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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Exeter Advocate, 1893-8-17, Page 6q ( ' ��( r�1 j� •Ii5, 0 ( 1 P VER U.RLINg !, Do New York World" in Search. of Cid Ilan. Case's Companion. ALLEGED TO BE AIRS. BEATON. Circumstantial finery or frier Ifevenrenxts. -U409 Zonth--I41r. CHSte'a Sudden Death -sate etesteevely Denies Alli Knowledge or nem. ANY readers of • the papera will re- member that about a ratonth ago there \Vete an Buena of the sad death of the Leto Mr. C. H. Caoe, who removed from hero to Nor- f a 1 k, Virginia, about a year since. The report gave it that Mr. Case com- mitted suicide_ by jumping from the steamboat Wyandotte, on her passage hem Norfolk, Va., to New Fork, and that there was "a woman" in the vase. That report produced a profound ,sensation hero at the time, for Mr. Cale had been resident here fer acme years and was well thought of. On Monday of this week a stranger -carne here and called upon a couple of enti- zona who, it seems, had busiuees relations with Mr. Case during hit stay be the vin lege. Certain inquiries wore made and an Interview was sought with a well- known woman who also has resided here for yeare. What permed during that interview is nob known. A second interview was sought, which wan not secured. Ib was whi8pored that this stranger was a news- paper reporter on the staff of the New York World, though he was at first suspected of being a New York detective. Curiosity was further heightened when it became known that this woman was abaent from Burlington for a couple of weeka be- fore and during the time of Mr. Case's alleged suicide. Still further excitement wan aroused by the appearance of another atranger on Wed- nesday, asking if a certain " Mrs. Oliver " ;Lived here. Ib appears that this " Mrs. Oliver " was on the steamer at the time of :She suicide, and claimed to be the daughter of the deceased. On the arrival of the .steamboat in New York, a reporter of the New York World had an inter- view with this woman, and she gave the name of her deceased father as "Cicero Harrieen," and as having lived somewhere which hal proved to be false. The above name turns out to be but the first two names ef Mr. Cane. This stranger also sought an interview with the supposed Mrs. Oliver, who, of course, never naw his face before, and knew nothing of any such person, though it ap- pears he nought to refresh her mind with the Termor interview. He proved to be another reporter from the NewYork World, and returned home on the evening of the name day veal' satisfied and pleased with the results of his journey to Burlington. " MRS. OLIVER FOUND." The World baa found Miss. Oliver. She la the wife of Malcolm Beaten, of Burling. ton, Ont., and is not related to Cicero Har- rison. In fact, the missing Guyandotte passenger was Cicero Harrison Case, of Norfolk, Va., and not Cicero Harrison, of Jackson, Mich. The old man was in the bands of a clever adv'entureaa, who had obtained from him large sums of money, and who undeubtedly snows more about Bin death by drowning than the police have :been able to find out. The story of Mre. Oliver, who masquer- aded as the daughter of Mr. Case, is ex- traordinary. When confronted by a World reporter at her home in Burlington, Canada, she denied her conneotion with the Cicero Harrison mystery. Yesterday the World sent to Bur/teat= the same reporter who bad talked with her as Mo. Oliver on board the Guyandotte on July 1, and he pesitivoly identified the woman. SHE KNEW HLM IN BURLINGTON. Mrs. Elizabeth Boaton'a connection with Cicero Harrison Case forma an interesting stery, covering e. period of five or aix years, when she and her family occupied a house nn the farm of old man Case, who then lived 1n Burlington. • The old man, accompanied by hie daugh- ter, Urn. Catherine Wallace, and hio granddaughter, left Burlington for the sunny South, where he thought he had extenaiva interests in a gold mine, on Oot. 8th last. They went to Norfolk, Va., and settled in Brambleton Ward, a suburb of that city. Before they bad been in Nerfeik many days a strange woman appeared in that city and stopped at the boarding-house of Mra. William Smith, on East Main street. The next day she located Case, but, instead of calling on him, sent a. note appoinbing a time and a place for an interview. The old man called to see her, and the fallowing day the two loft the city together for a trip to North Carolina. At leant thin is what the old men told his daughter. He did not, however, tell her that he was going with a woman, and until the prraent time Mrs. Wallace is ignorant of the identity of the woman who led her father to hie death. After an abeenoe of two weeke the man returned alone. He was greatly excited, and for 'several days thereafter very siok. While tliie then unknown woman wee in Norfolk (where she was known as "Mra. Thompson, o: Michigan,") Mra. Elizabeth Beaton was absent from Burlington " on a -visit," as she told her neiglxbors, "to her ;son at Marquette, Mich." Mre. Beaton'a next aheence from Burling - "tom was about the middle of January last, when she went " to visit her brother; '• ab Bay City, Micb., taking her baby veld:her. "Mrs. Thompson, of Michigan" again visited Norfolk on January 20bh, and com- municated with the old man through one Charles Culpepper, 0 young grocery clerk. At that time she hall with her a baby, which the told Mra. Smith was fifteen months old. On this visit " Mrs. iFhomp- ron" epent some time in the neighborhood of Norfolk, not leaving until Tuesday, Fob. 14th, the day before Ash Wednesday, when she went to Claremont, Va., a town en tho :historic James River, a000mpenied by Cicero Harrison Case. They stopped at the Meuse of a Mre, Erricheon,undorthe name of " Mr. and Mro. Thompson." The baby was with them during all this time. BROUGHT HER BABY BACK DEAD. Between the 20th ao,d 30th of February Mrn. Beaton returned to Burlington, bring - lug with her the dead bodyof her infant, whish she claimed had diced n Miohi an. Mrs. Beaton's reset dfaa earanoe from Burlington waa on June 16th last, when she said that she was going to Toronto to visit relatives. She remained away until July 4th, when the returned with a now rod leather trunk, and was fitted out, se one of the neighbors eaid, "in fine style," slur BUYS A STORE AND LOT. Mrr. Beaton circulated a story to the e o had b that an aunt 1 ad died.in Michigan M gan and heti left her some money, In a few days she bought out a shore at the corner of Walter street and and read, in Burlington, from P. M. Zimmerman. Adjoining the lot on whish Vida store donde is a lot 76x160 feat, which Mao, Beaton ale° bought, The transfer woe made through Counsellor E. Hughes Cleaver, of Burlington, who repro - oersted William Oliver, its former owner. SHE APPEARS IN NORFOLK. It le on record that on Jure 18th " Mrs. Thampaon " appeared in Norfolk, and stopped at the bearding house of a Mra. Autor, on Ear+b Maine street. Two days Cicero Harris previous to that time oldCl r on Case had moved to Port Norfolk, a suburb throe miles ciiatanb from his former home in Brambleton Word. The woman hunted up yotxog Culpepper, and he accompanied her to Port Norfolk. She did nob approach the heuee, inewever, but dent the young man with S. mei-nage to Case to meet her at the ferry wharf he Portsmouth the next morn- ing et 8 o'olook. When the massage was delivered to the old man he became much excited, but yet eeeveed unable to realat the demands made upon hixo. He kept the appointment, anti one Monday liberation left the city, not even toiling bis daughter where he eves going. TRAVELLED UNDER AN ALIAS. Subsequent developments showed that on that afternoon Cicero Harrison Case and "M.o. Thompeen" sailed for Boston, Mass., via Providence, on one of the Merchants' & Miners' Line steamers. On Tuesday, June 29th, they returnedifrom Boston on the ateamor Essex of the same line, having bean registered on that boat as " C. Harrison and wife," occupying stateroom No. 8. On that steamer there was a quarrel, for on the day previous to the vezeel'a arrival in Norfolk the stewardess discovered the woman in her room in tears. SEPARATED AT NORFOLK. Upers enielrg et lwcrfelh, Va., "Mr Thompaen" went to the Hotel Gladstone, where she registered as Mrs. C. Harrison. The old man did nob atop at the Gladstone, but went to his home in Port Norfolk, first obtaining it belanoo of about $900 from Burrees' Bank. The same day he gave hle granddaughter hia gold watoh and a roil of money, containing $289, and that afternoon again disappeared. That day he went on hoard the abeamahip Guyandotte, and took passage for New York under the name of C. Harrison. Shortly before the hour for the steamer to leave Norfolk a woman went on board, and, approaching the old man, said she had no, money. She got from him $10, with which to purchase a ticket for Now York. She gave her name to the purser as "Mao. Mary Oliver," and represented herself as the widowed daughter of Cicero Harrison. She was assigned to room No. 26. while the old man was placed in room No. 10 on the saloon deck, with Mosso Levy, a dry goods merchant, of Ne. 103 Halifax street, Peters- burg. THE OLD MAN DISAPPEARS. While he wan in his room the eld man showed Levy a roll of bills aggregating $655. That night, or the next morning -the hour was about 2 a. m. -while the steamship was off Chincoteague, Va., the old man disap- peared from the desk. He had bean sitting on a steamer chair in the middle of the deck, with his feet resting on the lower strands of the rope netting of the rail. He appeared to be in the beab of spirits. The night was very warm and the sea was quito calm. At about 1.50 a.m. Alexander Brown, one cf the colored waiters on tho boat, saw the old man standing up ageing the rail beside the steamer chair. Ho appeared to be sick, bub not seri- ouely so. she next morning when Mr. Cate did not appear ab the breakfast table, there was much alarm on board. Hia stateroom was searched and ib was found that he had not retired there during the night. None of hia effects were found to the reom cave his walk • ing stick and a pair of ouffe. His money was gone. The woman was not disturbed when she heard that he was lost. Capt. Walker says that all the time he talked with her about the ofd man's disappearance the was laugh- ing, smiling and joking. After the entire ship had beau searched withoutresulb "Mrs. Oliver" created quite a ronaatlon by an- nouncing that a black BAG CONTAINING $100,000 in securities and gold mining stocks was mlasing, and that it may have beer/ left on the steamer's dock at Norfolk. The missing oecuritios formed a good ss- ouse for the woman to leave New York on Saturday afternoon, July 1st, with the avowed intention of going to Norfolk in search of the black bag eentaining the securities. THE BODY WASHED ASHORE. On Saturday, July 8bb, the dead body of Mr. Case floated ashore at nletoaken Beach, Ve., a point five miles south ef Chincotea- gue, where he was supposed to have fallen overboard from the ship. The body was positively identified by Mr. Case's daughter, Mrs. Wallace, who accompanied a World correspondent to the place. On the body, were the trousers, shoat and shirt, but not a cent of money or any ether article wan found in the pockets. The bady was buried on the beach by Undertaker Jobnton, of Parkalay, Va. Both arms were gene, and not a particle of flosh waa left on the bead. MR. CASE AND HIS MONEY. Clearo Harrison Cam, who was 78 years off age when he died, was for nanny puma a carriage builder at Strathroy, Ont., where he accumulated some $25,000. He retired about fifteen years ago and moved to Burlington, Ont., where he had begun making investments in real estate mortgages and lending money to neighboring fanner on their trope. His hank account at that time showed a credit in his slaver of about $18,000, divided between the banking house of R. G. Baxter, in Burlington, and the Landed Banking & Loan Company and the Canadian Bank of Commerce in Hamil- ton. While living fn Bxerlington he had for a tenant Mao. Beaton and her hairband. The woman remalood hie 'tenant for about four years, and it to presumed that it was at that time Mao. Beaton began to secure poasoasion of hit money. Tho old man made frequent tripe to Rochester, and when he was awayon those trips the woman generally fund grime excuse to take her to Michigan. as sho old. Last Ootober Case moved to Nor. folk, and curled away what money he had left. Ab Burrees' Bank, in Norfolk, he had $3,100, and at the Marine Bank some $3,500 on deposit. Whenever he left Nor- folk on ene of his tripe with tho woman ho drew from .•.0 to $1,600. The old man was aboub 5 feet 61 inches ball and weighed about 140 pounds. Ho were a grey chin beard -a beard peculiar to old teen in his native seotion, He WAS very reticent aa to his finanoos, and would never let hie daughter know how mush money he had. It was the pnrehate of the building lot which led to the discovery of the woman'. identity. On Monday she Mb a notifica- tion to William Oliver, of Burlington, from Whom sho purchased her building lob, stat, ing that she had taken poaooasion of the property. to this letter sho signed bar name Ellzsbeth Beaton. FACED BY A WORLD mum. When the World man who Paw "Mrs,. Oliver " on the Guyandotte, in New York on July lett, called on Mra, Beaton, at her home in Burlington yesterday, he saw at once that oho was the same woman. She was taken completely by sunrise She could not run away or turn her faro out of eight. She eat looking out of the door, with the full glow of the reflected annset light striking her features. Ib was evident from that (natant that ohs hall fixed in her mints the part the would play -that the would brazen the thing out with amebae to the bitter end. She pod - dealt' denied ovorb !ngon the Guyandotte.te. VISITS A LAWYER. She went to see Lawyer Cleaver about it the day before yesterday. " Mr. Cleaver," she said, " I understand that you ate in this conspiracy to havo me arrested." "have you arrested, madam!" said Mr. Cleaver. " I know nothing of having you arrested. 1 don't know anything to have You arrests d. for. I do believe, though, that you were on that steamer when Mr. Case diarppear'ed, though I don't say, and havo not eaid, that you did anything wrong." " Well, all this toile is going on," the woman said, " and if it is nob stopped somebody is going to smart for it They would have to get papers to have mo ar- rested, anyway." Mrs. Beaton, alias Oliver, alias Thomp- eon, is about 40 years of ago, and has un- prepoeseaeing features. She is about 5 feet 10 inches tall, and weighs about 170 pounds; has black hair, piercing grey eyes, exceed- ingly large hands and long fingers. Her nose is large, and her face is covered with freckles. On the Guyandotte she wore a blank dress and turban hat. When the World man naw her yesterday she had on a calico dreee and a wide -brimmed straw hat, such as any countrywoman would wear about her house. Her dialect is a strange one, and could readily be taken for either Irish or Webb. THE ANTIQUATE OF MAN. Dr. Zahn Pats It at Something Like 20,000 Years. At the Catholic summer school at Platte. burg, 0., a largo audience gathered to hear Dr. Zahn lecture on " The antiquity_ of man according to the Bible," soya the New York Hail and Express. After showing the vagueness and uncertainty of the various chronologies, and declaring that there is nothing certain about Biblical chronology, Dr. Zahn said : " It is an error to believe that the Catholic faith restricts the existence of man to a period that does not go beyond 6,000 years. The Church has never pronounced on a question so delicate Not more than a century and a half ago Des Vignoles, in his learned work on chronology of sacred history, tells that he collected upward of 200 different calcula- tions, the shortest of which gives but 3,383 years from the creation of the world to the birth of Christ, while the longest reckons 6,984. This makes a difference of thirty- five centuries. The causes ef the difficul- ties and discrepancieo occurring in scrip- tural chronology are manifeid. Therefore the charah has always permibted her chil- dren free Liberty of opinion regarding the much -controverted question of biblical chronology. As to myself, I incline to a liberal but legitimate inter- pretation of the version of the Septusginb, and I ate disposed to attribute to man an antiquity of about 10,000 yeare. Future research may rates the figures 10, 12, 15 or even 20,000 years, but judging front the evidence now available, and bearing in mind the disposition of many of our most eminent scientists as being rather to shorten than to prolong the age of our species, it seems more likely that the general con- soenans of chronologists will ultimately flacon a number that shall be below rather than above 10,000 as the nearest approach to the age of our race." NEMITZ RE•AB,BESTEID. All Et0orts to Beach a Settlement Prove of No Avail. A Chicago despatch says On a warrant sworn out before Justice Porter, in Hyde Park, Henri Nemitz and hie two sons, Henri, jun., and Bertrand, who were taken back from Toronto Saturday night to answer charges of larceny and embezzle- ment preferred by the Swiss World's Fair Commissioner General, were re -arrested in Captain Benfiold's office at Chicago yester- day and taken before the Magistrate for a preliminary hearing. This was the outcome of a conference between all the interested parties, which lasted the entire morning. All efforts to eettle the difficulty between the Swine commissioner and his former agent were of no avail. By request of the pro- secution the case against Bertrand and Henri, jun., were dismissed, and the case of the father was continued until August 7th, in bonds of $1,000. Mr. Nemitz signed his own bonds. A warrantis out for the governess who accompanied Nemitz to Canada, bub it has not been served. She is also charged with larceny and embezzle- ment. The warrants teamed by Justioe Porter charge Nemitz with embezzlement of $1,600. Henry Daurio, the Swine detective who came to Toronto after the Nemitz party, has resigned his positien, owing to a dispute between the lawyer and the officer. When the party was in Toronto both Daurio and Attorney Riohberg wanted te take posses- sion of the cash and watches, but Sergeant Reborn declined to surrender the property to either, and expressed it to Swiss Consul Hollinger at Chicago. The deteobive'e resig- nation is anppoeed to be the outcome of the dispute between the two. The Summer Girl's Trick. They were seated on the hotel piazza together, and, to tell the truth, she found him very dull. Suddenly she was seized with an idea. " How far off is that mountain, Mr. Mc- George t" " Two miles." " You couldn't walk there and back in two hours." " Couldn't I ? Well, I guess I could. I can do it in an hour." " Really t Well, I don't believe ib. I'll bet you a box of candy that you can't start now and be back here in an hour." And of court a he had to go. In Bengal, India, there aro three har- vests reaped every year-peano and oil seeds in April, the early rice crop in September and the great rico Drop in December. Gutta-pereba was finish introdnbed into Europe, from Malaga, in 1842. The annual consumption now amounba to 4,000,000 pounds, and the East Indian trees whish supply the demand are diminishing at an alarming rate, Wrivvet-Ia this your advertisement in the paper for a lost dog t Dicer --Yes. Trivvet-Why, you never had a dog to lose. Dicer -I know; bub I want one now. and I think I can make a satiafaotory aeleotion from the animals the advertfsitnonb will bring in. DID POLICE ROB HER A Obioago Woman Bound, Gagged and > tripped of Rfer Jewels. THEY WORE POLIOS DRESS. A Chicago opened to the N. Y. World Rays: Tao men in the guise of policemen entered the iamb of Mrs. R. Ammon, No. 229 Forty-second 1'laco, yesterday after• neon, bound and gagged Mas. Ammon, and stripped her of her )diamonds and other jew- elry valued at $2,000. lb was 3 o'clock when the doorbell rang, and the colored servant girl, Sallie Jones, who answered the call, was confronted by two well-dressed men. They asked for Mre. Ammon and said they had called ori busi- ness of the utmost importance. The girl directed them to the parlor and then sum- moned Mrs. Ammon. When Mrs. Ammon entered the room oue of the ween, throwing open hie coat and showing her a star, said he was a detective, and requested her to alone the door between the parlor and the dining room so that the servant might not hear the conversation. Mrs. Amman closed the door, sed after some hesitation the man who anted as spokesmen told her that the gentleman he was with had been robbed of same very valuablejowelry,valued at about $1,000, and that it was supposed to have been stolen by a friend of Mrs. Ammon'e servant. They had secured evidencehe said, which tended to show that it was hidden in the girl's bed- room, and he had called to aearoh the pre- mised for the missing jewelry. As the girl had been In the employ of Mrs. Ammon only a short time, and was known to be keeping company with a young colored Many Mrs. Ammon did net in the least doubt the story, and not doubting that the man was an officer, told him ho was at liberty to search the room. The man then said he might possibly be mistaken in the party, and not wishing to hurt the feolinga of the girl requested Mra. Ammon to eend Sallie out of the house while the search was being made. Man. Ammon accordingly pent the girl to the grocery store in Cottage Grove avenue, and then, returning to the parlor, started with the men bo the girl's room, which is in the rear part of the house, adjoining the kitchen. in order to reach the room the trio had to peso through a narrow hallway, Mao. Ammon leading the way. Sho had reached a point directly in front of her own bed -room, when one of the men suddenly seized her by the throat with one hand and pointed a revolver at her with the other, and told her that if she attempted to cry out ho would shoot. At the same instant theother man thrust a handkerchief into her mouth, and, taking a rope from his pocket, bound her hands and feet. They then placed her on the bed and robbed her of the jewelry she wore -two diamond rings and a pair of ear -drops. The robbers then ransacked the dresser and found four other diamond rings and Mrs. Ammon's gold watch. Then, after making a hurried search of the parlor, they took their departure, leaving Mrs. Ammon on the bed, eeeuroly bound. Mre. Ammon finally managed to crawl to the back door, where she was seen by Mra. Therpe, who occupieo the next flat. Mre. Thorpe untied the cords which bound Mrs. Ammen's hands and feet and removed the handkerchief from her mouth. Her neck was badly scratched, and both her wrists were lacerated by the cords. In a short time the servant returned and said that she had seen two men board a southbound Cottage Grove avenue car at the corner of Forty-second street. The pekes were at once notified, and Capt. Larson, in company with Lieut. O'Brien, dreve over to the house. Subse- quently several detectives wore put on the case. Mrs. Ammon was able to furnish the police with a good description of the men, which was sent to all the abstiens in the oiby. The most startling theory in connection with the robbery is that the thieves are actually police officers. Numerous mem. plaints from the Stock Yard district show that there are men en the force who would not healtate to commit snoh a crime. The police star shown te Mra. Ammon subetan- litates the theory to some extent. But to the trusted officers on the force there aro more pointed indications that police officers committed the crime. The story told by the man is not one that an ordinary thief would be able to concoct, lint is one familiar to the every -day life of a policeman. Scarcely a day passes but some petty thief places stolen property in the hands of his mistress, often a girl employed in some ouch capaclby as is Mss. Ammon's servant. To locate the weman with whom the thief has associated and to leek to her for the plunder la an every -day experience of the detective, and such a story is, the police think, the first that would anter into the mind of a dishonest member of the force. The Original Wedding Calre. Our wedding cake is therema,ne of a cus- tom whereby a Roman bride held in her loft hand three wheat ears, and many cen- turies later an 'Eoglish bride wore on her head a chaplet of wheat. The attendant girls throw corn, either in grains or in email bits of biscuit or cake, upon the heads of the newly married couple, and the gueata pinked up the pieces and ato them. Such waa the beginning of the wedding cake, which„did nob come into general uaa until the eighteenth century and was then composed of solid blocks, laid together and toed all over with sugar, co that when the outer cruet was broken over the bride's head the cakes inside fell on the floor, and they were then distributed among the company. The Brill Was Scared. An amusing incident is said to have oc- curred recently when one of the Armours, the great beef and pork paokert of Chicago, was travelling in Spain. He was taken lay a grandee of Madrid to see the national sport. When the bull came in, he rank on his knees and refused to move. Then the director called the toreador and inquired the cause of the trouble, to which the toreador replied, "fah 1 senor, re bull 'ave seen ze great Armour of Chicago sitting with your exoeliency, and zero id no fight left in him," Where It Comes In. Mr, 'Ghout-All my money cannot give mo health, doctor. Dr. Bolus -No, perhaps not, but it is of inestimable vaiuo, neverthebeas. It gives Your physician great confidence. One of the lateee mechanical improve. mento in metal working is a system of rolls for wrapping narrow plates of steel intoa bar, which is much stronger than a solid pisco of the same site. A Finnish paper le to be printed in Min. neapolis. CARIOUS MARRIAGE SUPERSTITION& Some of tate Strange Beliefs and Cus- toms of Our Ancestors, EONEY11OO11 TRIP BY BICYCLE, HE marriage =s- toma that long (, ',)( %" rr'„% years ago are sup- posed to have f. t:r; (r . , boon decreed by Cupid are m a u t ,I C p any r r � • and curious, Almost every inoidant connec- ted with the wed- ding, be it ever eo trifling, is sup- e' posed to contain l ;; • " ttT a hiddenmeaning, to be revealed in the lives of the lucky or unfortunate couple. Vihiie, in there later days, the throwing of old ahoee after tiro bride and groom and similar customs aro carried out only in the spirit of fun, the enumeration and history of throe many, many euperstitiona are both iuteresblag and amusing. In the first place, there are certain dates upon the calendar whish oa:nnob be fixed upen for " the happy day," because hoary tradition has decided otherwise. If the subtle fever of matrimony is working in your brain, consult the following list of un- lucky days and be governed accordingly : Jan. 1, 2, 4, 5, 7, 10, 15 ; Feb. 6, 7, 18 ; Marsh 1, 6, 8 ; April 6, 11 ; May, 5, 6, 7 ; June 7, 15 ; July 5, 19 ; Aug. 15, 19 ; Sept. 6, 7 ; Orb. 6 ; Nov. 15, 16, and Dec. 15, 16, 17. These particular days are war. ranted to blight the lives of the truest lovers ever seen. But they are not the only snares that threaten the matrimonially lnalined. Read this little verse : Monday for wealth, Tuesday for health, Wednesday the best day of all ; Thursday for crosses, Friday for losses, Saturday no luck at all! Having learned the particular days to be avoided, same the New York Sun, the feverish lover may think that he can breathe freely. Not yet ! The plot still thickens. He has yet to learn that the old Romans started the idea that June woo at the top notch as a propitious month for matrimony, and that May was correspend• ingly below par. This complioatoa matters even more, but the tangle is still further aggravated by the moon, that potent factor in all human affairs. Getting down to the wedding itself, it is interesting to know that the word is derived from the Anglo•Saxon term "wed," which was the name of the security given by the bridegroom at the espousals. THE FIRST WEDDING RING. The wedding ring. according to Henry Swinburne, of the 17th century, was first designed by Prometheus and fashioned out of adamant acrd iron by Tubal Cain. Ho eaid that ib was " given by Adam to his son to this end, that therewith he should espouse a wife." Men were, as all women know, deceivers ever, and some of these unaorupuleua creatures wore wont to wed with lenge made of rushes, imagieing then to be lens binding than a strong and valuable ring. The Bishop of Salisbury, however, stepped in and forbade this practice In 1217. Silver was more frequently used than gold for wedding rings. In there days a good ring is ooneidered no essential to the validity of•o marriage that a tradesman in a market town some years ago materially added to hia income by let- ting out rioge to the poor people for their wedding day. Bridal favors are of Danish origin. For instance, the true lover's knot was a Danish feucy,and took' Its name from the expression " truelefa "-" I plight my troth." The throwing the slipper after the bride comes apparently from barbarous times, when the relations of masa and wife were really very much akin to those of master and slave, for 11 seems that the shoe was an emblem of authority, and at an Anglo•Saxon marriage a shoe was given by the bride's father to her husband in token of transfer- ence of power over her. PRECAUTIONS FOR THE BRIDE. There are certain precautions incumbent on the would -he bride and groom and their friends, by the close observation of which they may bepo to give the final slip to the ill -luck which would appear to be lying in wait to devour them. They must not open an umbrella in the house, even though they have seen the miachievoua briideemaids pour quantities of rice into its case. On the contrary, they owe it to their hopes of future happiness to provide all the rice and old shoes they can get. A herseshoe mush be hidden in the flowers beneath which the ceremony is performed and a wishbone muse keep it company. Of course, the bride must wear Something old and something new, Something borrowed and something blue. STILL MORE SUPERSTITIONS. If one of the couple can manage ora the way to the oeremouy to catch sight of a spider, a toad, or a wolf, he or she may congratulate himself or herself. On the other hand, it would be well to send an accommodating friend ahead to put out of the way such unhwky objects ae a monk, a hs,re, a dog, a oat, a lizard, or a serpent. If a raven croaks above the bridal party it will save trouble to give the whole thing up. If either one tripe on the way to the church, the dope must be retraced, end, finally, when the portal is reached both bride and groom must pot the right foot first on the step of the church. A Honeymoon Trip by Bicycle. Every one is in search of novelty these days, and even brides and grooms aro not exempt from the popular desire to distin- guish themselves ha some way and have their honeymoon bullt on a different plan from any that has gone beforo, A young cenple, members of a 'cycling club, have concluded that there could he no more charming arrangement than to go on a wed. ding tour from plane to place guided thither by the good offices of a bioycbo built for two. The trunk of the bride will be sent on ahead, for, even though oho le in search of novelty, her feminine 'Astaire to look nice at hotels will not permit her to go away with. out a kw bits of prettiness ready to be donned when the day's run le over. Post -Rad of aypearing before the guests in the timet-bonore.d going -away gown, this bride will come clown stairs in a jaunty bicycle codturee of grey, with a wide white sailor colter, and a white yachting nap POI on her coaly hair. The groom, in knickers bnokees, will await her with the truaty wheel, and, the rine and old shoot will havo tit be thrown very lively, an they bowl away item the parental mavainn to the abodes of the woods and glans between here and the first stopping piece on their journey. Such a trip under such circumstances senr quite Idyllic, for, ofcourse, he wvifi x gets tired hobble will do all the work of propelling chair carriage ahead, and when he, torr, feels exhausted they can rot under the tree mail talk of the delights et married life, the first stages of which are taken on a bicycle. 111I)LIi. FOR 1NEANTS. How to Prepare Cow's Milk to Be Safely ,• Digestible for rashest Tho problem presented to parents by the loss of their ohlid'a naturri' 'food is how to prepare a eubstitule of film composition, To intelligently attain tide end it is neves.. eery to know the composition of human milk and the twee of the various constitu. auto. Human milk consists of four solid ingrediento and one liquid, caoh absolutely essential trd make perfect food easily digest'. bie and capable of anpplyrlug every want of a rapidly -growing baby. She eolid con. atituente are : Albuminous matters, that. part froaa which then' milk cheese is den rived, and of whioh buttermilk .principally consists, They supply tho building material for the inusoular and other tissues ; ., cream, whish aupplica the body with faumil t ; sugar of k, a peculiar 'form e urger which ferments lees readily than (there. This sugar is the fuel of the body, engpiyiny heat and energy ; and Balis, which supply the building material for the bony system, , The liquid part of Intik is water, lornting over 85 per oenb, of the whole. 11 makes the Blood and helps carry off tho wash material of bho body, besides acting ae a food. Animal milks have the game constituents, but not in the same proportions. The following table shows the composition of human milk compared with cow's : Human Cow's• milk. Milk. .Albumenoids (the curd, cheese) 2,008 3.42" Fats (cream, butter) 4.013 3.76 Milk sugar 6,997 4.42 Salts (phosphates, etc.) .081 0.61 Water 86.766 87.7 It will be noticed that there is less albuminous matter in human milk, more cream, and much amore euaar, Therefore, if we use cow's milk we roust lessen the amount of albumenoids, which we can eaeily do by adding more water ; and in- crease the amount of fat and sugar by adding more cres,m and sugar (milk auger should bo used, obtainable at the dreg;, stores.) A formu?a like this then simulates closely human milk in composition : Cow's milk, ono pint ; cream, eight tablespeonfuha;; milk sugar, two teaepoa nfuis ; water, ono pint. Now, while the composition and pro. portions of this mixture are about the same ae human milk, yet when it enters the child's stomach it behaves very differently. The albuminous part curdles in large indi- gestible lumps, while human milk curdles in emall flaky neaaaes easily digestible. Here is the greatest difficulty we have to overcome, and o great many means are used to remedy it -too often inefiectuai with infants of naturally weak digestive weevers. One way is to add to the milk a Foreign substance which, by interposing itself, between the particles of milk, will prevent their union in mass. Of course, this subetanoe must not in itself be deletesicus. Barley water,.. made by boiling pearl batboy in water (two teaspoonfuls to the pine slowly boiled down to two-thirds the original quantity and strained), used instead of, and in the same proportion, as plain water, is one of the - best measures, Limo water may also be used or a small pinch cf soda added to ea bottle given ; these act by n.eutralizirgt, c acidity of the stomach. ,✓ Generally one of the above measures will prevent the vomiting of the milk in large curds, except it he a child with very weak digestion, when the foo.: should be predi- gested or atherwiseprepared. CAINE ON 'If 1rNA6003. The meeting or Head Winds Front Norte, and stash. From the Gulf of Mexico to the North Pole and frem bho likes to the Rocky Neuntains is a vast extent of country creased by no mountain challis to intercept• or retard the veiaciby of air currents. The extent of thin country is equalled by none on earth. Cold air beteg heavier to the square inch thee warm arr, the cold air, when coming in contact With a warm Our - rent frons the eolith, siwaya 'predominates, forcing the warm air into the upper cur- rents. The cause of cyclones is the meeting of a headwind from the north with a headwind from the south. They meet like two vast armies of men. The pressure at this point of meeting is eo great that the air, by come preesiou, beelemea heavier to tbs square inch than wood or the human body, hence either one will float in the same manner that wood will float in water -it &ate because it is lighter to the square inch than water. Plane water in an ordinary wash bowl and remove the plug and it will be observed that in palm- ing out the water forms a circle reaction. Air being a liquid does the same in passing either upwards or downwards ; hence the funnelshaped rigout of the cyclone centre.. When two immerme bodies of air coming from op;ro:,ait° directions meet, the only ogress is upwards and sideways, andin peering upwards it forma the funnel the same en water - peening - out of a washbowl dowuwarde. The theory that a cyclone forma a vacuum fs absurd. Withdrew air from a glees jar with an air pump, and as feather within the vacuum formed will drop with sho same velocity as lead, or, on the other hand, you can compress air until it is heavier to the square inch than wood, in which case wood will float in the air.. The lilting power of a, cyclone le eaueed (1) by the compression on, density of the air, and (2) by its velocity. Combining, the power of density with that of velocity, which ocours at the centre or funnel, no power can resist it. The feeling, of euf%ca'tion or difaulty in breathings when near the trarsk of a cyclone is caused from the compraaaion of air. Insects 88xud to Freeze. Insects that spend most of their lives fro a torpid or mei Torpid condition are not, alwayo killed by being frozen. Inatanceia are numerous of travellers in the Rocky Mountains finding butterflies above thel snow -line frozen stiff. When carried to a warmer climate or into a cabin they often completely revive. Their normal vital power is so low that a degree of cold that would prove fatal to other creatures deem not kill them. ennoceece. The Huahand-Wii:i you go to the theatre, with me to -night, dearest t The Wife -With pieaeure ; but there is aa. little favor I wish to ark you. The xluabenei-Name it, darling. The Wife -It is truly midday now ; you. have all the afternoon before you. Won't. you kindly go and pee that man now in- stead of going out between the nets to see him to-nightt Street ear conductors at Hannibal,Mo., are forbidden to :rid women gettinon or off the care, except when requested, Kingloy-I hem you have a new baby in your house, Bingo -Yee. When are you doming around to see him, old mans King. boy-ln about fifteen y ware. Saving worts, rr ()ennui as muchgentileaa, writing poetry, and it is of a heap better .orb,