Ligonier Banner., Volume 29, Number 31, Ligonier, Noble County, 8 November 1894 — Page 2

A HARD SHOCK.

Portions of the Republic of Mexico Visited by Earthquakes.

Loss of Life Reported in Various States— Sixteen Persons Known to Be Dead— . Terror-Stricken the People . Turn to Prayer.

City oF MEXxIco, Nov. s.—The earthguake which visited this section of the republic Friday evening was the most severe.which has been felt since 1858. Reports of damage to life and property are slow in being collected, but it is known that thirteen people were killed in this eity and at least three at outside points. Many roofs of old buildings fell and in some instances crushed to instant death the occupants of the houses.

From telegraph advices from central and southern Mexico the disturbance is shown to have covered the state and federal distriet of Mexico, and lasted from one to four minutes. Seven distinct shocks were felt at Jojutla, in the state of Morelos, and smart shocks were felt at Tulancingo, in the state of Hidalgo. At Ojusco an Indian and his wife were crushed to death under the roof of their adobe house.

.Being a holiday and one of the chief festival days of the year, the theaters were thronged, and panics ensued. Several people were hurt in the rush of exit, and many women went into hysterics. The songs on the stage were succeeded by impassioned prayers for forgiveness and confession of error. The plays were generally abandoned and the audiences remained in the seats, kneeling in prayer. Traffic was completely abandoned at the first premonition. Drivers deserted the street cars and coachmen their hacks to kneel in prayer along with the throngs sending up their supplications. Iu palace and in humble home nothing but prayer was to be heard. The threatened destruction was made more solemn by the ringing of bells in the swaying church towers.

i FIRED BY RIOTERS. ) An Inceundiary Blaze Causes Heavy Loss in New Orleans. NEw ORrLEANS, Nov. 5. —Develop ments in the labor troubles show the desperation of the white men who work along the levee and indications are that the worst is not yet over. Sunday afternoon the toreh was applied to the wharf - of the West India and Pacide Steamship company on the levee at the foot of Nun street, and before the flames were subdued there was a loss of $200,000 in merchandise, cotton and damage to one of their steamships. About half was insured.. The fire started in the cotton under the sheds and the blaze seemed to have come from a dozen places at once. indicating it had been set. The fire burned away the shed for 600 feet, destroying 4,00 balzs of cotton, 820 barrels of molasses and 750 staves.

The steamship Haverstoe, consigned to Knoop, Frederick & Co.. had her forecastle, mainmast and forward rigging damaged; loss, $5,000. She was towed- out into the stream. The French steamer Colona, of the Transatlantic company, was slightly dainaged. The loss of tarpaulins was $3,900. Nearly all the outside cotton was eovered with them. The trouble’is a race war between the white and <2olored screwmen and longshoremen. It resulted _Saturday in a riot, in which one negro was killed and several wounded, and then & sorl of truce was patched up, by which all the steamship agents agreed. except ome. Stoddard & Co., to employ only white laborers on their ships. Then came the longshoremen’s strike. and that culminated in white longshoremen refusing to work with the megroes. Tlor the last two days shings have been comparatively quiet, but there was little work done on ‘the levee, one steamboat being loaded by negroes under protection of fifty police. The police are almost powerless, and it is likely the governor will order qQut troops. - .

UNDER FALLEN WALLS. ) fix Louisviile Firemen Badly Hurt While on Duty. . LovisviLLe, Ky.. Nov. 5. —Six firemen were hurt, two probably fatally, by falling walls daring a fire that originated in the store of the Singer Manufacturing company, 552 Fourth street Sunday afternoon. Their names are: Vaulentine Riehi. captain truck No. 2. head crushed. may die: James Mannix, pipeman, engine No. 3, left leg broken and internally injured.” may die: Edward - Riehl, ladderman truck No. 2. hip, arm and shoulder badly bruised; John Morton, captain engine No. 3, bruised about head and body: John Cline, pipeman engine No. 3. bruised about head and body: Fillmore Tyson, assistant chief, slightly injured. I'he losses by fire and water will amount.to $52,090; insurance, $30,000. Losses are divided as follows: Singer Manufacturing company, $30,000; T. E. Lindsay. paintings and moldings, $lO,900; D. 11. Shoup, optician, $1,000; Ave: nue theater, $1,000; building, $8,000: other tenants of No. 552, $2,000. -

His Voice Hushed

Loxpox, Nov. s.—Eugene Esperance Oudin, ‘the noted singer who was stricken with paralysis two weeks ago, died Sunday. Mr. Oudin’s illness is attributed directly to overtaxing his strength in caring for his friend. the late Charles Atterton, Sig. Perugini’s brother. He never fully recovered consciousness after the night he was stricken.

Killed at His Wife’'s Request

Fort WonrtH, Tex., Nov. s.—George Van Pelt, a wealthy young man of Trenton, was assassinated a few days azo. Sidney Seth, aged about 19, has confessed to the crime, saying that Mrs. Van Pelt induced him to kili her husband. The officershad a hard time in keeping the guilty ones from being Iynched. :

Yietims of a Storm

- NAVAsOoTA, [Tex.,, Nov. s.—Friday night during a storm a white woman named Stribling was killed and two children badly hurt by the house on McAlpine’s farm being blown down:

Moraes Issues a Manifesto.

Rio JaxEmfo, Nov. 5. — PresidentEleet Moraes has issued a manifesto in which he avoids any discussion of poli“ties while strongly deprecating the sectional feelings which divide the country. He says he favors no party, and lie only desires to reestablish peaee throughout the republic. - .

Will Be Returned to England.

Buesos Aygres, Nov. s.—The government has granted the extradition of Jabez Spencer Balfour, the absconding head of the Liberator association and ex-member of parliament, and he will be taken f”d}?}ng]and without delay,

A TOWN REDUCED.

Japanese Capture Kin Chow After Hours - of Fighting.

Yoxomama, Nov. 5.-—Advices received here from the front show that there has been heavy fighting in the country just north of Port Arthur. The dipatches received are brief, and are silent on some important points. ‘lt appears that Field Marshal Oyama divided his forces. While one division landed on the east coast of the peninsula north of Talien-Wan, another division was detached, with orders to effeet a landing near Kin Chow and to proceed thence and join the main body of the army. This operation was a complete success. The Japanese encountered no C}‘linese warships, and the transports reached Kayenko and disembarked troops, guns, horses and munitions in safety. Kin Chow, which is a walled town and which ‘was believed to be held by a large garrison, was immediately attacked. The outer defenses were carried by the Japanese after a few hours’ fighting. The Chinese made little further resistance and the Japanese were soon masters of the place. In the meantime the Japanese fleet, which had conveyed the transports, opened a heavy fire on Talien-Wan and Kayenko. The: firing - was kept up for many hours. Covered by the fire from the ships the land force attacked and captured Talien-Wan in a brilliant fashion. The dispatch says that the losses were heavy. They also mention that an important naval engagement occurred Saturday, but give no details. Up to the time of sending this dispatch there has been no confirmation of the report of ghe capture of Port Arthur. ‘

LoxpoN, Nov. 5.—A dispatch to the Times from Tien-Tsin says that Fung Wauh Ching was burned by the Chinese. The defense of the road to Moulkden has collapsed. Gen. Sung, with the remnant of his army, is in the Mathienling pass, between Fnng Wang Ching and Liaoyany. Winter has set in. Snow has fallen in Manchuria. No fighting is mentioned as having occurred at Fung Wang Ching, but it is alleged that 800 Chinese were killed at Taikai.

GIBBONS ON CHRISTIAN UNION.

T™he Cardinal Preaches on a Reconciliation of Churches.

BarTiMorE, Md., Nov. 5 —Cardinal Gibbons preached at the cathedral Sunday on Christian unity. He said: “Thank God. there is a yearning desire for the reunion of Christianity among many noble and earnest souls. The desire is particularly manifest in the English-speaking world. Itis manifest in England and in the United States. I myself have received several letters from influential Protestant ministers expressing the hope of a reunion and inquiring as to thé probable basis of a reconciliation. Reunion is the great desire of my. heart. I have longed and prayed for it during all the yvears of my ministry. I have prayed that as we are bound to our brethren by social and family and by natural and commercial ties, so may we be united with them in the bonds of a common faith. ) *The conditions of reunion are casier than are generally imagined. Of course there can be no compromise on faith or morals. The doctrine and moral code that Christ has left us must remain unchangeable. But the church can modify her discipline to suit the circumstances of the cause.” -

ALIX CHANGES HER NAME

Czar Nicholas Issues a Manifesto Announcing the Anointment.

ST. PETERSBURG, Nov. s.—Czar Nicholas on Saturday issued the following manifesto: “To-day occurred the holy anointment of our bride, in accordance with the orthodox ritual, to the comfort of ourselves and the whole of Russia, our bride receiving the name of Alexandra Feodorovna, with the title of grand duchess and imperial highness. “Given at Livadia this 21st of October (old style), 1894, in the first year of our reign.

BERLIN, Nov. s.—The Lokal Anzeiger says that the funeral of Czar Alexander 111. will take place between the 16th and 20th of November, and that the marriage of Nicholas 11. and Princess Alix will take place a few days after the funeral. Itis expected that amnesty will be granted to many political off enders in commemoration of the accession of Nicholas 11.

COMMISSIONER HOYNE DEAD.

End of the Career of One of Chicago’s Best-Known Pioneers. CHICcAGO, Nov. s.—Philip A. Hoyne, United States commissioner, died at 3 o’clock a. m. Saturday in his home at 3211 Rhodes avenug. He had been ill only a few days. ' [Commissioner - Hoyne. known everywhere as Uncle Phil, was a landmark. He was a resident of Chicago for more than fifty years. Mr. Hoyne was born in New York November 20, 1824, of an Irish family who left the old country nine years before. In January, 1853, Judge Drummond appointed Mr. Hoyne United - States commissioner and commissioner of deeds for all the states, a position he had since held. At that time the entire state of Illinois was included in one district. He was 2 prominent Mason and stood high in the I. O. O. F. Mr. Hoynse was married in 1849 to Miss Teresa Freneh, daughter of -D. A. French, the grammarian. Two sons are living.] RAIDED BY COOK’S BAND. The Outlaws Shoot a Postmaster and Rob His Store. Perry, O. T., Nov. s.—Samuel J. Dunlap, postmaster at Redfork, 0. T., located in the ‘eastern part of the Cherokee strip, 40 miles east of here, was shot full of holes on Saturday by .the Cook gang of outlaws. They entered Dunlap's store and ordered him to unlock the safe, which he refused to do, and they shot him, robbed the store and post office and skipped. Great excitement prevails. The gang is said to be headed for this part of Oklahoma. ‘

HOWARD RELEASED. Becretary Carlisle Decides Not to Depory i Mr. Morton’s Coachman. New Yorg, Nov. s.—John James Howard, under coachman for Levi P. Morton, was released from Ellis island Saturday, after having been detained for about three weeks as a subject for deportation under the alien contract labor law. The order for his release came from Secretary Carlisle, through Superintendentof Immigration Stump, the secretary having decided that Howard could not be deported under the law. 4 Policeman AShot and Killed. _ Peoria, 111., Nov. 5 —Officer Joseph Seylier was shot and killed at Bartonville, where he was sent to arrest Husel Hopmeyer. The policeman went to the saloon of Husel Hopmeyer, Sr., after the boy. Four shots were fired by Hopmeyer and they all took effect in the officer's body. He liyved but a short time. : . _ Wagon Makers Close. S Moring, 111.,, Nov. 5-—The Moline Wagon company has c¢losed its plant, employing 400 meq, indefinitely. Crop failure in the west, limiting trade, was assicned as the cause of closing, '

THANKSGIVING DAY. i’resident Cleveland’s Proclamation to the People of the United States. WAsHINGTON, Nov. I.—The president nas issued the following: *‘BY THE PRESIDENT OF THE UNITED STATES OF AMERICA—A PROCLAMATION: ; *The American people should gratefully ren der thanksgiving and praise to the Supreme Ruler of the universe who has watched over them with kindness and fostering care during the year that has passed; they should also with humility and faith supplicate the Father of All Mercies, for continued blessings according to their needs. and they should by deeds of charity, seek the favor of the Giver of e¢very good and perfect gift. _ ‘‘Therefore. I, Grover Cleveland. president of the United States, do hereby appoint and set apart Thursday, the 29th day of November fnst., as a day of thanksgiving and prayer, to be kept and observed by all the people of thée land : =

“On that day let our ordinary work and business be suspended. and let us meet in our accustomed places of worship and give thanks to Almighty God for our preservation as a nation, for our immunity from disease and pestilence, for the harvests that have rewarded our husbandry, for a renewal of national prosperity and for every advance in virtue and intelligence that has marked our growth as a people. ‘*And with our thanksgiving let us pray that these blessings may be multiplied unto us, that our national conscience may be quickened to a better recognition of the power and goodness of God;that in our national life we may clearer see and closer follow the path of righteousness. ; 8

‘“‘And in our places of worship and praise, a 8 well as in the happy reunions of kindred and friends, on that day let us involze Divine approval by generously rememberingsthe poor and needy. Surely He who has given us comfort and plenty wlll look upcn our relief of the destitute and our ministrations of charity as the work of hearts truly grateful and as proofs of the sincerity of our thanksgiving. *““Witness my hand and the seal of the United States on the Ist day of November, in the year of our Lord 1894, and of the independence of the United States the one hundred and nineteenth.. . GROVER CLEVELAND.

“By the President: W. Q. Gresham, Secretary of State.” : BARRED OUR BEEF. Germany Prohibits the Landing of Amer- ' ican Cattle and Dressed Meats. BerLIN, Nov. I,—The prohibition against the landing of American cattle and American dressed meat, announced by a decree of the Hamburg senate Saturday last, has been extended to every port of Germany.

. Interviews with officials of the interior department, the Prussian husbandry department and the German foreign offices would seem to show that the prohibition is of a preventive nature and the action of individual German states. The foreign office officials, for instance, say that the prohibition is no affair of theirs, as the m'eamfs adopted are purely administrative{ and sanitary, and that they strictly belong to each German state. The empire, as such, these officials add, has not taken any steps to prohibit the landing of American cattle or American meat.

The officials of the interior department say that the importation of cattle from America suffering from Texas fever has been clearly proved, and that tlie measures taken are purely of a preventive nature, such as each Ger: man state is entitled to exercise through its police authority within its own territory. .

A Holstein Bull Gores to Death His Third Vietim.

NEw Yorg, Oct. 81.—Jacob Swartz, a laborer employed on the stock farm of C. H. Cook at Belle Mead, N. J., was crushed and gored beyond all human semblance by an' infuriated Holstein bull Monday afternoon. Swartz had entered the pen to care for the bull. The animal was fastened to a post by a ring through the nose. hen Swartz’s attention was attracted in another direction the bull made a plunge and broke the ring. The enraged beast pinioned the man against the side of the stable with a single thrust of his horn. Then, backing off, he repeatedly attacked Swartz until he forced his body through a heavy beard partition into .the next stall. Swartz was dead when picked upafew minutes later. The bull was formerly the property of Senator McPherson, and is the largest one of his kind in this country. He weighs over 3,000 pounds. Swartz is the third man he has killed. .

NICHOLAS.”

VICTORY FOR THE CHINESE. They Recapture a Town and Kill 3,000 of the Mikado’'s Men. SHANGHAIL Nov. 5. —-The native papers announce that the Chinese troops have retaken Kiullen Cheng after heavy fighting. The Japanese are said-to have been driven out of that place with the loss of 8,000 men. It is reported on good authority that the Japanese are leaving Port Arthur and its vicinity and that the troops of Japanese which have been operating against that place are proceeding to join the main body of Japanese troops marching upon Moukden. : LoxpoN, Nov. 5.—A dispatch to the Central News from Shanghaisays that 10,000 additional troops are leaving Wi-Chang for Chin-Kiang, whence they will go overland to Tien-Tsin. This will make 40,000 troops which have been sent to the front by the viceroy Chang.

Three Men Drop Over a Hundred Feet— Two of Them Killed Outright. St. ILovuis, Nov. 2.—Two men were almost instantly killed and one man was fatally injured by falling from the seventh story of a building in course of erection at Twelfth and Locust streets at 2 o’clock Thursday afternoon. 'T'he men were standing on a scatfolding when a plank spread and allowed them to fall to the pavement a distance of over 100 feet. The dead are: Samuel Moore, aged 41, leaves a widow and three, children; Jacob ‘Warner, aged 88, leaves a widow and two children; Joseph Enz, was fatally injured. : : COST OF ARMY RATIONS. In One Year the Soldiers Use $2,627,170 Worth of Stores. WAsHINGTON, Nov. s.—lt cost $2,899,502 to feed the army during the fiscal year ended June 30, 1894, according to the annual report just made to the secretary of war by Brig. Gen. John P. Hawkins, commissary general of subsistence. The other expenses of the com missary department bring the total amount expended during the year up to $2,627,170. leaving a balanece of $159,576. Liquid coffee alone costs $3,881. W’lomen' to Meet in Knoxville. Kr~oxviLLe, Tenn., Oct. 381.—The American association for the advancement of women meets here to-day. The president, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, of Boston, and a large number of delegates from all parts of the country have arrived. Tuesday night a brilliant reception was tendered visiting ladies by the two women’s clubs of Knoxville. Four hundred guests were ‘m!‘;'at' il vprasan L el bra

A MAN-KILLER.

A FATAL FALL.

SCORES GO DOWN. A Steamer Strikes the Rocks on Great Barrier Island. SypNEY, N. S. W., Nov. 2—The steamer Wairapa, plying ,between this port and Auckland, N. Z.. was wrecked on Great Barrier island on Sunday night. She began going to pieces at once in the heavy seas. A few of her passengers were saved, but 111 were drowned. The vessel is a total wreck. e The night was very dark and the officers and lookout on the steamer were ignorant of the proximity of land until the steamer struck on the rocks. Capt. Mcllntosh, the master of the Wairaipa, was on the bridge at the time. He, together with most of the crew, was lost. The sea was rough when the steamer went aground. Attempts were made to lower some of the boats, but several of these were either smashed by being thrown by the sea against the side of the steamer before the falls were cast off. or were capsized before they could be laid head on to the sea. Everybody in the boats perished. Thosé remaining on board refused to escape this way. T

In the meantime the people on shore had gone to the assistance of the .shipwrecked people. The steamer had two or three life rafts and these were thrown overboard, but attached to the vessel by stout lines. Then some of the passengers scrambled down the side by the aid of ropes and dropped upon the rafts, which were then cut lopse. They drifted rapidly in shore anf the people on them were taken off when they came in reach by men who went. into the water as far ~as possible to meet them. : A line was finally thrown across the steamer and the breeches buoy was rigged. A number of lives were saved by this means. Altogether 111 of the passengers and 23 of the crew were drowned. The survivors have arrived at Aukland. . - —eeeeee e ANOTHER FIRE HORROR. Fatal Flames in New York—Seven Are ‘Dead—One Will Die. NEwW Yoßrg, Oct. 81.—Flames flashed with marvelous rapidity from the cellar to the roof of the five-story single tenement house, of 16 West, Thirty-sec-ond street, early Tuésday morning. Smoke filled the entire house. and seven of the tenants were suffocated in their rooms.. In Roosevelt hospital a victim of the fire, a woman who tried in vain to save her life by pjumping from a third-story window, is lying fatally hurt. The dead were all re.moved to the West Thirty-seventh street station house. - : Their names are: . ‘ Annie Applebat, 22 years old; George Friedman, 4 years old: Levi Friedman, 8 years old; Mrs. Margarvet - Killian, 70 years old: Jacob Killian, 40 years old, son of Mrs. Killian; George Levy, 20 years old. grandson of Mrs. iKillian; Mrs. Lena Mitchell, 24 years old, a cousin of Mrs. Lena Friedman. . Injured: :

Mrs. Lena Friedman, 28 years old, leaped from a window, horribly burnedabout the face, neck. arms and body and covered with contusions, will probably die.

PORT ARTHUR TAKEN.

Japanese Troops Complete the Investment of This Important Point. :

YoxkoHAMA, Nov. s.—lt is announced here that the investment of Port Arthur by the Japanese forces by land and sea has been completed ard that the forward movement of the japanese armies in the direction of Moukden is being rapidly pushed. LoxpoxN, Nov. s.—The Central News learns that the capture of Fong Fang Chen leaves the road to Moukden clear for the Japanese. Marshal Yamagata is expected to be within striking distance of Moukden on November 10. 1t is believed that the city is held by a very large but untrained and poorly equipped force. : LoxpoxN, Nov. s.—The Japanese legation has this dispatch: ‘‘The first army, under the command of Marshal Yamagata, has got possession of Fong Fang Chen and has defeated the Chinese, who are flying toward NatienLLing. The second army, under Marshal Oyama, is attacking Kin-Chow. Both Talien-Wen and Port Arthur are in a critical condition.” ’

HE OWNED UP. Arrest and Confession of- an Accomplice in a Chicago Robbery. BROOKLYN, Oct. Bl.—lsaac Sterberg 15 years of age, who was office boy for T'ranklin & Son, picture frame makers at Morgan and Twelfth streets, Chicago, was arrested Monday by Detectives Donlan and Zellenska, the latter of Chicago. The boy is charged with being concerned in the robbery by the McGrath-Mortell gang of $5,000 worth of diamonds and s large sum of money from the safe in the office of that firm. At first he denied all knowledge of the theft, but on the way to the station he broke down and comfessed his part in the robbery. He said that arrangements had been made with three members of the gang to visit the office during the absence of his employers, gag and bind him and then rob the safe. He said he only received $57 as his share in the business, although the gang promised him $5OO. o

LIVES CRUSHED OUT. A Landslide Wipes Out a Settlement on Vancouver Island. ‘NaxAlmo, B. C., Nov. s.—The steamer Princess Louise, justdown from the north, brings intelligence of a terrible disaster at Shoshartic bay, at the northwest end of Vancouver Isiand, which completely wrecked the settlement quite recently established there known as the Canadian cooperative commonwealth. The settlement consisted of six persons, five men and one woman. Monday morning, before the occupants had arisen, a landslide tore down the mountain side, crushed in the log building, and carried it and the ground on which it stood 100 feet out into the bay, the cabin being buried several feet under debris. Four of the inmates lost their lives. AN OPEN SWITCH. It Causes a Railway Collision in Which Three Lives Are Lost. ScraNTON, Pa., Nov. 2.—Three persons were killed and others injured at Hoster, 27 Imiles north of here, on the Delaware, Lackawanna & Western railroad, at 1 o’clock Wednesday morning. Theaccident was caused by an open switch, into which a through express train, No. 7, dashed while running at a high speed, crashing into the rear end of a freight train which had taken the siding to allow the express to pass. The dead are: Engineer James Lynott, Scranton, Pa.; Fireman Elmer Seull, Moscow; Fireman William Hosey, Bingham»tonlv,N: Yi L fos

UNITED STATES PRESIDENTS. A Few Facts Concerning the Same of an Entirely Non-Political Character. I presume, remarked a statistics fiend the other day, that you know there have been twenty-three presidents of the United States. This was conceded without going to the records. . The first of these, he continued, with the easy grace of a man who knew what he was talking about, was George Washington, and, by the way, George, who was born in 1732, was older than eny of his saccessors. The first to break the rule was John Quincy Adams, who, while two years younger than his successor, Jackson, was not followed by any other older man. Mr. Van Buren’s successor, Harrison, was nine vears older than himself, and no man born before either of these was president afterward. Following Tyler and Polk came Taylor, six years older than Tyler and eleven years older than Polk. Following Fillmore and Pierce came Buchanan, nine years older than Fillmore and thirteen years elder than Pierce. Mr. Lincoln wae one year younger than Johnson; Grant and Hayes were born in the same year; Mr. Arthur was a year older than Garfield, and Mr. Cleveland four years younger than Harrison. As to birthplace, six have come from Virginia, two each from Massachusetts and North Carolina, three from New York, four from Ohio, and one each from New .Jersey, Kentucky, New Hampshire, Vermont, Pennsylvania and Tennessee. Four died in Virginia, five in New York,four in Washington eity, three in Tennessee and one each in Massachusettes, New Hampshire, Pennsylvania, Ohio and New Jersey. Two still live. There were four Jameses, three Johns, two Andrews and one George, Thomas,: Martin, William, Zachary, Millard, Franklin, Abraham, Ulysses, Rutherford, Chester, Grover and Benjamin. Fourteen had no middle names, if .\we allow Mr. Cieveland that privilege. No president was named in honor of any president, unless Andrew Johnson was named for Andrew Jackson. Of the months of their birth January, July, August and :September claim one'each; February, October and November ‘have three each; December has two; March and April have four; May and June are not president months. Two have died in January and Apri! each; one each in February, March September, October and December; four in June and seven in July; none has died in May, August and November; indeed, May does not appear to be in at all, having neither births nor deaths. Of the yeéars Grant and Hayes were the only two born in the same year, and Adams and' Jefferson the only two who have died in the same vear. Garfield was born the same year that saw the end of Mr. Monroe. Before the death of Washington those who had been president or were waiting to be were Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monro=, Adams,Jr., Jackson, Van Buren, Harrison, Tyler, Polk, Taylor and Buchanan.

Mr. Buchanan was the last president born in the eighteenth century and Mr. Pierce was the first president born in the nineteenth, although he was succeeded by an eighteenth century man (Buchanan). Eleven: reached or passed threescore and ten: John Adams {(91) reached the most advanced age; Madison (85), Jefferson (83) and Van Buren (80) were the other fourscore men: Monroe Adams, Jr., Jackson, Tyler, Fillmore, Buchanan and Hayes passed the threescore point; Garfield (50) was the youngest to die. W. H. Harrison (68) was the oldest at the time of .his inauguration; Buchanan was 66 and Taylor 65; Johr Adams and Jackson were 62 and all the others were in the 50’s, except Pierce (49), Grant (47) and Cleveland (48), Grant being the youngest man ever eledted president. W. H. Harrison served the shortest time, one month; Taylor served sixteen months and four days, Lincoln one month and eleven days on his second term and Garfield served six months and fifteen days. Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln, Grant and Cleveland were twice elected, but Cleveland alone had to make three trials for his two elections. o

Harrison 1., Taylor, Lincoln and Garfield died in office, the latter two by assassination. i

All were married men at their election except Van Duren, Buchanan and Cleveland.

Van Buren was the only one todizin the town of his birth (Kinderhook, N. Y.). No president has died out of the country, though Tyler died at Richmond, while Virginia was out of the union, or, at least, trying to get out. Adams, Jefferson and Monroe died on che Fourth of July, Monroe five years after the other two. Of the four presidents born in April three (Jefierson, Monroe and. Grant) died in July, and the other (Buchanan) missed it by only a month; of the four born in March two died in June, one in January and ome (Mr. Cleveland) is still living. Of the twenty-three twelve were born in the first: half of the year and eleven in the latter half, which is dividing it very fairly. It mightn't occur to you,” concluded the statistician, ‘‘but John Quincy Adams, who died in 1848, having, no doubt, seen Washington, Adams (his fathes and the only man whose son was a president, while Harrison’s grandson caught it), Jefferson, Madison and Monroe, with Jackson and Harrison, who died before 1848, could, if he had been so minded and had had the requisite foreknowledge, have seen all the others, for the oldest (Van Buren) was at that time 63, Lincoln was 39, Grant and Hayes young men of 26, while Garfield, Arthur and Harrison 11. were youngsters of 15 to 18, and Cleve land, the last-born president (1837), was 11. ‘

Washington, the flrst president elected, was the first to die, and he was the only president to die in the eighteenth century, with only seventeen days to goon. At his death Adams, Jefferson, Madison, Monroe, Adams,Jr., Jackson, Van .Buren, Harrison I.; Tyler, Polk, Taylor and Buchanan were living. It was twenty-six and a half years until the next died, and then Adams and Jefferson died on the same day (1826). In that year two died and two have not died in any year since; two died in the3os, five in the ’4os, none in the ’sos, four in the ’6os, two in the ’7os, three in the ’Bos and one (Hayes) so far in the 'oos. : No president died between 1840 and 1862, *the next longest time after Washington’s death, One hundred and five years elapsed botween the birth“of Washington and ghat of Cleveland (1792-1837).—N. Y Slun. \ .

—1 could mever draw the line be: tween meanness and dishonesty —Q Macdonald, -

FOR YOUNG PEOPLE.

TWO LITTLE WITCHES.

“If you were a witch, Nan, what would youn dare— s ' if you were a witch?” : “I'd not be content to ride on a switch,” Sald Nan, as she shook back her shining brown -halr, ; * Nor get up a storm To brew people harm It 7 were a witch :

*The snowflalzes should fall on a hot summer day'’'— “They'd all melt away!"” : “And in winter the meadows be fllled with the gold Ot cowslip and daffodil”— ‘“Ah, but Nan, hold!”"— - ‘With a laugh in her eye—- “ The florists would die.”

“Say you were a witch, Meg, what would : you.do, > If you were a witch? ‘Would you sail through the afr?" But Meg answered, lifting her frank eyes of blue: ‘* It’s no sweeter up there. This world came so beautiful out of God’s hands, : : I think I would—leave it just as it stands.” Oh, wise little witch! —Ella F. Mosby, in N. Y. Independent.

WONDERFUL MONSTER.

The Pacific Walrus the Most Uncouth and Ungainly of Animals. :

A mountain of heaving flesh, wrinkled and rough, ugly as a satyr, and even more clumsy than the hippopotamus, lives in ‘the Arctic ocean wherever - there are clam beds and enough open water to affora him a home. The Pacific walrus is the most uncouth and ungainly beast that ever s#ts foot on land. For two or three centuries he has been called the Morse, and also the sea horse—possibly bezause he is more like a horse than a humming bird, though not much. : Three hundred years ago, when travelers and men of science were struggling to obtain a mental grasp of the form and habits of this strange creature, but wholly unaided by the collector and taxidermist, their pictorial efforts produced some astonishing results—just as may always be ex-

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His real personality was only half known to the world until, in 1872, Mr. Elliott landed on the rocky shore of Walrus island, ‘armed with sketchbook, notebook and tape measure, and made an elaborate series of studies of this “species actually at arm’s length. His published pictures and notes were such a complete reveclation regarding the actual form and habits of the Pacific walrus as to cause much astonishment among naturalists; and to some it seemed almost beyond belief that the form of the. walrus was really as pictured from life by this painstaking artist.—St. Nicholas.

- TELLING FORTUNES. IHJow 1t Is Done by Means of a Gold Ring : and a Halr. : A pretty way to tell fortunesis to hang a gold ring—a plain one is best—on a long hair just taken from some one’s head, and, resting your elbow on a table wheread glass tumbler or goblet is set, let the ring hang down until it swings'/just below the top of the glass. Hold the ends of the hair firmly between the thumb and forefinger and keep the hand perfectly still. lln a little while the ring will begin to swing baclt and forth, going faster and farther until it strikes the side of the tumbler with a tinkling: sound. Now the questions must be asked by the one who holds the ring or anyone watching the performance. All questions must be such as can be answered by yes or no. For example, you could not ask: “Whenam I going awav?”?

S | 0 8\ 7 lJ (‘f;iéA ’) /l/ L ‘—_‘; D - 'éb ) ( v'l / “-—-zr&// : T AR, o i\ = T 'y N 5 m [ = fl‘t\\:‘_\g?:;f:;; =4l R J RING FORTUNES. but: “Am I going away at such or such a time?”’ Onc_.tap of the ring on the glass means ‘‘no;” two means s'it is uncertain;”’ three means ‘‘yes.” Try it, boys and girls, and see what fun you will have.—N. Y. Advertiser. : Poll Is Always on tlxb‘ Alert. One of Uncle Sam’s most faithful servants in Maine, but one that draws no salary, lives at the Portland Head Lighthouse. It isa large gray parrot, brought from Africa some time ago and prescnted to the keeper of the licht. The bird soon noticed that when the fog began to blow in from the ocean somebody would ery out: “log coming in; blow the horn!” One day the fog suddenly began to come in thick, and the men did not notice it. But Poll did, and croaked out: “Fog coming in; blow the horn!” Ever since then, whenever fog is perceptible, Poll never fails to give werning. ; Tiniest Girl of Her Aée. Mlle. Paulina, of IHolland, is probably the tiniest girl of her age on this planet. She is eighteen years old, weighs less than nine pounds and lacke four inches of being as high as a two~

AN AUTOMATIC DIVER. How Boys and Girls Can Conduct an Interesting Experiment. Here is an interesting experiment which is well worth a trial. Take a glass jar full of water; drop into ita small cardboard box similar to that shown in our illustration—No. 1. The section of the box there shown is of course very much enlarged in proportion to the jar given in the second figure. The bottom of the box is provided with a number of small holes, and into the center of the cover a hole should also be bored, in which should be placed a valve made on the inside of a cardboard disc and on the outside of a wide cork, the . two ieing joined through the hole by a hairpin or a needle, the space between the two discs being about the width of a finger. The box should be ballasted by means of afew nails dropped to the bottom. Then take a small bottle half filled with the powder used in making soda water and stopped with a cork having a hole in the center, which should be placed inside. When this is done the box is ready for use in connection with the glass jar. Place the box in the water and it will at once ,sink to the D < o Tl “Wuili‘.imifiwfr"?*‘i?fl / et ffi}!{}fl[‘q v“"",“st‘a““""s?' : s ‘]fl’r;qixi;eiggg?f | A e ] A 21 ILg| 1“‘ ' uJ:zvamr i i I v o { il “"" Hi Z'M\{ Z L £ e Z : iRI I 0| g g . 'HOW IT I 8 DONE. bottom of the jar on account of the water' entering .through the small holes in the bottom. But when the water penetrates into the bottle within the box and mixes with the powder it produces a great quantity of carbonio acid gas, which expels the water through the box -and aflows the latter to rise to the top of the jar, the gas inside keeping the inner disc of the valve full against the interior. When, however, the cork outside rises to the top of the water it releases the valve and the gas escapes. The box is now in its first condition, and the water, being enabled to enter by the holes at the bottom, again fills the box and siaks it until the gas is once more formed, when it rises ancw to the surface. This rise and flow will continue for some time. . This curious experiment may be performed on a larger scale in a water tank of a Dbath, the box, of course, being made in proportion.—N. Y. Recorder. =~ . HABITS OF HORSES. pome Queer Tales Heard by a Eeporter. - in n Street -Car Barn. | ‘Did you know, boys, that you can teach an intelligent eolt or horse to do almost anything by patiently making him go through the performance many times, day after day? That is the way the circus trick horses and ponies are taught. After a colt is once trained to perform a variety of triclts he becomes very valuable. -Circus shows will buy such horses at big prices. A few years ago a boy in western Pennsylvania trained a colt to perform as he had seen horses. perform in shows, and when the next circus came around the proprietor gave him $5OO for the animal. -The New York Times gives an account of a street car horse named Charley, on the- Central Cross-town road in that city. Bill Smead had driven Charley for a long time, but Bill was discharged one day and a new driver took charge of the horse. The account says:

- All went well until the corner:of Broadway and Seventeenth street had been reached. Then Charley stopped, turned about, faced the driver, elevated his upper lip and opened his jaws. The man dropped the lines in horror. Reinforced by the conductor he tried to get Charley to ‘‘tend to business,” but the beast was obdurate and had to be taken tothe barn, the incident causing some little blockade of travel. The next day the horse went out under fresh guidance and at the same place repeated his previous anties. ‘‘You fellers dunno how to drive a hoss, that’s all,” remarked Dill, who put in his leisure loafing near the barns. - “If you can make him go you can have your place back,” responded an official, who overheard the criticism. “Hitch him up,” said Bill, ‘“and I'll do the trip on schedule time, you bet.” While waiting for the car tocome out Bill went into a neighboring grocery for a moment. Returning, he took the lines, and the outfit went gayly on the eross-town trip, one of the passengers being a company detective who was curious to sec¢ how Bill would do it.

As usual, at Broadway and Seventeenth streets, Charley whirled about and laughed with equine joy in the face of his old comrade.

~ “They didn’t treat you right, did they, Charley?” said Bill. ‘‘But it’s all 0. K. now.” - ! And thereat he pulled from Lis pocket two lumps of sugar. These the ‘horse eagerly seized, and, turning in { his traces, resumed the pull toward the North river. It. developed that for over eighteen months the animal had been fed with sugar by his driver whenever they reached the spot indicated on the west bound trips. ~ Another horse; an iren gray, makes three regular trips without protest, and cheerfully pulls the Dbiggest sort of loads. But he absolutely refuses to do any more. He has been whipped, ‘coaxed, urged, petted and sworn at, but without avail. So much work for so much hay and oats and water is his motto. Ile is so firm in his resistance to what he thinks the tyranny of capital over labor that the boys at the stable call him Gompers. : - Generalized Too Much. The French are a witty race, but French servants are reported the stue pidest in the world. It is of a person of that race that this story is tolds Justine was reproved by her mistress for bringing home lobsters that were not fresh. o : ““You must positively not get any lobsters, Justine,” said her mistress, ‘“‘unless they are alive.” : The servant. took the injunction deeply into her consciousness. A few days afterward her mistress sent her to get some cheese. e - “Is this cheese fresh, Justine?” asked the mistress. - . *‘Oh yes, madam,” answered the serv=’ ant, ‘I took pains to see that it was alivel” - : oo S - Like a Smowstorm. - A cotton shower, looking exactly like a snowstorm, is a common sight in the ottt prosM G