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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-8-10, Page 3SIDE LIGHTS ON PARIS, $end of the Season and Gay hlltetla Handed Over to tourists, A NOVEL ROWING COSTUME. Hunting a Corpse—A Cay Old Princess and Beer Deaf aunt Dumb Seventeen -year -mid Laver—A Notorious Matrimonial Adven- turess and Hor Assortment or Husbands. PARIS, July. TRAGGLERS left behind the exodus tit of polite society which has set in are busily engaged in packing up and hur- rying away into the country and to the -% seaaldo the Bois de Boulogne is already quite de- er sorted and the city wears the usual Olel(lyd�ir' roped of melan- cholia from which, at this time of the year, -it always suffers. ee The haat ton,ae is the proper thing to do, have for the moat part betaken bhemeelves to that part of the Normandy coesbthab lies be- tweenTrouville, Deauville and Dives, to go through what is termed the " Normandy horse -racing campaign," at Deauville, Caen, Cobourg end Dieppe, broken up with a course of eoarte for gentlemen, and petits • chevaux for ladies, ab the various casinos. A. goodly number who favor the country in preference to the sea covet have gone to the banks of the Marne, the scenery along which ie far prettier than anything the Seine can produce. On the Marne the • canotiere as well as the canotier is to be met with, and the part the former plays on the water does not merely contest in steering. She rows and often rows well. What she le particularly partial to when she le quite at home at the business, and ie pretty and well built, is sculling on the eliding seat with glorious man lounging on a sheep's skin in front of her and watching her grace - lel movements as she bends forward and throws hereelf well back white he keeps the boat's head in the proper course. The con- trast between the figure of the frail girl doing all the work and that of the powerful male doing next to nothing, renders the picture particularly fetching, because one is eo aooustomed to see the respective positions reversed. NEAT LITTLE SLACK SATIN PANTIES. Her costume is extremely picturesque and somewhat artistic. On shore she wears a skirt, in order to obey the police regale - time by which the fair sex are forbidden to sport the masculine " pants"; but when she is once in the boat the casts that off in a moment and appears in a costume that would shock the most liberal -minded Ameri- can girl. Blank leather ehoeewith buokles, black stockings, black attain breeches, full about the thighs and buttoning tight to the leg below the knee ; a flannel shirt, and teethe beret, is the moat approved costume of the Marne rowing girl ; and apart from looking very pretty, it is delightfully com- fortable and cool. When she goes ashore, ebe slips the skirt en ageln, and as she has generally a serge jacket with her she is in appropriate country attire at once. ADVENTURES OF A CORPSE.. Near Asnieres, outside the city, there le a place In Mid -Seine called the Ile des Caboeufs, where a series of most sensational incidents has juet occurred. A man named Dufour, two of his friende and a young woman, Therese Dacloun, had been amusing themselves on the island during the evening, .and all had dined together in the open air, as is the custom, during the warm weather, .of many Parisians. The viands and wines were despatched amid a great deal of gayety, bat later on a quarrel arose between Dufour and Mdlle. Dacloun. The young woman scratched the man's face ; he re- torted by giving her a blow with hie fiat ; whereupon she rushed to the river and jumped in. As night was coming on fast, the bargemen, who had been requisitioned by Dufour and his friende, had great diffi- culty in finding the body with their grap- pling hoo'ke. Eventually the gruesome labor having been suooeeefally terminated, a coffin and cart were provided by the coin- miseary of police at Asnieres, who had been informed of the affair, and the remains were to be conveyed to Saint Ouen. HUNTING A COFFIN. As the vehicle carrying the dismal bur - then was being driven along the As.niere's Quay the horse took fright, swerved and fell into the Seine. The accident involved nob only the immersion of horse, cart and coffin, but also of the driver and those with him—Dufour and a policeman. The three men swam safely to shore after they had been carried out a. considerable distance ; • the horse sank to the bottom with the vehicle, and the coffin floated away in mid- -stream. Bargemen had again to be called upon for assistance, and they put out in their boats in order to capture the coffin, which they followed, using torches to light up the reacher' of the river in their weird -quest. At length they came up with the object of their search, ,and towed ib safely ashore. A new vehicle had then to be chartered for the purpose of conveying the =body to its destination at Saint•Ouon. A PRINCESS AND HER DUMB LOVER. The usual midsummer scandal has come along punctually up to time. Tide year it la an arietooratio old woman who has dis- tinguished herself. She is 62 years of age and resides in the Avenue de le Grande Armee. Her little venal offence has con- sisted in carrying off in broad daylight a young man of seventeen years of age, whole one of the pupils at the deaf and dumb in- etitubion at Royal. The old heroine of this romantic escapade le no lege a person than the Princess de Beaudon, who for the last month has been at the bathe at Royat, a 'moat charitable and good person who is prodigal in good worka. Sho was most .liberal in her gifts to the establishment of the deaf and dumb ; she went in and out when she liked, appearing much interested in everything, especially with the pupils, .among these latter a young man, whose mother she made friends ,with, and who at last was prevailed •upon to confide het son to the great lady's care. This little romance had quite an unexpected finale. The young man this taken in is a pupil of the Province. An .enquiry la going to be made into the affair, when he will be obliged to ieavoathe arms of his old charmer, the primates, and reenter the every -day drudgery of the college. At present the gay old dowager Bias her mute plaything concealed in her house hero in Paris, and she swears she will die first before she parte with him or what there is left of him by the time the police offeob hie rescue, for the princess' servants state that their mistress kissers and hugs the poor youth almoeb to buffooation. Some doubts' uo to the primmer? sanity are entertained, ADVENTUmO3 Or A MA'rRIMONLtL VIRAGO. Madame Dumoatier, alias Agoplan, allure Palmer, one of the most noborloue matri- monial swindlers of the epoch, has been condemned to three years' imprisonment by the Paris Correctional Chamber. Her career has been a singularly adventurous one, and she haa had many huabands. According to. the official report of her etrange eventful hietory she was first married, in 1883 to a Frenchman and was speedily divorced. She then started the adverbleement trick for the purpo.ae of obtaining wealthy suitors, who were to be induced to give her handsome presents and were afterwards bo be shaken off. Madame Agopien, as aha firab called herself, was a widow of a Coosbantiaople banker, and she thus inveigled a Belgian, whom she married in London six years ago, running away from him as soon ae possible after the wedding and leaving him almost penniless. SHE PLAYS A HIGH GAME, Thin" was her firab exploit. Two years later she doladed another subject of King Leopold, to whom she had represented herself as the widow of a wealthy English- man. She had an accomplice in the person of the Beigtan's own brother, with whom she went to Rome after having netted $12,000 by the marriage. Having epent a great deal of her ill•gotten gains in the Eternal City, the adventuroea again adver- tised for a hummed, describing herself as a young Batgian lady, 26 years old, with $600,000 of fortune, and deeiroua of meeting a French or Belgian engineer, tall, fair haired and distingue. The advertisement was answered by " a gentleman, also, wonderful to relate, a Belgian, who took the train to Rome, saw the lady and fell in love with her at first sight. GETS CAUGHT ON THE LAST TURN. Unfortunately there was a grandmother in the way, who was represented bo the amorous Belgian young man as a moeb business -like person who needed ostensible and indubitable proofs of the absolute in- dependence and aubetantlal prosperity of the candidate for the hand of her grand- daughter. The young man determined to wed the lovely widow, returned to Brus- sels, realized his available property and again eped to Rome, where he pat nearly $25,000 in the hands of the charming Madame Palmer, as she called herself then, and who stated that she intended bo deposit the money in tho Bank of Eagland. Shortly after that Madame Palmer disap- peared but was run to earth by the deter). dyes. She had been previouely oonviobed as Madame Agopian, and the addition to her sentence left her apparently indifferent. TIIE VENICE OF TIIE EAST. Something .Shout the Rich City Covered By Eire French. Bangkok, the capital of Slam, which was menaced by the French, is situated on both sides of the river Menem, about 20 miles from the sea. Bangkok le called the " Venice of the East." The streets are in many oases traversed by canals and the homes raised on piles, while a Iarge part of the population dwell in floating housea moored along the river sides in tiers three or four deep. The nucleus of the city on the eastern bank is surrounded by a wall 30 feet high and 10 or 12 feet thick, relieved by numerous bowers and bastions, but the rest of the city stretches irregularly for full seven miles along each aide of the river, and in some places attains nearly as great a breadth— the Menem itself being about a quarter of a mile across. All the ordinary buildings are composed of wood or bamboo work, but the temples and palaces aro of more solid construction and are gorgeously ornamented. The bempies are of great richnees, floored with mats of silver and stored with monu- ments and relice,. In one of them is a famous jester ebatue of Buddha. The popu• lation of Bangkok is about 500,000, about half of whom are Chinese. Siam haa a standing army, of 12,000 men, and has a pepnletfon of 6,000,000 to draw from in the event of war. The army is to some extent officered by Europeans. The Government possesses ten fully equipped war vessels. Had Him There. A Harlem parent has a son who took piano lessons ab Prof. Zweibeer's house, but was supposed to do his practising on the piano ab home. The parent had a suepioion that the youth did not pracbioe much. One day he said ` Tommy, do you practice regularly on the piano when I am down town?" " Yes, pa," "Everyday?" " Yes, pa," " How long did yen practfceyeatorday ? " " Two hours." " And to -day ? " " Three houre." " I am glad to hear that you pracb£ce so regularly." ' Yes, pa." " And the next time you practice be sure you unlock the piano. Here is the key. I locked the piano and pub the key in my pocket a week ago." Beating the Bevil Round a Stump. One Sunday morning a farmer going for a walk mot a fellow -farrier, who was driving a calf. "'That's a fine calf," said the first ; " if it wasn't Sunday I'd ask you how much you'd take for it." " Well, if it wasn't Sunday, I'd say £5." " If it wasn't Sunday I'd give you £4 10s." Finally bho bargain was concluded, al- though it was Sunday. Amateur Gardening. Young housewife—James, I want you to make a little garden for me sub in the back yard. Young husband—Going into amateur gar - cloning ? Young housewife—Yea ; I got some bird- seed this afternoon and I'm going to try to raise some canaries. She Was Interested. Husband—Our office boy died to -day, and I think you ought to go to his funeral. Wife—I'd like to know why ? Husband—For the last month he urea been eating the lunohee you have put up for me Made an Impression. Ciby Girl -Lord Nebobb must have made quite an impreeeioh in this motion, didn't he? Country Girl—Yes, indeed. We took him to a picnic, and he at on a pie. A Slug. Mr. Bangs—Country life is misery, melancholy and malaria, Mr. Printer -Ah, sorb of throe•m slug, so to speak. Walter Butane sage : " Next time, dear madam, that you are seaetok place a pteoe of Sae in your mouth and keep it there. When it le gone bake another piece. After that lie down and go to sloop in poaao."Hundreds of people hope he knows. GOING ALONE TO *CHICAGO. Advice to Girls Who Undertake to Do the Big fair 'Unescorted, TO TAKE ALONG. OME right along, girls, says the Baibi- more Sun's Chicago correspondent, a n d enjoy a week or two ab the World's Fair. You won't get any- thing like 11 in your lifetime. So let it be ',like the auctioneer's' cry : "Going, at any cost ;. going, going temegone l" Don't bother about waiting for the men of the family to take you. You know what men are. Don't even wait for one another, but come right along, and "step lively, ladies," ars the car conductor says. You will nob find a par. title of diffioulby in coming alone, for hun- dreds of women are here by bhemeelves from all parts of the country—not just the hustling, business womau, who is equal to any emergency and would not mind a jour- ney around the world by herself—but the every -day, average woman, equipped with no extraordinary amount of nerve. AS TO TRAVELLING ALONE. There is one other phase of the question that disturbs some feminine minds, and bhab is something of this sorb: "Is ' it the thing for women bo travel alone? I am not afraid at all as bo actual danger, but I am afraid that it wouldn't look well." Look! Goodgraclone t Come out here and see if there is anything to look at besides individuate. One may have to bother at home about Mra. Grandy if one is built that way, bub this is not home. It is an epitome of the world, and the world, you know, has enough to occupy itself in the affairs of contiaenta, nations and States without vexing Its glgantio brain in wondering if this woman is duly chaperoned or if that woman is stopping at a fashionable hotel, a little room over a restaurant or a woman's dormitory. WHAT TO CARRY ALONG. Now that you are convinced you can come along, a few hints as to details may be of service to you. First, as to preliminary arrangements : Engage your rooms before- hand, it possible, so that you can furnish your address to the " baggage man" on the oars and not have to lag your " traps " about the city or nob have to return to the depot, which to a long distance from the grounds, to give orders where your trunk or satchel is to be sent. At present $1 a day will secure a room easily near the Fair grounds. It is usual to advise the Fair visitors (World's Fair visitors, that is) to take as little baggage as possible, and in a hand-satoheI. But a small trunk or a large " grip " is really more satisfactory. T'ne cast of having the baggage delivered in Chicago -75 Dents—is the amuse for every- thing, be it a large trunk or a tiny parcel. It's not a case of dressing handsomely ; not Mail, all, bub merely of enjoying the COMFORTS OF A SUFFICIENT SUPPLY of wearing apparel without squeezing every article into so small a compass that when taken out at the other end of the journey it looks as if it had just emerged from a patent clothes wringer. One gown—the one you travel in—is sufficient, provided ib is of the right Hort. The women are not making the World's Fair a dreea parade, and you may feel sure that you are in good form if you are gowned simply and plainly. That biassed fashion of this year, the flannel or cloth Eton shit, coald nob be more suitable for a trip to the Fair if it had been especially designed for a Columbian Erpoaltion costume. The dark woollen skirl) stands the wear and tear splendidly, and always Iooks neat and in good taste, while the little jacket is just the thing should the air be coolish, and is light bo carry on the arm in the hot spells. The women are a regular shirt - waisted brigade ono here, but you can't do better than by providing a plentiful stock of cool gingham ehirb waists or one of dark India stile to wear with your Eton suit. A sailor habitant a voil,a pair of comfortable low or high shoes,a small umbrella and a pair of rubber shoes will complete the outside toilet. GETTING IN AND OUT A BERTH. Now as bo the question of sleeping in the cars—don't stay home because you think this is a difficult) matter, as many women believe. You are given a wide berth and a clean and comfortable one, big enough for two if economy is a part of the trip. Get a lower berth if you can. If you can't, go to bed in your upper berth with perfecb confidence, and go, by the way, before the 000apanb of the lower berth turns in, so as to give yourself and him (if it be a " him") a good chance to die - robe. Heavy curtains are suspended before the berths, and you can undress easily by ebanding inside of the drapery. Inside of each berth Is swinging a little hammock, and in it you man deposit the eremite of dress, tome of which you can re- move after you are ensconced in the berth. Soma old etagere undrese OUT AND CITE and don their night robes, declaring this to be the best way to enjoy a goodnight's net, but it is easter to carry a dressing sacque or wrapper to sleep in, and ales to wear to the toilet -room to perform your ablu- tfoue and make a more complete toilet. If you want to have little trouble, jut remove your shoes, barque and corsets (here's where the corsetien gymnasium glrla have the advantage), stip on your sacque or wrapper, say your prayers, by the way, how aro you going to say your prayers ? You can't kneel down, that's certain. Imagine a row of kneeling forme outlined under the curbatns on each aide of the aisle, their feet meeting in the centre, with here and there a black, or tan, or white stockinged feet protruding beyond the hangings, while the owner, ars indicated by the quiverio�gdrapery, is tugging at the other shoe. Unleaa you are content to prostrate yourself in the berth, Moelem- fashion, to say your prayere, yea had better say eoongh before you start to lash for two nights. A CASE OF NECK. Oa NOTHING. Don't get nervous about this public un- dressing and dressing arrangement. Just imagine that yon are "behind oloaed doors" instead of curtains. Nobody notices you. When the portents begins to prepare the berths for the night theentlemen in the cars ueuatly are eoized with a sudden de- sire to smoke, and retire to the smoking room. If you have an upper berth the perber will bring yen a step ladder, and you can climb up carefully, if you are o'er plump, and lay you down to electron your hanging eheif, secure for the night. You are only laid on the shelf for one night, yeti know. Don't indulge in a possible habit of walking nn your +sleep. Lett your melte be, "' Look before yott leap," lent your experience het that of a Baltimore girl, who, forgetful that she wan nob in her own downy cough, POT HER JARS; FOOT OUT of the berth to step down, when :the offend- ing member landed plump (or was it lean?) en the nape of a neck owned by the maeou- lino 000apanb of the lower berth, just then Flitting on bho side of the berth in the nob of putting on his shoes. With her, to be sura, it was neck or nothing, but he, unused to be tramped ou by nineteen -century women, and finding it insupportable; turned his head just in time bo ace an aorobatic feat, or aorobablo foot., a'd'you please, flying bank into the shelter of the berth. In the morning reverse the one of the night before and let the lower berth occu- pant get up fist and out of the way before you venture down. L's all very easy; try in You'll be so tired by bile time night comes that you would almost be willing to go to sleep without the curtain. EATING EN ROUrEE.. As to the inner -woman, good meals are served on the cars, but many take their baskets or boxes of tandwlches, chicken or fruit instead. A box is better, because it can bo thrown away whoa the feast is over. Even if you take your moats in the dining car you will not find it amiss bo have a lit- tle box of good bhinge to nibble on between whiten, for the very sight of a redhead train makes one hungry. You will want some- thing to read on the train. Bay a Weddle Fair guide book before you start. You will find it interesting reading and more profitable under the circumstances than " The Duchess," " Oaida" or the usual railroad literature. SAYS RAIN CAN BE MADE. R. C. Dyrenfortly tits Texas Experimenter, Tells How It Is Done. " It la certain that rain can be caused by exp'osions in mid-air," said R. G. Dyren- forth, who conducted the experimenbe at rainmaking for the Government two years ago, bo a New York Times reporter at the Arbor House on Thursday. " 1 do not make any predictions as to the general praotioe, nor an I interested a cent per- sonally in the question, bub as a matter of cold fact, based on my experiments, I know bleat rain can be produced. "The region in Texas where we con- ducted our experiments was a moat arid one. The earth was parohed, and not a tree was in sight. When we started for our destination, twenty-three miles from Midland, a hob wind was blowing ab the rate of twenty-five miles an hour. Than current of air extended upward about 1,000 feet, and even if there had been rain above it it could nob have reached the earth. " The alteration was about that of a hot laundry. Rain could no more have reached the earth than the steam in the laundry could collect on the above. " By sending up balloons filled with ex- plosive gases this current was broken up, and the moisture whioh gathered above came to the earth. 11 was the firab ` grass' rain in eighteen months. " One deduction I have drawn from our experiments is new, I believe, and aocounta for the facb, noted at the time, that rain first fell on the horizon at considerable dis- tance from the point of the explosion." " Why was this i" " When the explosion occurred an im- mense vacuum was formed. Into this the air came rushing in all direction. The ourrente came with an unequal velocity, and the result was the formation of a spiral vortex. The currents began circling around, with the point of explosion as the centra—an immense spiral, which sucked up the particles of moisture in those strata where they existed and brought them where they might fall before they were burned up by the heated currents. The moisture circulated on the larger circle of the spiral, as sawdust or Hticke drawn to- ward a whirlpool make the larger circles first. This, 1 believe, accounts for the first rain always falling at a distance. " I have no doubb thab rainmaking will be carried on in portions of the country as a practical thing. I have designed better mechanical appltanoes than we had. Muth depends on these. The apparatus far the manufacture of hydrogen may be much more simple and easy of transportation than those we used, and I have devised an apparatus for this which ie not much unlike an ordinary sprinkling cart in its outward appearance. Ib may be taken anywhere that a fear -wheeled vehiole nan be drawn." In the Family. " I've had a rip in my Sunday coat for a month, bub it will be.fixed when I go horns to -night," said Damsquizzle. " How do you know I" asked Skimgullet. "I bat my wife 50 cents I'd find it there. She'll sew ib to win the money." " You could have got it sewed at a tailor's for that." " I know, but I wanted to keep the money in the family." She Wasn't in It. As the train robber entered the car all the state passengers promptly held up their hands. A woman seated near the door held hers up too. When the bandit noticed it he said : " Pat 'em down, Mary ; we ain't adver- t(sin' no actresses this trip." Physical Culture. "'Then you are not going to send your son to college, Mr. Newmony ?" No, we changed our plane. Yon see, as ex•prize fighter has come to town and started a aohool forphysical culture, and it's a sight cheaper than college." A Public Illustration. " What extra pains you aro taking in brushing your hair and trimming your mustache this morning," ea'd the helpmate of Rev. Squigg one Sabbath. "Yes, my love, I am anxious to give my congregation a personal illustration of my sermon." "0, ndoed I In what way?" " Well, you see. I am going to preach on the beauty of holiness." Natural vs. Artificial. Little Willie—What is a phonograph ? His mamma—A thing you talk into and it tents back. Willie—Oh, I thought that was a servant. girl. "x When you see a messenger boy running you may know that he has lost his job. Spremberg lately celebrated its millennial anniversary. Some Chinese words brave forty meanings. A Vatican statue has natural oye•laehes. Mexico's Catholic Cathedral oosb $2,000,- 000. Stoned olives aro the laterite fashionable tidbit. A Boston mleo has been a teacher for 52 years. Checkers have been played for 4,000 years. Charlotte, N. 0., has an underground river - THIS IS A YANKEE STORY. The Wandrahm Taken to New York in Tow of a Mg. OANADI N NOVER,NMBNT'$ AOTION. The stanch little steamer South Portland, which Pilot "Johnnie" O'Brien calls the luckiest orale afloat, says the. New York Herald, orepb dawn the Sound and into perb yesterday with the German steamer Wandrahm in tow. The Wandreibm broke her bank on Apple, Ieland, in the St. Lawrence, early in May. She was towed to Point Levis, Quebec, for ropaire. A Canadian contractor said it would bake a year'e work and $250,000 to make her aeaworbhy, and his men added that if they didn'b repair her no one else ahould. They were wrong. The Smith Portland has run n blochade twice in her day to parry arcus and ammunition bo Haybiane, and her ekippor, Captain Johnson, is a mau calculated to upset the calculations of landsmen. He emphasized the fact nine days ago when he steamed down the 51. Lawrence with the Wandrahm in tow, ran the Stara and Stripes to his mizzen top, bade a deri- sive farewell to three hundred angryFrenoh. Canadians and began his perilous journey through fifteen hundred miles of stormy water. The German ship is a Hamburg -American liner of 1,922 bons. She is new and built of steel. She left Hamburg en April 2915 for Quebec. After she was crippled at Apple Ieland the owners ordered Capt). Perath to have her towed bo Davies' dock at Paint Levis, bat when they were told Mr. Davies thought she could not be repaired in less than a year and that the expense would almoet equal her original coat, they deolded to see what Amerlean contractors said about it. Mo- Caldin Brothers, of this city, offered to repair the Wandrahm in ninety days for $67,500 and they obtained the contract). James McCaldin went to Quebec with Capt. John O'Brien and Capt. Johnson, of the South Portland. When his men at- tempted to hire pumping machinery Con- tractor Davies refused to aid them in any "Very well," Mr. McCaldin said, "we'II import what we need." "Yes," was the reply, "and pay 25 per Dent. duty on it." "And chat's what we did," said Mr. Mc- Caldin yesterday. As the Amerman wreckers began to com- plete their preparations to tow the Wand- rahm to eea 300 French-Canadians who had expected to get employment for a year in repairing the ship began to threaten that she should never leave the port. The aid of the German Conant wars invoked, and at his request the Chief of Police sent a squad of men to the pier to preserve order. BY MEANS OF THE TEETH. Sure Way:et Identifying the Remains of Persons Burned. The identification of bodies that have been mutilated beyond recognition by the um,' melee has until recently been so diffi- cult that every year hundreds of bodies of heroes have been consigned to nameless graves. But a new system of identification has been discovered that is as accurate and un- failing are is the famous system of measure- ment employed by the Parte police in keep. ing track of the criminals of Frame. It is identification by means of the teeth. It was first euggeetedaud put in practice by a New York deotut. For years 10 has been the custom of all first-class dentists to keep a complete ehert of the teeth of all their patients, together with a record of all fill- ings, removals or other work done to the masticebere. These charts and records aro carefully filed away, and are kept as long as the pareent lives. A comparison of several hundred of these charts recently made in New York showed bleat no two of them were identically alike, and a celebrated artist made the aaeertioo that the same rule would hold good in 10,000 cases. The first and moat noted instance where identification by the teeth was mace conclusive was in the case of Norcross, the dynamiter, who at- tempted the life of Rueseli Sage, who was hiewn to pieces While a trousers' button furnished the lfrrat clue to his identity, it was not until his teeth were examined by hie dentiet that the identity was recognized by the young man's parents. The next time that the system was b•ou¢hn into prominence was after the ter- rible Hotel Royal fire in New York, in which all of the victims were burned beyond semblance to humanity. While the charred limbo. were lying et the morgue an old lady called there in search of her missing daughter. Sho was accompanied by her family dentist, and within five minutes the needing and erring child was found and fully idenbified by means of the dentist's chart. The old lady's example was followed by others, and in this way nearly all of the viurtme of the holocaust were recognized and claimed by their friends. One of the vicr,ims of the cold storage niurd -r was iden i6ed Tuesday by his toeth. Wby is it not p,ssiele to identify all of the charred bodies now at the morgue by the same method? The Sealing Catch. Authentic reports from two-thirds of the vossete in the Behring Sea sealing fleet show that 27 500 ektes have hem secured. This ie remarkable for so early in the season, The last hatch eold her brought$12 each. — S ante ( Wash ) special in the St. Louis Globe. rad. Flot Paying Well. Mrs. De R ch—The Soolety Chitchat Is edited by n woman, isn"b lb I Mr. De R'ah—S' I've heard. Mrs. De Rlch—I guess she trait making much money out of it I She says : " Lavish displays of diamonds are vulgar." Overjoyed. " Why, Clara, you look radiant. What has happened ? " " I've just received an invitation to a wedding. " " Weil, there's nothing particular in that to go into raptures over." " Ah, but it happens to be my own 1" Modesty in netters. The inventor of the alphabet must have been a modest man," said Hawkins. " Why so ?" asked Mawaon. " Because he began it with A," said Hawkins. " Moot men would have begun it with I." A Modern Moses. Sapplelgh (Yale '93)—Freahlelgh ham eloped with a girl whore father is a gambler. fiapploigh (ditto)—Faros daughter, . eh Y How dirt they happen to meet? Sappielgh—Wby, eke saw him in the Freshman rambles. Stanford University has 780 pupils, Tennessee University is to Adroit women. CONSIDER THE PREACIM Etente NEEDiie When IMLs Salary Drops Frau $5,100 to 8700 it Cuts Dim up. For the past three years a well known preacher has been atationod in the west end,: drawlug a salary of $2,000 per year and a free parsonage. It may stalely be said bhetr ho was liked and his ministrations would: have been acceptable for a much to sir period had that been allowable. At the recent conference he was removed sand sent a short distance out of the city to a oircufb, where hie congregation le anal and the stipend only $700 per year. Ib will be saidt by some that Ole is right enough, as 11 given that poor and isolated congregation the sora vices of an able man to whioh ib baa as jamb a claim as the rich and l.owerfal city congre- gation ? Very good, bub whais about the preacher ? Ib looks as though there were too mach of the wheel of fortune business about the station ing of ministers. If that preacher had had any foreknowledge of the reduotion of salary and curtailment of opportunity that was intended him. does anyone suppose• that he would have neglected any fair and honorable meane of avertingthe set -back t A man in such a case woulregard ib an a. calamity ; he would value the large salary,, if on nQ other ground, as a means of doing. good, and he would prefer the wider field be- cause of the largo esefninese it permitted. If in addition to tole he had debts to pay, a family for whose future he was solicitous, and fella that inflame had been used bap relegate him to a barren vineyard, who shall say that he would not fret and fume at hie misfortune i Ib is beyond the most saintly of us to accept each happenings resignedly, and the preacher wilihave his own rebellious thoughts dinned into hits by hie wife and family. It is unfair to reduce a man from two thousand a year to seven hundred. When a man acquiree the easy knack of spending the larger enm, the smaller one will never suffice for hie wants, be he preacher or what not. Ib is an unsound system, resulting in debts, deficits, family bickeringe and loss of grace. A man emit properly preach peace on earth with tinkers and bailors dunning him for ever and invade] for bills overdue. Oae thing le aurae he can't afford much ghostly comfort to the aforesaid tinkers and tailors. They won't enthuse at all under his ministrations. Speaking from experience, I can say that a man does not extract much good from a sermon when the preacher owes him. money. When a preaoher offers religion to a ehurohful of his creditors ne one will come up to the penitent form. Exhortation will be in vain. To the grocer it will seem that the evangelist Is talking abonb tea and anger ; the hardware man will think he is die - cussing abovea ; the tailor, olothea ; the undertaker, coffins. More potent than eloquence, more important than college training, is the solvency of the clergy:. And a preacher must be a mighty geed, financier and he must have a steady -headed' wife if the domeetfe balance is to be pre- served while the family inoome fluctuated between $700 and 52,000. The eyetem ill commercially bad, to say nothing of the sly practiced it is sure to engender among saintly men.—" Mack," in Saturday Night, LOVE AT SIGHT. A Doctor's Charming and Romantic ExpIIs rience in Milwaukee. A very pretty little romance came to my earn this week. Is is the love story of one of the belles of Milwaukee, whose engage- ment was recently annonnced, says a writer in the journal of that city. At the reoep- tion given in Milwaukee fn honor of the delegates to the convention of physicians„ a young Eastern physician met the young lady of whom I speak. It was literally a. case of love at first sight. He wrote to one of his friends at home that' night that he. had that evening met the girl who would be his wife if he could bring about such a re- sult. Tae same evening she told one of her intimates that she baa at last seen a man who, if he ahould ask her for her heart and halsd, would not be refused. She was. laughed at for what was celled her non- sense. The young physician went to work in a practical way, railing upon the lady's father the very next morning and belling him plainly what he hoped. It took some time to convince the father that the affair was realty serious, and when he was convinced, he, being a man who loves his children, could only refer the matter to his daughter. It did not take her long to coneeab. Then the fianooe natiefied his new relations that he and his friends were all he had represented thane to be, and the engagement was announced. So starts anew the old eontroverey : 13o people crawl or fail into lore ? The care is point is a powerful one for the falling theory. The girl has been really a belle, having bean admired and courted more than falls to the lob of the average woman. Moreover; she is thoroughly womanly, and net given at all to shriving for effects, as many of her sisters do in this day and generation. Pbyeicfan a seem dee tined to distance soldiers. in the art of fascination. Two Milwaukee belles have been woo by mombera of the profession within the month, and in each ease the surrender was made in less than a fortnight. IIURDEROI1S WHITE CAPS ARRESTED. rhe Postmaster and Other Prominent Citizens Held for Trial. A Quincy, 111., despatch says : The mys- tery or the killing of Solomon P. Bradshaw,, the Quincy travelling salesman, at the home of Mrs. Kittio Breckenridge, in Kingston,, 30 miles from here, July 18th, is about cieered up. Edward Lutener and John Moore, two prominent young men of the neighborhood, have confessed that they were leaders of the band of White Caps that attacked the Breckenridge house that night to drive Bradshaw and Mrs. Breckenridge away. The door was shut in their face, and some one in the disguised mob, still unknown, fired four shote from a revolver. Tho ballots went through the door, and Bradshaw fell dead ab the first fire. Of the remaining members of the mob one is George Nation, postmaster and atom - keeper in Kingston, and the ethers are all among the more prominent farmers in the southeastern part of the county. Bradshaw was shot soon after 11 o'olook. An hour later a Juseice of the Peace with a jury of six was holding the inquest. Fiver of the six jurymen aro now under arrest;, charged with the murder. Tho jastioe says he noticed, when hie' jury was in session, streaks of black ea the necks and writhe of three of the men and also on the trousors of" another. LATER—The coroner's jury has finished its labors, with all the impltoated mon an - dor arrest. he county excited T n y ie more o tecT over the affair than anything that has hap- pened in years. A akin genic—mai fishing. Kentucky's oldest man is 1I7. There are only 450 Chinoee words. Australia has a tree 415 feet high. A monk made the first ohampagno.