Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 1, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 August 1893 — Page 6

THE WORLD’S FAIR.

Orientals at Chicago—Electrical Cooking—How Johnny Worked —— the Gates, Etc. ORIENTALS AT THE FAIR. Harper’s Young People. Among the young people who are visiting the Columbian Exposition this summer are a Javanese baby, three Chinese boys of from two to six years, a pickaninny from Dahomey, a dancing Soudanese . baby, a little Bedouin girl who dances in the Arab encampment a pappoose or two in the Indian village, and a half dozen Egyptian boys who belabor the tiny gray donkeys in the Cairo Street. As the readers of Young People have already guessed, these boys and girls did not visit the Fair to see the curious things in the wonderful white buildings, but to be a part of the show. They are there to be looked at, not to look, and they are among the most interesting of all the exhibits. The black baby lives in the Dahomey village, which is supposed to look as if it had been picked up in Africa and set down in Chicago. In some respects it certainly does resemble the hot country about which Mr. Glave has told us during the past year. The ground is sandy enough and the sunshine hot enough for Sahara, and the reed-thatched huts which line the high board fence surrounding the village are uncomfortable enough in appearance to

satisfy the most enthusiastic explorer. In the middle of the village is a larger hut, open at the sides and covered with thatch, and in this hut the dwellers of the Dahomey village dance the war dance of their native country every hour or two for the entertainment of the white people who stroll in to see them All of these men and women are hideous in their gay calico clothing, with strings of teeth and strange-looking , bits of stone and metal hanging about their necks and dangling from their arms and ears. »But the pick a ninny is as cunning as most babies are. When I saw him he was sitting in a puddle of dirty water with no clothing on to get soiled, watching his mother and an older brother scouring two or three brass and silver rings with a bit of rag and a handful of sand. The little fellow wanted the rings to play with, and when he found he. could not have them, set up a howl that sounded very much like a white boy of two years crying because he could not have a porcelain clock or a circus wagon to play with them. COOKS BY CURRENTS. One of the interesting exhibits in the Electricity building is the cooking done by electricity. The Ansonia Electric Company have an interesting pagoda, or several of them linked together, in the gallery at the west end of the building. In one. of these on dainty tables are cooking stoves heated by electricity. A bright woman in charge will roast a chicken or a piece of beef, make a potpie, make bread, pie or cake, and tell just how much better, safer, quicker and neater electricity is for cooking than is wood, coke, coal, or gas. She will tell you and convince you with her proofs. Another thing new in the electricity exhibit is the turning off and on the light of a room by locking and unlocking of the door. It serves two puposes; one to insure the enonomy of turning off the light when not in the room, and the other as a burglar alarm, if any intruder should succeed in turning the lock after you have retired at night. To wander around the Electricity building and study the different appliances and the thousands of recent discoveries makes one believe that even with all the wonders of the present age electricity is only in its infancy as far as bur knowledge is concerned. Haypig done so much, there’s nothing that cannot be done. HE WORKED THE GATES. Chicago Inter-Ocean. X A young lad who gives his name as Johnny Semple and his home at 321 Ontario street, was yesterday caught in the act of slipping into Cairo street. Johnny claims to have been doing the Fair for three months without costing him a penny. More than that he lias ridden back and forth on the Illinois Central cattle trains all that time, too, and the rides have cost him nothing. If he hadn’t been too confiding he might have kept up his free rides and free admissions all summer, but in a moment of exultation he confided to a stranger whom lie sat beside in the car his great success. This stranger was a Columbian guard in citizens clothes. Yesterday this guard was on duty in front of Cairo street when he recognized the boy trying to get in. .

Johnny is not more than ten years old, and is evidently a street arab brushed up and one with educational ambitions. He says he watches his chances at the gates to the grounds and to the various Midway exhibitions until he sees a motherly looking woman enter. He gets up close to her as she passes the gateman,

then he stopsand appears to be looking around until the lady gets some distance away. He then claims that the lady is his mother and that he is under 7 years of age. Rather than get the boy lost from his mother he passes him in. Johnny says he has been doing the fine arts lately, and that he worked the Intramural and Illinois Central trains by means of a ticket which he had attached to a rubber fastened up his sleeve. He would hold this over the slot and let go of it when the rubber would draw it up his sleeve. FROM SOUTH AMERICA. Uruguay though an American State, is comparatively little known

INHABITANTS OF THE STREET IN CAIRO.

in this country. But today Uruguay will introduce herself to the public of the United States and to the world in a most attractive way. Uruguay’s exhibit is in the northeastern portion of the Agricultural building, and is most attractively and artistitica ly arranged. Wool is the staple product of the republic, its chief export, and clippings and fleeces are displayed in the exhibit from many ranches. The wool is very superior long, fleecy and silky, and the output is entirely consumed in England for the manufacture of the finest cloths. All the known products of the temperate zone are grown in Uruguay, and its grasses and cereal exhibits are first-class, and complete in appearance with the best of like products in that country. But of this elaborate display, the most interesting is the

educational exhibit, abounding in samples of the kindergarten work of the little children, and maps, drawings, penmanship, etc., of the more advanced pupils of the free school which the government fosters and the church superintends. The mine, liquor and beer exhibit, is one creditable to the industrial phase of life in Uruguay. Possessed of few manufacturing interests. Uruguay makes a good leather exhibit, and in the manufacture of boots and shoes has a great display, and provides at home for the employment of many people.

San Diegan Sun. Salvador Changalogash and Senora Marcelina Blacktooth were aipong the witnesses examined this morning in the action begun by ex-Governor Lowney to remove the Indians from a portion of Warner’s ranch. Both are very old. In response to one of the questions from Senator White, attorney for Gov. Downey, Mrs. Blacktooth said, through an interpreter, that grasshoppers were one favorite article of diet with the Indians in old times. To catch the agile hoppers in bill-of- ! fare quantities the Indians first dug [holes in the ground; then they set i fire to the grass, and the hoppers, ' to escape the fire, fell into the holes, where theywere capturedinnumbers. The grasshoppers were usually roasted before they were eaten. “Well, the Indians still catch and eat grasshoppers, do they not?" inquired Senatnr White. “Not much now,” was the stoical answer. “Why not?” asked the Senator. “Because there are not now many grasshoppers to eat,” explained the aged witnesk. It has cost Edison nearly 11.000,000 !to defend his patents, so that aside ■ from the incandescent lamps he is really out of money on all his invenI tire work

JOHNNY BEATS THE RAILROAD.

OLD WHALING BOAT, GOVERNMENT B'L’DG.

When the Indians Ate Grasshoppers.

BLUFFING THE SCRAPPERS.

How the Slim YouMg-Maa Intimidated Several Pugilistic Sports. Detroit Free Press. “I saw a funny thing in Cheyenne a few weeks ago,” said a Detroiter who returned from a Western trip "tKei other day. “I was wandering around town to see the elephant, and chance led me into a big saloon where all the trappers made their headquarters. Baek of the saloon was a building where a professor of the manly art gave instructions, and the ‘pugs’ thumped each other at exhibitions. They were ‘trying out’ a new arrival that day and I should say there were forty or fifty toughlooking chaps in the place. So after I entered a young man who had come through from Denver in my car dropped in. He couldn’t have been over twenty-four years age, while he was over six feet tall and his weight only about 120 pounds. He was long-faced, thin and long-legged, and reminded you of nothing so much as a boy on stilts. Two men were getting ready to go on when long legs peeled off his coat and vest, tie and Collar, put them in my charge and climbed upon the platform.” “That was a defi to the crowd?” “Exactly, and in about a minute they put a man up to punch his head off. They gave long-legs a second and the first thing he did was to take the glasses off the young man’s nose. The latter reached for them and said: “ ‘Excuse me, but I always fight with my glasses on.’ “ ‘But they’ll get knocked off er jammed into your face.’ “ ‘Don’t you believe it! It’s never happened yet, and don't think it will now.’ “The scrapper over in the corner couldn’t make it out. Here was a man so sure of himself that he was going to put up his dukes with a pair of eyeglasses on his nose. He must, perforce be a knocker-out from Knockersville,. and it was better to retreat than- to carry around a broken jaw. He therefore retreated. Several others came forward, but when they saw long-legs seated cross legged in his corner with those glasses placed so jauntily they didn’t want anything of him. Then he got up and said: “ ‘Gentlemen, there is no limit to weight. I always fight in glasses, as I’m a little near-sighted. I will, however, remove my glass eye and false teeth if deemed best. Will your best man step up here for a couple of rounds?’ “But no one stepped. He waited a minute or two and then pulled off the gloves with a look of disappointment and got into his clothes and we went out together. He didn’t look to me at all like a scrapper, and as I walked down the street I said: “‘What sort of a deal were you giving that crowd?’ “,‘A gigantic bluff,’ he answered with a laugh. “ ‘Are you a fighter?’ “ ‘I never struck a blow in my life, not even in fun.’ “ ‘But suppose one of those scrappers had tackled you?’ “ ‘I should have backed down and asked ’em all up to take a drink. But there was no danger. I’ve tried it half a dozen times before, and the glasses always settled ’em.’ “ ‘How about the glass eye and the false teeth?’ !‘ 'T simply rung ’em in to help on the bluff. Haven’t got a false tooth in my head, and both eyes are perfect/ It’s a bluff of my own invention and works like a charm. Please don’t give it away.’ “And that afternoon,” said the Detroiter in conclusion, “when we took the train east there were a hundred sports at the depot to see long-legs off, and I’m a duffer if they didn’t present him with a bottle of wine and give him three cheers and a tiger.” - L —■

PEOPLE.

Dr. E. M. Hale, the climatologist, states that Bright's disease is most common in New Jersey and least frequent in Virginia. “Uncle Henry” ■ Martin.' who has been janitor of the University of Virginia for forty-live years, and who is said to trace his descent in direct line from Jefferson, its founder, can neither read nor write. The prince of all Hungarian gypsies, Ignaz Erelyi, committed suicide a few days ago in Buda-Pesth. He was one of tqemost famous violinists of his race and in his lifetime appeared in every country of Europe and in the United States. He had been ill recently, and it is supposed took his life to end his sufferings. Professoi’ Nicholas Crouch famed the world over as the author of “Kathleen Mavourneen,” was eigh-ty-Six years old on July 31. He has lived in Baltimore for a number of years, but is now in New York awaiting the opening of the fall en gagement of “Kathleen Mayoumeen ’ is one _ol the principal airs in this opera, and during its rendition Professor Crouch leads the orchestra. So fond are the Russian women ot smoking that the czar's minister of the interior has ordered the tailway officials in the empire to provide passenger trains with smoking com partments for the use of the fair sex. It is said on good authority that nearly all married woman in Russia smoke cigarettes, and that the habit has begun to obtain largely among the unmarried, with the result that smoking cars are now as much of a necessity for traveling Russian women as for men.

THE FAIR SEX.

HER SUMMER COATS. When the small girl at the seashore wants to go to church some cool Sunday morning here is the stylish little French coat which she will wear. It is cut Empire fashion and made of beige color corded silk. In front it does hot quite cover the gown. Just below the wide Diree-

toirc revers there are two odd little bows of chartreuse ribbon velvet. The velvet also- forms a deep cuff to the much-puffed sleeve. In addition to this coat ajsmall girl will need a jacket for every day wear. One which is jaunty in its design is made of dark blue lightweight whipcord. It is doublebreasted and bound with black satin. Big smoked, pearl buttons decorate the front. A. JAUNTY BOLERO JACKET. A jaunty little bolero jacket seen on Twenty-third street is made of black broadcloth. It has a deep turned-over collar which extends down in re vers and is edged all the way round with a gold trimming.

from which hang small golden bells. Its price is sl9. It would look well worn with a chiffron shirt front, a njass of billowy ruffles in delicate colors. The same sort of jacket can be had in all the light shades ol broadcloth, elaborately embroidered in gold. They are made in Constantinople.

CROQUET AND TENNIS COSTUME.

r<it being statutory that the garb of Dr. Mary Walker shall be described whenever that bizarre but worthy woman collides with a reporter, Dr. Mary took occasion to remark to one of the guild of Boston who asked her if she ever wore a sack coat: “I did at one time, but I’ve worn a Prince Albert for a good many years, except that I wear a sack for an overcoat. But don’t you think it is. about time that the newspapers let up on talking about my clothes? They always have to say the same things right over and over again. Just think how many thousand times they have said. “She had a Prince Albert, etc.' ” The interviewer changed the subject. Kate Douglas Wiggin is in England, where she has been received with much attention. Lady Caithness gave a ball in Paris, when supper was served at 5 o’clock in the morning. A straw hat, plaited entirely by Queen Victoria, has been sent to Chicago for exhibition. The Duchess of York has taken a university extension course in Elizabethan literature.

RANCHMAN OF RENOWN.

Greatest Indian Fighter Since Daniel Boone. John R. Spears, writing to the New York Sun from Socorro, N. M., tells of meeting Patterson, the famous which we extract the following: “One reads now and then of mon who settle on the frontier, and eventtally, when people began to settle within forty miles of them, complained of the country being, too crowded. The story is told as a joke, but Patterson is actually one of those frontiersmen. He showed it by settling in the country where he is now when Socorro, one hundred miles away, held his nearest civilized neighbor. But there were Apaches nearer —sometimes a good deal nearer. They did not want any white men in that region, and they determined that Patterson should go. They were a bit cautious about carrying out their designs, however, for they had had a bit of trouble with him over on the Rio Grande, near a Mexican settlement, where Patterson got his wife. Patterson and another white man were cultivating a patch of corn there, and the Apaches came down the river to make fodder of it- There were, it is said, about sixty of the Apaches, but Patterson and his friend stood back to back and kept their rifles hot, and pretty soon it was all the survivors of the sixty could do to carry off the dead and wounded and keep their ponies. But when Patterson located a claim 100 miles from anybody, the Apaches held a war dance, and one day a bunch (no one knows how many were in it) seemed to rise up out of the sand just out of range of Patterson’s rifle as he was at work out on the plain. Then they charged on him Indian fashion—ran from sage bush and sand hillock forward to other sage bushes and sand hillocks, behind which they could partly hide themselves.. Moreover, they had a trick when Patterson drew down his rifle on one, the rest (for they were spread out in a half-circle) would jump up and run forward. Patterson saw through the trick at the first run, and thereafter an Indian fell every time the rifle was drawn down, but it was never- the one at whom the weapon was first aimed. He drew down on one behind a hillock, and then quickly shifted his aim to one of the reds that were charging forward. “It took quick work; the sight was pretty caurse at every shot, but I aimed low and didn’t miss many,” said Patterson in telling the story. “Of course they were shooting at me all the time, and one of them hit me, too, but I didn’t let them know it, and pretty soon it got too hot for them. You see, because I stood up and fired without shelter.” “How many of them did you get?” “They said ten afterward.”

It was a game fight, and the truth of Patterson’s story is vouched for. by such men as A. B. Chase, of Socorro, who was at one time connected with the Apache agency on the. Tulerosa and often heard the story told by the Indians. But the Apaches were not satified with that fight. They came for him again in like fashion, and they only lost eight in that fight. There was no discipline among them that would hold them to the charge after Patterson’s old rifle began to bark and a brave fell at every discharge. “They knew Patterson after that.” as Patterson says. He killed but one thereafter, they say. Two braves came along one day, intending to sneak up ahd do some damage to the family at the house in Patterson’s absence or at night. Not far away they met some Mexican sheep herders who told them Patterson was not at home. So they boldly started to make camp near the house, but they had scarcely dismounted when one fell over with a bullet in him and the other fled in terror. “We had to shoot everything with long hair in those days,” said Patterson that night. There have been some noted Indian killers in Arizona and New Mexico, and they had cunning and implacable foes in the Apaches—foes that could only be controlled by sea it is agreed on all sides that Patterson easily leads the entire field of Indian fighters. No other man, they say, ever stood off single handed and unsheltered, a host of from thirty to fifty wellarmed savages, coming at him spread out new moon fashion across the open plains. When one says to him, as it often is said, that he does not know what fear is, he disclaims the compliment. “Why, I never thought of leaving the house in those days without a rifle,” he says, “and I built my house right out in the open, where there wasn’t a tree or a bush that one of the Apaches could hide behind. I’ve several time seen two men start for town for supplies, and one came back, leaving the other dead, with an Apache bullet in him. When I went I always traveled by night and hid by day.”

A FEW REMNANTS.

Princess Louise, in the studies that have resulted in the production of the Queen’s statute at Kensington, had the assistance of Miss Henrietta Mentalba, a talented Canadian woman. Lady Carlisle is training an entire staff of women gardners, who. she hopes, will keep the grounds of her Yorkshire home in as perfect a condition as their male predecessors liave done.

OUR PLEASURE CLUB.

A CONVENIENT ARRANGEMENT. Puck.

Dunham —I have come to collect this bill. Office Boy—Don’t yer see the sign up? Dunham—That’s been up every day this week. When do you take it down? Office Boy—Sundays an’ holidays. Bell Boy—Dere 1 s a young couple on de piazzy as wants you to send ’em some chairs. ” Clerk —Is it bright moonlight? Bell Boy —Nope; dark. Clerk —Take them this chair. MISAPPLIED PRACTICE. Juflge.

Buttons —No game to-day, sir? Doctor —No, James, I didn’t kill a thing. Buttons —There was nine patients here to-day. You might better 'ave stayed at home, sir. “How is it with you?” asked the editor of a subscriber who was dying in arrears. “All looks bright before me,” gasped the subserber. “I thought so,” said the editor, “in about ten minutes you’ll see the blaze.”

Men dream in courtship, but in wedlock wake. —Pope. “I got tired of riding home in crowded cars, sol bought a bicycle.” “So you are going to ride home on that hereafter?” “Well, I don’t know. I got it only yesterday, and last night I rode home in an ambulance.”

A CLOSE SHAVE. Perspiration is now getting the drop on us. Forged notes can always be properly classed among the gilt-edged paper in a bank. Customer—Don't this shoe look a little small? Hastv Clerk —No, indeed. How could it when it fits your foot exactly? “Smith’s business is going along like clockwork.’.' “Pooh, his place is in the hands of a receiver." “That’s it, oeing wound up."