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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
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Almost every
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ted with the wed-
ding, be it ever eo
trifling, is sup-
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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
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