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250 LIVES LOST.
A London cable nye : The British
torpedo °miser Serpent has foundered off
the coast of Spain. The fate of the crew
ia Unknown. The Serpent was a twin
screw, veiled of 1,170 tone and 4,600 horse"
power. aim uarrieeli nix gene. The Ger-
pent went on the rooks at a point twenty
- elk-rm.-de esendledeedeterientsnledtellaz-d7nieneleeeedOe ereenadedeee etereenanzeesef%dEtee-geardeeVeenetiei
storm on Monday night. A heavy mist another bnildirig. On the breaking
prevailed M the time. Owing to the out of the fire the troops re.
violence of the storm it wee impossible to sponded promptly to the bugle call for
mend assistance from shore. Tremendous fire parade and worked the hand apparatus
seas swept the decks of the doomed vessel, with a will, the officers cheering, them on,
. OarlYing away group tatter group of the The &email attended by ninny exciting-
indoetunate men on board. The news of iniedente. Several heroic, rescues were
the wreck was conveyed to Carnnna, a made and some painful scenes were wit-
distence of 60 mile% over mountain roads. mend. The women and children in the
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and men. The others on board were going
out to relieve men now on ships at the
eideloan station.
The Serpent was a swift light cruiser,
tone of eight. commenced during the admin-
istration of Lord Northbrook. She was
launched in 1887.
A. Madrid deepatoh says: The three per-
sons paved from the Serpent are ashore
who swam ashore at Camorinae. They
express the belief that all the others on
board were drowned, but only four bodies
gave been washed ashore as yet. There is
co telegraph station at Caniorines.
Lord George Hamilton, Firat Lord of the
Admiralty, made a speech to -night at a
Conservative banquet at Acton. He began
an follows: I am sorry to say tlhut
just before I came here I received a tele.
gram eaviog that the torpedo cruiser Ser- THE IRISH EVICTIONS.
pent had been lost on the Spanish
coast. I fear there has been & Scenes at Ardsberg—Tighting at Galway—
great loss of life. The Serpent was Venue Changed.
cue of our beet cruisers and was a valuable A Dublin oable says': The evictions on
wrissel. She had excellent officers and a the Olphert estate were begun at Ardeberg
ane crew. I cannot tell the cause yesterday. A fieroe etorni had raged all
of the disaster." Thia announce- night, and gloomy weather added to the
Arent caused a momentary sensation wretchedness of the scene- It was thought
among the gueste, but apparently the start- aome tenants might resist the eviotors, and
ling news was quickly forgotten. Lord a force of heavily armed policemen were on
Hamilton made an unusually rollicking the ground. Sixteen families, comprising
speech, provoking frequent outbursts of one hundred persons, were ejected from
laughter. The inoident was a topic of their homee.
conversation, in the clubs late to.night, and During a squabble Mr. O'Neal, M. P., put
Was generally denounced as ooandaloue. a chalk mark on a policeman's arm as a
An old charge made spinet Mr. Glad- means .of identification. He warned the
atone is that •he attended the theatre others that he would similarly mark those
on the evening of the day on whioh who should be guilty of misbehaviour, this
the_netve____was_receivednellere-of--the eingethecilly-way-teddentify-theriacedeng
as the authoritie a declined to melte them
wear badges. A number of English visitors,
including ladies, witnessed the eviotions,and
afterwards held an indignation meeting, at
which the action of the owner of the estate
was Bouncily denounoed. The Bishop of
Raphoe arrived at Ardsberg in the afternoon
for the purpose of assisting. the evicted
familiee.
Soots Guards.
PL1JOKY R.1313011B =OF TWO ORILD1311.
A London liable gays: The Wellington
barracks of the Guards were'. de-
stroyed by lire yesterday. The fire
originated in a staircase in the quartere of
the married soldiere. The inmates were
rescued by meena of ladders. There were
in the barracks a number of children Buf-
fering from meselerewho were wrapped in
OUT IN THE STORM.
Vessels Which Weathered the Atlantic
Storm Arriving.
1' EAU TOR IIICSE OVERDUE.
A. Montreal despatob says The overdue
steamere are reaching port, all more or leas
bearing testimony to she terrible weather
they experienced on the Atlantio. The
steamship Gerona, of the Thompson Line,
arrived to -day, and her log is Henley
description of heavy storms and tossing
" - .erneeeaementelneeleeeke.ne,!eyeem,
scoiden thit nearly cost Captain Ander-
son his life. Tho Gerona left Newcastle on
()debar 28th, and while heavy gales were
experienced all the way down, it was at
Dunnett Head that the wore' was gone
, through. There the wink inoreseed to it
terriflo hurricane. Captain Andersen
was at his poet on the upper bridge,
refusing to go below, and with him was
his chief °fiber. Mr. J., Gibson.
When it was found that two children were
missing it soldier bravely re-entered the
burning pile to search for them. Hearing
eoreame issuing from the raftere on the top
floor he disjointed an iron bedstead and
with a piece of loon broke away the oeiling
until he found the children, when he
rescued them unhurt. In trying to escape
by a trap door and roof they had lost
themselves between the rafters and the
tiles. Many persons were more or less
injared by jumping from windows and six
persons received serious injuries and were
sent to the hospital.
The Wellington Barracks are the
barracks of the lat Battalion of the Scots
Guards, „ of -which H. R: H. the Duke of
Connaught, is colon&
”44,rtit,
• death . of Gen. Gordon at Khartoum.
It is believed to night's incident will be
used as a aet.off to this aconastion against
the ex -Premier.
- A Madrid cable says: An official, tele-
, gram from Corunna says that the serpent
was vireoked of Cape Buoy,near the village
of Carnorinse. There were 276 peraons
aboard of her, of whom only three were
awed, The bodies 01 three ladies have Several fights took place at Galway to -
been washed mime. TheGoverriiiin- derbetween-the-police-and-military—A,
• ordered the authorities at Camorinas to police sergeant was severely iujured. The
rendei every assistance in their power. military finally routed the police and
A Halifax despatch says: The war.ship chased them to their' barracks. The Con.
Serpent; reported lost near Cape Finis- naught Rangere, who took a prominent
&erre with 250 lives, was a twin-eorew part in the diaturbance, have been ordered
cruiser of the third class, of 1,770 tone away from Galway.
burthen, 4,550 boratepower and carrying The Magistrates' court at Tipperary to -
six guns. She was hound for the cape of day changed the venue of the oonspiraoy
Good Hope and the west coast of Africa. case from Tipperary to Clonmel. Counsel
Her officers , were: Commander 117/ L. for the defendants made vigorous proteste
Boas, Lieutenants Gny, H. L. Granville against it, but were overruled.
and. Torquell McLeod, Surgeon James W.
• Dixon, Engineers John J. Robine, William PROF. HOCH'S DiscovERY.
P. Edwards and T. W. Head. The
The Medical World Much }uteri sted-9.
Serpent was commissioned itt Davenport
six menthe ago. Royal Invitation.
The Duke of Edinburgh was attending a A Berlin oable says : The following
Patti concert at Plymouth when thenews particulars are published of a case of lupus
°Me disesster reached him. He M once of the face in Frankfort which Dr. Libbertz
left the hall and hastened to the various has been treating by Prof. Kooh's method :.
ix hours after the injection of the lymph
f,ae temperature of the patient rose to over
Ho,04 and the pulse to 120. At midnight the
ceiever abated, the sores ewelled, the head of
Wise lupus liken became light yellow,
and
AIona them exuded a serene liquid. After
Z18 teWiirteen hours scabs began to form. To-
th y the patient was free from fever and the
loss cers were covered with seethe similar to
hungose on a person recovering from an
thetteriptive ft3VE r or from eozema. The doctor
Grektende to inject more lymph when the
Tliebe fall.
from A medical correspondent of the Tageblatt
with)porte that in a case of lung diseate the
Eittient complained of pains in the knee,
hide were regarded ea proof of the tuber.
culotte nature of the disesee, and that an
injection of lymph was made in the back,
which was followed by ooneiderable swelling
of the knee joints.
Minister Von (*healer has given 200,000
marks for the ereotion of a epeeist hospital
for the treatment of consumptives by the
Koch method. A patient who bas been
treated by Prof. Hoch ,will be shown 10 the
Surgical Society on Monday.
Emperor William has summoned prof.
Koch to an interview in order to personally
learn the results whioh have been obtained
from the new oonenmption cure.
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er offttElin 8eitisz/h ft P:
tariffs amounts to from $15 up-
s oh every horse. 1 am going 011
tray sop!) to see if 1 can .'buy
hor'8es, but I do not expect to do
int; at the firiees 1 shalt • be
d.otflr.lest year I shipped
300, all bo.tight in dill distriet.
of thee) were as high as 8200,
he average \would be $100, so
tne horse trade el did last - year
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Medi to .'Q00') to :he farmers of
tab- an volt ineemaroier aineeFG
ber lose and that but three seamen were
saved. It also Bays that the Spanish Gov-
ernment has been requested to render all
reeible assistance in the work of recover-
ing the bodies of the drowned, for each of
• which the British Government will offer a
reward. The British Vice -Consul at
(Somme has gone toCamerinas to interview
the survivors of the wreck:
H. M. S. Lapwing has left. Vigo for the
scene of the wreak of the Serpent. An Ad-
mfralty offioer who has knowledge of the
lociality of the wreck thinks it probable that
the Sernent'e oompassea were deflected by
the contiguity of the vast manes of iron
alon.gthe coast. The mermen° maeaes of
, ore ua the Galician mountains have been
ascribed as the cause of several wreoks in
• the same lapality.
- The Spanish Admiralty offioere think
the Serpent became disabled in the gale on
•Monday and tried to make the harbor of
Camarinee, when he struck a reef 'wally
known as dangerone to 'navigation, eitend•
ing & quarter of a mile south of the harbor
and oovered by only four feet of water at
low tide.
Russell Sage on Jay Gould's Wealth.
There it not a man in America or the
lltorld at large who absolutely owna and
controls and has registered in hie own
name as many stooks as Mr. Jay Gould. It
is no exaggeration to say that he draws
snore revenue from his invested capital
than does any other living soul. In order
that some idea may bo had of hie weath it
is simply neoeaeary to take three of hie
stocks: Manhattan: of which he owns and
bait registered, 010,000,000 ; etigeouri
Pacific, $12,600,000, and Western Union
325,000,000. Of these three he draws for
dividends over €2,000,000 a year. Hie in-
come from other sourcee, of coarse,
amounts to four or five times as much.
-" I think I'll vote for Harley. He has
the itch for Office." "Precisely. That is
%idly 1 intend to wretch him."
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London ante Paris.
Paris is straight, London is crooked.
The Parisian cabman site in front, the
London. cabman sits behind. The Parisian
oebroan takes the right, the London cab-
man the left. Paris is compacts -London is
scattered. In Paris the window° open like
doors, in London they fall like guillotines.
In Paris the venetian blinds aro outside, in
Lender} they are inside. In Paris the
soldier has a blue jacket end red trousers,
in London he has a red coat and blue
trousers. Feria is gay, London is grave.
Paris walke, London rune. Petrie eats,
London devottra.-Parit Figaro.
The Truant Officers' Harvest.
St. Croix (N. B) Courier: In view of
the prominenoe lately given in this pro-
vince to to the question of compulsory at-
tendance at sohool, a statement recently
made conoerning its working in Illinois,
where a compuleory law now exists, is of
some interest. At a meeting held there
lately it was announced that the attend-
• ance of 1890, under compulsion, was better
than that of 1889 by 16,000 pupils, that the
attendance at private wheels had in•
cretteecity 6,000, and that the increase) in
the aggregate number of days of attend.
arum for the year was 4006000.
-The Haying that " figures cannot lie"
doesn't apply to feminine figures.
enormous sea rolled over the steamehip,
flooding the (lecke and aweeping everything
before it. The ship's deok was completely
filled with water, and everything forward
was carried away. The force of the water
aleo wept away the main upper bridge,
and both Captain Anderson' and Mr. Gib-
son had a very narrow escape from being
carried away with the bridge. As it was,
Captain Anderson was jammed up against
the bulwarka and so severely knocked about
and bruieed that he had to keep in bed
during the entire voyage. The mate,
Gibson, was also knoolred down by the
waves, but not eerionslydleart. During the
voyage across the Atlantic gales amine from
all points of the compase, and tremendous
cross -seas waehed the ship. Belle Isle was
reaohed on the eve of the 7th, and nice
weather was experienced through the
straits. At Greenley ieland another severe
gale from the southwest sprang np with a
heavy sea,
the wind finally shifting to the
northweet, when high cross seas knocked
the ship about considerably. The gale
moderated next day, hutdoff Anthem:4 there
were strong northwest winds, while up the
gulf and river snow squalls retarded the
progress of the vessel, fogs also detaining
her.
The Dominion Line steamer Texas, from
Bristol, arrived in port at 11 o'olook this
morning after a long and stormy passage.
She left Liverpool 011 Oot. 25the and all the
way across experienced nothing but gales
and Iturrioanes with mountainous head seas.
It has taken her just nineteen days to cross
the ocean. The onl fine da clerk) the
voyage was 1 e sevent day, on whit:, the
disaster to the Vancouver occurred. Cape
Race was then in sight. Last Sunday a
terrific burrioate sprang up, but the veesel
passed through is with but slight damage.
There is a great deal of anxiety felt here
concerning the Allan Line vessels Sarmas
thin, Brazilian, Hibernian, and the Derain.
ion Line eteamehip Lake Huron, all of
which are several chine overdue. This
anxiety has been heightened by the terrible
eilsester to -the -Vancouver,- and-tha_rough_
passagee experienced by the other ocean
vessels which have' arrived here. The
Lake Huron left
with a hundred
oargo of
captain
which is
horses.
Liverpool
two
passengera and a
• is believed
weeks
11
taken
may have
the safest.
ago
valuable
that the
a southerly
course,
Hallway Notes.
' The new station of the Pennsylvania
railroad at Jersey City will be the widest
in the world.
A French railway charges for the privi-
lege of coming to the platform with friends!
to see them off.
The Busk -Ivanhoe tunnel through the
Sanguaehe range will be 9,350 feet long,
and will cost about 51,000,000.
Mail oar No. 14, belonging to the Illinois
Central Railroad,. has the reputation
among the employees of being haunted.
The ratio of paesengere killed to passen-
gers oarried is, in England end on the con-
tinent, less than one-half the proportion of
Amerios.
It is planned to connect Washington and
Paris by a railroad running through
Alaska, donee Behring strait by bridge
and 'theme through Asia and Europe.
The earnings of the Penneylvapiet Rail-
way system are one-half greater than
those of the Prussian Railway°, while the
number of paseengere is only one-half as
great.
The only engine on the Maryland South-
ern Railway ran off the track into a dill:3h
last year and there wasn't sufficient money
in the treasury to restore it to its former
position. .The motive power is now sup-
plied by two horses.
Tivo Famous Women.Doctors.
Two well-known women physicians, were
observeble at a Sunday evening salon -Dr.
Mary Stafford Blake of Boston, and Dr.
Helen Densmore, of New York. The
former ia a delicate little woman with a
refined face, and was dressed severely and
plainly in black. She ie a charming con-
versationalist and exceedingly accom-
plished, 'speaking German, French and
Italian with equal fluency. Dr. Densmore,
who is the mistress of a handeonde house
on Fifty•fifth street, is a superbly devel-
oped woman of the blonde type, with soft,
fluffy, fair hair. She is a dress reformer,
and her gown was modelled after Henri-
etta Ruseellei fashion -loose, restbetio, of
gold plush and black lace. Die Densmore
possesses a dietary fad and urges people to
live upon nuts, :mite, sweets and mood ;
to reject cereals end matte -New York
Letter.
• They Got the Particulars.
Rochester Heralcl: The Stat hanging
under the new Colorado law, which pro-
vides secrecy and forbids publication of the
detail°, took place in the penitentiary at
Canon City last Saturday night at 6
o'clock. No ono outside the prison knew
about it until after midnight. But then
the newspapers got bold of anoh details as
they could and published them despite the
1W end -they Room to heve fennel cult
nearly as much as if a reporter had been
present.
-" If you want to go to -sleep quickly,'
says a Chicago physician, " drink half
a pint of hot water." Hi, hello, see, here,
doctor l what aro the other ingredients ?
=The masculine neckwear is reeplen.
dent:
THE VANCOUVER'S AWFUL TRIP.
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Captain and Quartermaster Washed. Overboard
and Drowned.
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STRUCK BY A DREADFUL HURRICANE.
The Deoka Swept of Everything and the
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edeedderdesnYez-ealnkWaarr
A. Father Point, Que., deepatoh eaya :
Captain Lindell, commander, and the
quartermaster of R. M. S. Va000nver, just
inward .from Liverpool, were washed over-
board and drowned on Friday at 6.16 a.
m. The veesere bridge, chartroom and
deckwere oompletely swept by the
waves. Tremendous weather was experi-
enced." Further specials and private ad-
firm the report and indicate that the hurri-
cane was such as has not been
witnessed for many years in the North
Atlantic. The Vancouver was live days
overdue and fears were entertained
for her eatety. On leaving Liverpool she
experienced heavy weather, which increased
in violence till a. perfect hurriosne pre-
vailed, with the wind from 'the northwest,
intensely cold, and with heavy squalls ot
snow and Eileen On Tbureday the storm
was et its height. .The hetehee were
battened down, and for two days not a
passenger was allowed on deok. The sea
poured over the ship. in. torrents, and it
was only by the ,eid of life lines that the
officers could etand to their poste. Early
on the morning of Friday she was entering
the :Straits, the most dangerous park of the
voyage. All night the storm bad raged,
and Captain Lindell never went below for
a moment. He Mood en the bridge till 6
o'olook, when, drenched and half frozen,
he descended the ladder and went into the
ohart-room for a oup of ooffee, which his
steward was to bring. Fifteen minutes
later the ship was thrown on, her beam ends
by a tremendous sea. The water fell upon
the decks and rushing across carried away
the bridge, the °henhouse and the after-
deck cabins and flooded the main saloon.
Then it was seen that the captain and the
quartermaster, who was at the wheel,
were swept into the sea. The first officer
took charge of the ship, and after a con-
tinuous battle brought her safe to port.
The first officer, Mr. Walsh, had rushed
down a few Minutes before. into the cabin
up-the-captaine-thinking-he-vras
below, leaving the third officer on the bridge
and the quartermaster at the wheel. Learn-
ing that the captain was in the chartroom,
he was returning there when the sea struok
the ship. The only part of the bridge left
was a corner on the port side, and to this
fragment the third officer clung until the
sea washed over and he was found
carried dawn below, terribly bruised.
Captain Lindell was in his 52nd
year and was a Swede by birth. Pre-
-vionsto-entering-the-service-of the_Do-
minion Line he had been oobnected with
the Leyland. Line, which ran steamers
from Liverpool to the Mediterranean. He
had been with the company for about
sixteen years, fifteen as commander.He
entered the servios as chief officer of the
Mississippi. He was then promoted to the
command of the same steamer, and was in
tarn made captain of the old steamahip
Brooklyn, the Sarnia and finally the. Van-
couver. Ho has been commander of the
latter steamer, the finest of the line, since
she was built, six' years ago. Four years
ago he became the commodore of the fleet.
Capt. Lindell leaves a wife and three
daughters, who reside near Liverpool. His
Social qualities, hia religions character, his
stern and unflinching ideas of discipline
and duty are known to all who have crossed
the Atlantic in the Vancouver, one of the
finest boats leaving, this port.
First Officer Walsh, who brought the
ship into the St. Lawrence, found himself
•Without his meet important oompaee, and
thio aggravated to a great extent the diffi-
culties of the situation. However, the
Vancouver reaohed Quebec this evening
without further mishap.
Mr. Walmeley, the British mail officer,
who first brought the nem of Captain
Lindall's death, arrived this evening with
the Vancouver's mails, and was imme-
diately seen by the Empire. Mr. Welmeley
said that when going out ont in the tender
from -Father Point this .morning to meet
the ship, those on board the first mentioned
craft believed that something must be
wrong. Upon ordinery occasions the mail
boate lay off about four miles, but tosday
theVanoouver was about fifteen miles from
shore. Coming all with her, the first offioer
was the firat man seen, and upon being
asked what was the matter burst into tears,
and pointing to the deer deck, swept as it
was of the btidgo and the chart house,
replied: " Captain,Lindall and the quar-
termaster have been washed overboard
and drowned." In fact, Mr. Walt:Daley
states that he. lute never seen snob a
depreesed and esuflooking lot of people in
his life as were the passengers and' crew of
the Vanoover as they lay off Rimonski this
morning and mourned the tragio and of
their loved commander. -
OVERDUE STEAMERS.
Now that the Vancouver has been heard
from there is Borne anxiety as tp the eafety
of a' cumber of etearnere for Montreal
which aro overdue. The Lake given ie
generally up on Monday evening or Thee -
day, but she has not been. reported in the
golf yet. Boeides her passengerei she has
60 horses on board, but it is feared some of
them will have perished from the effects of
the severe weather. The Sarmatian, from
Glasgow; the Brazilian, from Lon'don, and
the Corean, from Livetpool, ere all late,
and none of them have yet been reported
in the gulf. ThesAmarentha is about due,
but she also has not been reported. From
all appearances they must be experiencing
a bard time on the Atlantic. As the season
is now ended, and as the movements of the
St. Lawrence are somewhat erratio after
the 20th of the present month, there is etre
.te be a grand rush to get away before navi-
gation close° Or the ioe begine ics form.
-A small boy is not necessarily impeon-
nine because he is strapped -
-The man who joins an aseesement
insurance con?ipany can take a melancholy
pleasure in thinking of the many that will
mourn his death.
STUDENTS AND MILITARY.
Ann Arbor Students Oreate a Riot With
Disastrous Oonsequenom
An' Ann Arbor, Mich, despatch illiY01
The moat disgraceful and exciting oollege
fight in the history of Western institution
took place last night between about 1,000
students and a equad of State militia,
whioh resulted in the killieg of one student
and the injuring of a ,dozen more. The
bitter feeling against the authorities
resulting from the riot of the night before
wee largely the' eenee thio effeir,
rumor spread shout the campus that the
,,,,,,arreeeeseen eesteseeseeaess,daaeseeeseeds-,,4eesenedeseeneeesiessneseaweenadr,,,,
repeated last evening, end consequently
hundreds of fellows were upon the
scene when the evening mail - arrived.
There' was, however, no trouble nntil
about 9.30, when the central portion of the
city was surpised to hear reports of a nurrn
ber of guns. Immediately every student
n the vicinity came to the conclusion that
a more serious trouble with the authorities
Ak___sitnsacr tafrnsly. nf ;Ana ATARI_
ponre upon itrire7; s, w • o, giving t I eir
oollege yell While running, materially in-
creased the excitement. Within five
minutes after the first report there were at
least 1,000 students collected at se scene of
the supposed trouble. The ce `lion was
an informal °banyan by mtes 'ere of the
-local military company to on: of their
number whores wedging night it was. The
captain of the company wad one of the
gueets inside the house, and coming out he
saw that a serious disturbance might be
the result if the firing continued. He
ordered the men back to the armory, and
they started to obey his command. The
students immediately fell in behind in an
irregular but oompaot maes. Some of
them cried out " rush," but no movement
was made in that direction. Querter-
master. Granger, who had charge of the
militia, ordered a charge and theetudente
fled for a abort distance, but quickly re-
turned when they saw the company moving
ing down toward the armory. Corning to
the oorner of Liberty and Division streets
the students had closed up behind again
and once more the order " cheigige' wae
made: Then followed one of stiM deers'
hand-to-hand fights ever witnessed in this
city. The first man hurt was Quarter -
'master Granger, who w.ae struck in the fore-
head by a thrown briok. He fell and was
carried away. The company was without
bayonets, but used its rifles to good advan-
tage as clube, while the students were
armed with fence pickets and stones. The
.fight must have lasted ten, minutes, and
everybody who took tis prominent part was
more or less hurt. One of the most
negeous sots was that committed upon L J.
Denmison, a freshmen" literary ancient
from Toledo, 0. He was knocked • down -
near the fence,' but this did not Been, to
satisfy his assailant, who struck him again
and again. Iu an unconsoione 'nate he was
removed to the hospital, where he died this,
morning from skull fracture. Greriger was
reported dead this morning, but that he
untrue. He is very badly out in the 'fore-
head, but will undoubtedly pall through.
It now looks as it a serious charge will be•
breught-againist-ntembereotethe d'
company who participated in the einm- .
rence. However, the feat as to who etrusak
the first blow or who, made the first assault
is still in didpute.
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Talleyrand's Table Talk.
Beauty devoid of gram is a mere hook
without the bait.
A court is an aseemblage of noble and
distinguished beggars.
Prudence in a woman should be an
instinct, not a virtue.
The imagination of men is oaten the
refuge of their prejudices.
Love is a reality which is born in the
fairy region of romance.
What I have been taught 1 heee for-
gotten, what I know I have gueseed.
Certain acts may be rendered legal, but
can never be made legitimate.
The love of glory can only create a hero ;
the contempt of it oreittes a great roan.
Theologians resemble doge that gnaw
large bones for the Bake of very little meat,
Too mnoh sensibility creates unhappi-
ness; too much insensibility creates mime.
We must learn to submit with grace to
commit the follies which depend upon
character.
Tho mind of the Duo de Laval is like a
dark lantern, only (livable of lighting his
own path. -From the Papers of M. Cot-
mache.
Working a Fako.
It was reported some time ago that
Harry Johnson, the professional
sprinter and jumper, holder odlire world's
100 -yard record, had died in an Fran-
cisco. No partioulare have been received,
and an intimate friend of the runner dis-
credits the report of hie death. " Johnson
has died," he said to a reporter, " to my
knowledge, at least three times, in order to
work lobe,' and I really believe he has
died this lest tirnelor the same reasbn. §o
don't be surprised if he comes to life again.
I'd come very near knowing of his real
death and the usual resurrection may °emir
in Australia, where a fortune awaita a
runner of Johnson's ability, if be can slip
into a big handicap' and receive a liberal
etart."
But Perhaps Ile DId#
Indianapolis Journal: "There's othing
like having a fair understandi • - en
fellow and his sweetheart es .elude to
double np for better or worse, as the case
may be," said the men on the nail. keg.
" Now, the first thing I told Sarah was,
that when I married her I didn't want to
marry the whole family. That'a what I
told her."
There was a pause. Then the men on
the oraoker-barrel, by way of brooking the
silenoe, ventured a dubious,'" Well ?"
" Yeas, that'e what I told her. But
kinder think I lied, I do."
A Subject That Took.
Chicago New: Dr. McIntyre announced
as his subject for lent evening " How to be
Miserable, Though Married," and the
oteridurice was Bo grect that the church
doors had to be looked.
" How was your epeeoh received?
"Tho andienoe was fainly carried away by
my eloquence." " Yes, I heard there
wash't a man left in the hall when you
finiehed."
It is said that the Qacen will spend the
winter in Florence.
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