Jasper Weekly Courier, Volume 20, Number 10, Jasper, Dubois County, 8 March 1878 — Page 3

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C. DO AXE, uHiihr. JASFINt, ITEMS OF INTEREST. I'riiRMl and Llterai-jr. i Modjeska's full name is Modrze-j jewska, Mild her age is JJ8. Dr. Edward Beechcr lias a look on ! future punishment in prow. ' George Eliot, William Black, and Thomas Hardy are engaged on new j novels. i .Mark Twain has a love-story m the Jdarch Atlantic, in which the lovers do their courting and get married by telephone. . Abram S. Hewitt has written for the next number of the International Review an article on "The Method of Electing the President." , William and Mary Howitt are liv-i ingat Merau, in the Tyrol, where they are still occupied with literary work. William is 82. , Isaac Van Nostrand, an American of literary taster, with a most substan-'. tial bank account, is living the life of a barbarian prince on his mauilla p nutation, in the Philippine Islands, English authors produced and had printed" last year 3,011) books. There were also 2,040 new editions, making the total book production of England 5,096, against -1,888 the preceding year. Prof. Max Mullor iseugineeriug the tremendous work of translating all the chief Bibles of the East into the languages of Europe, on which scholars are now engaged in the greatest centers , of learning. The man who graduated first in . Charles .Sumner's class at Harvard is now a minister in an obscure village in New Jursey. The next best scholar is a Section Superintendent on the Pennsylvania Railroad. ! From various women correspondeuts in Washington we get tho follow- ' ing information : Justice Harlan's wife is very tall, stately and handsome. Secretary MeCrary's wife is little and girlish, with a particularly happy expression of face. Secretary Sherman's wife , is tan, sinning, ana lias very heavy brown hair. Senator Matthews's wife is white-haired and cheery. Senator Hamlin's wife is gifted with rare intelligence. Senator Angus Cameron's wife is tall, slender, and pretty. Senator Porsey's wife is a beautiful and amiable brunette. The wife of the Japanese Minister is gentle and ladyilke. Mrs. Sophie B. Herrick, whose microscopical i.tudies, published in beribner s Month y during the past year, have attracted wide attention, has become permanently connected with the editorial department of that magazine. I Mrs. HerricK is a daughter of the late Kev. Dr. Bledsoe, of Baltimore, who for ! many years was editor of the Southern ! Review, a Methodist quarterly published in that city. She was for a considerable period his- assistant, doing much of the work, and she is now widely recognized as standing in the first rank of American ' scientific women. Joaquin Miller has a bone to pick : with the New York correspondentof the San Francisco Chronicle, who represents 1 mm as a poei wno onen acts wun tne deliberate intent to render himself conspicuous," and thus continues: "There is not a more persistent self advertiser in the metropolis, and there are many of his kind. He is continually affecting oddity, and doing silly things to attract! attention. He is'jMi-petually posing and pretending, and has so disgusted many ; jHioplo who' good opinion is worth j having, that they avoid him sedulously." j Miller's claim of a lack of education is, according to this authority, all a care-! fully sustained sham. His earnings arc set down at $4,000 a year. i Sclkuul hhi! Cliurcli. j Mrs. Culver, of Vasar, Mich., h's taught 101 terms of school. She bfna in l0. Mrs. Caroline A. Settle, in Nobras-J ka, on Sunday, December 10, organized ' the First I'nivcrsalist Parish, at Tecumsch, with Wl members. ! Examinations of pupils in some : Hartford schools show that 15 per cent, j are near-sighted, tho largest proportion, , 22 per cent., being in a room in which the scholars sat so as to face the light. ' In h recent installation sermon at , Buffalo, Dr. Calkins recalled this charaeteristic remark of the late Dr. Braiuxrd, of Philadelphia: "There are three qualifications of ministers: piety, fidelity and poverty. Tho first two we must obtain of the Lord by prayer; but we trust the stinginess of tho churches for the last." The American Bible Society is sadly short of money and calls aloud f ,r$J4U,-. anm,a' expendituies ro about 5t'..w,000. Its receipts are made up of 1 collections, and of donations from ind.viduals, also of legacies. Not so many " people are dying and leaving money to the society as there were some time ago, although it is remembered in the wills of many wealthy people who aro uot dead yet. The Rev. V. V. Harcourt, of India, has adopted the plan of uniting singing with preaching in his evangelistic tyurs, A choir of six lads from U to 12 vears of age, with their schoolmaster, wfio plays the violin, goes about with tho missionary. Large crowds have been gathered, containing persons of almost everv caste that is reeognized in South India. Most of tho people listen attentively. f A count has been made of the ministers of the Black Biver and St. Law-, fence Association, with a view to the'

ascertaining erf tksir lJif as to future punishment. Thin MNociiUlun h the

i largest in the Stale of New York. The Kev. r. I). Westervclt, who prosecuted , mo inquiry, reports: " Uf those eonINDIANA. HultcMl, every 0110 la-lieves the doctrine , ' of eternal retribution. In fact, our as sociation is very earnestly orthodox." 8iIHon mhiI I Htlu try. Connecticut Valley tobacco-raisers have nearly stripped this year's crop, and report that it is an unusually good one, despite contrary opinions earlier in tho season. Prices promise to be lower, the New York strike having had a depressing effect. Tho value of the ore reduced and marketed in the Black Hills in 1877 is estimated at. 1,600,000 The yield of the placer claims hits been less than last year, and will not probably exceed 1,000,000. This makes the total product of the Black Hills for 1877 about one-fourth as much as that of Colorado. Glycerine may bo burned in any lump so long as the llame is kept on a level with the liquid. On account of its viscidity it will not ascend an elevated wick. Tho llame produced is colorless and affords a pure, clear light. A ferry-lwjat has been patented which is impelled across rivers by tho action of the current. The boat is adjusted at an angle with respect to the crossing rope, so that tho current will striko the direct on at an angle which may be increased or diminished at will. Watermelons aro looming up in tho near future as the " great American product." Experiments in California show that sugar can be extracted from the melons at a cost of two cents per pound less than from sugar-cane. Besides this, oil is made from the seed and alcohol from the rind. Nitrate of lead is found to possess great value as a deodorizer. A half-pint dissolved in a pint or more of boiling water is added to two drams of common salt which has dissolved in a pail of water. The sediment is allowed to settle. To purify and sweeten a foul atmosphere, dip a cloth in the liquid and hang it up in the apartment. The Lob man Manufacturing Company, situated one mile above Prattville, Ala., on Autauga Creek, runs 100 looms ami $,1)84 spindles, requiring 110 operatives to keep tho machinery going. The water supply is abundant, and in a short time they 'intend puttinir in a new Eclipse turbine wheel, 125 horse-power, which will greatly facilitate operations. A patent has recently been taken out in Bohemia for the manufacture of mother-of-pearl glass, which is said to furnish an article of great beauty. For this purpose a quautity of mica in a very finely divided state is introduced into the crucible of melted glass, and stirred round until it is intimately mixed, on the surface of tho glass, with an enamel color, and then burned in in a inutile. Hhh rhiI Mlnhnpt. Kichard Benyon, a Lynn (Mass.) loeksmith, was strangled to death by being caught in a line of shafting. William Trainor, a 16-year-old school-boy in Berks County, Pa., butted his head so violently against the head of one of his school-fellows, to see which could stand the hardest knocks, that he ruptured a blood-vessel and died. A l'J-year-oid son of G. L. Miner, liviug near Mitchellsville, Ky., accidentally hanged himself. It is supposed that he w:is playing about a rope which had been used for weighing with steelyards, and in some way got the loop over his head, and the basket turning over from under him, he was helplessly suspended. When found life was nearly extinct. George Elliott, aged 60, a well known resident of State Line, Ind., was kicked to death in a pasture where he had gone to feed his horses. When found he was dead, his skull evidently having been crushed in by a horse's hoof. Sylvester Marvin,' of Eaton County, Mich , was killed by a kick of a horse in the abdomen. Martin Dennis, engineer in Emery's saw-mill, near Roanoke, Ind., was instantly killed by the explosion of the boiler. When found, Ins body was lying in a field ll0 yards from the mill. It presented a terrible sight. The head was scalded until it cracked open, causing the brain to ooze out. The body was bruised beyond recognition, anil was disemboweled. Mrs. Jessie Sibert, of Anderson, Ind., left her 5-year-old son (who was a mute alone at. home while she went to a neighbor's to assist in laying out a corpse. In her absence the hoy secured the coal-oil can and emptied the contents on himself, which ignited from the lire in the stove, and betore assistance was rendered tho child was so badly burned as to cause his death in a few hours. j Some recent suicides : Anton Beck, ' who lived near Lexington, Ky., blew the J top of his head off with a shot-gun He ' wa :i hard drinker, and was nlllictcd, besides, with linaneiai and domestic troubles. Miss Minnie Mo Kenny, a beautiful and intelligent young lady of , Richmond, Va., was engaged to lie ' married to a worthy but "poor young man. A few days ago he asked her to ' release him from his engagement, os-1 tensibly on account of being unable to support a wife. The girl ! was apparently heart-broken and ! took a fatal dose of laudanum to end j her troubles. At Kennedy, X. Y., Andrew Gustafattson, a sober and quiet citizen, out of niouev and unable to ob- ...'..- , t tain employment, lay uowu on tne railroad track, with his neck on tho rail and his arms folded, and coolly awaited

ttiM approaching train, which iH4atly j killtMlhiin. Mm. AdaF. Hunt, of North I ( Miurbul.m V If . linl turou fhrsuivti i

the. heart. It was apparently a ease of somnambulism, ami tha pistol was Ixmght for her to defend herself when her hushhiul was absent. She was 2 years old, atid loaves a young child. ... ... ' . PureigtiXotH. , King Humbert, of Italty, is a Free-1 mason. Caroline of Denmark, who has just completed her 81th year, is the oldest Prince in Europe. Mcisonier has never drawn a female figure, and would never allow tho model of one in his studio. Prince Chai les, of Koumania, has offered a-prize of 1,000 francs for the best history of the Turco-Bounianian war. Queen Victoria has written to King Humbert, of Italv.askin" as a kcensake some articles from his dead father's 1 writing-table. (" The Tronto Globe says that Messrs, i Alexander Mackenzie and George i Brown have been offered and declined I the honors of knighthood. The American 'he American prima donna, Mile. ) (Marie Von Elsnert, is singing rtha" at the 1'heatru Itahen, Pans, Litta with great success. I Th Khuriiw nf Vtrvnt U mining 1 he Khutive ot J.gjpt is ruining j hi upwards of 20 palaces, in which he sup im-i,i! .j . aha.hu. ' I ports in luxury three 44 proper wives" and !RK) women of the harem. Each of tho urown Princes of tho blood also has I his separate palace and retinne of servants, and the horses in the stables of the father and sons are numbered by hundreds. Home, on the days immediately preceding Victor Emanuel's funeral, was fuller than it has been for centuries. The hotels and cafes were allowed to remain open all night. Many of tho troops were quartered in the suppressed monasteries. The Colosseum presented a Ktrnnwt oitrlit with thn lllr4 1'mrm'tnt strange signi, w mi iiie souuers camping aroun., ineir waicu-nres aim ine norse tethered under the tiers of the vast amphitheater. i- r 1,. ! . , .. , i. Mr. Gladstone, in a recent speech at Oxford, said: W hen you speak of the Government, vou mean Lord Ileaconslield. Cheers and laughter. uwu.-nviu. i viitvia mm inuziiuvi.j There are many men in the Government who will compare very honorably with Lord IleacoiiMield in many respects: but there is not one man in the Govern - mentthat Inn a tenth part of the tenacity of will and the patient purpose which belong to lord lieaconstield. ' Odd and KimIk. It seoms to Turkey like the day after Thanksgiving. '-Trenton Gazette. Placard announcing a famine in Boston 44 Xota JJenaP' Buffalo Expre. The mule is a musical animal. His voice has remarkable volume, and its hind legs are full of shoe-fly. I will never purchase lottery tickets so long as I can hire a man to rob me at

reasonable wages. Joift Hillings. been taxed to the utmost during the mad Vinnie Ream is making a life-sized , competition of the last score of years to bust of David Davis, and if she is faith- devise the most effective means of adverful to tho original it will be her greatest Using. They have turned vandals and

work. Worcester Press. side, Danburt Xiws. A correspondent asks, 44 What is the best method of feeding cattle in win- . 11, , .1...... .lV I i turr tic uuu i vanc-u miuiv. vyu man might prefer to take the ox in his lap and feed him with a spoon. Othefs w"?S.bi!!"?.,.u m.L...M,,C. !.Tr0Utm and let him sit at the table with the old folks. Tastes differ in matters of this kind. A cat belonging to a family on South Hill has reached the ripe age of

-Mrs. Moore came naturally enough aeeablc pufls of what they could do or bv her poetic genius. She is a desceml-! hi!? t0 ,J ncy. llHVC printed and disfr. 'iWMnn ,.. i.muIwh.i tnbutcd cards and circulars: they have

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11 years, anu has entirely lost an power had nearly half a century's experience, of expressing its emotions by audible said recently : 41 For forty-seven years sounds. And it is just heart-breaking nine-tenths of our advertfsing has been to see that voiceless cat go out in the in first-class newspapers. Of our whole moonlight and climb on to the shed expenditure all that we regret is conroof and try, by violent and emotional tained in tha' other tenth." Advertising pantomime, to express a yowl that could in newspapers is an art, and those who break a pane of window-glass SO0 yards advertise a good deal seem to underaway. Hittckeyc. stand it so a to make their announceHe was savintr. 4As tho noarlv col- taonVs attractive and striking. In this

nmn of wiiwAo in i winf..,-' ihnnnhnn rises unbroken heavenward, so my heart rises to thee. As the s.intlower follows the cruel sun which gives it life, so mv h,.rt fnl Intra tli5n. A a tli IiIi.a l.rrtnt runs its unhindered course to the sea, so i,... i 1 she: 44 Henry, now that we're engaged, will your nail-blade cut corns?" " Io not trample on the lowly. Letymi tread te rtnii and sure; Step above the fallen Htowly; imrniiK, Keep tne uoorniat pure. This little ballad is composed and sung by the man who trails a lot of Iowarca estate into the house with him every time ho goes home. Tho song is dedf - cated to his wife and daughter. (P. S. We are the man.) If the signs of the times mean any thing a new era of miracles and marvels is upon us. A man at Bellevue, Ohio, rocently fixed up a little gunpowder plot in his wood-pile to tlntlout who was frying bacon at his expense, On the follow ng Sunday the stove in a church near his premises Hew to pieces just as the pastor was clinching a most convmc ng argument to prove that there was a hell. I-rom the celerity with which the congregation dismissed themselves without waiting for tho usual mi iumiwia ib mwui pruuauio inav ine impression was prevalent tho disputed region was manifesting itself too near home to be comfortable. It is surmised that the owner of tho wood-pile enter- . . . .. . tains no wpuvoeai notion on tne mo'cl.Breakfatt Tabic.

31 r. Packard's Keitie. During the past several days, says the

Cleveland (Ohio) J.mAtr, there hare flitted into this njction a number of daintilyeiigraved missives, reading something after this fashion: "Mr. and Mrs. .John W. Elden request your presence at I the marriage of their daughter Eldena, to Andrew J, Packard, Wednesday morning, Feb. 27, 1878, at 10 o'elock,at the residence of her grandfather, Hon. John Milliken, Saco, Me." And thereto hangs a romance, which the enterprising City of Yousgstown, where resides the hero in the case, has materially akl&d in furnishing. For some time past the newspapers have contained variously worded paragraphs telling how a young Maine maiden won a. husband in consequence of publicly and expressly declaring that she was not looking after one. Some of these paragraphs were wide of the mark, and it remained for the Eveninu Pout, of Biddeford.Me.. to tell what is perhaps the tmo story, in the following : , In 187.1, anions the graduates of the IJId,,ef?r(I ' tec(M)1 w , a vounR Jadrof TZUJJ" ! JM;i.J. 7Q mil lit iHCjl awumi exeroUei)f her claw, and read an efwy eatitletl. "After Graduation, What?" The ar- , newt-pu complete wag.printeu in local Journal, x'tractB iroin it xutinu tnelr way into inner in all nan of the country. Some time in 1873 a certain Mr. Packard, a wnoiewue denier in iron aim e:i in an unio clt , f K y k , , , when ne picKeo up in t tne car a newspaper ontaimng a oriel extract iroin the eay or the Uiddeford school-girl. This little clip, which he cut nut and put into his pocketbook, was as follows: A Girl's Thkouv. The following i4 an abstract of an ecsHy lrom the pen ot a yonnif muy graduate oi te muueioru, mu iiigu School, on the Mhsortiltnj question of "What , slmU 1 do to Live?' "The 'lorils of creation j have heen compared to Murdy oaks, and we the vines that cling to mid twiius around them ; hut thin metaphor, if erer pertinent, to uihj a ilam; phrase, has long tdnce 'played out.' We I have all heard of the 6J,(0 oairk'SH vines in MaiMHchiiM.-tts, to !y nothing of the uncount- ' ed thousands in .Maine, and there are too many oak that can carcely support them-1-elven, to say nothing of their supporting ; any thing cNe. I much prefer a life ot activity and honest exertion, ami I believe that the world owe me a living If I can earn it, and I ejrpecl jt on no otl,yr conditions." m November. 187, three years after pocketing the xlip, Mr. Packard, who is a widower with three children, wrote to par.ties in this city, inclosing the above v, aIld inquired if Mich an eay wa written here: if ho, by whom? Was Hhe married f Her age, etc. This letter was answered by Jh Ohio gentleman who wrote the vming , , y , , 4tfflrtS2Sru onj a &tttr ot timCf and probabl; mill' pnrPATUiTwuiiiPii onuiiuii vinm ri . now it ix urohahlv wlinrt .it that, when two more hearts chall heat an one. Theother day a nice-looking sentlei man oi auoui w years wearing tne very , lntc-t design of a plug-hat, dresttd in fault- , Icm fashion, and carrying a genuine Mitds- ' sippi carpet-bag arrived here from the e!t. It was J4r. Packard. He sought out the abject of his adoration and is now presumably as happy as a bit; sunitower. Suck is life. Truly Love rules the court, the catap, the grove, And mea below, amlsaints above. The Tree Way te Advertise. The superiority of advertising in firstclass newspapers over all other forms is thus aptly pointed out by the Boston Post ; The ingenuity of business men has painted the picturesque rocks with in framed and mounted posters in railway ! stations and other places where the pub lic congregate, and they nave trictl many other ways of catching tho public eye; . - i tood the test ;o well L": " V.'.i. .?:?. i. " 1 S 1 1. J!:.: lh lr j,atr0njil,c oi tko fir.st.ciasi neWj!. lIers. The shrewdest business men at the Detroit Stove Convention, held some lime ago, advised the trade to advertise exclusively with the uewspapers. Tho head of "a large and successful business house in New York, who had CltV S Well HS 111 Others, Our UlOSt SUCcS3ful Ashless men are those who do the most advertising. They are better Known at home, ami especially aro they better kllOWU to tllOSO WtlO come from j othor P'? t0 I(ston to trl,,c- ,This h one of tho most conclusivelv demon This is 8trcl fact5of btwniesrf,nnd when spring ! trat,e "Pens it will be a prolitable fact to remember. This country exported .ViO.OOO.OOO gallons of petroleum from liCG to 1871, 'which brought an average price of 34 ( cents a gallon, amounting to 9187,000,- - 000. From 1871 to 17C, covering the ' "tmo period of five years, there were shipped 1,100,000,000 gallons, or twice as much oil, which sold at the average of 15 cent- per gallon, realizing $166,000,000. The increased exports netted less money by S22,000,oOO thsn the shipments of the first-named period. Tt. Is Bsud tbatthnrftls truth in tbnrumor that Prince Leopold of England, Q,,een Victoria's youngest son, is going , to enter tho Church. Tho Prince wishes it very much, but the Queen opposes his desire, fearing that in the Prince's weak state of health he will only do himself j harm bv undertaking any active mental i or physical labor.

The body of Victor Emanuel was shrouded for buriat in the superb white mantle of a Grand Master of tlte Order of SS. Annunziata, in jvhich garb the sovereigns of the house, oi Savoy are consigned to the tomb. jjj. jm) lit' plltllOJfl idav. timk ,vu It-ion.

Skebelef Had Kkelbr.

i One of Slielby's old soldiers writes as j follows from Trinidad, Col., to the Sedalia Dinoeral: Two weeks ago I cut from a local pai j mm here this paragraph : SkobeletT is a fatalist, and what briiilaat Miiiiier is not? lie riueo ray honw la bttie, and ha had a many a four killed uader him inuiied iy. He dam not like gray nortea, kowrver, awl would not ride them at all if he h.id not Ih-xuii the eampiKH on a ray luir..t If tin U'uCU tf Ittlltltfu mtw Vl u ( he could never be the mug mm to his sol- ) dlero, heeaUHe his Koldiers believe that the Turks have had Rpeekl orders to kill if they eH ever' man upon a gray hor. He Is a fatalist, however, to the extent of believing that he can never be killed while riding a jeray horse in battle, but he does not like them because they get no raftMy of hi brother orticeru killed. This paragraph at once brought to my mind a similar superstition on the part of Gen. Jo. Shelby of Missouri, under whom I served throughout the cnttre war. His color was sorrel. He 1 firmly believed and used often to say that he would never bo killed in a fight l while he rode a norrel horse. And the fact seemed to bear him out in this. He I was wounded three times during the ' war, but never once while riding n sorj rel horse. He had 24 horses killed un1 der him in the various engagements where he was not hit, and in every single instance where the horse was killed and the rider escaped the horse was a sorrel. Once at Springfield a ball struck Shelby fair in the middle of tho forehead. It knocked him clean from his stirmps , something difficult to do, for he was a splendid rider and back over his I horse and heavily upon the ground. , Those about him "thought him killed, , but he was on his feet in a second and j on his horse in another, saying in the cool tones of an ordinary conversation : ( 44 1 can not be killed to-day, for I am riding a sorrel horse." Sure enough the brim ef his large felt hat had caught the ball and broke its force. It knock- ! ed him from his saddle and drew some blood, but beyond this, no other harm was done. Indeed, I have watched SkobelefTs career closely during the Uusso-Turkish . war, and according to my idea of things, there is much in commoa between this dashing soldier and Gen. Shelby. Both had the same power over men. Both were supremely indifferent in battle Both were superstitious. Both f loved hard fighting, desperate charges , and enterprise that was considered nnj possible. Both were military dandies that is to say, both were fond of gold lace, showy uniforms, silver spurs, floating plumes, splendid saddle trappings and thoroughbred horses. Both always said to their men, 44 Come on ;" never "Go on!" Both were idolized by their soldiers, and both had the same fatalistic ideas of the kind of color thoir horses had to be to make the riders safe. Leprosy Amen the Chiaese. At the meeting of the San Francisco Medical Society, last evening, says tho Bulletin, Dr. Blach, City Physician, exhibited a Chinaman afflicted with leprosy. The man's face was hideous in the extreme, being ridged and furrowed in every direction. Dr. Blach read a paper on the case. The patient was born in One of the lew, marshy regions in China, where ho was" engaged in the business of a merchant. He is married and has three children in China. The disease revealed itself about three years ago. He does not think it is contagious, and says that there is ordinarily no pain in the tumors. His general health is good. Loo Chang, a Chinese physician, said that he had seen the disease in China, but had not seen much of it here. In China it is common in low, marshy districts, and is eaused by miasma and poor food. It is curable at first, but not after it has run for two or three years. It is not considered contagious except in sleeping or eatihg with the infected person. The disease assumes no lees than thirty-five different forms. In some cases the skin is covered with the bright scales. This form is thought to be very contagious. Dr. Blach found it to bo the opinion of the Chinese that the disease died out after the first generation. Leprosy exists now in Africa, Asia Minor, Hiwaiian Islands, Japan, etc. At one time the disease assumed a most violent form, and only declined after the fifteenth or sixteenth century. The progress of leprosy is slow, taking many years, sometimes, before there is any pronounced development. In elephantiasis graccotum tuberculosa tha forms of the disease exhibited by the patient the skin was thickened and wrinkled, and sometimes the face presents the appearance of that of a lion. It is the opinion of many authorities that the disease is not ordinarily contagious, but might be communicated to another under certain circumstances and conditions. Dr. Blach thought that in California leprosy might become epidemic in the low-lying parts of the great valleys from an over-crowding of population combined with poor food. Dr. Stiver-? said that tho Chinamen in the cells of the City Prison made the patient sit by himself in a comer, saving that if one touches a leper he will catch the disease. Dr. Irvas thought that the disease wa contagious, and Dr. Fiske said that the Chinese in Amador County, where them is a leper settlement, believe it to bo contagious. King Alfonso ha? given Queen Mercedes a crown composed wholly of dia!monds;also gowns costing altogether about 36,000 ; also mantillas at '-',ow apiece. A mantle worn by tho Queen at the state dinner on the wedding-day cost $15,000.