Saturday Evening Mail, Volume 26, Number 40, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 28 March 1896 — Page 1
"VOL. 26—KO. 40.*
ON THE QUI VIVE.
The Terre Haute and Mississippi railroad project is once more to the front. The projectors of the proposed road filed a petition with the county commissioners yesterday, asking that a special election be held in Harrison township to decide the question as to whether or not the people will pay a tax of one-half of one per cent, on the total fcaxablea of this township to assist in building the road. The commissioners will meet in special session on Monday to discuss the matter and order a special election to decide the question as to whether the subsidy shall be granted. It is intended to have the flection on the same day as the city election in May, and call a special election on the same day, and thus save the expense of a special one in the city. The subsidy asked for will be in the neighborhood of $112,000, as the total taxables in Harrison township aggregate $22,500,000 in roundnumbers. The donation cannot be paid to the company, if the subsidy is granted, until funds equal at least to the amount of the donation made have been spent by the company in the active construction of the road. Nor can it exceed fifty per cent, of the total donation be paid to the company until the road is completed through, and a train of cate run over its entire length in this township. The law governing the granting of donation!? to such enterprises provides that the commissioners may pay the money donated out of the county treasury, if thought advisable, before the full amount has been collected in the way of taxes, if the company so Tar completes the work of construction before thejtfvx has been collected.
There is no question but that thf building of this road would be of immense .advantage to Terre Haute and Vigo county in opening up a region naturally tributary to Terre Haute, but whose trade we lose from a lack of railroad facilities. The country is rich and the addition of Its trade to Terre Haute would be of vast benefit to our wholesalers and retailers, and whatever benefits these classes must necessarily benefit the entire community. While the donation asked for seems large in the aggregate, to the individual taxpayer it would be comparatively trifling. For instance, to the man whose home is assessed at $2,000 the tax would amount to ten dollars, payable in not less than four semi-annual installments of 12.50 each. Not many would hesitate to donate that much money to »ui enterprise that would eaoh year bring hundreds of thousands dollars worth of business to this city and thus increase its standing as a commercial center and benefit to a certain extent the welfare of every resident. _____
There -is of course a question as to .of *fetae people believe in the theory of granting such subsidies, and it is a question that can be decided only at the polls. ,Once before this mater was before the people, and it was defeated. On the 2lst of February, 1888, a special election was held in this township on the question of donating $100,000 to the proposed Terre Haute and Mississippi road, and it was beaten by a majority of 221 votes. The proposition was defeated in the city by a majority of 20 votes and in the township outside the city by 201 votes. A peculiar feature of the election was that in the city the Third, Fifth and Sixth wards voted against the proposition, while the First, Second and Fourth voted in its favor. The majorities for the measure were as follows: First, 166 Second, 204 Fourth, 27. Against, the majorities were: Third, 28 Fifth, 1T5 Sixth, 219. The vote was a light one as compared with that of the previous city election, being over 1800 short. It is likely that more voters will take an interest in the matter this year, and that there will be a larger vote in proportion than was cast on the former occasion. Whether the people have changed their minds in regard to this matter since then no man can tell, but whether they vote in favor of it or against it, is true just the same that its construction would be of vast benefit to the city and her people. The projectors of the road insist that it will not be built unless they gpt the subsidy asked for, and it remains to lie seen whether or not the people would rather that the road should not be built than doite the money as petitioned.
^McKeen gained the first victory of kitorial campaign this week, when Vndidates for the senate and the representatives favorable to his :y were nominated in the districts of the counties of Boone, Montand Clinton counties. There was tt/ .attest for the positions, and great efPrts were made by the Fairbanks people to secure the nominations, but they were beaten. The passing of every day increases Mr. McKeen's chances, and from every part of the state the indications point to the fact that, he will be the next
Senator from Indiana if the Republicans secure the legislature. Qri VrvR.
An Advertising Gcntus. Advertising has come to be looked upon as a science, and the big merchants now i? in ploy a man to look after this feature of business alone. These men cultivate the habit of presenting their wares in the most Httractive light possible, but not many of them are able to say as much about their goods as did the ad writer for a "general" store In a little country town in Pennsylvania a week or so ago. How are some samples of his wit:
An unfortunate farmer, unable to market his product, was left at the end of the season with 3,488,731 onions on his hands. Our Oniou buyer seen ml the whole lot at about 'ateem cents on the dollar, and they will go on sale this morning at 9 o'clock sharp, at the remarkably low price of 30c. a half peck. Not an onion In the lot is worth less than a $5 note, and many we actually worth double that figure Everybody should make a point to get here aa early as possible, so as to secure the choicest onions. None will be sent C. G. D., or on approval.
Our staff of butchers embraces the finest butchering talent in this or any country.
They are all graduates of the veterinary: department of the University of Pennsylvania, and with the use of Roentgen's newly discovered rays are enabled to locate the choicest cuts in any portion Of a whole quarter of beef. The advantages of this application of the latest acquisition to scientific knowledge will be at once appreciated by those who have been paying tenderloin prices for sirloin cuts at other stores.
BEAUTIES OF THE PAST. "iS
Women Whose Influence ilad Its Effect Upon History. Sappho is said by the Gfeek writers to have been a blonde.
Jezebel, the Queen of Ahab, according to one of the rabbis, had "black eyes that were set on fire of hell." *4 if V-
The Empress Anna of Russia was very portly and the fleshiness of her face greatly detracted from its good looks.
Margaret of Anjou had the typical face of a French beauty. She was black-haired, black-eyed and vivacious. Her features were indicative of her strength of character.
Pocahontas is described as having features as regular as those of an European woman. She is also said to have had a lighter complexion than usual among Indian women.
Theodora, the wife of the famous Justinian* was beautiful, crafty and unscrupulous. She is said to have been tall, dark and with "powers pf conversation superior to any woman in the empire-" j.
Catharine of Braganza, Queon of Cawies II, was singularly gifted both to person and in intellect, but in spite of her beauty and her good sense she was never?* fible to win the love of her dissolute husband.
Cleopatra was not an Egyptian, \ut a Greek beauty, with perfectly whit® skin, tawny hair and blue eyes. Her chief fascination was her voice, which is described ftS low, well modulated and singularly sweet intone. *.
The Smpress Catharine I, had a cqarse, red Jace, generally broken out with pin*-' pies from the constant use of stflt-Sig drink. She was a slave to brandy ancP'diedf.of a disease brought oa by intemperance. In youth she hftd been famous for herbe&uty,
A Peculiar Experience.
Geo. 6. O. Howard in a recent amckfm the Independent, tells of a peculiar .experience that does not fall to the Jflfc^.ithe average man. He met on the plat'f^m at the graduating exercises of .^h^OarliSl©, Pa., Indian school, a full-bl(Wded,Indian gentleman who was acting ^^po^jff for a Chicago paper, the nephew. ttt C^qeise, the famous Apache chief. In 18^ this young man's father, \Jja^4"in fuU 'war
Sapt&in
aint, rushed tipon )^^rd Van4, Jefferds when Jtj^h^^pii^pred into Cctahise's stronghold, apparently ready to murder them. That boy on this Carlisle platform, Juan's son, was present at the peace-making twenty-four years ago, and had been captured by an officer went to common schools in Massachusetts and elsewhere, studied nights, was chosen to exhibit Indian goods and relics at the Chicago Exposition, and now found himself a correspondent for the Chicago press at a Carlisle commencement. Like Cochise over six feet tall, with handsome figure, and of pure Indian blood, he spoke in a scholarly fashion the best of English, without foreign accent.
"Old Glory's" Latest Edition. A general order from the war department, issued during the last week, shows just how the forty-five stars on the field or union of the national flag will look, as officially arranged, after Utah's twinkler appears in the azure, on the Fourth of July next:
Secretary Lamont's order of March 17 says "six rows, the first, third, and fifth rows to have eight stars, and the second, fourth, and sixth rows seven stars each, in a blue field," while the manner in which stars and spaces alternate makes a perfect symmetry. Secretary Herbert has agreed to the same arrangement for the navy, and now the flag makes can go to work.
The Conscience Fund.
One of the most unique collections of money in the national treasury at Washington is the "conscience" fund, to which contributions are made by those who feel they have robbed the government, want to make restitution, but do not care to disclose their identity. Scarcely a month passes that doesn't bring a contribution to the fund, but few of them approach the amount named below:
The largest conscience contribution ever received by the treasury arrived at Washington on March 10th. It was for £2,930 (14,650), and was in the form of a bill of exchange drawn on aNew York bank in favor of the secretary of the treasury. The contribution was forwarded by Rev. Prebendary Barff, vicar of the Church of St. Giles, Cripple Gate, London, through the state department officials. Mr. Barff says simply that he was asked to send the money to the secretary of t£e treasury by a gentleman who did not disclose his identity.
Marriage Licenses.
Chauncey R. Mullins and Mary J. Johnson. Addle R.Phil "mm and Kosanna 9. Walls. Wm, Lawson .1 KUen Holt, Wm. B. Spencer and Mary P. Harper. Edward O. Vicars And Alpha D*m
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M. Montgomery and Atta M. Bala-
sis. N. Laujrt Kdir&r D. Leo
and AbatnUl M. Park. 1 Susanna Myers.
in W. E jre wad Leey A. Harper, is. M. nss and Minnie M. Taylor. Benj. D. Voir. Isaac Hoopin. John tfmltl Albert Koutk
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Ada Sterling.
and Prudence E. NorrU, id Clara B. Golescott. .i» and Flora Leach.
The great difference in this season's fancy waists is in the ruffle or basque effect instead of the round simply finished with a belt, and the difference is much more becoming to the majority of figures.
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NEWS OF
Gustave Lowenstein, the Chicago uni versity, lectured i^t ¥en^pl© Israel last night, and will deliver another address the same place tomMnr morning.
Rev. J. S. Holmes^ A the First Ba] church, will deli vet A gerpionipr travel men to-morrow xnomlttg, and Post & P. A., will attend the services in a
The township *assesaDrs of the cb' Jh held a meeting at t^i court house Sic morning, and decided- upon a assessment tha$ nipre unifoi those formerly tak£»«
Prof. Oskar Dueaweg has arra" dates for his next receptions, that evening clashes fc^beigiyen on of Tuesday, AprilTlfa', and. typfrfgp classes on f&tUEday^^te^pOn,
The Democrats have* issued their primaries-to elttet rp^mberk city committee, and nominate Band Ida" for council, on April t&th. The Repub. cans will hold thefor meetings on Apfi$i4
J. H. Black, bf.Cook, Bell & JB1 erect a hand&ibet residence his Ipt near tMi corner of Sixth streets.. Groimd wasbi&kAi for the new' tfosidencfiMt Lamb at SI*th and £50^0^
Euclid Lodge No. 573I?.1! "baby" ledge oi the local will celebrate its tenth s-nnive' 25th of May "by a banque£-*mT third degr'eC. The wowl ttye past inastplfs
The Rfpubilcqn "3coui}iy' holding jmeeting At Com hall this afternoon, to deejd* for th&i^wtfc-Wnventraii elusion. *$%'• the Ufre^ing, Griffiths,*0t Indiatiaw»H°
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Leading Knight, DaviU
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tary, D. L. Watson treasitf Priddock trustee, JBwifl 14br^ orated'
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TI disl meet and tBT^ Method WVvjhnvj taken in the stv have attended.
Much interest Id billiard contest between the the Terre Haute club. There ar( contestants, and each one of the play one game with the others. Hudnut is thus far in the lead, ha-, played eight games, winning seven lost one. R. Geddes and O. E. Raidy pressing him closely for first place.
Robert Hunter, who is home from the state university at Bloomington for the spring vacation, delivered an address before the students of Coates college Thursday on the subject of social settlements. Mr. Hunter is thoroughly familiar with the subject, having spent several weeks at Hull House, the model social settlement in Chicago, and having pursued his investigations in New York.
Zebulon Haeberlin, the curio collector of Ohio street, has in his possession a machette similar to those used by the insurgents in Cuba in their war for freedom, and which are mentioned in the dispatches for their deadly effect in close contests. It was ploughed up near Fort Harrison several years ago, and is evidently of Peruvian make. It is something like acorn knife in shape and has a horn handle.
The will of the late Colonel Thomas H. Nelson was admitted to probate on Monday, Dr. Edwin H. Ashwin, of Brooklyn, his son-in-law, being named as executor. The estate is estimated at about 140,000, consisting of life insurance money, mortgages, real estate in Pulaoki county and Toledo, and cash in bank here, and is to be divided equally between his daughter, Mrs. Ashwin, and his son,. .Marshall K. Nelson, of Texas.
Rolla Adamson, the son of Lloyd Adamson, of Prairie Creek township, is the cause of a peculiar petition filed in the Circuit court this week. He left his home eleven years ago, and nothing has bee: heard of him since that time, and his father asks that an administrator be appointed to take charge of his estate, con sisting of 1387 that was realised from the sale of some real estate after the departure of the young man
Mrs. Carrie Newhart, of south Fourth street, who had just moved into her house from the Breinig flats on north Fifth street, suffered a disastrous fire Wednesday night. The kitchen of the house, over which had been stored many of her personal effects, caught fire, and was badly damaged, much of the personal property being destroyed. Prompt action of the fire department saved a moat destructive fire. Fortunately the property was fully insured.
William McClnre, the hackman, had a peculiar experience at the onion depot one day this week. An old gentleman on his way through the city.to the soldiers' home at Dayton, Ohio, referred, in conversation with a chance acquaintance at the depot, to the fact that he had a son in Terre Haute, by name William McClnre, and that he was a hackman. Just then McClnre drove up with his hack, and when he *iw the old gentleman he recognized him as his father, whom he bad not seen for thirty years. The death of his mother when lie was quite
young led the son to leave his home, and
qbee he was eighteen years old he had not seen his father. He put a veto to the lattqr's intention to go to Dayton, and dewed to keep him here for the balance of fRsdays.
Contractor Thomas W. Kinser of this is not tied up by any state boundaries securing big contracts, and this week he a
$300,000
contract for the construc-
of a reservoir for the city of Camje, Mass. The work will be under the tion of Kinser & Son, and will begin the first of April, and be finished by st of January, 1897. Mr. Kinser and will both be- located at Cambridge ig the progress of the work, ambulance purchased by the memof the Gleaners' Circle of King's •ughters of St. Stephen's church, and cited to the Union Home for Invalids, this week, and may ba seen at fcer's livery stable on Ohio street. It odern in appearance and equipments, a Its purchase reflects great credit on young ladies through whose efforts the pessary money was secured. Miss Carrie "yttej president of the circle, has made arngements for the ambulance at Hunter's table, and patients will be removed on oall to either of the hospitals, the depots or to private residences.
Iraj. R. Langford, an old and well known resident of this city, died at his home on north Fifth street Thursday morning, after aa illness of three weeks, resulting from a severe cold. He was a native of Albemarle county, Virginia, and was born June 29th,
He had been a resident of this city sttice the early seventies, and at one time was engaged in the bookbinding business •jn the building at present occupied by C. WV Brown, at Fifth and Ohio streets. Mr. Lrtngford was married some thirty-five ra&S<? Mrs, Mary Spl^n, who 8UCbitti. Me also leases two sisters, Mrs.
Burton, of St. Louis, and Mrs. Sarah en, of Kansas, 111. Mrs. W. H. :es, of Liberty avenue, is his niece. ^Sseased was a member of the Masonic •^ernity, and his funeral to-morrow affnoon will be held under the auspices of
Khights Templar. The services will be id at the Central Presbyterian church, ft will be conducted by Rev. R. Y. gmter. i. F. Gantwell, office deputy of Sheriff is "on to his job," and has made a cient officer. He has just comtatement showing the number of ns for criminal offenses in this ce 1824, the total being 1,112. Of er 811 were natives of this counwere foreigners, 1,000 of them and 112 black. Here is a list tenses for ,which convicts were
state's^
and the number larceny, 4omy,jk .er, &?m, ilault _1 seducbidn. 1 zzfemen*, 6 false
Petiya*^ |lar
jff^g stolen goods, 3 rob14 counterfeiting, 1 njajic1 conspirady, 1 mansl&ughrying, 1. The nationality ts was as follows: Amerlnglish, 23 Canadians, J$* ussians, 1 Germans, 102 Irfln, Hans, 11 Mexicans, 11 Ita^ans,
Welsh, 1 Persians, 1 Dj^oh, Poles, 1 Malay, 1. •.«
Base Ball.
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1 ball season will sooon be here, ocal lovers of the national game will a chance to enjoy the sport. Manager gart has completed his team and will the season next Saturday afternoon the strong team of Owensboro, Ky. Ttifc team will be made up as follows: Pitchers, Zeek, a college man, who has had some experience with strong college teams in Illinois and Iowa Lyons, formerly of the Illinois-Iowa league Younger, of Jamestown, Ind., who comes strongly recommended Ehrich, who pitched for the Chicago West Ends last season, his club winning second place catcher, Morton Lee, of Milwaukee, who has been a member of several strong teams, and was for a short time with Chicago in in 1894 first base, Harry Staats, Elwood, Ind., who was with the Pennsylvania and Illinois leagues second base, Joe Mahaffey, of Madison, Ind., and is a brother of Louis Mahaffey, of last season's Terre Hautes, and issaid to be a better player than his brother third base, Leo Mesmer, of last year's Western Associption and Burlington teams short stop, S. Whitlow, of St. Louis andEd Dalyrymple, of last season's Burlington team Furrow and Reinhart, local players, will be given a trial in the field, and if they give satisfaction will be retained. The team will report at Champaign, Ills., April 1st, for preliminary practice, and will return here for the opening of the season next Saturday.
A dispatch to the Express this morning M^punces that Terre Haute has been ad sad to the Inter-State league, the other thus far admitted being Saginaw, tHuron and Jackson, Michigan, Fort be and Toledo. A meeting is to be
Detroit next week when it is likely two other cities will join. A league his kind with a reasonable salary limit will furnish good sport and make some money for the managers. Terre Haute is a good ball town, and if a good club is secured, as Manager Shugart insists he will, Terre Haute will line up in its favor and to the profit of the club owners. _«,
Only One Survivor.
There is no longer any living survivor of the orignal cabinet of President Lincoln, and there is but one survivor of the Confederate cabinet of Jefferson Davis—John H. Reagan of Texas. Mr. Reagan was bom in Tennessee in 1818 and settled in Texas when it was an independent republic and before it had become one of the United States.
He was
a local official there before
the Mexican war and afterward became a jndgm. A congressman before the war, he was appointed postmaster general in the Confederacy in 1881 and was afterward secretary of the Confederate treasury. After the close of the war Mr. Resgan became a member of congress from his state he is now, at seventy-right, one of the railroad commissionert in the Lone Star
ING, MARCH 28, 1896. TWENTY-SIXTH YEAU.
AMUSEMENTS.
THE HEW MAGDALEN.
Owing to the enormous success of Miss Ida Van Cortland and in response to numerous requests, the management has arranged with Miss Van Cortland to extend her engagement and repeat the beautiful play, "The New Magdalen" at the Opera House next Monday night, which will positively be the last appearance "of this charming actress and her most admirable company. For this special performance the prices will be 20c to all parts of the house.
THE OLD HOME8TBAD.ij^' f".
It is now about sixteen years since an actor lay ill of rheumatism in Pittsburg. He had no money and what was worse, the disease he was suffering from threatened to incapacitate him for any future work in his profession. He knew, however, that it would not mend matters to worry, so he turned his thoughts on pleasanter things. The tortured actor let his thoughts take him to that far-away New Hampshire homestead, where he had seen so many happy days as a boy. He brought to his bed of pain, the shaded lanes, the dusty roads, the hilly pastures, the peaked roof school-hou3e, the meeting-house, and the familiar faces at Swanzey, and in spite of his pain, he lived again amid the scenes of boyhood. When he became well again, he could not drive them from his mind, and the impulse grew strong within him to weave into a story the incidents of a sweet country life, which had beguiled him as he lay on his bed, wrapped in pain. And he did as was moved to do, and the result was a play which hundreds of thousands of persons have laughed and cried over, and Which for years, nightly packed the largest theater in New York with people who had never been inside a theater before. The ftC tor was Denman Thomson, and the play was "The Old Homestead," which will be seen at Naylor's Opera House here next Friday night, for positively the last time. The sale of seats will begin Tuesday morning, March 31st, at Buntin's Drug Store.
A NAVAL CADET.
Jas. J. Corbett," the World's Champion pugilist, will be seen at Naylor's Opera House, in this city,, next Saturday night, April 4th, in his grand spectaular production of "A Naval Cadet," which will be given here under the management of Wm A. Brady, with all the magnificent scenery and wonderful mechanical effects, which have been used in the large cities. We do not hesitate to say that this mere announcement is all that is necessary to crowd the Opera House by an audience made up of Corbett's admirers from all over this and adjoining counties. Numerous applications for seats have been re^ceivedt and w» ''.the-(3per£ House will be disposed of before the night, of the performance. Over 200 tickets |9r admission only have already been sojd, J.
THE FLINGS, IIYMTOTISTS." The most wonderful demonstrations and illustrations in hypnotism is given by the iamous'"Flints," and wherever they have appeared thfiy have astounded the public iprith their* marvelous power. The Flints will be seen at the Opera House one week commencing Monday, April 0th.
NOTES.
William F. ("Old Hoss") Hoey has been engaged by Max Bleiman to play the part of the tramp in the adaption of Adolf Philipp's "My New York," which Mr. Bleiman intends to produce.
E. H. Sothern, who it was announced, several months ago, would star next season on his own account, independently of Daniel Frohman, has decided to continue under Mr. Frohman's management.
LITERARY NOTES.
John Philip Sousa contributes the musi cal feature of the April Ladies' Home Journal. The famous band-master has been induced to turn asflde from marches to write a waltz, which he has christened "The Colonial Dames Waltzes." *.
The*Youth's Companion, that model paper, not only for the children but the grown people as well, will issue a double Blaster number next week, filled with the attractive and interesting features that have for so many years made it the most desirable paper that can visit any home. One of the principal features will be a description of Holy Week in the City of Mexico.
The enormous circulation of such- a magazine as The Ladies' Home Journal can, in a sense, be understood when it la said that during the last six months of 1895 there were printed, sold and circulated over four million copies—(in exact figures 4,058,891). Figures such as these give one some idea of the influence which may be exerted by even a single one of the modern magazines.
Harper's foi Apftl is interesting and attractive. The "Personal Recollections of Joan of Arc" end pathetically with the execution of the Maid of Orleans Mrs. John W. Alexander tells a capital story, which Mr. Alexander illustrates effectively Mr. Fowler describes the growth of the Young Men's Christian Association in the colleges there are the regular and expected contributions from Caspar Whitney, William Black, and Poultney Bigelow and articles by George W. Smalley, Theodore Roosevelt, and others, together with an Easter poem by Katrina Trask.
The Lincoln history grows more interesting with each issue of McClure's Magazine. In the April number, is given an account of Lincoln's courtship and marriage, based on the testimony of intimate friends of his still living, which completely disproves a shameful story, accepted by some of the best biographers, that Lincoln once subjected the lady who afterwards became his wife to the unspeakable humiliation of Hunting himself, without warning or explanation, on an occasion appointed, for their marriage. Along with this Is given an account of a debate, with passages from a little known speech of Lincoln's, wherein he had Douglas for an opponent and completely discomfited him, twenty years before the historic debate of 1858. The pio-
frit-*.
Yi^ti-
tures are abundant and apposite. The new Anthony Hope romance begins in this number, and promises to be more interesting and exciting than "Prisoner of Zenda." There is also a very interesting interview with Prof. Rontgen, discover of the wonderful Rays. ,tk •,
PEOPLE AND THINGS:
Congressman Blue,-of Kansas, prides himself on his* patriotism, and never appears in the house without carrying the national colors on his person. His underwear is red, and a fringe of that color is always visible under his cuffs his necktie is white, and his name supplies the third element in the tri-color composition—red, white and blue.
That the bicycle is no flittini fad, but Is destined to be the great steed bf man in the twentieth century, it needs no prophet to predict. American manufacturers alone produced a grand sum total of 450,000 bicycles during the past year, and an output of 800,000, or nearly double 1895's record, is confidently estimated by them for this new year. Whatever the future of the bicycle, it seems to have become already for its makers the new wheel of fortune.
A British medical observer has recently reported a remarkable instance of the influence of heredity on multiple births. In the case cited the original ancestor had six children. The twins were male and female, and in four generations from this daughter there were three pairs of twins and one set of triplets. The history of a sister showed in five generations two pairs of twins also. The families of the sons showed no records of multiple births. •James H. Brown, issue clerk of the Fort Hall Indian agency, Ross Fork, Bingham county, Idaho, has the longest mustache of any man living. It measures nine feet from tip to tip, four and a half feet each way from the center of the lip. This mustache is Mr. Brown's greatest joy, and would attract marked attention anywhere. The Indians look upon this enormously long mustache with awe and reverence, believing Mr. Brown to have been exceptionally blessed by God.
Mrs. Yang Yn, the wife of the Chinese minister at Washington, is the first Chinese woman who has ever received "at honi or "dined out" with her husband in American society. She cannot speak English, and is always accompanied by an interpreter. At a public reception given recently in Washington she received her guests with her two little children standing by her side. They are four and six years old, bright, active little things, and are not easily abashed. Their names are Tsue and SougouVay. Mrs. Yang Yu has a pleasing face, which she enamels, and her Oriental dress is very becoming to her.
Rider Haggard, it is said, expects soon to revisit South Africa, where he has large financial interests which just now require his personal attention. His connection with Africa is a very old one. He accompanied Sir T. Shepstone to the country as his secretary, and after the annexation of the Transvaal received an official appointment as a reward for his services. He was Lieutenant of the Pretoria Horse, in the thick of the Boer rebellion, and superintended the conveyance of reports from scouts watching the Boer camp. After the retrocession he engaged in ostrich farming, but soon left the country, in disgust of the Boer rule.
Perhaps the most remarkable feat of building-moving was that successfully accomplished in Chicago recently when a large stone church, with a massive square tower, was jacked up from its foundations and moved'a distance of fifty feet to another lot. The church was moved in order to admit light into the rooms of a big hotel on Michigan avenue, at the corner of Twenty-third street. The hotel directly adjoined the Immanuel Baptist church, and new owners of the hotel figured that the rooms next the church would be worth vastly more if they had more light. They paid for the entire cost of moving the church, bought new land for it to stand on, and also bought the lot from which it was moved. The moving was done with entire safety and success.
FROCKS FOR EASTERTIDE.
Nainsooks with gold effects in stripes and squares, will be used to trim basques, •blouses, shirt waists, etc.
The waistcoat effect is greatly in vogue this spring, and much of the style and effect of the waist is given by it.
The fancy gauzes will be used for evening waists. They require to be lined with silk or satin, but look very light and effective.
Even the handsomest gownB have an extra waist of some fancy silk or brocade with which to make a change if so desired.
The silks that are fashionable this season are peculiarly well adapted for fancy waists, and there are numberless patterns to choose from.
Gold and sliver belts of every variety are willing amazingly. These are shown both in tinsel and military braids and in the plaited and coiled wire.
New leather bicycling and outing belte are shown, with both purse and chatelaine attached. Patent-leather belts, with buckles to match, are also new.
A waist, not a coat, of Persian hellotrope silk has the waistcoat of a band of jeweled passamenterie trimmed on either side with jabots of Valenciennes lace.
NEWSPAPER PHILOSOPHY.
The man with the poor memory is always making memorandums and forgetting where he has placed them.
It would be pleasanter living in the world if there were not so many fools in it, but more difficult to make a living.
There never was a man who would die for a woman, and never a man who has not said he would do it cheerfully.
It is getting so that no man considers himarif really famous in tills country until somebody has burned him in effigy.
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