northern estimate of tho Southern man are as widely different from the real man of either section as the stage Yankee or stage Irishman differs from the Teal Yankee or real Irishman. Tho Northern man is, in the South, popularly supposed to bo a sharp, smug, mercenary fellow, unscrupulous and overreachins: in a trade, whose mind and energies 'are wholly engrossed in money-making and the saving of cents, and who has little or no sense of honor, or a sort of honor only that has a market value, its hurts being salved with a shilling, or helped, as Tennyson puts it, by tho jingling of the guinea. Tho Southern man is generally regarded in the North as a hot-tempered, reckless sort of be ing, bearded like the pard and swearing strange, soldierly oaths, without an r in his alphabet, swaggering about his "honah" and staking his life upon fancied affronts to it, baiting negroes for his pastime, barbarian in his in stincts and impulses, and a survival of mediaivausm in our industrial age. Even when he reads, which ho is supposed to do rarely, it is some story of chivalry by old Sir Walter that receives his attention instead of abstruse speculations about what nobody knows any thing, by Herbert Spencer, or tho sub limated icstheticism of John Ruskin, which , are, of course, infinitely more modern; and, in the lighter and more in nocent forms of his play, ho betrays a preference for the joust and tourna ment over lawn-tennis and base-ball. A Kansas lady, with all the prepossessions of her section of the country about tho South and its people, went over to the teachers' meeting at Nashville, and as soon as she had shaken off the dust and fatigue of travel, sat down and wrote her impressions of it and sent them to another Kansas lady who had remained at home. Of course the writer wrote out the impressions she had brought with her about Southern ignor ance and barbarism, and these accorded so perfectly with the impressions of the recipient of the letter that she naturally considered them very real and life-like, and kindly gave the letter to a Kansas newspaper, whose readers, having never been in the South in the course of their lives, loudly applauded its great truthfulness as soon as it was presented for their perusal. Meanwhile the fair writer had been received in numerous Southern homes, she had tasted their hospitality and civility, the refinement of feeling and the 3ubtle charm and finished grace of manner that characterize the social intercourse of a leisured class in an old and6omewhat aristocratic community, which are a heritage from the ante bellum days, and are not even surpassed in Kansas. In tho midst of it all tho Nashville newspapers furnished her with an evidence of their being in perfect harmony with the most advanced journalistic methods by copying her letter from tho Kansas newspaper and scattering it broadcast over their city with that "ghoulish glee" which the late Mr. Cleveland declared to be tho most truly mod ern spirit of the press. There were, of course, tears and penitence, and apolo gies and regret on tho ono hand, and virtuous indignation on the other; and a good deal of amusement withal, for those whose withers were unwrung. But the incident, painful as it certainly was to all who were immediately concerned in it, is edifying, and, if rightly considered, might have a wholesome- influence. So long as the stock notions and traditions which exist in one part of the country about those who dwell in another part of it are lightly accepted as tho truth, without investigation or knowledge of the facts, people are apt to make just such blun ders. Even when finally confronted with the facts they are so blinded with prejndico as to bo unable to scrutinize them fairly, or, in the phrase of Matthew Arnold, to see things as they really are. Tho Western man goes eastward, or the Eastern man comes westward, and, on tho most superficial examination of the country and people, solemnly pronouuees them just what ho expected to find them. Tho note of provinciality is discerned in all his judgments because he is una ble to divest himself of tho stock notions and traditions amongst which he has grown up, and which have effected a permanent lodgment in his mind and impaired his faculty for impartial ob servation. Often they produce in him a sort of hauteur which keeps him aloof from tho sympathies and feelings of a community, some participation in which is as helpful to a proper understanding and just appreciation of it as any exer cise of tho intellectual powers. Yield ing to these influences presently brings

enlightenment without any sacrifice of one's autonomy. It was through contact

with them that the Kansas lady discov ered her mistake and gained some information that she is not likely to for get. WORE A3 A SAFEGUARD. V The various schemes promulgated by social scientists, philanthropists and. labor agitators for ameliorating the con dition of mankind agree in one particu lar, however widely they may differ in others. They are all alike in holding that the period of labor must be short ened. Indeed, the entire reform move ment turns, according to most of them, upon this point, the assumption or argu ment being that other problems now vexing the world will gradually solve themselves when working hours are reduced to a minimum, and all classes become, to some degree, at least, the leisure classes. . From the matter-of-fact Terence Powderly, who believes eight hours a dav too long, and hints at Ben Franklin's four hours as the proper limit, to the visionary Bellamy, in whoso re generated world men are exempt from labor at forty-five, tho aim is to lighten numan toil. These would-be reformers antagonize no one with this feature of their plan, but rather meet with instant approval from the people who work, the idea of possessing, simultaneously, leisure and freedom from financial anxiety conforming to tho common conception of bliss. From low to high tho individual ex pression is in opposition to labor, so far as the individual himself is concerned. The object of every man who works is to provide himself with a competenco ns soon as possible, in order that he may cease to work. Oddly enough, when he obtains this competence, he seldom ac cepts the freedom that ho ha3 had in view, When leisure becomes possible he does not know what to do with it. He has spent years of his life in an occupation . that absorbed all his energies, and left no inclination for engaging in other pursuits. He may not be especially industrious by nature, but he has formed a habit of work; he has no other resource wherewith to occupy his time and mind, and, without his accustomed tasks, 6oon becomes restless and discontented. So widely recognized is this fact that the early withdrawal from business of any man not known to have a hobby or distinct vocation that he wishes to follow, is looked upon by his associates as unwise and leading to unhappiness. Many a man who might have left it lives and dies in harness, because he knows instinctively that ho would be miserable out of harness. Theoretically, all regard labor as a curse; practically, tho multitude clings to it as a safeguard. Of course, all the reformers and Utopian schemers base their plans on the idea that, once free from tho bonds of labor, men will devote their new leisure ?-o ennobling pursuits. Mr. Powderly, for instance, wants workingmen to bo educated, and when they have reached the point when four hours' daily toil will provide their daily bread ho believes, perhaps, that the otherjsixteen hours will be divided between study and healthful recreation. It is to be feared that tho Master Workman is wrong. If workingmen, in which term is included the day-laborer, the merchant and the professional man, had each a natural turn for a scientific, educational, philanthropic pursuit, or had cultivated a specialist's taste with a view to coming freedom, then the leisure might bo well employed. Even Mr. Bellamy neglects to explain how it is that the men of forty-five, after twenty-four years of labor for tho state, are enabled to lay aside their old employments for new, or for. complete idleness, without discontent. The man who has sixteen hours of time, all his own, every day, and the man who must toil not after the age of f orty-five, are each capable of a good deal of mischief, and, while human nature remains as it is, a long preliminary educational course would seem necessary before any of the reforms, so beautiful at first glance, are established. ; ' The Territorial Board of Education at Sitka, Alaska, has recently concluded its work of selecting teachers for tho schools supported in whole or in part by tho1 government in Alaska. There were over 100 applications from teachers in the United States. The last Congress made an appropriation of $50,000 for tho support of theso schools. This i9 placed under the control of the Commissioner of Education at Washington. Somo of the schools have only white pupils, and others again are attended solely by natives, or Indians, as they are often called. The schools are conducted under great difficulties, and the results in an educational way are exceedin gly meager. A correspondent writes: The men here in official life who arc- doing all that human energy can do with the means at their disposal to educate and civilize these people are often thus confronted with obstacles and problems that Pink them to the very lowest depths of despondency. The fact Is that the authorities here are not given either the means or tho money to reach these points in the discharge of their duty. There is not the highest possibility of going by laud. There is only one way, that is by water. The mull steamers touch at only a few points, and those not the most important ones in connection with the education of the natives. If the many indies who have aked for positions as teachers in the native schools ot Alaska had the slighted idea of the isolation which they invite, with not a human being nearer than 10O miles, except three or fonr hundred Indians, shut out from the world for six months of the year, with not even the power to communicate with these barbarians except by signs, they would shudder at their own temerity. A more filthy net of human beings cannot well bo conceived than the children of a native Alaskan village, especially at points somewhat remote from the import ant white fiettlements. The regular morning task of the teacher begins with the use of soap, water, and the comb, nioft generally with the line-toothed comb. A schoolroom partly tilled with native children would be Intolerable without such a preparatory exercise on the part of the teacher. Occasionally the mothers of these children can be enlisted to the extent of aiding in giving a half-way decent appearance to them, but this is so rare that it is a remarkable exception. At the very moment when a teacher Imagines that he or she has got a group of pupils in condition to make some progress, the parents gather up their few traps, pack them Into the cedar canoed, bundle off their childree. fasten up the hut or houe, and away they go hundreds of miles through the inlets to somo fishing grounds, and do not reappear until winter drfves them home again. Even then feasting and eating begins In one house or hut or another in the village, and it U nearly spring again before the savage and often brutal orgies end. This is as much fun for the children as for the adults, and if the former can be got into the neighboring school-house in the meantime It is regarded as a miracle of success. A woman's way of using and taking care of a watch is ono of tho funny things of life. As a rule it may he said that a woman's watch is cither never in repair, never wound up or never running, or if running is never right. An abusing illustration of this female characteristic occurred recently in a Lake city. On the arrival of ft

steamer from a neighboring port several weeks ago an antique gold watch and chain were found in a state-room. They were put away in the general office safe for their owner to apply for them. A few days ago the agent of the line received a letter from a woman in Elgin, She wrote: "I find my watch, and chain , are gone.. I have thought of every place I have been for six weeks, and I guess I left them on your boat. I know I had the watch six weeks ago, but v cannot remember wearing it since." Then followed a description of a watch and chain. The woman wasn't certain if she had .worn the watch for six weeks! ' The Chicago Journalist notifies its readers that it will print an index to all the leading editorials contained in the Chicago papers and magazines during each month. -This seems a . waste of labor and space, since it is difficult to understand why any one should wish to re-read a Chicago editorial. What every newspaper does need is a self-adjusting machine that will index all the contributions from outsiders that

have appeared in the columns and' all the paragraphs, including police court news and death notices, in which personal reference has been , made to any individual. The average man who calls for a back number of a periodical, wants one containing something he has written or something, that has been written about him or a mem-. ber of his family. Invariably he mistakes the date of the issue he wants, tho date . even of a man's marriage not being indelibly fixed ' in his mind, as might be supposed. Invariably, too, he fails to . find it when the files are placed at his disposal, and also appears surprised that the employes of the establish-' ment cannot instantly point it out. He invokes the aid of editors and reporters, and goes away with an aggrieved air because no one has the slightest recollection of his -article. Finally, with the assistance of a patient and long-suffering clerk' in the counting-room, he finds what he wants and goes away doubly aggrieved because he is asked to pay five cents for it. Back numbers of a newspaper, in the common estimation, ought to be given away. An automatic index that would .instantly designate the date of each v customer's "piece" or "personal" would fill a long-felt want in newspaper offices, and the inventor receive many blessings if . not a pocket full of cash. WnAT a wise; and foreknowing man George Washington was, and how thor oughly and .devotedly American! A new ' biographer of him, Mr.- Henry Cabot Lodge, relates that when it was proposed to bring over the entire staff of a Genevan university to take charge of a national university here, he threw his influence against it, expressing grave doubts as to the advantage of importing an entire . "seminary of foreigners" for tho purpose of American education. A letter on this subject, addressed to John Adams, says: My opinion with respect to immigration is that, except of useful mechanics and some particular descriptions of men or professions, there is no need of encouragement; while the policy or advantage of Its taking place in a body (I mean tho settling of them in a body) may. be much questioned, for by so doing they retain the language, habits and principles, good or bad, which they bring with them. Whereas, by an Intermixture with our people, they, or their descendants, get assimilated to our customs, measures and laws; in a word, soon become our people. This was written in 1798, whon very little was known about foreign immigration, and long before any embarrassment from that cause had begun to be experienced. Yet how clearly Washington diagnosed the case and foresaw tho evils that might accrue from unrestricted immigration and from the cultivation of a clannish spirit among foreigners who might come to our shores. The principle of pneumatic tubes, or airpressure, is likely to come into practical use for various purposes. The latest application mentioned is for the transfer and storage of grain. The question of rapid handling of our enormous grain crops has become an important one. The pneumatic transfer system involves the gigantic idea of the establishment at grain stations throughout the .country of air-tight, fireproof steel tanks, supplied with pneumatic engines for forcing grain by air suction and air blast in and out of the tanks. By pneumatic process the grain . is to be raised through a pipe to any required height and discharged into a receiver from which the air is being continuously .exhausted under pressure of from one to two pounds. The receiver will rest on. seal 9a for weighing the grain, which may be discharged through the pipe whenever desired by reversing the pneumatic . engine. The steel tank into which the grainwijl be .dropped from the receiver for storage will be an air-tight receptacle, in which it is said the ' grain may bo kept in excellent condition for an in definite period. The condition of the grain, it is even claimed, will be improved by friction in the exhaust and blast. The idea seems feasible, and a company has already been formed to cany it out. A xew caterpillar pest, said to be a re cent arrival from Germany, is attacking the elm trees in some parts of the East, and many, of them have already died from its ravages. It i9 a saw fly, with three borers on each side of its body near the head, which also serve for feet and legs while it is in the worm, or caterpillar, state of existence. The fly lays innumerable eggs in the crevices of the bark of the trees. These, when hatched, produce small, greenish, slender worms, which climb upward and devour the green and juicy substance of the leaves. In the pupa stage they resemble grams of wheat. The foliage quickly withers and at first appears like soiled lace. Soon it becomes dark brown and , falls to the ground. If the pest has found a foothold in the East, it is only a question of time when it will find its way West. It would be inexpressibly pitiful if our elm trees, of which there are many noble specimens of primitive growth still left in this city, should become a prey to the ravages of this destructive insect. The Norwegian element is a large factor of the population of North Dakota. It is estimated that they constitute one-third of tho present populatiou. They make good citizens, being generally industrious; thrifty and temperate. Most of them come with just money euough to get on the government land and build a sod house, but they come to Btay, and they get ahead very fast A correspondent says: "Every county has Norwegians who are worth from $25,000 to $50,000, all made since settlement in Dakota. These people . live economically and work hard for the first years, but they Americanize with wonderful rapidity and take to the comforts and luxuries of life just as soon as they find themselves able to allord them. There are no poor-houses where the Norwegians are thickest, and the jails are mainly ornamental." The figures of the Washington statistician, who estimates that in one hundred years the populatiou of the United States will have increased to an average of two and one-half persons to an acre of area are causing a good deal of anxiety to a number of esteemed contemporaries. Dear friends, what's the use ol worrying about one hundred years from now! Sufficient

unto the day, etc, and, besides, the predic-

tion may. not be correct. It the mugwump theory of the survival of the fittest, the fittest, of course, being those truly good people, is to bo accepted, the United States will be a howling wiliernesa in the year sooo:. AxEATthingis credited toDf. W: Howard Russell, the British correspondent once famous as "Bull Run" Russell. At a recent dinner party in London. 'sotne;' one asked Russell, supposing him, to.,be.authorty on American matters,; why, Mr. Patrick Egan should have been sent to Chili;as United S tates minister. Dr. Russell replied: "Well. Chili is famous for its earthquakes, and if, any. man understands, land agitation it' is Egan." . .This was very good, for an Englishman. ' , " Mr. J. C. Fletcher," in'a recent letter to the- Journal, states that "The New Purchase, or Life in the FaT West," , was pub lished "in 1S43, a thousand miles away, in New York." The book was republished in 1855 "improved and with., picters to match," as the author states in the preface by John R. Nunemacher, in New Albany, Ind., and had an extended sale throughout the State. It is still interesting reading as a chronicle of early times in Indiana. Again comes word that the Yellow river. the terror of China, has broken its banks, entailing widespread devastation and vast loss of life. If the news the civilized world receives from China is reliable, that unfortunate country has suffered within the past two years no less than five disasters, any one of which exceeds the Johnstown catastrophe in loss of life. BREAKFAST-TABLE CUaT. ; Dr. Mary Walker threatens to join the Democratic party. A New York grocer the other day displayed a sign, "Take one," in front of his store, referring to a litter of kittens in a wicker basket. W. B. Tate, a philanthropic bachelor, of Tennessee, has divided a fifth of his fortune of $100,000 between forty needy confederate veterans of that State. You cannot grind a hand-organ in the streets of Jersey City Until you have paid a license fee of $5, and even then the grind ing must cease between 6 P. m. and w a. m. There aro in the treasury vaults at Washington pretty nearly a pint of diamonds and other precious stones that were presented to various Presidents by admiring friends. . , .. - Zola is said to be tke best-paid novelist in .Franco.- Mr. Humphry Ward has just been offered . $5,000 for a story of 80,000 words, and John Strange Winter refused an tfer of $2,500 for her next novelette. Senator Hiscock, who is really a very handsome man, is not-looking well this summer. His face is pale, his cheeks are a trifle sunken, and beneath his gloomy eyes are dark circles. Thc,re is nothing the matter with him, however, except lassitude caused by the weather. Tenxysox succeeded Wordsworth, in 1S50, as laureate of England. The endowments of the office come under the second class on the civil list, and are small, but tho duties are purely nominal, an occasional ode on the occasion of a royal wedding, birth or death, being all that is required of him. It was at the shop of Herr Spithoever, the erudite bibliophile, in the Eternal City The pretty American traveler wanted a copy of Max O'Rell's book on the United States, and said so. The Herr Bibliophile glowered through his spectacles a moment, and renlied. with noble scorn: Gott in Himmel, Mees! Marcus Aurelius vos neffer in der Unided Shtates." William Van Ers, the wealthiest citizen of South Dakota, was always a rolling stone. He learned the printer's trade when a boy, and was afterward in various kinds of business in many different Western towns. In 1871 he located in Sioux Falls, where he is now a merchant and bankpresident,besides being identified with many important business enterprises elsewhere. Queer to tell, President Harrison doesn't tan. That is to say, he doesn't take tan, for, in the active 6ense of the verb ' "tan," he tans lots of patriots. Tho white-skinned Hoosier now at the head of aftairs doesn't show sunburn like the ordinary man, who will redden up for you in a single day's stay b3' the sea. Harrison has been in the open air a great deal this summer, but there isn't so much as a speck of brown on the tip of his nose. Mrs. Joun Sherwood, of New York, author of the novel entitled "A Transplanted Rose," and of the book on etiquettq, !entitled "Manners and Social Usages." haj been decorated with the insignia of Officier d'Acadeinie an honor conferred by the French-Minister of "Public Instruction on persons who have distinguished themselves in literary pursuits. It is said to be the first time that this decoration has ever been conferred upon an American woman. ' This week's Cat'bolie Times records a little romantic incident in connection with Cardinal Manning. The other day a visitor called at the Cardinal's house and presented a bouquet of roses grown in the garden of the rectory which the Cardinal inhabited many years ago, when he was a minister of the Established Church. With his own hands the Cardinal arranged tho roses in a vase, which he then placed on the altar of his private chapel. Admiral Porter's orderly when the fleet was before Forts Philip and Jackson, below New Orleans, J. M. Crippin, is now sailing Lewis Millers steam yacht on Chautauqua lake, and says ' of General Butler's accusation of cowardice on the Admiral's part: "I was on the bridge with him constantly for many months, and rang the bell which telegraphed all his orders to the engine-room. My own recollections and the notes of my dairy both show that General Butler has no ground for his charges." A mysterious libel suit involving the good name of Mrs. Adam H. Newcombe, is about to be sprung on the long-suffering public of New York. In the summer of 1886 a book was printed descriptive of out-door life at Lake George. In this book, as it is claimed, Mrs. Newcombe was libeled under the name of Mrs. Jansen." By means of a cryptogram the fictitions Mrs. J. was made to "take otV" the real Mrs. N.t aad all who knew her lauched at her, aud subsequently "cut her." The damage is figured out at $25,000. A dressy young man'went'to a secluded portion of the Rutter Grove shore, at Scranton, for a moonlight bath in the river, a few nights ago. His ecstatic splashing caught the attention of a tramp, who softly divested himself of his seedy attire, robed himself in the swimmer's garments, which chanced to lit him admirably, and then vanished from the moonlit scene. When the swimmer came out he was speechless for a minute,, and,. having .no other recourse, bo put on the tatters, and stole homeward through cornfields and across barb-wire fences. The Johnstown disaster swept away Miss Angie Fackler's wedding trousseau aud her house, but spared her to be married to Edward Levy, a wealthy Omaha man, to whom she has been engaged ' twentyfive vears. A quarter of a centry ago Levy went West to make his fortune, and having accomplished his purpose in the past few years, he arranged with his promised bride to meet her in Philadelphia June 1, and marry her. She did not appear on her wedding day, and forf nearly a week no tidings came from her. Then it was learned that she was safe, and her marriage has now taken place. The Maharajah of Singpore, who is now in Paris, is astonishing even , that blase city. His coaches, attendants,, costumes and expenditure are based on such . a scale of elegance that he seems to hare the wealth of the East at his disposal. He far outshines the Shah of Persia, who has not impressed Europe with his elegance this

trip. The Indian potentate 'of Sin gpor has never been on the continent betore, and he seems to like Paris so well that hit stay bids fair to be a long ono. Parisian tradesmen sincerely hope that the affairs of Singnore will not soon recall him to hit native land. Therjc was onoe a charming yoan Mn?e. Who had never been told about Ame. At the serpent aad Ere 8he laughed in her sleeve. And said, Q that poor creature hme." ' ' Lawre.cc American.

. THE MILLIONAIRE BHLDE. Interesting Gossip About Miss Caldwell, Who Is to Marry Prince Murat. Washington Letter in Philadelphia Press. The letters announcing the details ot Miss Mary G. Caldwell's betrothal to Princo Joachim Murat have been read here with equal interest and amusement by thosa who knew the young lady in her one winter of Washington fife. Sho left a vivid and picturesque impression here, but hardly an endearing one.'notwithstanding she came heralded by her munificent donation of $300,000 to the proposed Roman Catholio Divinity School, and notwithstanding sha received while here at the laving of its corner-stone at medal from the Holy Father of Rome. Bv this benefaction sue secured world-wide celebrity, not only as an heiress, but as a devout daughter of the church, and it is unquestionably to be believetl that these facts have operated strongly ia her favor with her priucelv suitor. In personal appearance "Miss Caldwell ia rather ordinary, above medium height, slender, dark-haired, with alert and shrewd rather than gracious manner. She firs came to Washington three years ago lasfc spring, and stopped quietly at the Arling-, ton with her chaperone, while looking over? the ground, as it were, and deciding wheth-' er to give or not to give in the direction, named. Before she went away her gift was announced in the public prints, and at tho opening of the next season she and her' younger sister Lona, who is much the handsomer of tho two, came on as winter residents, accompauied by their aunt, Mrs. Donnelly, who was at that time a good deal of an invalid, and they leased the house belonging to the family of the late Gen. Albert Myer (Old Probabilities), at the corner of I street and Connecticut avenue. All the prominent Catholic element in society and manv others called promptly to see the well-advertised heiresses. Their first hospitality , was a Sunday evening dinner in honor., of the .younger sister's twenty-first birthday, aft .which his Eminence, Cardinal Gibbons, who had just been invested with his new office, was a guest, and on which occasion .Miss Lena celebrated her coming into the disposal of her fortune by. adding $50,000 to her sister's larger donation to thd .founding of the school above named. This . was a brilliant opening of their winter, and for a while they rode on the topmost wave, being constantly invited to the most fashionable gatherings and holding large Tues day afternoon receptions. , General llazen, whose wife and young son were in Europe, was gallantly desiruu that the sisters should attend the diplomatic reception at the White House, and invited them on his own card, taking them in his carriage. But in calling for them he was obliged to. wait a longtime down-stairs for the elder sister to bo ready, and it was a cold and sleety night, and he wasinunV form, without his overcoat. Again, on roturning from the presidential drawingrooms he again waited for his charge nearly an hour, it is said, in the cold nutif draughty vestibule, before they could find their wraps in the dressing-room. The two waits were too much for his strength, although he was a rugged-looking soldier. i hero of many battles. Pneumonia marked him for its prey, and in forty-eight hours from that fatal night he was a corpse in his F-street lodgings. It was said that tha Misses Caldwell gave a dinner the eveningf that he died, but it was altogether improbable that they had been inionned how her contracted the cold that caused his death. Later in the season the young ladies gavo a dinner part' in honor of the Bishop of Peoria, who had come on here to solemnize a marriage in prominent circles. It wa.f told me, with laughing criticism, by one ot the guests that, although the dinner hour, was named on the cards of invitation as 8 o'clock, it was exactly half-past 8 when, Miss Mary, the hostess of tho evening, came down from her dressing-room to tho ' narior. and tho Reverend Father and all the other gnests were waiting there in suspense at the uu usual, proceeding. By this time her proclivity for keeping people waiting was very generally gossiped about) In society, and sHe was called unconventional and self-willed. Yery probably some of the stnri"' told of Miss Caldwell iiv illustration cf the&e facts were apocbryphal. One of them was to the effect that at a grand ball the sister? gave toward the close of tha winter the Jater comers looked in vain for a hostess to pclute on entering, and tho early goers v. ore equally perplexed for ono to whom they t-oalu maketheir adieus. Ono of them, keeDcr eyed than the rest, discov ered her sitting under the stairway ea tete-a-tete with a society man, she having; said audaciously in abandoning her post of duty as hostess that she wasn't going to stand there nrd to bored all the evening. None of tl;j above bits of gossip or any other ol the my raid in circulation at the time, bor hard upon her as a woman ot integrity, but only upon certain iodiosyncrasiesthat cassolherto be denominated "Queer." The very ones who talked them over with t r.o ruost ominous lilting of the eyebrows wcrM. doubtless, be foremost toA congratuiato : t& the Princess Muratx should sj:c s.tT-1 a this historic name aniV eminence. Itisuot ar,oJuliIy necessary to have' been regarded 'vsrn fomv' in Washington4 ociety m onlr to achieve a brilliant career elsewhere. Qhh was young enough to enable her to correct many mistakes in her after life. But this precipitating of ante- ; nuptial details upon the American public ' through the publication of her own and her ; chaperone's letters to her solicitor has a' look of feverish impatience that those whom she may think had snubbed her hero should be promptly informed of the big game she has bagged across the sea. . . m 1 7. . - " MS. JAKRETT DIDN'T SAY THIS.. A Contradlctlcn, OfflciaUy, of Ills Reported Birmingham Speed. Philadelphia Prtss. Tho New York Sun last Sunday, in it cable letter from London, had the following paragraph which has been widely, commented on by the Democratic newtpapers: "It would be interesting to know, in view of young Harrison's enthusiastic reception over here, whether he has by any cham been indulging in such twaddle, as John Jarrett, of Pittsburg, the new consul at Birmingham, is credited with in the: Birmingham Times. Jarrett starts off by saying that President Harrison's last inetruc tions to him before he left-America wr ta 6eize every opportunity of removing any impression that Americans dislike England or wish to bo on other than tho inoi cordial terms with her. Theso instructions so fully accorded with his own views that he had the greatest pleasure possible in repeating them. Of course,1 he continued, '1 know somo of onr people are very fond at election time of performing the operation known as twisting the British lion's tail. Mr. Cleveland and the Democrats did it pretty freely in the last election, but it made their defeat' all th more crushing. Tho Sackville incident, at I suppose everybody over here knows very well now, was only an election trick, and a very shabby and 6tnpid one, too. There is. not a respectable American in the States that does not sincerely regret tho incident, and (with a meaning smile) I should thins those responsible for the episode are more sorry than any ono else.' " Mr. James M. Swank, of the American Iron and Steel Association, telegraphed t Consul Jarrett asking whether he had ever uttered the sentiments attributed to him by the liirmiuchaui Times. A reply was received by rable from Mr. Jarrett yesterday. Ho said that ho never uttered tho words or sentiment, and that the London correspondent of the New York Son had promised to send that paper a contradiction of tho report that he had ever uttered them. Frightened About Virginia. Augusta (G ) Chronicle. The Republicans have their eyes upon Vir'giuia. Senator Mat luay and Assistant Postmaster-general Clarkson are trying to hatch uu a scheme to capture Virginia this fall. Under tho spoils system Virginia becomes nn uncomfortably close State. m Ice-Water Perils. Mlna!!1 Trthano. "Yes," said tho doctor, as he drew a cupful at the tauk, "ice-water is verv dangerous. I have known it tosuddenly'kilithre persons in one day. They broke through while skating and were drowned." And the doctor's smile was cold and sarcastic as he slid out. . ,