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THE MINNEAPOLIS SHOW.

A GREAT INDUSTRIAL EXPOSITION ,4 IN A YOUNG CITY. 7.,'"

A Pink Mankato Stone Building: That Covers Seven' and a Half Acres~"Beautlfol Mr*. Cleveland, Twelve Hundred

Miles Away, Starts tUo Machinery.

The event of the northwest this fall is the Minneapolis industrial exposition. The twin cities of Minneapolis and St. Paul have reason to bo proud of this marvellous enterprise The two cities together now include a population of perhaps 135,000. In the ton years from 1S70 to 18R0 Minneapolis increased "hor inhabitants more than three and a half times. She has the most offensive flouring mills in the world. Everybody know that before. But now, also, she has one of the finest exposition buildings to be found anywhere.

The Minneapolis cxpouition hall covcrs seven acres 6olid, and three stories high. It is of substantial and handsome stone, with a tower 260 feet high. The materfal used is pink Mankato stone and rod brick. The stone is quarry and hammered faced, and terra cotta is lav* ishly used in the construction With very pleasing effect.

EXPOSITION BUILDING.

There is an upper pavilion 200 feet from the ground, and above that the spire and electric mast, supporting a ring of lights 260 feet above the level of the street. The building is lighted by a great light well, (30x150 feet, extending from the basement floor to an ornamental skylight in the roof. Surrounding this light well are the main stairways, the baud and speakers' stands, etc., and each floor is slightly inclined and provided with seats, accommodations for about 50,000 persons. By this arrangement an excellent opportunity is offered for seeing and hearing without the necessity of removing the visitors from the main building to the separate music hall to the detriment of the interests of the exhibitors.

The building is provided with a number of flro-proof vaults, freight and passenger elevator?, wash rooms, reading rooms, retiring rooms, observation galleries, etc., which will make it more convenient than any other exposition building ever constructed.

The Exposition association lias a cash capital of $300,000, besides land valued at $200,000. Its stock is owned by nearly 2,500 enterprising citizens of the city, which shows the general interest taken in this great affair.

It is not by any means a mere exhibition of the products of the northwest, great as that region is. Among its displays are articles from all parts of the Union. Its visitors will embrace as wide a range. Numbers of the exhibits shown at New Orleans were taken to Minneapolis intact. The Mcxican band that gave forth such sweet sounds at New Orleans is the official music maker at Minneapolis. This band is prolably better known in the United States than in Mexico itself. For a summer

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played at Coney Island, New York. The handsome exposition building is situated on a high bank of the Mississippi, overlooking the Falls of St Anthony. It is on the east bank of the river, which is here very narrOtv, and flows directly through Minneapolis, as the Tiber flows through Rome

The president of the exposition committee is Mr. W. D. »v asnburne, one of the great Washburne family,of the northwest. Minnesota might have been aa great as it is without the Washburnes, but still they have helped to develop the young state greatly. Behind Minneapolis is the whole region of the northwest, which grows the wheat that pours into the city's hoppers, through the mills of the Woshburnes.

W.. D. WASKBTTRNE.

The exposition opened with stately cer» mony Aug. 23, and will continue six weeks. An excellent feature of it was the promptitude with which it was ready. The directors announced beforehand that every engaged gpace not occupied by a certain day would be considered vacant, and they kept up to the rule. Consequently exhibitors were ready. The great northwest is on. time.

"Don't start it toilh a jerk." But the most pleasing feature of the auspicious beginning of the show was that, it was opened by Mrs. Grover Cleveland, the -j«ident's srweet and beautiful bride. Min«earolis raisers announced in large letters

that the exposition was to be tormally Inaugurated by Mrs. Grover Cleveland. And so it was, just as they said, only Mrs. Grover Cleveland wasn't there at all or anywhere near. In fact she was 1,200 miles away, in the Adirondack mountains of New York, on a (Whing trip with the president. But this lovely woman set the ponderous machinery of Power hall in motion for all that. She did it by the magic art of electricity. A little crooked telegraph wire in the Adirondack woods connects the Mountain hotel with the great world and Minneapolis. Mrs. Cleveland touched a little button in the Adirondack# and that set the machines of the exposition in motion. "Dont start it with a jerk," cautioned the president. And she didn't, but just let the impulse glide off hor gentle fingers softly. In two minutes a reply came back from Minneapolis that all was working smoothly. Mrs. Cleveland wore a white dress, pink sash and sailor hat

A SUBMARINE TORPEDO BOAT.

Jules Verne's Dream Realized in a Craft Constructed by a Yankee Inventor.

There is now in New York harbor a marine wonder in the shape of a boat that will sail nnder water for miles, or that can remain at the bottom for days without inconvenience to the crew, who can at any time leave the boat and come to the surface without accident. The boat is the invention of Professor J. H. L. Tuck, and is intended for use in harbor defense by attaching torpedoes the bottom of hostile vessels, then backing away to a safe distance and firing the torpedoes through electric wires connected with them.

THE PEACEMAKER UNDER A VESSEL. This boat is aptly called lttho

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from the fact that its possibilities of destruction are so great that it renders it a question whether it will pay tho powers to go on constructing great ironclads costing millions of dollars apiece, that can be demolished in an instant by a little vessel like this, costing but a few thousands. Ths larger and heavier the ironclad the better and surer would she fall a prey to a destroyer that would steal on her from underneath. When war is carried on with such wholesale destructiveness the great powers will call a halt, so that inventions like this boat tend toward a more general peace.

The Peacemaker is 30 feet long, with a a breadth of beam of 8J£ feet, and depth of 7}4 feet. The bow and stern taper off from amidships, and the forward end of the vessel is surmounted by a dome 12 inches high, which is set with glass and just large enough for the pilot to get his head into. Admission to the b»at is through a circular scuttle abaft of the dome. At the stern there is a propeller and a rudder of ordinary fashion, and two horizontal rudders with which the boat may be deflected up or down. The interior is half filled with machinery and mechanical devices, including a powerful little Westinghouse engine. Compressed air is stored in six-inch pipes running around the interior, and arrangements .aro made by which air may be supplied by chemicals. A guage registers the depth of the vessel beneath the surface. Light is furnished by the incandescent electric lamp.

THE TORPEDOES ATTACHED.

When used in warfare the Peacemaker will sail away from its place in hiding on shore, sail under water and meet an approaching vessel. The pilot removes the domes and stands in a diver's 6uit in a well with half of his body projecting above the boat. Hereleases two torpedoes attached together with a chain and fastened to corked magnets, which will attach themselves tenaciously to the iron or steel bottom of the vessel. The torpedo boat is then steered away to a safe distance, and the torpedoes fired by electricity.

In some recent experiments the Peacemaker sailed for a couple of miles under the Hudson river, coming to the surface and diving under vessels at will. She was then sunk in fifty feet of water, and the crew left her and came to the surface to demonstrate how easily they could abandon in case of accident or hide her on the bottom in a war emergency.

He Drew the Line.

The late Dr. Kemper, the theologian, once commenced carving at the table a boiled ham that was doing duty for the second or third time. "Why, my dear!" exclaimed his wife, in surprise, "you have forgotten something. You have not asked the blessing." "Yes, I have, too," bluffly responded the doctor. 'Tve asked the Lord to bless this old ham all I'm a going to."—Chicago Tribune.

The small boy, with complacent mien, at twilight eats the apple green. The doctor pours, at midnight dim, Jamaica ginger into him He vows, while in the colic power, no more green apples he'll devour. Next day, recovered from his pain, he hankers for the fruit again.—Charlestown Enterprise.

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JAMES BLAINE, OF MAINE.

PICTURE OF HIS SEASIDE COTTAGE AT BAR HARBOR.

The Reception Room of Blue a ad Gold. An Important Point in His Sebago Lake Speech for the Labor Organizations to Consider.

Whether rivals like to admit it ir not, as long as ho lives, James G. Blaine will bo the head of tho Republican party. He is like Gladstone with the Liberal party of England in that respect. Since the election of '84 he has been silent, finishing his book, resting and breathing in new nervous energy with the pine aire of Maine. •.« '.

But at the first gun which sounds the note of the fall political campaign in Ma?ne the leader must emerge from his quietude and open the ball He has always taken part in the state campaign of Maine, and he knew of no reason why he should not do so now. Ho said: "I know no reason why I should sit silent now. I axn a citizen of the United States, without offlcc or responsibilities. There is nothing to fetter me in any way."

His simple, carefully prepared speech at Sebago lake, has beyond doubt fonnd more readers than any other within a year. Mr. Blaine is always alive, very much alive. Prohibition he considers an issue to be settled by each stato for itself.

One passage in the address comnwnds itself to the judgment of all races and all parties. It is the part calling the attention of the various labor organizations to the colored artizans of the south. He says: "They (the labor organizations), seem to have taken little or no heed of the existence of more than 1,500,000 able bodied laborers in the south with dark skins, but with expanding intellect, increasing intelligence and growing ambition. While these men were slaves, working in tho corn and cotton fields, in the rich swamps end on the sugar plantations of the south, the skilled labor of tho northern states felt BLAIN'E SPEAKING. no competition from them. But since they became freedmen there has been a great change in the variety and skill of the labor performed by colored men in the south. The great mass are, of coiu-se, still engaged in agricultural work, but thousands and'tens of thousands, and in fact hundreds of thousands, have entered and aro entering the maohanical and Bemimechanical field. They aro making pig and bar iron in Tennessee and Alabama. In fact, they are generally entering ali tho avenues and channels of skilled labor.

Of courso they are underpaid. They receive far less than has been paid in years past to northern mechanics for similar work. They are able to take no part in making laws fcr their own protection, and they are consequently and inevitably unable to maintain a fair standard of wages, or to receive a fair proportion of their proper earnings. I do not dwell on this subject at length, though it could easily bo presented in aggravating detail. I mention it only to place it before tho labor organizations of the north, with this question addressed to them: Do you suppose that you can permanently maintain in the northern states one scale of prices, when just beyond an imaginary line on the south of us afar different scale of prices is paid for labor)

HOME AT BAR HARBOR

Mr. Blaine has two houses, both in Maine. His winter dwelling placo is in Augusta, Me., his summer mansion, and his favorite caie, is that in the picture,

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Blaine is well off, and his houses are what might be expected of a rich man inclined to generous hospitality. The house is a very large one, but it is called a cottage in seashore fashion. It is on the crest of one of the highest points overlooking Frenchmen's bay. It is a handsome seashore house which could be built for $20,000. It is perched upon a rock. The road to the cottage winds around the back of a hill from Bar Harbor village up through a stretch of pine scrubs over a new made gravel road to tho very crest.

From this striking and artistic nook the visitor enters a large square room with furnishings rich and dark. The woodwork is of oak. A very large oval window looks out upon the water. A newspaper correspondent nays of the view and of the life at the cottage:

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''Through this window the beauties of Frenchman's bay present a constantly shifting scene of color and light. The blue waters of the bay contrast sharply with the soft grayish blue line of the distant shores. In the foreground is the abrupt, rocky, pine-cov-errd Bar island. A wide, covered veranda

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runs around the entire side of the house upon the side toward the bay. Here during the Darning or afternoon will always be found a group of visitors. Cottage people drop in inf'irmaliy, and nearly every one of any prominence who come to Mt. Desert makes a pilgrimage to the Blaine house. The life at the c-rttage paftakes of the easy informality of the general life at Bar Harbor. The visitor 9 ho rings the bell is quite as apt to be met at tile door by souie member of the family as by ii servant. Mr. Blaine moves about the house, showing it with great pride to his visitors, cliatting about the topics of the day, but rarely discussing politics unless he meets some old political associate who comes talk or consult"

Mr. Blaine looks remarkably veil and in good spirits this summer. He has made a large sum of money with his books. "Them that has gits, the Bible says," was a remark mods by a certain spinster a long time ago,

,A MEXICAN ART TREASURE..

The Newly Discovered Statue of Hercules Reputed to lie by Phidias.

We an? enabled to present our readers an engraving from a photograph of thestatuo of Hercules, recently discovered in Mexico. This magnificent piece of art work is of jasper, and three feet in height, and is supposed to be the work of the famous Greek sculptor, Phidias. It represents the maddened Hercules throwing the slave, Lychas, into the sea. Lychas was sent with a message from Hercules' deserted wife. That tho reception the messenger vieived from Hercule3 was more than warm I the inference oiio would draw from the action which the sculptor has shown in such a masterly manner. ^7

THE MAXIMILIAN HERCULES, Tliis treasure was discovered in a'"pawnshop by a Catholic priest, Padre Giovanni Gismondi. Tho good padre visited this shop with a young student for the purpose of redeeming some clothes and books that the latter had been obliged to pawn for bread. On seeing the statuette the priest wondered at it being in such a place. On inquiry ho found that sixteen years before it had been brought there and $86 was borrowed oil it. The priest was too poor to buy it, so he went away and informed a wealthy gentleman that the statue was from the hand of a master. The gentleman purchased it at the priest's earnest solicitation, and he soon after found that ho was in possession of one of tho art treasures of this continent. Padre Gismondi, who by the way is a nephew of the Into Pope Pio Nono, is an archaeologist of considerable knowledge he unearthed the statue's history which proves to be this: It was discovered in the ruins of Pompeii some forty years ago and was presented by the king of Naples to the mother of Maximilian. On the latter's acceptance of the throne of Mexico it -was given to him. On tho day of his death, in 1867, the statue disappeared from the palace, in some manner and was not heard of until Padre Gismondi unearthed it. It is likely that there may be legal and possibly international disputes over the possession of this treasure yet.

Tho Man Who Swam the llapids.

Whatever he was before, William J. Kenall ought to set in and be somebody. He is the only mail who ever attempted to swim Niagara rapids and came out alive. Capt. Webb, the great swimmer, attempted it and was drowned. Kendall himself says he would not try it again for the whole city of Toronto. It was only luck, he says, nothing else, that brought him out alive. Ho knew it was a bad water in there, but not half how bad. Surely, fate has some good in store for him.

Ho is a young fellow, 28 years old, six feet high, and powerfully built. He weighs about 200 pounds. The only preparation he made for the frightful swim was to put on a cork jacket.

One reporter says that he got $3,000 for the exploit, another. that he got nothing at all, but was merely trying to throw his lifej away, because hev was unhappy andv desperate. He was born in Brooklyn, L. I. Ho had been WTT.T.TAM J. KENDAIX* a policeman in Boston, and was at one time one of the pluckiest men on the force. Daring deeds are told of him. But he took to drink. He lost his place on the police force, and his wife, to whom he was greatly attached, was forced to leave him. Now let hiin straighten up, and the world will give him a chanca again.

A Laconic Letter.

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the days of '49" a member of a party of miners strayed away from his companions kad was destroyed by wild beast. The friend upon whom it devolved to "break the news gently" to the bereaved parents showed himself equal to the occasion by wi iting the following letter:

MISTER SMITH DEER BUB the Xiotes has ete yaor sun's hed off Yiirs JOHN JONES. —Harper's Monthly.

UNCLE SAM'S NAVY.

Begun Immediately. ,,

In the closing hours of the late session of congress an appropriation

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FOUR THOUSAND-TON STEEL CRUISER. This vessel is to bo 310 feet long, with 49 feet beam and a draught of 18 feet 0 inches. She will have twin screws giving heV a speed of 18 knots. Her coal capacity will be 650 tons, and her coiuploment of men will be 3GD.

Her main battery will consist of 12 0-incli breech-loading rifled cannons. The secondary battery will possess 10 pieces of revolving cannon, besides .gatling guns. The battery will bo mounted in spbnsons on central pivot carriages supporting segmental shields 2 inches in thickness—2 under the forecastle, 2 under the poop, 4 under, the main bridges and the balance amidships. Four guns wlil bo able to concentrate within 400 l'eet of bow or stein cither broadside of 0 guns will concentrate on an object within 100 feet of the chip's side.

The vessel will be built of steel throughout, having a double bottom 3 feet S inches in depth running the entire length of the machinery space, or 129 feet. The machinery, mp^adnes, shell rooms, torpedo rooms and. steering gear are placed below cn armored deck, which is"inches thick oil its sloping sidco and 2 inches on tho horizontal part amidships. Above this armored deck tho entire length of the vessel runs the berth deck, containing the sleeping rooms for the officers and men.

The vessel will bo provided with 6 abovewater torpedo-launching tubes, also electric search lights and apparatus for lighting the ship, also a complete system of forced ventilation. The protective deck will be earned down to strengthen the ram-shaped bow, which will be thoroughly stiffened and strengthened by bulkheads and breasthooks for ramming purposes!. The hull will be subdivided by fore and aft and athwartship bulkheads into over 150 watertight compartments.

SEVENTEEN HUNDRED-TON STEEL CRUISER. This boat will be in many respects a counterpart of the 4,000-ton cruiser, but with reduced destroying power. Her length will be 230 feet, beam 36 loet, draught 14 feet twin screws, and a speed is expected of sixteen knots. Coal capacity 400 tons, complement of men 150. Her battery will consist of sftt 6-inch breech-loading rifles and six smaller pieces. The engines, boilers, magazines, shell room and steering gear are placed beneath a water-tight steel deck, running the entire length of the vessel The stem will be slightly ram-shaped, and stiffened for ramming. The hull is divided into numerous water-tight compartments. All openings in the watertight deck to machinery and magazines aro protected by coffer-dams. The machinery is further protected by a belt of coal nino feet in thickness, running tho entire length of the machinery space. This use of the coal in wa-ter-tight bulkheads, as an additional protection to tho machinery from the shots of the enemy, is a novel idea, and will be made use of in all the future vessels of the navy.

EIGHT HUNDRED AND SEVENTY-TON GUN* BOAT. This vessel will be constructed on the composite system, viz: frames, beams, stringers and keelsons of steel, with the outer planking and decks of wood. The planking will be in two thicknesses of two and a half and three inches, and coppered. The engines and boilers are placed beneath a water-tight steel deck three-eighths of an inch in thickness, its outer edge being twenty-seven inches below the water line, rising to eight inches above at the center line amidships. The vessel is divided into numerous water-tight compartments by steel athwartship and fore and aft bulkheads, thus localizing the damage due to the hull being penetrated by shot or ramming.

Her length will be but 175 feet, beam 31 feet, draught 11 feet 10 inches coal capacity 160 tons. One hundred men will be required to work her. The battery will consist of six

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NEW VESSELS THAT ARE TO BE SOMETHING MORE THAN TUBS. £.••?'] 7.

Description and Appearance of the New Steel Cruisers Authorised by the Last Congress—Their Construction to be

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construction of four new war vessels that will equal in efficiency anything of their size afloat. So it would appear that Undo Sam is at last taking steps toward additions to his navy that will be war ships in fact, not targets for the humorist's shots.

The navy of the United States consists now of about 100 vessels of all classes. Of these nineteen are ironclads, five are new double turreted monitors, and the rest, with some repairs, might bo made serviceable for harbor defense. All the other vessels are wooden except six.

The initial ships in the new navy are tho Dolphin, Atlanta, Boston and Chicago. The first two aro in commission and the others will soon finished.

Tho four additional vessels authorized by congress are: One steel cruiser, 4,000 tons one steel cruiser, 3,700 tons one steel cruiser, 1,700 tons one gunboat, 870 tons.

It is proposed to get these vessels mmbmr headway as fast as possible. Their castviB be at least $5,000,000.

THE LATE ANN S. STEPHENS,

Rich, Old and Famous, She Wrote TUt the Lost.

The death of Mrs. Ann S. Stephens, tte veteran novelist, will recall to a person now middlo aged the absorbing intern* with which, years and years a~o, ho real

Fashion and Famine," "Tho Rsj^x-tcd Wit%~ "The Gold Brick" and other novcb by tte same author. Over fifty years

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guns. The remaining one of the four vessels ordered by congress will be a duplieaioof an ironclad constructed in En^lav.i tor tte Japanese government, and which is coass&r' eredoneof tho mo6t effective eruiscr* afloait, It will be a 3,780-ton steel cruiser,jpassesiqg many of tho principles of the other crunars. Its armament consists of two 10-inch 2S-teo guns, two 0-pounders and twelve machine guns.

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dustrious pen began to wag, and it has taffe at it without intermission ever till now. Ann Sophia Stephens died at Newport* BL L, Aug. 20, aged 73 years. She wroto

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than thirty books in a period of twcnt.7 ye These, with a son and daughter, who with her when she died, she .leaves to posterity. 8he was' probably born In Derby, Com Her maiden name was Winterbotham, bar ancestry English. She was the first American woman novelist of note, and if the tratb must bo told, there aro none among tho various female novelists of tho present gen tion who can write abetter story.

The'lady was married very -young Edward Stephens, and went to live in Portland, Ma She had written even before this early marriage In the old time it was thought that women were lit \o write only versv therefore all female literary aspirants, like Mr. Wegg, "dropped into poetry." Mrs. AXN S. STSURARENSC. Stephens followed the fashion. Her fin* published writings over her own namo wvs« poems. One of them was

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Showas editor of The Portland Magazine awhile. Then she came to NJW York aed Frank Leslie engaged hor as editor of tho first magczino he ever published. She wrote serial novels for it, and became thereby popular that the Petersons of Philadelphia engaged her to writo novel thereafter expensively for them, She was with Frank he&Bcu. as editor of The Ladies' Companion four yam*,,, then she went to Philadelphia to edit Graham's Magazina After that sh.1 took charga of Petersons' Magazine and was its over a quarter of a century.

She started twb magazines of her own, they did not have a distinguished success, and? were soon snuffed out. Her greatest novel was "Fashion and. Famine." It Went throBgjk three London editions, and three differs* translations were made of it in French vithnft a year from the time it first appeared.

All her books ex«ept three were norobL These were two early volumes giving instnaotion in fancy needlework and a "Pictorial History of the War for the Union." TMto was published in two thick volumes in It is said that Mrs. Stephens was the 1 mous author of the famous story "That band of Mine," and that she got enough from it to buy her a handsome I in Washington. Ann S. Stephens first woman who ever received a across the ocean. It was sent by Queen Ylotoria.

She long ago beaame wel to da from novel writing, which is more than one 1 in ten thousand can do. For many years has lived in a pleasant home of her own New York city. Hei* husband died some ago. She was an indefatigable worker 1 kindly, bright, good woman.

OFFICERS OF THE LAND LEAGUE.

President, John Fitzgerald, of NCTMM1%

and Treasurer, the Rev. Dr. OTCeiHy.

John Fitzgerald, the present president aff tho Land league, elected at the recent caarnmtion in Chicago, is one of Nebraska's nxSBaaaires. Forty-two years ago he landed naKnr York, a poor emigrant boy. He began1 as a railroad laborer in the east, and west in laying down the paths of the looacn*tive, and by laying away little amxftsg* at the same tima te soon became able undertake contract* for himself, wkfefo prospered, and te finally settled braska, and is smr identified with nearly every proocmaaafc industry of to state. But notwithstanding all fcsv prosperity, he la tba

REV. DR. O'REILLT. same plain Job a Fitzgerald he was during his early day*. Oa his arrival at the Grand Pacific hotel in Chicago the clerk thought that the countryman, who wished to register, was evidently beyond Iris means, littl&thinking that the

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he placed on the register could render a check of sufficient amount to cover thftaafc of the hotel. Mr. Fitzgerald has to-day afc least 2,000 men on his pay rolL He hafcjj ways contributed largely to the funds wibch have hnH for their object the amelioration burdens on the people in Ireland. Ha« so little for fame that he begged to be« from the publication of his portrait.

There-elected treasurer of the land! is the Rev. Dr. Charles O'Reilly of DatvalL His report showed that $34,180 had beam CMatributed to the league fund, and $320^5Wte the support of Parnell and parliamentnjr agitation of tho desires of the league.

Tragic. »i-

It was summer. And Long Branch* came there. We met. He was hasty and I a coquette. He proposed. 1 fused him. I loved him. Bnt then 1 —dont you see?—he would ask me agafaa.

But be didn't.—Life.