Semi-weekly Express, Terre Haute, Vigo County, 20 July 1897 — Page 2

NET AN AMERICAN.

•f CLAIM THAT THE FAMOUS MARSHAL WAS BORN IN GEORGIA.

He Attended School In His Native Town of Sanbury, and It Wat One of His Old Schoolmates Who Beeognized Him as He

Bode With Napoleon In Paris.

About a year, ago, when I was In Camp Anderson serving as sergeant major of the Third pgpadron of the Fifth regiment of cavalry, the drill call was sounded and the squadron marched ont on the field. The major commanding tbem gave the order, "Captains, take charge of your companies and di$ll them," and as I had nothing to do, in company with Lieutenant A. S. Way, adjutant of the squadron, I lay down on the grass in the shade of a tree and between the puffs from a fragrant Havana he told the following story as I tell it to -you:

Over 100 years kgo, down on the coast or Liberty county, Georgia had a city of 2,000 or 8,000 inhabitants. Situated on a high bluff amid the grand old oaks festooned with waving fringes of the Spanish moss lay old Sunbufy, now naught but a pile of decayed ruins. Jta the distance across the harbor, where, men-of-war might lay at anchor, St. Catherine's rose blue and misty, ond beyond was the great void of trackless ocean., Near by was p. fort with its iron mounted war dogs and pacing sentries, while oyer all shone the bright, warm 6un of thesemitropics. Here lived, loved and died thd forefathers of many of Liberty's many citizens and many who of times sedately paced the quaint old streets cow lie sleeping 'neath the waving trees of the little cemetery near by.

Tho town was the birthplace of many noted men, but none more so than one of the brothers Rudolph, whose name rung through the world as one of France's greatest marshals—Noy.

Born in S'tmbury, of wealthy and aristocratic parents, he attended the Sunbury institute of Dr. McQuire, where into him were instilled the rudiments of the education tfhich "ho afterward went to France, to complete.

A few years passed and young Rudolph again visited liis American home, a Frenchman in everj'thing but birth. His manners were those of the Parisian, and tho language of the French fell far more fluently frort his lips than that of his native land. Sunbury, quiet and isolated, after the gay life of the French capital was too dull, and one day, as the sun was glimmering over the sound, young Rudolph left home to visit Florida, then the land of the Spaniard.

Months passed, and no wo^d was heard of him. The months passed into years, and still the fate of the young man was unknown, but soon an incident occurred which threw much light on the subject. A native of old Sunbury visited Paris at the time Napoleon was at the zenith of his power and glory and chanced to be on the street one day when tho emperor, accompanied by his magnificent train, passed. Among the followers, clad in all the panoply of war and rich materials of his high office, rode Ney, Napoleon's greatest marshal.

The gentleman from old Liberty recognized him as his old playmate, Rudolph, and starting forward exclaimed, "Why that's Rudolph!" As tho familiar name and language struck the ear of Ney he quickly turned his head, but rode on with a face as immovable as a statue.

Soon an aid presented himself to the Georgian, and saluting announced that Marshal Ney wished to see the gentleman at his headquarters, and under tho guidance of the officer the'gentleman soon found himself alone with the man before whom armies had trembled. Ney fixed on him a keen, scrutinizing glance and in the language of the French said, "Why did you call me Rudolph on the street today?"

Because you are he,''. answered the American. A moment's thought and Ney asked, "How do you know I am he?" "Why, because I knew you as a boy in old Sunbury, in Georgia, where wo used to play together and went to school to Dr. McQuire." "Yes," said Ney, "I am Rudolph, but never let that name again pass your lips, for its price would be my head. To Napoleon I am a Frenchman. Rudolph never lived. Go and never breathe that nam.e again."

Time we pi by. and this same gentleman visited Paris again. It was at the second capitulation, "and Ney, stripped of his glory and power, lay in prison. His sontence came, and he was sentenced to die th^ death of a traitor by having his head severed at the block. When he heard the verdict, he asked that throe requests might be granted him, aud after duo consideration thoy were "?fllowed. They were, first, that as he had always been a soldier he might die a soldier's death second, that he would not be shot in the face third, thatr as he had commanded the most famous armies of the world so might ho command the squad who were to execute him.

Two days afterward, Dec. 7, 1815, the gentleman from Sunbury was strolling in the Luxembourg when his attention was attracted by a rapidly approaching file of soldiers, carrying with them a prisoner. As they halted and the condemned took his place against tho gray, blank wall he raised his head, and the American recognized tho playmate of his youth, Rudolph —to the French,'Ney.

Ney drew lilrtiself proudly ereot, and

glancing over

the

gathered recognized his old Sunbury friend ],j0j,

and gave him a smile of recognition,

gnvo tho command in French, at which the rifles cracked. Marshal Kr.y-Rttdolph wns no more. The soldiwe rapidly returned to the city, and Noy Ihy on tho frozen ground, face downward, with one hand above his bead and his military cloak around him. So perished one' of Georgia's sons, for he was one despite history's contradiction.—Albert D. Akin in Jesup Sentinel.

ATTRACTED BY GOL\.

Colas tod"*'Watch In a Man's rocket Drew the Lightning. An extrabrdlttary ease of lightning stroke fatality is" reported from Shoeburyness, England. A man was walking along a footpath' shaded by trees. As he was passing under" the last troo of tho rdw the lightning struck him. He was killed instantly. *.. *, '.

various and interrupted, the' largest being about 1H inches in diameter. Wherever tho burns were made tho epidermis was entirely destroyed and gono.

By contrast with these comparatively slight signs of the passage of tho fatal curfeut tts effect on ths clothing of the man was strangely fantastic. Tho hat was found to b# in small shreds, but the ooat »nd waistcoat wore only slightly damaged.

A blue woolen jersey was almost uninjured. The gray flannel shirt was split in the same direction as the burns, and a merino undervest next the skin was split into the line of the burns two-thirds from above downward. The edges of tho vest crumbled when bandied, but were not charred black. There was a hole through the watch pocket. The trousers were split Into long vertical ribbons in both legs, but more especially along the line of the burns. The rigfrt »oc£et waa^toren_to shreds. Its

oontente, absotlt shillings is Stiver, www picked up at the tiro® of removing the body.

In the left hand breast pocket of the deceased were found 37 sovereigns ana 38 half sovereigns in a common leather, jaw opening purse, which had a metal rim and closed by two small knobs. Nearly all the coins were wrapped tip in separate pieces of thin paper, and the purse was tied np in a handkerchief. In the wai6tcoat pocket on tho right side was a silver matchbox containing two unignited wax matohes, also a silver Geneva watch. Two of the half sovereigns were slightly fused and adhering together. Ono sovereign was partly fused on one side as though a splash of metal had been thrown on it.

Many of the gold coins and also many of the silver ooins showed fusion of the milling of the edges only. The watch had a hole one-fourth of an inch in diameter through the outer case by the hinge, a Bplash of metal on the rim of the dome and another on the bow. The metal rim of tho purso was fused inside, and the purse had a hole through one side of the leather.

There can be no doubt that the gold attracted the lightning. Had the deceased not been immediately under the tree his bead would probably not have been struck first, but the gold would have received the discharge direct. The path of the ourrent was through the head to the largest burn on the left chest—close to the heart's apex—then on to the gold in the inner breast pocket, thence to the right trousers pocket—containing the silver—touching the watch on its way and giving a slight radiation toward the matchbox.—Pittsburg Dispatch. 1

:--.CANADIAN

LEGISLATORS.

What a Stranger Might See From the ©allery of the House of Commons. It is a mistake to think that the act which led to the confederation of the vari ous provinces in 1807 has attained no higher meaning in the life of the Canadian people than that of a constitutional union. It carries with it a meaning of far deeper import—a union of hearts, whose offspring is oneness of patriotic aim and purpose. Of course it would be idle to say that the .Canadian people area unit upon all questions of vital interest to the life and growth of the Dominion. The geographical interests of Canada are so varied that there must necessarily be at times some friction and clashing of provincial needs and ambitions. This is the case at Washington. This is the case, too, in so small a confederation as the cantons of Switzerland.

A stranger visiting the gallery of the Canadian house of commons is struck with the dignity and decorum which mark the proceedings and surround even the warmest and keenest of debates. Parliamentary procedure being rigidly adhered to, there is little room for unseemly encounters, which usually grow out of uncalled for personalities in the heat of a discussion. Sometimes, however, when tho house has been sitting for hours, wearied with the prolixities and incoierencies of some mombor from "way back," suddenly, as if through, unity of desperation, the usual digpity of the house is relaxed, and grave members from such intellectual centers as Montreal and Toronto play the schoolboy and outvie one another in "shying" blue books at the heads of slumbering and inoffensive members.

Of tho 315 members that make up the house of commons in point of ability and gifts 30 per cent of them are belew mediocrity, 20 per cent occupy the plane of mediocrity, 40 per oent possess admitted ability and the remaining 20 per oent are men of commanding talent.—Donahoe's Magazine. -. t—.-

The Electrician at Play.

An electrician who amuses himself by devising odd applications of electrioity, which may or may not have practical value, tells ohemists that he has a much better plan for removing the glass stopper from a bottle than the usual holding of the bottlo neck for awhile over a Bunsen burner. Tlfis method is open to the draw back that the bottlo must be held in a horizontal position, and the fluid may easily be spilled out of the bottle. The up to date improvement is an adjustable clamp with coils of platinum wire imbedded in a strip of asbestus attached. The clamp, which is connected to a battery, is put on the neck of the bottle, the current is turned on and the glass is brought to any desired heat. This is, in fact, an adaptation of the electrotherm, or heating pad, which is now used in hospitals in lieu of hot water pads formerly in vogue.

Another novelty of this resourceful electrical trifler is an electric annihilator of moths, flics and mosquitoes. It consists of an incandesoent electric lamp placed inside a large globe, which is coated externally with a mixture of honey and wine, or any other seductive sticky mass. The windows and doors are to be olosed, tho blinds pulled down and the room is to be made as dark as possible. The current is then turned on, and in an hour the in scct life of the room will be found stick ing to the glass globe. Tho final instructions nre to "remove the victims with hot wator and set the trap afresh."

Artistic Taste.

All efforts to popularize art are commendable and worthy to be greatly ex tended. Tho tendency, however, is to ox tend away from rather than toward the masses. Art exhibits are always held under direction of artists, and they generally

n)ake

small crowd which had

special effort to get high class works,

or ag Slljt

their cultured tastes,

are

faFj far enough beyond those

who arp eX

then, turning to the soldiers, in a cjear foccause the less cultured than tho

volco itt the English language, gave the command: "Heady! Aim! Fire!" The soldiers stirred not a muscle, and then Ney (Juiub heads.

pected to patronize the shows,

artist managers do not enthuse over tho exhibit thoy are written down as unpprc-

As well say that the masses ought to appreciate high class literature and books by great authors. You know yourself that while you patronize high class journals and buy tho best books you really enjoy them less than juvenile books and papers or simple stories. You may be ashamed to confess this in tho presence of thoso whom you suspect of being cultured or who maku° loud pretensions. And if you were to drop into their reading rooms unexpectedly you might find them reading the same kind of stuff that you hunger for.—Pittsburg Dispatch.

Men Cooks.

The greatest, best and most famous of cooks havo always been men. There have also been men great and famous outside of cookery who wero skilled in it. We do not know of any one of thom who was a first class all aronnd cook, but we could namo a good lot of them who won glory by tho invention of special dishes, particular sauces or novelties In composition. Few wotfivaa cooks have tho audacity that

No wtiufrd'wa^&ftparcnt. The hair was singed short over tho left sido of tho head. The left eyebrow and eyelashes and the left side Of the mustache were practically gone. Thercf W«e burns on the left check it, needed for originality in the work of and'over the abdomen Tho burns were of cookery. It seems to Tequire genius of

high oMcr to do things or suggest things in tho batterie da cuisine that at onco command the approval of the best wits in gastronomy.—New York Sun.

Not to Be Canght.

"Here,'" roared the old judge to rae ami studying law with him, ''you t®ld me you bad read this work on evidence, and th* leaves are not cut." "Used rays," yawned the versatile son, and the judge chuckled with delight as he thought what a lawyer the boy a to

»w!isb" Nantical Fictioj*. Johnny Cumso—Papa, what, kind

ny.—Detroit Tee Prcws-

PAWNSHOP SIGNS.,

THEY VARY ACCORDING As -*j¥lE TIMES ARE GOOD OR BAP*

Indications of Depression or Prosperity. The Pawnbroker Is Not fjnpopplar In His Neighborhood—Some Things That

An Not Atwptad as Fledge* ,5.

There is a curious family likttM In pawnbroker*' windows, and, though they vary with varying times, they for the most part vary together. They are Jm* now recovering their sbserfolness ittv depression sympathetio with the late hard times. When timesars at their hardest, the Pawnbroker's window 1b garnished with the necessaries of life as well as tha luxuries, or, perhaps, mare accurately, with what men think at ordinary times the necessities, but oosae to regard as luxuries at a pinch. The most pathetic evidenoes oi hard times, as exhibited in the pawabrokers' windows, ,are workmen's tools still showing marks ef use. There are always some such tools on show—masons' hammers in midwinter, pawned by improvident men whs cannot carry their few possessions over a time of idleness and must trust to luek to obtain tools when work is resumed. With the improvement of the times boxing gloves, musical instruments, walking sticks, isbing rods and like luxuries are again orjispiouous in the windows of the pawnbrokers. Between &ny two periods of general depression theft, are individual ups and downdttby the thousand that make possible the ceaseless flow of luxuries into the shop of the pawnbroker.

It is a mistake te suppose thatrthe pawnbroker is unpopular in the region that furnishes him the bulk of his trade. On the contrary, he is often regarded as a friend by that considerable percentage of the population that lives upon the edge of want. Again, it is a mistake to suppose that the pawnbroker rubs his hands with glee when a pawn is forfeited by the owner. Tho pawn broker.'s profits are really the usurious interest upon loans and not the proceeds of sales. There is, indeed, a considerable loss often upon many classes of goods. The pawnbroker welcomes wi$h cheer the workman who comes. to pawn his tools, knowing that in all probabjJity they will be redeemed. It is the steady customer, who comes frequently, but. has the faculty of recuperation. r,

Frances Power Cobbe in her djeliglftful book of reminiscences tells of the desperately poor English women who managed to start a little peddling business, by borrowing arffl pawning day after day irqm a good natured neighbor a pair pf linen sheets. The sheets were redeemed: With the profits of each day's sale an# pawned again whenever a piece of bad luofc.Qr an unexpected demand reduced the capital of the peddlers. The sheets were probably worth much more than was loaned upon them, though the pawnbrokersr of New York often lose upon their sales J)t cloth ing and household linen. The pajjpbroker occasionally loans more than the-value of an article when he is perfectly sure of its prompt redemption by th(J owner. It is a notorious fact that the pawnbroker is a better man to deal with than, the old clo' man, though many a bachelor in straits will invite in the casual old do' man from the street and submit to his extortions rather than defy convention by carrying a bundle to the pawnbroker's. One thing the pawnbroker insists upon when household linen is brought to his counter, and that is absolute cleanness.

The German pfandhaus of the east side and of the far west side is open late on Saturday night for customers cpming ir to pawn articles to furnish funds for the coming holiday and to give others time to redeem their Sunday clothes in pawn 6ince the previous Monday morning. Some articles neither these nor any other pawnbroker will take, unless, indeed, the occasional pawnbroker who is a fence. It is extremely difficult to pledge bicycles, beoause they are frequently stolen and the, wheelmen's unions of various names have employed detectives to look after stolen wheels. Typewriters of the best known manufactures can hardly .be pawned, because all of them are registered and many are in the bauds of others than the owners, employers, for example, or oonoerni that rent the machines. Manifestly poor people find it hard to pawn new garments, the pawnbrokers having learned to fear the workman or workwoman that pawns such things ssnt out from the factory to be finished a' the homes of the workers.

New York is really one of the,best cities in the country for the gentleman in temporary difficulties, since the business of the pawnbroker is strictly regulated by law, and his rapacity thus in a measure kept in check. Tho Bostonian hard up in New York is astonished at the benevolence of the local pawnbroker, for the heart of the Boston pawnbroker is as the* nether millstone, and nothing intervenes between him and his victim.

New York pawnbrokers fear the casual customer and treat him less kindly than the regulars, for not only is he more likely than thoy vO prove a thief, tut ha is much less likely to redeem his pawn. The richest pawnbrokers have dealings with persons whom their neighbors would never suspect of Luch resorts. Actresses' diamonds are certainly more often pawned than stolen, though the pawnbroker is not esteemed in the profession so good an advertising medium as the thief. The pawnbroker, in the case of his most distinguished customers, is merely a somewhat. usurious money lender, who is a little insistent about collateral, as Falstaff's tailor was abept security.—New York Sun-

According to Mr/ Morris, artists who devote themselves, to portrait paii#ng are influenced not by mere vision, but by a certain preconceived idea as to how they may treat face. The late My- Frank Holl, he says, had a boolv—Lavater's "Physiognomy"—containing pictures of human types like hawks, foxes and other creatures, and when he was about,!© paint a portrait, be used to try to find out whicli ono of these animals or birds the sitter most resembled. For instant*, he would enlarge the ears of a fox hunter, and, by accentuating the features, paint a most remarkable likeness. It is advisable, in Mr. Morris' opinion, to let a sitter watch the progress of his portrait. If this is done, the artist can tell by the look of disappointment on the sitter's face when, in his estimation, there is anything wrong. More--ojver, by this means, more interest is lent

Btories do they telLto thBi'iuariobB^'Tr Mr. Gumso^Sea^seija^iK^Aift,' Jah»i to the «£& b* sifting. It appears that one

pf the reasons the queen allows herself to

TERRE HAUTE EXPRESS. TUESDAY MORNING. JULY 20.1897.

be painted no often by Harr Angell Is that she can sea the work la progress. Some artiste, -unlike the Austrian painter, are martyrs to nervousness, and decline to allow the sitter to see the portrait before it is oompleted.—London News.

SWISS VULTURES*

MAN'S PHYSIOGNOMY. .^*

cies of tho Mountain Monsters. In the canton of Uri a woman was living in 1854 who had been carried off by a lammergeier When a baby at Hundwyl, in the canton of Appeniell, a child was carried off in night of its parents. On the Silberalp a vulture attacked a little boy who was watching sheep seated on a rock and bad time to knock him over the edge of the cliff before, the shepherds could drive the bird away. At Murren, above the valley of JLauterbrnnnen, a vulture oarried an infant to as inaccessible rock opposite the village and devoured it. Portions of the baby's red frock lay there for some time. Another child 2 years old, but very small and feeble, Was lost when out with her sister. The remains of the body were, afterward found on a rook separated from that where the cbHd was last seen by a preeipioe. A vulture must have taken it there, either dead or living.

Bat the most striking instance of the child devouring tendency of these birds occurred in tho Bernese ObeHand. A child 8 years old, called Anne Zuybuchen, was taken up to the high alp at haymaking time and left asleep while the father fetched a load of hay. He returned to find the child gone. At the same time another peasant, oalled Henri Michel, was coming up the mountain by a rough path, when he heard a child cry. At the same time ho saw a lammergeier rise /and sail away. Running np to the place, he.found the little girl, unhurt except for wounds in the arm and left band, where the bird had clutched her. She had lost her socks, shoes and cap while being transported by the bird, the distance traversed being about 350

yaTds..

The facts were all entered in

the parish archives of the village of Habkeren, and the girl, who lived to be an old woman, was always known as Goier Anni. "—London Spectator,

Amjd City

Perils.

He was evidently from the country, and when he entered a well known Chestnut street cafe and took his seat at a table he was plainly suspioious, as well as ill at ease. He ordered a steak, and tucking his napkin under his chin waited impatiently, in the meantime beating a tattoo on the table with his knife and fork. Finally the steak oume, served with a delicious sauco of mushrooms.. The. stranger sniffed the steak and looked askance at the mushrooms. Finally he turned to the waiter with the remark: "Are you sure them's mushrooms?" The waiter said he was. "Not toadstools, eh?" persisted the suspioious customer. Again the waiter vouched for the genuineness of the dish. "Well, I dunno," remarked the verdant gentleman. "I'm alwas a leetle skeery about sicb things." Then, as a brilliant idea struck him, he added, "Suppose you set down here and eat some first, jest to ease, my mind and show the thing's all right." The waiter fled precipitately, and the suspicious customer consumed his steak, carefully rejecting the mushrooms.—Philadelphia Reoord.

Can Animals Blush?

It Is hard to tell whether animals blush, for their faces are covered so thickly with fur or hair or feathers that we do not know what may be going on beneath.

Were they as barefaoed as man, it is more than likely we should see them blush, especially the more bashful sort, and those witn some sense of shame.

It is a fact that the faces of vultures flush, and several of the monkeys beoome purple with rage, which may be considered as a kind of blushing.

This may be proved any day in the monkey house in the London zoological gardens, where tho baboons seem to fly into a passion on the smallest provocation.— Sjtrand Magazine.

Sweets For Children.

In choosing cakes for children's parties macaroons are said to be the least harmful for the purpose. As they are usually a valued sweet of the youngsters, for once what is not bad for them is mated with what they want, a combination so rare from a child's point of view that the plaint of one of them that "everything that is wholesome isn't good" is almost justified.

Just the*"Night.

Her Dilemma.

Young Matron—Why so pensive, dear? Angelina—I'm desperate! Will adores me in pale pink, while Max says I'm an angel in blue. I can't have but one gown, so you see my whole future depends on the color I select. It is sending me crazy.!—. London Tit-Bits.

Imp once meant a child. Shakespeare, speaking of the children in the tower, calls them imps. Jeremy Taylor, in one of his sermons, speaks of "the beautiful imps that sang hosannas to the Saviour in the temple."

Jt Is Very Rare to Find a Face That Is Symmetrical. Mr. Phil Morris' experiences have led him to the conclusion that symmetrical faces are very few and far between. The sides of the average face, he deolares, are I Shrewd once signified evil or wicked, unequal, and one eye frequently goes up Thomas Fuller uses the expression "a .. .1. .,1 I. L.'« _l AMiiti f.ha -I 3 /.1U— it htannina fi

while the other is half closed. Often the nose is not straight, and many pooplo have a habit of looking as if they weTe asleep. The distinguished Royal academy associate has been giving some aooount of ths troubles and vocations which cmne of portrait painting. There is a touch of disappointment, he says, when folk see their own portraits or those of iheir- friends xrn canvas for the first time, iyjee be was ongaged in painting a lady who had just become a grandmother, and he had treated very delicately the ravages which time had made. The lady's husband brought him another portrait, which had been painted 25 years before, anfl hnving expressed some slight-surprise at the new picture, pointed to the old one and said that- was how he saw wife- Nearly all ladies declare they don't Wftnt to. be flattered, but the artist who takes them at their word does so at his peril.

After the removal of blackheads the pores are often much enlarged. To remedy this apply acetic acid very carefully, touching the pore only, and not the flesh around it.

vlf-.lrAd TT1*

shrewd fellow," meaning a wicked man. INTERESTING ITEMS.

Dr. Stephen Adams of Maplewood, Me., has beon a practicing physician for 68 years, and still continues in harness.

John D. Rockefeller has notified the Des Moines Baptist college that he will give $3 for every dollar the .college will raise from other sources.

Charles R. Hall of Albany has tendered his resignation as an examiner of the state banking department, where he has served since 1889, beoause of his election to tho presidency of the Kflw York Building Loan Banking company of New York city.

Senator Foraker of Obiois the latest addition td the list of congressional property owners in the District of -Columbia. He has purchased one of the best located residonoe lots in the city. The whole property will represent an investment ©^pg^ing $100,000.

The

ffo

old homestead of James Fenimore Cooper at Cooperstown, N. Y., will soon be turned Into a park.

McKendree university, which conferred the degree of L. D. upon President McKinley, owes its corporate existence to Abraham Lincoln. The charter was writton and introduced in the HlinoSs legislature by Mr. Lincoln in 1854, and when put npen its passage it went through by the casting votft ef Mr. Lincoln.

Professor C. H. Hitchcock of Dart mouth, who will accompany Peary in his coming expedition, will make a thorough study of the geology of Greenland.

JULY UNPARALLELED.

STOCK TBAHSACTIONS KXCKKD THAT OF ANT OTHER JUW DIt

Sugar Trust Was the Leader, Scoring an Advance of over Ten Potot»-M,r, '800,000 Bond Transactions.

Young Husband (who meets his wtfe In the street)—Jennie, dear, I know you havo been silently grieved and pained a long Ifm6 on account of my absence from home at the club every evening. I am going to turn over a new leaf, and I am going to begin tonight.

Young Wife—Oh, Edwin, you don

know

bow happy you've made me! Brother fTaok wants me to go to the theater with him tonight, and you can take care of tha baby. So good by.—Boston Courier. 1 ,K V«

New York, July 19.—The stock market today was almost unparalleled for a July day's trading, both in activity and strength. Nothing was talked of on the exchange but speedy action on the tariff, ideal weather for excellent crops and foreign demand for ou.* securities, as well as grain. By all odds Sugar was the great feature, the traders realizing that the refining interest had secured the reporting of a. sugar schedule that if adopted by congress would mean a profitable business for the sugar company for the ensuing four years at least. Sugar scored an extreme advance for the day of 10%, touching 144, thus breaking previous high record prices. At the very opening 6,000 shares werfe sold at from 136 to 139. Tremendous blocks of the stock exchanged hands at almost uniformly rising, over 116,000 shares having been bought and sold. In the closing'hours, the stock eased off a trifle, reaching 2% below the best, but loaned at per cent premium for use over night. Su gar, preferred, also had shown an extreme gain for the -day of 8 per cent, two points of which were later lost. The slackening demand for the speculative leader only slightly modified the pronounced bullish developments in the rest of the list. Standard shares, however, showed an average rise at the close of 1 to 3 per cent. Chicago Gas, on reports of another dividend being possible on the present trust receipts, and American Tobacco on the concessions made on the tobacco and cigarette schedule, each closed at a point advance. On the large industrial shares, Rubber, preferred, lost a point and three-fourths. Reading, preferred, stocks on improved trade conditions and earnings rose over a point. Other net changes of a point or more were: Detroit Gas, 3 per cent

National Starch, first preferred, 3% National Starch, secand preferred, 4 P., C., C. & St. L., preferred, 3%.

Northwest and Brooklyn Rapid Transit showed fractional declines. The bond market was featured by enormous transactions which aggregated $3,420,000 and included an extensive variety of issues. The tendency of values was upward throughout, which thoroughly reflected the growing confidence in the financial and commercial situation.

Clearings, $76,478,985 balances, $4,712,662. .-/'.r'-'- M*!' Money on call, stea'dy at 1 per cent closed offered, 1 per cent. Prime mercantile paper, 3 to 4 per cent. Sterling exchange, steady, with actual business In bankers' bills at 4.87 @4.87% for demand and 4^[email protected]% for sixty days. Posted rates, 4.86%@4.88 and 4.88 @4.S8^. Commercial bills, 4.S5. Bar silver, GO'/i. Mexican dollars, 46%.

Government bonds,, firm state bonds, quiet railroad bonds, strong. Total sales of stocks today aggregated 482,990 shares, including: Atchison, preferred, 15,807 Burlington, 29,270 Louisville and Nashville, 11,725 Northern Pacific, preferred, 12,S55 Reading, 18,755 Rock Island, 21,370 St. Paul, 43,374 American Tobacco, 15,910 Chicago Gas, 13,325 Sugar, 116,462.

AN EXCITING ELECTION. /f

The Furore Attending the Culmination of the Blaine-Cleveland Campaign. In New York conflicting statements given out by the great dailies inflamed the populace. The Tribune and The Mail and Express early ceased to issue bulletins, but The Herald and The World kept on showing majorities for Cleveland. The Sun office, where Associated Press dispatches favorable to Blaine alternated with The Sun's own dispatches giving the state to Cleveland, drew the vastest throngs. Six hundred men marched down Broadway shouting, "No, no, Blaine won't go!" It being suspected that Jay Gould and the Associated Press were withholding or perverting returns, a crowd demonstrated in front of the Western Union building with the yell. "Hang Jay Gould!" but policemen soon dispersed them. Some 200 men before The Tribune office burned cqpies of that paper. So threatening did the excitement beoome in Chicago that on Nov. 1 Mayor Harrison requested the papers to oease issuing bulletins. In Boston bulletins were discontinued. In Philadelphia political clubs were directed not to parade, persons blowing horns or masquerading on the streets being liable to arrest.

The Demooratio managers professed apprehension lest the "fraud of 1876" should be repeated in a new guise and were determined to prevent this. The electoral commission, however, now proved to be, to the Democracy, a blessing in disguise. Its rule, "not to go behind tho returns," had been made the New York law for procedure iiko that in hand, and as, upon a count under the most rigid scrutiny, the New York returns footed up a Cleveland plurality of 1,149 votes, post eleotion manipulation was impossible. Including those of New York, Cleveland received 219 electoral votes to Blaine's 183. The popular vote was. the largest ever cast, reaching beyond 10,000,000, of which 4,911,000 were for Cleveland, giving him a plurality over Blaine of 62,000.—From "The Plumed Knight and His Joust," by President E. Benjamin Andrews, in Scribner's.

ST. MARK'S, IN VENICE.

Tho Beautiftil White Domed Chnrch Is a Conspicuous Landmark. If ar.y single building iu Venice is conspicuous not only as a beautiful but as a characteristic and unique landmark it is this white domed church. Many neighboring cities possess towers that resemble those of Venice. In fact, there are one or two others here in Venice that are so confusingly like tne great campanile that we oannot reckon on its towering mass as peculiar to Venlco alone. St.

Mark's

church

is too hidden to bo a prominent landmark In a general view, and the ducal palace is ijiru-h too simple in outline to count by itself as a noticeable feature from a distance. But from every side of approach tho coupled domes of Santa Maria della Salute nobly mark the entranco to the Grand oanal. It is not often that 6uch signal suocess awaits the architect who .-conceives a general lehemo so unusual and so fantastic. Still more rarely does this happen when he is bound by the dogmas and proportions of olassic ordefrs.

is true one does not find

here extreme purity of detail, ydfc whether teen on tho canal side, where, reached by beautiful flight of steps, the church *ises above a deserted little piazza, or from the 2de of the Giudecoa, where its domes and twin towers soar above a green grove of trees, it forms a wonderful and successful composition, and its general mass Is perhaps the most beautlfnl that any Renaissance church can offer. 4s

Besides, as is fitting in Venfco, ItS white walls rise visibly from the sea, and its pearly domes are reflected upon a mile or two of green waters. Venice would doubtless be beautiful if it did not thus front upon and mirror itself in these broad expanses of shining sea. But what an added charm this gives to it!—Atlantic Monthly.

Sending Medicine by Wire. A singular alleged discovery regarding electricity, described by J. JR. Buchanan in The Arena, that It carries with it the potentiality of everything through which it passes, and consequently that pay number of pqtteate ct& fep^jodl^e^

in tmeemAeat or aimalteBOonely^ fee glvto of mediolns without» particle being lost, as it is solidly iaotaMd. "My usualmetshed of demonstrating this," ha writes, ''is to place a Bufflctant quantity of nwicte® in a medical electrode tightly closed, and send an eleotrlo current through' it, which* entering by one wire and leaving by another, passes through a group of students, who have joined hands, to the negative pole. In a few initiates Ifcey recognize the characteristic medical influence, some very promptly, some more slowly (pot knowing what it ht). I think it probable, that with a continuous wire and a sufficient electro motive force a medical Sose might be sent from San Francisco to New York. Certainly "it would be practicable in a hospital to agnd adoae by wire from the lab* oratory to a patient in any port of th« building,, and .even, in a properly arranged bed, to have the patient under the influence of atit5,'6fo*rent prescribed withoul even knowing it.'1

CHANCE FOR ROWING.

THE WABAStt RIVER FURNISHES A GOOD THAT FKW ACCKPT.

Boats" K«(bt Too F»r Ont of the Way—If They Were Nearer the City It Might ue Different—Riverside Park.

Th&t€t*is^getter*Uy a chance for good towing on the Wfcbasto river this pclnt but ooifiparitivdy 'few take advantage of it. There ai^e^aaie,zealous oarsmen who may be found on tho water these fine nights bus not a. greatmany. Parties go out- tor an evening'o recreation on "the limpid" now but they Ire few and far between. Ono or two pleasure steamers carry excuralonsists up th^Tivcr wtth more or less regularity, y$t ii? ft believed the Wabash has a great deatr more amusement in it than the people are setting out of It.

Just now ttteffe Is a fine volume of water flowing. The grass and trees ofl either side fee are a dark* green and the invitation to launch a boat and leave the city behind is hard for one to resist who has taken a good square look'at thfe streim*and itA beautiful environment. It is thought there would be hundreds of skiffs and canoes on the Wabasn. every evening if they were easily obtainable. One must first find his way overland to tho point where the Vandalla road" crosses the river before he can get on the water. By the time he has covered this distance on a hot night he has little strength and enthusiasm left to spend at the laboy^As ions end of an oar.

It has been suggested that some eni?rprising man should float a fleet of small pleasure crafts a£ the foot of Walnut street. It is a well known fact that the opportunity there for a littlfe" park is excellent. It the driveways were paved and the grass plots planted with trees if there were a fountain, walks, flowers and seats if the place were given the beneflt-of a light touch of art it Qpg would be as pretty as any waterside park one Is likely to find. The view out upon the stream and across to the western bluffs is very fine. One can see north to the forest^ line against the sky and there Is nothing. on any side to offend the eye. The county jail surmounts the hill a block or so away and the white walls of the work house loom up like chalk cliffs but neither is unsightly, The bid woolen mills stand off to the northeast and the court house tower rises above* -i them. A tall, narrow, lonely brick building stands boldly out on the edge of the bluff just east of where this riverside park might be but is not It Is a quiet pace^nd a pretty one.

Returning to the subject o£ boats. If the opportunity for a pleasure ground were utilized, as such opportunities are In very many, cities all over the world, the river front would become a parade ground for oarsmen. "Rowing is like many other things," said a man discussing, this subject yesterday, "it is roost enjoyed where there is some oae* to look on.

there were people,on the river

front there would be boating there. It Is true wherever crowds assemble at a lake and wherever parks are bounded by streams of navigable proportions. Small pleasure steamers should ply. on the Wabash regularly in the summer time. They should leave the foot of Walnut street and go up and« down the river. ^They would be patronized g|| liberally in my judgment.. A floating wharf could be built that would accomodate itself®® to the stage of the stream. There are times p. no doubt when the water gets too low for r0ort in either skiffs or steamers but I am§ of the opinion that during the larger part|is of the year the opportunity for aquatic pasttimes in this city is as good as it is anywhere. Wrought to have a riverside park. property in the neighborhood of such an improvement would gain Immensely in value:.. by reason of it. I think the subject ls^ worthy of consideration on the part of anybody who has an eye to business.'*

gonntl Kmmoi» For Approwl. There are several cogent reasons why thef*-1 medical profession recommend and the pub-^a lie prefer Hostetter's Stomach Bitters abov«g the ordinary cathartics. It does not drsncbpsjg and wnaken the bowels, but assists rather than forcels nature to act it iB botanic and sate its action is never preceded by an internal earthquake like that produced by a drastic'purgatlve. For forty-five years past it has "been a household remedy for liver, stomach and kidney trouble. „... ...

Men of Many Millions.

It fs curious that no one has yet called^ attention to the fact that, so far as is known, there have never beon so many millionaires as there are now, and especially that there aromoromen possessed of fabulous wealth than at any other period in the history of the race. Without mentioning nflhies, the following fortunes are said to be possessed by different men:

One fanilly divides among its members £100,000,000. One mfuj has £40,00d,000, one has £20,000,000, one has 16.000,000, one has £14,000.000. one has £12,000,000, two havey# £10,000,000, tWo have £8,000,000, six have -f| £8,000,000, eight have £2,000,000.

Eighteen men known to have a million^ apiece belong to tho Bath club.—London

Household

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Where He Drew the Line,

"iout .friend Van. Doo^e ista great prac*

ticol joker, bolievey\' J' Yes but he isn't my friend any more. ••What's the matter?" "I played a joke (,•» him the other dny. —Chicago Record. 1 ^,.*r-V-*^

It has lately been ascertained that the| humming noise made by telegraph wires idj| not due to wind, as it can be heard in timog of dead calm. The most tenable expiana-| tion is that it is caused by a tightening of the w,lrBS, owing to atmospheric changes.

Consoling Thought.

Every baby is the sweetest baby in the world. Yoti wero once considered the sweetest thing in the world, although you may not look it now.—Philadelphia American.

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