Rensselaer Republican, Volume 19, Number 17, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 December 1886 — Page 6

RECORD OF THE YEAR

Important Occurrences of a Twelvemofttb Arranged in Chronological Order. A Brief Synopsis of the Most Notable Politieal, Social, and Financial Happenings. Necrology of 1886 -Death* Busy Work in the Ranks of thA World’s ' Distinguished People. The Casualty Reoord—A Catalogue of Aocidents Involving Loss of Human Life. CHRONOLOGY. The World'* noteworthy Social and Political Happenings in 1880. JANUARY. In a gvmnuinm at BiDßhnmt.m, N Y.,'Wni. Dale ivunc 7-lb Indian cluFs 4 hours 50 minutes. In a bicycle contort at Minneapolis. Woodside covered S»o nulcs in .ti hours. -(six liundited Arab* slain in battle with British forces near Koehch. The twenty-tilth anniversary of Em* peror William s acc< *»io 1 to the throne of Prussia »#* fitly commemorated at Ihrlinon the "d. It was estimatf-d that 7,000 coal-miners of the Pittsburgh district. «ho hail been on a (Dur months strike, lost in wages nearly 82,000,000; Operators suffered to a large amount by tbe prolonged suspension. Mis* Sarah Althea Hill. , of Sharon divorce notoriety', was married at Stockton, CaJ., to Judge David S. Terry, who killed Senator Broderick in a duel in 1859.Austria spent 530.000.ii00 in arming her infantry with a m-w repenting rifle, the invention of a railway engineer. Prinoe Charles of Monaxi expelled the Jesuits from his petty domain because they printed a list of suicides at the Monte Carlo gaming-ta-bles. A blizzard swept over the Eastern States on the 10th that was partidhlarly sever * i eight ▼easels were; driven ashore at Brovincetowu and Truro, Mass, fell to-the depth of live feet in many places in Maine and Vermont, the tide along t ajw Cod was the highest known for years, and it was estimated that more damage was done op that part of the coast in fortyeight hours than for the previous decade. The Massachusetts Suj reme Court dec id ini that the autbor.ties could prohibit preaching on Boston Common. Six inenes of snow fell at Galveston, Texas, on the 12th, the greatest that had been witnessed in that vicinity since tbe foundation of the citv in 1*18; the mercury at Moretown, Vt. fell to 4.) degrees below Zero. Charles Bradlaugh, the atheist, was permitted to take the oath and qualify as a member of the British l'arliotuent at its opening on the Pith. Pour children who were sent So Paris from Newark, N. J.; to bo treated f*r hydrophobia by M. l’asteur, reached home •afely and in good health. A Russian ukase ordered the expulsion from that conntry of all persons not naturalized, numbering 103,003. Gold mine, yielding from 860 to S3tX) a ton, discovered at Leaky, Texas. The tunnel between Liverpool and Birkenoead, under the Mersey, ESSO yards long, and costing *7,000.0 0, i was formally opened by the Prinde of Wales on the filth. Cincinnati theater man gers acreed- to give no more Sunday performances. The Mississippi River was gorged with ice seventeen inches in thickness, from the mouth of the Illinois to Ste. Genevieve—a distance of sixty-five miles. FEBRUARY. The Ice Carnival was inaugurated at St. Paul with imposing ceremonies, there was a procession of uniformed clubs, numbering 5,000 persons, the city was thronged with visitors, and much enthusiasm prevailed. Mr, Gladstone visited Queen Victoria at Osborne, on the Ist, kissed her hand, and was commanded to form a Cabinet. The great feat of telephoning a distance of 2,4(75 miles—the terminal points being - Boulogne and St. Petersburg—was performed in Europe. Notices were posted in the- cotton mills at New Bedford. Concord, Manchester, and Lowell of a general advance of 10 per cent, in wages. The lowa Legislature passed a bill authorizing Mayors of cities to solemnize mar- .. «*hqpa. ■; ■ -■ ■ '' V•. ■' MARCH. On the Istinst. President Cleveland sent to the Seuate a special message declining tq furnish unofficial documents relating to suapenaions from office, and claiming the right to destroy tuern. Owing to a threatened boycott, a Rt_ Louis street-car line advanced wages of employes and reduced hours of labor. Owing to a strike of employes on Gould s Southwest lines Of railroad, not a single car of freight crossed the St. Louis bridge for a week. The lowa Seuate passed a bill making drunkenness a misdemeanor punishable with severe penalties. Employes of the Gould system of railroads in the Southwest engaged in a strike which resulted in bloodshed at East St. Louis, 111., six pessons being killed by Deputy Sheriffs who were protecting railroad property; as usual, Innocent parties suffered, ono of the slain being a woman returning from a shopping expediliou. . .The Jxipg of ...Corea, abolished slavery in his kingdom, where one-half the people had hitherto been held in bondage. APRIL.

The steam-yacht Welcome arrived in Chicago on the 7tb, with clearance papers direct from Mobile, having made the trip via the Gulf of Mexioo a»d the M ississrppi and Illinois Rivers. A number of the survivors of the steamer Sultana horror held a reunion at Toledo, Ohio, on the 27th, the twenty-first anniversary of the event; near Memphis, on the morning of the 27th ot April, 1565, the boilers of the vessel exSloqed, and 2,141 persons perished ; the ill-fated ransport was loaded with released, prisoners on .their way home from; .Rook—lsland. John Dubois, of Dubois, Pa., who, in consequence of illness, retired from business, sold an estate valued at $15,006,000 to his nephew,’ John E. Dubois, for Si. MAT, The rule that few office-holders die and none resign (has its 'exceptions ; day Noblock resigned the Lieutenant Governorship of. Loui-i----ana Chi the 3d silver in loudon reached the lowest quotation in the history of the metal--45 15-16 pence per ounce. At Chicago, on the evening of-the 4th, a squad of policemen endeavored to disperse a meeting of anarchists and socialists, when a lemb was thrown among the officers of the law, whereupon they opened fire upon the incendiaries, the result being fourteen deaths—eight of them )X}liceineh, the other six being rioters or Innocent spectators ; about seventy-five were wounded. The Governor of New Turk signed the bill, permitting women to practice law in the 'Empire State. President Cleveland decided that officers of “the army found incapacitated for active service by retiring boards were not eligible lor promotion JPXE. The United Presbyterian Genera] Assembly, in session at Hamilton, Ohio, settled a longstanding tight by voting in favor of instrumental music in church worship. The Supreme Court of Indiana decided that a man accused of a capital offense cannot waive trial bv jury. Frosts in Northern Dokot/i and Minnesota, on the 7th, injured the wheat crop 2 > per cent. The Supreme Court of Arkansas affirmed a decision Disking the conducting of 'bucket-shoos' a misdemeanor. Mr. Gladstone's home-rule bill defeated pn second reading in the British House of Onnmona Iby a vote of 341 to 311. Physic .ans examined King Ludwig of Bavaria, and reported him insane. Great excitement prevailed in Belfast, Ireland, over the defeat of Gladstone's home-rule bill, and the loyalists celebrated their victory by sacking the public houses, pouring liquors into the gutters, and behaving in a riotous manner generally ; the constabulary, who sought to preserve order, were pelted with stones, and they In turn fired upon the rioters, the most daring of whom were factory girls; scores of lives were lost: The issue of secession was voted upon in Nova Scotia and resulted in the choice of 38 members of Parliament, 29 of whom favored annexation to the United States. The New York statute regarding imprisonment for debt was amended so as to release all debtor prisoners who have been incarcerated over six months. Providence, B. L, celebrated on the 23diust its SOth anniversary. v ._—. —; —, nr.kUe,-"/ JULY. On Sunday, the 11th, C.D. Graham, a Pennsylvanian, Successfully ‘shot" the whirlpool rapids at Niagara Falls, in a wooden barrel of hia own contrivance. James Julior, of London, waa placed in a lunatic asylum for writing an offer of marriage to Queen Victoria and calling at Windsor- Castle for an answer. A bootblack named Brodie leaped from the Brooklyn bridge Into the East River, 120 feet, and was taken from the water almost uninjured. IBs steamer Waeriand, when two days out from Antwerp, •truck a sleeping whale eighty feet long, which

lit cut nearly in two ; the ship was backed to free Itself from the oaroas*. A resolution was passed In the Spanish Chamber of Deputies providing that the Government free as soon as possible the remaining £O,OOO slaves in Cuba. A balloon, fitted w ith a patent steering and propelling apparatus, made a journey from Cherbourg, 1 ranee, to London lu eeveu boura. AUGUST. Snow fell in H«v York and New Hampshire on the 3d. Rioting was epidemic in Belfast, Ireland, and in the pitched battles that ensued between the Orangemen and tbe Catholic* the killed numbered scores and the wounded hull-* deeds. A Boston surgeon opened the altdouien of a patient, drew up and cut open-Id* stomach, took therefrom a set of .teeth which had Inn there for a year, ami sewed up the aperture with | tine silk, the operation being c.mphtod ill fortyfive minutes. P. J. Bcolt, afisbeillian, Sought | to achieve fame by swimming the whiilpo.il rapid* of Niagara nit iml in a su.t of cork ; he made a “moist, unpleasant corpse" of himself | instead. On the v.td Mr*. Cleveland, stopping at tho Sui amir Inn. among the Adlrondacka, tuuclird .the electric button that get tbe machinery In motidu i.t the jriilluiijTOli* Industrial Exposition. A fdotnee at London, England, distance ope mile, resulted In a Victory for George over Cummlng*. in I ll*f. the fastest time on record. Gov, Gray, of ludiau i, offered a reward of SLOW for the.conviction of any porsou engaged in lynching in that Ktute. SEPTEMBER. A series of International races for the Ann ilea's cup took place over the New York Yacht Club * course betwien the Yankee sloop Mayflower and the English cuttor Galatoa, resulting in a decisive victory for the former. J’rince Alexander signed tho doed of abdication and departed from Sollk, Bulgaria, ou the fcth. Geroidmo and other Apaclto Indian* captured by the forces of (Riii, Milks woro placed in Irirt Marion, «t St. Augustine, Ela. Excavators at I'ompeii discovered near the eastern gate a new street of tombs. OCTOBER. Snow foil nt Cheboygan, Mich., on the Ist; nipping weather throughout the Northwest was repHirted. The steamer Aluiodd made the rim from Sydney to Kan Francisco in id days ti hour* 3j minutes—the best recorded time. Gov. Patti son, of Penn syl vanJ#,. addressed a letter to Attorney General Cassidy on the action of the anthracite pool iu advancing tne pri"o of coal, and requesting him to move against it in court. Numerous letters received during .the month by tho Hydrographic Office ut Washington from the officers of Bteam and sailing vessels bore testimony to tho efficacy of pmriiig oil on the waters In storms, the b tttoww betrrg snaedity rednred to longand heavy but harmless swells. Tiio mercury rose to KOuegrees in the shade ip London on th-’ sth, a temperature unknown in October for nearly half a century. J. Juvoiiet, of New Orleans. sent a halo of ramie to tho Cotton Exchange and a bale of jute to the Produce Exchange, with letters stating that they wero the first bales of these products ever grown in tho United ‘States. A constant rainfall from a cloudless sky was reported from Dawson, Ga. NOVEMBER. Lawrence M. Don a van, a New York pressman, leaped from the new suspension bridge at Niagara on the 7th; ho descended 190 feet in four seconds, and escaped without injury save the slight displacement of A rib. A meeting in Glas' ow, Scotland, resolved to erect a monument to Burns' "Highland Mary” ou Castle Hill, at Dunoon. Lieut, (leu. Sheridan's report showed, that the standing army of the country 1 consists of £.102 officers and 21,940 men. The Vermont Legislature passed a law requiring all hotels and restaurants usifig oleomargarine for butt r to post up large signs of notification to that effect. A special train On the Canada Southern track, carrying the Vanderbilt party to Chicago, covered 107 miles in 93 minutes. The Austrian Government issued an order prohibiting the playing of poker in its army. George Huzlett and Sadie Allen. 18 years old, wont through the Niagara whirlpool and rapids in a torpedoshaped barrel ; they wore in the rapids and whirlpool five minutes, and were taken out of tho eddy on the Canadian side none the worse for their perilous trip The president of the Marquette. Ontonagon and Portage Road was credited with saving the lives "Of twenty-four men shipwrecked tiff Marquette in a storm-; he ordered the railway track cleared of trains, and appealed to the life-saving crew at Portage City, to travel TIQ miles with a special engine and car, at the greatest speed possible; the imperiled sailors were taken from the rocks in a terrible .gale. For the month of November tax was paid on 4,430,174 pounds of oleomargarine in the United States by thirty-four manufactories, - DECEMBER. A bill providing for trial by jury was presented in the Spanish Chamber of Deputies. Tho proprietors of eight hotels or restaurants in Hartford were arrested tar using ialeam.ftrg.ar. rine on their tables without displaying the placard required by the luw of Connecticut. The South experienced unusually severe winter weather during the first week of December; snow fell continuously for over sixty hours in North Carolina and Virginia; at Asheville, N. C„ the snow was twenty-seven inches deep on a level. Under the decrees of tho Plenary Council at Baltimore, the Catholio Aichbishop of Philadelphia prohibited balls for charitable purposes. The Alabama Senate passed a local-option law. On the waters of Niagara River. Aluhonso King walked one hundred yards in a huge pair of tin shoes of his own invention, on a w ager of $3,000. A railway collision in Dayton, Ohio, sent a locomotive running wild through the city at the_ rate of a mile a minute ; it passed through the I'niou Depot at tho highest known rate, of speed, and exhausted itself at a point on the track ten miles in tho country. A quarry of fine malachite, 150 feet in thickness, was discovered in Georgia. No more large steamboats with costly cabins will be built for the Lower Mississippi trade.

NECROLOGY.

Men Renowned in Statesmanship, War, Literature, Mechanics, and the Learned Professions Swell the Death Roll. JANUARY. Contributions to the necrology of the initial mouth of lcAb were : J. B. Lippincott, the veteran Philadelphia publiauei'.i Dr. Robert Ramsay, a famous -MnAtmie writer; inaTcfronto hospital, aged 44. Gen. Hiram Hilliard, once Adjutant Genera! of Illinois. N. Mi Ludlow, the oldest actor iii the country, and for many years associated with sol Mmth (deceased) in theatrical ventures: at his homo in St. Louis, agedyi. Nah m ( apen, LL.P , who was Postmaster at Boston under Buchanan, and who began the free delivery system, Hon. Benj. Coaly, ex-Uovenior bf Georgia. Col. Edward Richardson, President of the late World s Exposition at New Orleans. Lottie: Griffin (colored), who claimed to be over 120 years, died at Hannibal, Mb., leaving a daughter, aged-go. Geo. E. Pomeroy, founder of the express system in the-United-States: at Toledo, Ohio, aged 70. James Cutshaw, last of the old-time stagedrivers in Oliio; at Lancaster, aged 87. Miss Kate Bayard, eldest daughter of the Secretary of State, found dead in bed at Washington: hear: disease. Marie Augustine, colored, ended her existence of ICS years at New Orloaus. Rev. Henry Norman Hudson, eminent Shakspeareon scholar, at Cambridge, Muss, At London, Joseph Mags, colei rated tenor opera singer. I>r. Thomas \Y. Keene, member of the Virginia House of Delegates, fell dead in liis seat' after making a speech. Mrs. Anna Maria Greene, daughter-in-law of Gen. Nathaniel Greene, of Revolutionary fame, breathed her last at Newport, R. 1., aged 102. Ex-IT. S. Senator James T. Farley, of California. Congressman Jos. C. 'Rankin. Fifth Wisconsin District. Col. Ashbel Smith, a veteran of the Texas war of independence, was buried with military honors at Austin, and his remains placed beside those of Gen. Albert Sidney Johnston. Coleman Freeman. born a slave in Virginia; at Windsor, Ont., age-1 121. Ex-Senator David R. Atchison, of Missouri who in IS 9 was Acting Piesulent of tho United staves for one day. Mrs. Bayard, wife of the Secretary of State, aged 51." Ex.Govetnor Nefil S Brown, of Tennessee, U. S. Minister to Russia in IS3O, aged 75. FEBRUARY. Death played sad havoc in the ranks of American men of war during the brief month of February. no less than three Major Generals answering the summons of the grim messenger —Winfield Scott Hancock, David Hunter, and William R. Rowley. Hancock served with distifiction in the Mexican war, was second in command on the bloody field of Gettysburg, and in 1850 was the Democratic candidate for President ; Hunter, also, was a veteran of the Mexican' campaign, and presided over the military court that tried Mrs. Surratt ;and Rowley was the last sur.iving officer of ,Gen. Grant's staff. Other deaths for the niyath were: George T. I.anigan. *e versatile genius—journalist, poet, author, and translator; at Philadelphia, from heart disease. George Lori Hard, owner and 'breeder of Parole and other famous horses. Mrs. Sarah Leary, oldest person in Central Illinois; at HnopoliS, aged 106. John G. Thompson. ex-Sergeant-at-Arrns U. S. House of Representatives, at Seattle, aged 53. George C. Bates, an eloquent lawyer, known in the chain of great cities from New York to San Francisco, at Denver, aged 7L ExGov. Horatio Seymour, the venerable Sage of Deerfield, ended his eventful life at Utica, in his 76th year. - Sarah Taylor (colored), at St Catharines, Ont, aged 120 years II months and 8 days. In Philadelphia, from paralysis, John

B. Gough, for forty year* the leading orator In the oause of temperance; bom In England In 1822. John Henry Payne, grandson of one of the signers of the Declaration of Independence, expired In New York, apparently in extreme Emiry ; he wee believed to be worth between 000,000 and $2,000,9*10. but only a few hundrod dollars were found in the rags that .covered him. W. B. Moservoy, at Kalem. Mas*., member of the first party to cross tho'plalns to Californio, and ex-Govcrnorof Nc# Mexico. Gen. John 8. Cavender, oue of the original FVpo-Htatn leaders in Misrouri. , MARCH. Tho wife of Senator.l. R. Hawley, of Connecticut, breathed her.last at Wirtllilh t( Ji. aged 57 ; deceased VM S uiese of Henry W ard Be clier, ! and - served ** amrsn tn the hosiiitnl* of \irglr.la during ll.e mu. Other deaths d ri g tho tin nth : (icu. 11. M 'age ,'rteir.n' .I rio und well-known vitieUltiiT4i-t < f Simla (‘turn. Cal., agtal 73. Gen. ■ ohu I*. Millet, 1 onatrir fiom California Marv llleeckor KevniuUr.ridlotof exGov. Hora’.io Hcxmu.ir. at tlu l evidence other sister,Mis. Ro.con Conk ling. Utica, N. Y. Hon! J. B. Chaffee, cx-l’lliied .-into* Kouator from Colo.ado. The wife of ex- Attorney Gen wal H. H. Brewster. Mrs. Sthfy Auugllo*. nauguter of Mrs. Julia Waid Hone, noti d for her brims in educating tho blind Ex-Gov. Michael Hahn of Ixniisiiiun. At Washington, the wife of Gto go BancroT', the historian. Ex-Gov, itm Ii wfn, of (alt iorula. ‘i ho vonorahla F aid of ( li Chester, an active promoter of charities Ca]>t, James I. Waddell. ox-ooiuiuandcr of ilio (Tonfederate cr riser.Rheum.<i mb. Jan.oi Mahoney, a ccnlemn inn, who se. 'ori under 1 < rrv at tho battle of I.aku Eric, also a veil ran of the Mexican war and tbo war if tl.o r.Uliion. Miss Abigail Bates at Kcituate; Maa« , aged 89; one of two heroines who in the war of EM i drore away tho British from Fcituuto harbor by vigorously playing a life and druiil In the bn she*. I)r .1. H. Kano, whoparticipated in li‘» brother's arctic expedition. Hon Ward Hunt, of New York, who resigned hi* place an Justice of tho U. S. Snprni:? Court in 1832. The Countess do Chntnborj, widow of tho lato head-of tire surviving Bourbon fami 1 y of Franco. James O'Domioll, tho noted oarsman of Now Orleans. APRIL Donnld Mcbellau, whoso grnndfather was a follower of tb < famous Roll Bov, passed away at Detroit in indigent circumstances, aged 10J, lit. Hon. W. E. Forster, ox-t'hief Kecr.-tary for Ireland, aged nil. Hon. John Welch, Miuistor to England under President Hayes’ administration. Elbrldgq Gerry, member of Congress iu 1818, and a prominent anti-slavery agitator: at Portland, Me., aged 73. Thuddeus Fairbanks, the scale, invent..r, who was knightod by tho Emperor of Austria ;at St Jobnsbiiry, Vt,, aged 93. John H Noyes founder of the (bii'idn Community, at his homo iu Niagara Falls; born in 1811, and was a cousin of ex-President Hayes. Charles Mitchell, father of Maggfo MitcFielf, the actress, at Troy, N. Y , aged 83. Jlrs. Ella Hart, a pioneer of Sandusky, 0., aged 103. i Father Abram J. Ryan, the “poet-priest of the South,” passed away at'' Louisville; a native of Virginia, aged 4t5. Tbe widow of Wended Phillips, who hod been an invalid over since her marriage, half a century ago, died in Boston. At Boston, H. H. Richardson, famous architect. MAY. Charles Franklin Robertson, Protestant Episcopal Bishop of tho Diocese of Missouri, died in St. Louis. Other eminent people who joined the innumerable caravan during tho flowery month were : David Fisher, ex-M. C„ into whose arms John Quincy Adams fell when he.was stricken with paralysis on the floor of the House George H. Butler,'nephew of Gen. B. F. Butler, formerly editor of lit Ikes' Spirit. Gen. John L. Lewis, an historical character of New Orleans, who served as a courier for Gen. Jackson in 1815, aged 80. Vico Admiral Lynch, of tho Chilian navy. Mrs. Alice Pendleto’n, wife of the American Minister to Germany, was killed in Central Park, New YoVk, by being thrown from her carriage. Arthur Quartlay, a noted 'American marine painter, ended his days in New York. Dr. Dio Lewis, author and hygienic reformer, aj his home in Yonkers, N. Y , aged 63. Stephen l’earl Andrews, the apostle of spiritualism; New York, aged 74. Leopold von Ranke, eminent GermaTTlStltorian, aged 91. Genl Dttfbln Ward, ono of tbe most noted Democrats of Ohio, aged 08. Gen F N. Ogden, who led the White league revolution against the Kellogg State Government at New Orleanß in 1874. At St. Vital, Ont., Mrs. Riel, widow of the Canadian rebel. John Q. Bartlott, well-known American author, and for many years Secretary of State of Rhode Island, aged 80. JUNE. John Kelly, tho renowned Tammany Sachem and Democratic leader, was called lienee on the Ist inst., aged 64. Other notable contributions to the list of departures during the month were : Billy Flmmett, a well-known minstrel nnd theatrical manage”, of Chicago. Coh Richard M. Hoe, of New York, inventor of the famous Hoe printing-press-suddenly, at Florence, Italy. Ludwig, the deposed insane King of Ba--Varia, suicided by drowning; Dr. Gudden, attendant, lost his life in trying to save the dethroned monarch. John J Presser, a famous hermit of Eastorn Pennsylvania. Daniel Geerin, near Watertown, Wis,, aged 109. Edwin P. Whipple, American essayist and author—Boston, aged 68. Hon. Augustus Charles Hobitrt [Hobart Pasha, Marshal of the Turkish Empire;; an Englishman, son of the Earl of Buckinghamshire. John Newman, one of the first white children born in that region, passed away in Sevier County, Tennessee, aged 117. Samuel Adams, a pisneer of California and a nu mber of the San Francisco vigilance committee in 1856. Moses A. Dow, fouuder of tho Waverlj/ Magaztne. of Boston. Hon. David Davis, formerly Justice of tho U. S. Supreme Court, Senator from Illinois, and ex-officio Vice President of the United States; Bloomington, 111., aged 71. At Wiesbaden, the widow of Meyerbeer, at tho age of B‘A JULY. Col. Geo. B. Corkhill, who conducted the prosecution of Guiteau, passed away at Mt. I’leasant, lowa, from hemorrhage of the stomach. Paul H. Hayne, poet aud litterateur, at Augusta, Ga. Cardinal Guibert, Archbishop of Paris. H. K. Brown, the sculptor, died at Newburgh, N. Y.; he was seventy-two years old, aud modeled the first bronzo statuo ever cast in this country. Rear Admiral Worden, U. S. N., the hero of the famous victory of tho ironclad Monitor over the rebel Merrimuc iu 1862, died at Nowport. R. 1., aged 69 E Z. C. JudsSh, known to the storyre uli tig public as "Ned Buntlino," who bad eariu d $60,003 per annum with his pen, died of heart disease at Stamford, New York, in his sixty-filth year; lie was a naval officer before tho war of the rebellion, and carried twelve wintnds-Teeeired in battle or in duels. Hob. * Wi,u. Hunter. Second Assistant Secretary of State, died at Washington, of old age and general debility; he was 81 years old, and had served continuously in the State Department fifty-one ye. rs, having been appointed by President Jackson. Hubert Q. Thompson, g, conspicuous leader of the New York County De-•mosra-y. aged 37 years. Abbe Franz Liszt, the, oelebra ed pianist and- composer, at Baireutk, Germany, aged 75. - AUGUST. F'rom the walks of statesmanship Samuel J. Tilden, ox-Governor of New York, was taken on the ith. Other eminent persons who departed during the month werek Ex-Go . truor John W. Stevenson, of Kentucky, who had been Senator and Representative in ( ougress ; Dolores F'osta, widow of the famous Mexican General, Santa Anna: Mrs, Anns. Stevens, well-known novelist: at Newport, 11. 1.. aged 74. Professor C. L. Stowe, f< Ifnerly President of Andover Theological Bernina y, and husband of tho author of “Uncle Tom’s Cabinat Haitford, Conn., aged 81. Mrs Murphy, of Chicago, at the advanced age of luß. years. Amos Adams Lawrence, prominent m reliant and philanthropist of Po -ton. Rev.' James C. Beecher, of Connecticut. the youngest brother of Henry Ward Beecher, suicided at Elmira,'N. Y.. on account -of failing health; ago, 59 years. SEPTEMBER. Among the most notable contributions to the necrology of 1886 for September were : Gc-n. B. E. Cheatham, of Nashville, who played, a conspicuous part in thj bloody drama of 1861-’o. Gen. Lloyd Aspinwall. of New York. George Yandenhoff, actor and reader. Asher B. Durand, un American painter of note. Andrew Lucas, hern in slavery in Tennessee, where he was a servant of Gen Jackson, died at Brantford, Ont., at tho supposed age of 128 years. - ‘OCTtHtfiK. Captain John Plunkett, one of the four survivors of the battle of San Jacinto, died at Matagorda. Texas, agod 66 years. Other contributions to tho necrology of October were": Hon. Austin F. Pike, U. S. Senator from New Hampshire; ex-Senator David Y ulee, of Florida; James A. Grinstead, a famous Kentucky turfman ; Rear Admiral Edward TCNichols, U S. N.; Meyer Karl Rothschild, bead of the great Frankfort firm of bankers Mike McCobje. the pugilist; Bacon Montgomery, once a Brigadier General fn the Union army; Col. Charles Whittlesey, of Cleveland. Ohio, geologist and scholar; Gen. J. A. Uhrich, commandant at Ftrksburg on its capitulation; Gen. Sir H. T. Macpherson, commander of the British army of occupation in Burmah : Baron F’rederick Ferdinand von Beust, distinguished German statesman ; Mrs. Cornel.a Stewart, widow of the late Alexander T. Stewart, the NewJJork millionaire merchant; Hon. Mason W. Tappan,' Attorney General of New Hampshire; Hon. Walter B. Scates, ex-Chief Jnstice Illinois Supreme Court; the Earl of Stratford—family name, George Stevens Byng. NOVEMBER. . L Fred Archer, the most celebrated jockey in the world, who rode tho winning horse of "the

f Derby" five different times, committed suicins {in Ixmdon while in a delirium canned by typhoid fever. Otlior distinguished dead ! chronicled during November were: Rev. Wali ter Home, the "fa‘ her" of the Church of Sootlaml. at Edinburgh, in hi* Kith year. ExPresidcnt Clio*ter A. Arthur, Bright's disease; aged 56. Ex-Governor John B. Phelps, of Missouri, aged 70. Hon. Charles Francis Adams, grandson of tho second President of the United States and son of the sixth President; at )R>S♦on, aged 74. Krnstu* Brooks, a veteran editor pi New York, dlatinguisLed in journalism and liblitics, aged 70. DECEMBER, Among distinguished i copto who passed from i tho stags of life during D n ember were: ConI greSKihaN Win. T. l'lico, of toe F ig'.ilh WiaconI sin District John Ji.‘(lwi ns, tlm veteran commlian, at hla honu ln Halt:maro ; a native of Filmland! aged 1 3. Is iuc !*•«, dl-iUiig'dshe l I American nutura Ist: Philadoli hin, a;ed 93. Ilb prosontat.ve Abraham DoWijnei, of New j York, wlioso taking off swelled the death li-t of tho Forfy-nint'l Congress to twelve. Ex-Gov. ( has M. CrcißWull, of Miehigan. Gen. Win, G. Harding, a famous t. rfman of Tetincasoo, agod 78. Hon. Marshall P. Wilder, ono o' tho f >renirtst i oniologla-H of th'J Unit id Ktates ; iloxbury, Mass., agod 86. James I). Wairen, proj.rie’tur of tho Buffalo Cofiiinercldl Advn-ttter, mid a leader of t e I’epul.l can party of the Stito of New York, E -Gov. Pitkin, of t'olola.lo. In Inil 1 nu'Ter ri lory, Mrs. huHanna Warri n. lioru a slave at Ft. Au. uetiuo in 17i 0 ARlen Goldsmith, fatuous trutt.iig-iiorse breeder and . trainer; Blooming Grove, X, V., agod 66.

ACSUALTIES.

Railway Disasters, Fire Horrors, Mine Explosions, and Other Accidents b/ Land and Water. JANUARY. A had beginning wns m ulp at Detroit, the now year being ushered in by a conflagration w hich laid an entire squar-e in ashen ; Terry A Co.’s mammoth seed house. White s Grand Theater, aud the Wosson B!o-k were consumed; Firo Captain l'ilbin was killed by a falling wall; value of- property destroyed, 82,"00,000. Other notable disasters of t ie initial month of 1886 were: Burning of the So .thorn Hotel at New Orleans, formerly occupied by Gen. Banks as his headquarters; a musician porished. Two families, numbering seventedh jiersons, drowned near I’enb, C hili, by the capsizing of a boat. Seventy lives lost by wrecks in the Bay of Colon The Bteamer City of Nassau, f.-om Philadelpb a to Jacksonville, Fla, was lost, with her crew of seventeen men. Damage bV Roods Th tBS vre'hlty or Will latiwport, Pa., amounteil to $2,003,0 0. Flames originating at Arnott s mill, at Philadelphia, spread over two blocks, dee Toying property valued at $),003,000. Fifteen p r.ionv perished in a burningoipinniffg mill nt Aix-la-Chajiell •, F>ance. A storm which swept over Texas, lasting from 7th to 12th, was without parallel in the history of the State in severity; the los3- in cattle from the intense cold was immense. ICleven Mexican officers and nineteen so diers were killed by a railway accident at Valdivia. Jack F rost ruined the orange groves of Florida, ami his visit to the State was reported to ha' O caused, directly and indirectly, a loss of 8,0,000.000. Twenty-spur persons perished iu Kausas by a blizzard; a large number were reported missing. Fire-damp in a mine at Almy, Wyoming. killed thirteen men. Forty-five persons were killed by an explosion of fire-damp in the Oriel coal mine at Newburg, W. Va. A hurricane that raged for throe days on the Pacific coast reached a Telocity of 82 miles an hour at San Francisco on the 20th; buildings, spires, and chimneys were blown down, and plate-glass windows blown in. Nearly all of F-urope was covered with soow ; on the continent the winter was the severest known for a long period ; London had not seen so much snow for fourteen years, and there was great suffering in consequence. An overflow and the breaking of a levee submerged 16,000 acres of wheat and orchards at Stockton, Cal., the loss being placed at $503,000. FEBRUARY. Cold weather killed large numbersef fish in the Gulf of Mexieo- ; MARCH. .Thirty-five persons wero burned to death or seriously injured by afire in a flax-drying house at Oels, in Germany, Heavy snowfalls in Silesia buried several villages ; five children were frozen to death while going to school. For the seventh time the bobbin factory of Billington & Co., Philadelphia, was destroyed by fire. The Sandwich Islands were the scene of terrible Volcanic and earthquake convulsion*-. The weights! snow crushed the roof of u theater in the Japanese town of Heromol, killing or seriously injuring 150 persons. A vessel was wrecked at Baku, Russia, by an explosion of petroleum, and the entire crew of thirteen persons perished. APRIL. Floods in the Southern States were attended by considerable loss of life; 27 persons wore drowned in Alabama; in the vicinity of Montgomery the flood reached the highest mark ever known, thousands of cattle and hogs being carried away. A train on the Fitchburg Railroad jumped the track near West Deerfield, Mass., tho cars tumbling down an embankment 200 feet iu height, some of thorn falling into the rivt r; 20 persons were killed and 50 injured. The steamer Taoroa was w-recked off the coast of New Zealand, with the loss of 29 livc-s. Portions of Central Minnesota were laid waste by a cyclone ou the 14th that occasioned tne loss of 100 lives, twice as many injured and three times that number of houses wrecked ; of a wedding partv that assembled at Rice Station, Minn., the groom, minister, and eleven others were instantly killed; about seventy lives were lost at Sauk Rapids, St. Cloud, and Rice> Station; the terrible power of the storm was evidenced by the fact that the sign “Sauk Rapids, "on the Manitoba depot, and a casket of books were found in Eics Station, fifteen miles distant; a suit of clothes was carried sixty miles and a tombstone three miles. The town of Stry was almost totally destroyed by fire, 600 houses being burned ; 69 charred bodies were taken from the ruins and 20 invalids died in the fields after being rescued from the flames—total number of deaths resulting from the conflagration, 128. The village of East Lee, Mass., was inundated by the giving way of a dam at Mountain Lake ; eleven persons were drowned, and several factories wrecked, including two paper mills. At Montreal 7,422 families, embracing 30,000 persons, were driven from tbeir homes by the flood ; some of the streets that were covered by had not previously been indumlated for sixty years. MAY.

Kansas City was struck by a cyclone on the 11th, which caußixl the loss of twentv-iive lives. A hurric ;ne which swept across the central portion of Spain killed seventy-three persons in Ma irid alone. A storm that was far-reach ing in extent ravaged portions of Illinois, Indiana. and Ohio on tue 14th; sixtv persons ,were killed and two millions of 'dollars' worth of property destroyed in the rich fanning regions of Central Ohio." Up to May I>, over one hundred and seventy lives were lost by tornadoes and cloud-bursts in the West. By the wreck of the steamer Lydeemon in Australian waters seventy persons were drowned. Fire loss's dur ng Mav in the United States and Canada aggregated "57,000,000—51,000,000 below the Slay average for years. JUNE. • ■ Terrible cloudbursts and hailstorms were reported from Thuringia, in Germany. Famine in Corea caused the death of 501 persons in a single city ; Corea bad not had a good harvest in seven years, it was said. Many lives were lost by an earthquake, followed by a volcanic eruption, at Tarawera, New Zealand. A hurricane, accompanied by torrents of ruin, swept over Galveston, Texas, on the 14th, flooding the lower section of the city, and washing away two miles of the Gulf and Santa Fe Railroad ; a shift of the wind saved the city from being inundated. Fire nearly destroyed Vancouver, B. CT; a dozen persons perished in the flames, and the money losses reached 51,005,0)0. At Prague, Bohemia, a ferryboat capsized while crossing the river, throwing fifty persons into the water, over half of whom were drowned. Forty persons petished in a mine explosion at Rochamp, France. During June the tire lapses in the United States and Canada aggregated 59,750,000, being 50 per cent, greater than the average losses for June in several years * ' ,‘i \ - ’ JULY. Terrible sufferings from famine by the fishermen and natives of Labrador and Newfoundland were reported by dispatches from St. John; cold and hunger did their work so effectually in some districts that half the population wns swept away. Bv the burning or the theater at Tennevelly, British India, 100 Hindoos lost their lives The Julv fire record in the-United Sta'es and Canada showed a loss of property valued at 510.000.000—‘10 per cent, greater than the average loss far twenty yearsAUGUST. At Eggleston. Minn., an elevator on the C., M. * St. F. K R. whs destroyed by fire; the heat w&rp6d tlio railroad tracks and a passing freight train was derailed and burned; four unfortunate tramps stealing a ride were roasted alive in one of the cars. Ravages of cholera in Yokohama and Tokio. Japan, were reported appal ling deaths in the former city from the disease avera"ing about fifty a day; weather the hottest experienced there in fifteen years. Fierce forest fires raged in Central Wisconsin ; bodies of horees. cows, and other animals were found along the roads over which the fire passed, and thousands of acres of grain,were devastated;

700 families were rendered homeless, and prop, erty losses exceeded »1,000,00 a Near Erie, Pa., Mrs. Freider and her three daughters were drowned while doing the family washing In a ; creek; the youngest fell into the stream, and the others were lost in the endsavor to rescue ! her. Forty lives were lost by an explosion in • the Woodend oollierr. Lancashire, England. i Two hundred lives wero lost by the burning of j a steamer on the River Volga, in Russia. On ! the Texas was vlsited by tho most ilestrue- [ tive btorm ever known there; the wind at- ; tained u velocity of 75 miles an hour, and continued lor (right hours; every town along ths western Gulf coast suffered sever# Jr-f. | total loss was : 38 lives.' $l,O O.uOJ to crops, H 1.5 0,0 iO to urban property, and $1,000,000 to shipping. Kan Franuisco wos vi*tt dby a fire w bich’iaid waste acres in thg l.nsones* diatr.ot: lore. 8 *,O io,OJO. A loss of BT.COJ.O il was occasional tit Mandalay, Ruininh, by the bursting of an embankment of the Iriawoddy River; -0,0 0 pioplewerj rendered homeless, while it was estimated 1.0 x) lives Were lost. The isles of Grcec * wero visited by an earthquake which destroyed the villages oil Pyrgo and Phidatra, o i the west c >ast ot Moron "with too loss of 330 lives; every bousu iu /ante, cue of tho lonian ,islands, was damaged. An earthquake originating in tho southwestern part of tho United Stale* jmssed n\er a wide expanse of the country on the uicht of Aug- 31, extending as far north as Milwaukee aud west to Kan Francisco; general consternation and panic was caused ut theaters In Cleveland and Cincinnati and at hotels in Fit Louis and Indianapolis; Charlesr ton, 8. C., was nearly destroyed, sixty livos being lost, Ipbs than a hundred houses being left Intact; tho money loss excooded $10,0x1,00). Firo losses in the United Ftatre and Canada during August amounted to $13,000,000, 80per cent, above the usual August average. SEPTEMBER. By a collision of two trains at Silver Crook, N. Y.. a score of lives woro lost. Japuil advices rep -lted 6 ', )0J chob-ra cases la that country, of whicli ■ 7.'XX) ended fatally. Hailstones six inenes in eTcoin erence lell' at Madison, Wis , on the 2iil, breaking 10,0 k) panes of glass, and denuding trees of leaves and twigs; in sonio instances iron roofs were riddh d. Betwe n Sept. 16 and 2.1 there were 9,0) new cases of cholera reported in Japan, and 6,200 deaths occurred. to rtv-ffre persons were killed and sixteen injur- d by un explosion of fire-damp near Behalke, Germany. Between Aug, 28 and Kept 5, inclusive,- 13.318 new eases of cholera were reported in Japan, the deaths numbering 8,412; over 60 per cent, of those attacked died; the wells of Tokio were examined, and 74<i out of 1,177 w ere condemned ns unfit for drinking purposes. The September fire loss in tho United States and Canada was S3,iQO,O<)O, a slight deCieaso from tho averago September loss of previous year. Inthe last year twenty-seven vessels belo.-giug to the Gloucester fishing fleet were wrecked and 116 lives were lost. OCTOBER. Up to Oct. 1 the aggregate fire waste in 1887 was $83,030,.000, against $71,.7 :0,000 for the same period of 18 y . 7. . Violent sbOCKS of earthquake ' occurred in central Germany. Thirty-one earthquake shocks occurred at Charleston, S. C., between Aug. 27 and Oct. 1. An explosion in a colliery near Wakefield, England, caused the loss of twenty-four lives. Every village on the island of Niapu; one of the Friendly group, was destroyed by an earthquake. By the explosion of the stoamer Maseotte, near Cape Girardeau. Mo., twenty lives were lost: The most disastrous gale since the war. prevailed on the Gulf coast between New Orleans and Galveston bn the ilth and 12th; many people were driven from their homes, levees Were demolished, and the rice and other croi s were ruined. Over 800 * persons perished during a hurricane at Sabine Bass, Texas, on tho 13th. NOVEMBER. The steamship Normantore foundered off Bashima, Japan, and sixty lives wero lost. A railway, accident occurred at I.istertou, F rance, by which nine persons were killed and twonty injured. Frirnstein, Switzerland, was destroyed by fire, and a number of the inhabitants perished in the flames. A gale that swept over the great lakes on the 18th was oue of the most destructive experienced in years ; it was accompanied by numerous wrecks and,-great... loss of life—the number of those who found a watery grave exceeding fifty, and the money ; loss to vbssel-owncrs footing up a half million dollars; the value of tho cargoes probably doubled that amount. A ship crowded with native laborers returning from Queensland, Australia, foundered in tho Bacific Ocean and 140 lives were lost. Cincinnati had a 8700,000 fire, w hich consumed two large clothing houses. Forty-two men were burned bv an explosion of fire-damp in the Conyngham shaft of the Delaware and Hudson Company, twelvo of whom died ; two others were blown into a pit containing thirty f et of water and drowned. F'lames sw'-pt away three elevators at Duluth, with their contents of nearly a million bushels of gruiu, and resulted in the hiss of three lives. Tho November fire losses in the United States and Canada were 810,00 >,ooo cne-third greater than the~ Nbvcml;er average since the great Boston fire. The fire loss in the United States for the eleveD months ending November 30 was i 135,000,0)3. DECEMBER. The ancient Church of St. Mary Magdalen, in London, wich four warehouses on the same street, was destroyed by fire; loss, $500,000. Thirty men were killed in a coal-mine explosion in Durham; England. During a cyclone near Algiers, tho French stoamer Chandernagore, with 1,800 troojis ou boa: d, foundered and all hands wi re lust. Forty-two tivos were lost by a collision between two steamers in Australian waters. By the IoS3 of n life-l-o.it while endeavoring to relieve a distressed vessel at Southport, England, thirteen men perished. Great loss of life and projiorty by floods was reported from India. The Mississipi River steamboat J. M. White, running between Vicksburg and New Orleans, was destroyed, by fire ru ar Bayou Sara, La., and between fifty and sixty lives lost, principal lv w men and chil iron. The whaling bark Atlantic was wrecked near San Francisco, and twenty-seven lives w ere lost.

A Georgia School Teacher. The public school system of G eorgia is an impoverished institution. It contracts with its teachers for a term of sixty-five days at five cents per day per capita, and settles with them at about sixty-five cents on the dollar. The teacher must accept this or persuade the kind-liearted patron to. pay the remainder. Any one enjoying the ludicrous can spend a healthful half-hour at certain of these examinations, especially when the commissioner; as in this case, possesses a natural vein of humor. The applicant was a man of about forty, with a cheap east of features and a. body half as broad as long. He said he didn’t claim to know all — wasn’t a graduate, etc. —but he did know enough to teach them heathen down at Shake 11 ag, ’cause he’d teached thar four years, and they didn’t Know nuthin yit. The official said he’d ask a few primary questions, and began with; “What is a letter?” “A thing crooked sometimes and sometimes ’tain’t.” “What is a syllable?” “Hit’s a word split in two.” “How many parts of speech ?” “Three—Jcoarse, fine, and superfine. “What is a verb?” < “Hit’s sutbio’ that tackles onto suthin’, or shows that suthin’ tackles onto hit.” “What is reading?" “Hit’s talking from a book.” “How do you teach reading?” “Sometimes by coaxin’ and sometimes by a board." “What is geography ?" , . “Hain’t no classes in that.” “But you might have. How would you teach it ?” “By askin’ 'em questions^ “What are the fundamental rules of arithmetic ?” “Funda what?” “Fundamental rules.” “Don’t know him.” i “I had no reference to an individual. I meant the principal rules of arithmetic.” “You mean the way how?” “Yes.”, “Can’t jis’ remember. 1 ’ This, of course, is an exceptional subject of ignorance, but the publieschool teachers in the Georgia backwoods are not proverbial for their nraeh learning. There are some goodschools, however, and this county has two or three of a higher grade'.— Charleston News and Courier.

MECHANICAL.

l A railway company now uses nignal wires running iu tubes lilted with petroleum oil. Some of the wires are 1,100 feet long, and are easily operated. The pipes are laid on stakes driven into the ground bight faet aimrt.and are threefourths inch in diameter inside, whilst the wire ip three-Bixte&nths inch in diameter. The jupes run parallel to the railway, and follow the. curves as well iui the tttraiglit parts of the line. A machine for lihoaring Bheep is said to be ih successful operation in Victoria. It is made of brass in the, shape of a. small trowel, and is actuated bv a turbine wheel about throe inches in diameter, geared into, a wheel bn which is fixed a cutter. A comb serves as a guard against cutting the skin. The steam is conveyed from the boiler by an India-rubber tube, which is double, haying one inside the other. The inner one is the injection, and tho space between the two the ejection. / It has been suggested that, in order to insure greater strength and consequently more safety iu ropes used for scaffolding - purposes, particularly in localities where (he atmosphere is destructive of hem]i fiber, such ropes should be dipped when dry into a bath containing twenty grains of sulphate of copper per liter in water, and kept in soak in this solution some four days; tho ropes will thus have absorbed a certain quantity of sulphate of copper, which will preserve them for some time both from the attacks of animal parasites and from rot. Experiments made under the direction of the administration of tho Dutch State railroads with the various paints on iron plates are reported to have proved that tbe red-lead paints resist atmospheric influences much better than those oi brown-red and iron oxides. The red-lead paints adhere closer to the metal and possess greater elasticity than the others. It was also found that better results were attained if, before the paints were- applied, the plates .were pickled, instead of being merely scraped and brushed. Tho best plates were pickled in muriatic acid, washed with water, thoroughly dried, and while warm carefully oiled. A St. Louis paper notes an experimental trial in that city, whereby water may be used to advantage in keeping down the temperature of journal boxes, and to the exclusion entirely of frictioneasing oils. For over two months now they have been using nothing but water on the journal of the two dynamos, and with the very best results. In comparison with the oil-using period, the pillow blocks exhibit a marked difference when by tile hand. Formerly they were' too' hot fur anvthing like continued pressure of the hand, while now they ■ are comparatively at cool all times. The journals also show to greater advantage, that brightness of surface denoting friction having given away to a duller and more nearly natural color of metal. The restoration of coIGY to fabrics, which from one cause or another have deteriorated in this respect, has suggested various chemical applications and processes. It has been customary to employ ammonia for the purpose of neutralizing acids that have accidentally or otherwise destroyed the color of the stuffs, this being necessarily applied immediately, or the color is usually imperfectly restored. An application of chloroform has the effect of bringing ont the colors as bright as ever. Flush goods, and all articles dyed with aniline colors, faded from exposure to light, resume their original brightness of appearance after being sponged with chloroformj_the commercial chloroform, which is less costly than the purified, answers well for this purpose. Soaping a Geyser. I learned of a curious circumstance while at the Upper Geyser Basin in the Yellow-stone Valley, -which is not generally known to the public, and which is unquestionably true. Many of the geysers are inactive, ofliers merely bubble and steam without erupting, while others again spout with clocklike regularity. I held the watch on Old Faithful again and again, bpt this beautiful geyser, true to its name, sent up a magnificent stream nearly 200 feet high every fifty-five minutes. Not once was there a failure or the slightest variation in the time. I saw it in the moonlight, and no spectacle on earth can compare with this sublime spectacle. The Castle geyser also treated me to a rare exhibition, butl was informed by the proprietor of the hotel that the “Splendid,” one of the finest geysers in the basin, and which once had a record almost as good as Old Faithful, had completely failed, arid had lain dormant foi; nearly six months. I strolled>over . to the Splendid and saw a man busily at work dropping bars of soap into the crater. “Wliat in the world are you doing that for ?” I inquired, totally unable to restrain my curiosity. “Just wait and see,” replied the stranger. He kept steadily at work, dropping bar after bar down the yellow-coated throat, until the monster began-to rumble and sputter, and finally behaved in a very boistrous manner. Eleven, twelve, thirteen, and, as the fourteenth bar was swallowed up, away went the Splendid 150 feet into the air, as magnificent and as grand as I had ever seen him. “There,” exclaimed the experimental stranger; “I reckon I’ve made as big a discovery as either of those scientific misses. \Viggins or Proctor, ever did in their lives.” -4.. It was an odd way of setting geysers to work, and no doubt strictly original wi.h the gentleman whom I saw trying TfT—Sf. lmwKS Globe-Democrat Put Back the Chairs. When the room in which the family sits during the evening is left for the night, the chairs should be placed close against the walls. Sometimes a person goes back in the dark to get some article, the exact location of which he remembers, and if the chairs were left in the middle of the room he might ;-)ine to grief. Some of the accidents «r.*t ncfTrr in darkness might be avoided if the bauds and feet were used more slowly.— “ Gabriel," in Good Housekeeping. i ’ - . ’ • ' ■ '■ . - " .. ; |. ;