Swain County Herald.
Published Weekly at
Chrleston, - - -
H.
A. Hodge, Ed. & Pub
Thursday, January 31, 1889.
The United States is rapidly forging
ahead as a first-class maritiroa nowr.
A Chinaman who aNer several years'
residence in this country, returned to
China, has been telling his countrymen
that the Americans worship a mysteri
ous being who is called All Mi-T Dol Lar.
Says a New" York' expert "in sporting
matters: ''There isn't a fight, wrestle,
rowing match, running match, horse
trot or sword contest on the square these
days. Everything U 'cooked' before
hand, and 'cooked' to make money."
It is the opinion of - wagon--wheel
manufacturers that the day of the wooden
wheel will before many years draw to a
close, and that steel wheels will take. its
place. This opinion appears altogtether
reasonable. The uses of steel and iron
are multiplying "constantly.
As electricity will undoubtedly be
substituted -in executions for the rope,
the Chicago Tiuie suggest that a ne
branch of study is opened for. younf
Anarchists. "They fhould be instructed
in electric volts, and taught to computl
the number of ohms which constitute
their power of resistance."
New Yprk' City -is said to support
about six thousand lawyers, and it is
claimed that the immense amount of liti
gation done there through the courts of
piivate oflices of counsel attracts and
it.hfi lushest lecral talent of
the State, if not the country.
The phonograph has reached such 9
degree of perfection that gap3 and
yawns are produced by-it with great dis
tinctness. At a recent trial given at Mr.
Edison's laboratory a meeting between
two lovers was recorded, and persons ol
experience say that the kisses ""were re
produced with tantalizing accuracy ano
fervor. . -
A Canadian judge fined a museum fat
woman $-1 for 'refusing to pay her cab
man, who apparently wanted to charge
her in proportion' to her weight. The
fair, fat, and ten times-forty-pound wo
man refused to pay the flno and the
olllcials were ordered to take her to jail.
They found to their dl&may that not a
cell door was large enough to let the fat
woman pass through.
Two Pittsburg; tube-workers hav
I been hired at $5 a! day to go to England
and instruct worknen there how to man
u fact ure'tubi tig. ne of the proprietor!
of a great English manufactory, who em
ployed the men, has discovered thai
American workmen "are much mor
rapid and have a better system of doin
the work than their Eugli-h brothers.'
Some idea of the strength of the grea
French copper ''syndicate" may be had
when it is stated that it has just agreed
to pay the owncra of the Anaconds
mine, in 3 Ion tana, $"00,00 for each
'month that it remains shut down. Iu
other words, the "syndicate" pays, say,
four cents per pound to the Anaconda
for the copper which it does not produce,
thereby reducing the supplies which it
has to carry and eliminating a somewhat
dangeroui factor from the situation.
"Death by .electricity was preferred in
New York Ptate to execution on the
gallows because," alleges the Sun,,l'.t was
asserted that it would take away from
the act its' demoralizing infuence on the
public at large. f the change is a dis
appointment in this regard many will
regret that it was made. In that case it
is not unlikely that, the feeling against
inflicting the death' penalty at all wil
grow. It is still an open question whether
hanging is the best ue to which society
can put a murderer."
Over a Hundred Hindoo Dialects.
One hundred and fEty languages and
dialects, written and unwritten, aro
spoken in-India. Hindoos, 100,000,000;
Mohammedaus, 45,000,000; rude native
tribes, 50,000,000; and Christians, 2,000, -000
less than one-third Protestants
compose the population. Forty million
hungry human bodies have no other bed
than the bare ground, and so illiterate
are the yjeop that 41 men and 857
women cannot read nor write where one
of each can. No wonder that the aver
age annual income, $13.50, is the lowest
of any civilized race.
coes into raptures over Mrs. Russell
;Harrison, nee Mis Saunders, whom he
justly tays will be the beauty of the new
A i l-n mwtrof "iin Trrnr1it3. ' ' W Vi a n Via.
A . .11 1 .1 1 k 1 1.1 111. 1 - 1 1 . . T T Vll 111
father was elected tothe Senate from
Nebraska in 1877 his daughter was just
coming into her first youth. She was as
the average girl is at that agesay six
teenand besides had seen nothing
whatever of the greit world." But she
was as graceful as one of the sun ane
mones that sway and bend in the summer
breezes of 'her native prairie?, and had
the promise of more than usual beauty.
I havo never seen a woman. old or young,
who so soon came to understand all that
in her father's position she should under
stand as did Miss Saunders. the was a
rarely beautiful woman in her last winter
here, the-' winter of "her marriage. A
blonde of the clearest type, but with eyes
that darkened in sudden thought, a per
fect figure, and admirable taste in dress,
she had no superior and but few equals
in her time."
D. C.
hotjse And senate.
Orn National Law-M&kefs Deliberate
on Measures ' for the Public Good.
Monday HorsE Lnddr the call of
the States the follpwing bills were intro
duced andrefeTred:
By Mr Davidson, of Horida, for the
appointment of a special sinitary mspec
tor in the marine hospital pervice.-
By Mr Blount, of Georgia, to punish
buvintr and selling of votqs.
Bv Mr Bland, of Missonti, lor the iree.
coinage of silver, f
... 'f i i '
Jiv Mr UowJesL ot ivorui 'v-aronna. a
bill containing! the internal revenue
features .of the Mills bill, end moved it's
reference to the committee on appropria
tions. Agreed to yeas 129," nays vl
Mr Brower, of North Carolina, intro
duced a bill to repeal the tax on tobacco,
and moved its reference to the committee
on war claims. Lost yeas 162, nays 117
and the bill was referred to the ways
and means committee.
The House .then proceeded to the con
sideration of the business pertaining to
the District of Columbia. liNd business
of general importance was transacted,
and the House at 0:40 adjf urned.
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Skkate Senator Iloar introduced a
concurrent resolution regulating the
counting of votes forPresic ent nd Vice
President, . which w as rcf jrred to the
committee on privileges aid elections.
It provides that the two H uses of Con
gress shall meet jointly on Feb. 13th,
next, and canvass the votes cast.
Tariff bill resumed. In the . course of
a general discussion after the salt sched
ule had been taken up, Senator, Plumb
twitted Senator Vance for l is silence and
non-action in the matter of taxes on
mica, peanuts, rice ; and other North
Carolina products, 1
The Senator, ho s-ud, hac lifted up his
voice early and often against the tax of
eight cents per hundred pcundsbn salt,
but had. made no move to relieve the
people of the United States from the tax
of 112 per cent on rice. Ho did not cen
sure him for that. The Ser ator was pur
suing the line of the i uteres s of his. peo
ple. There was on ej North Carolina in
terest Which the Senator did desire to
have put on the free list, i nd that was
moonshine whiskey, but not for free rice,
free mica, free peanuts or fiee sumach.
Senator Vance replied to i Senator
Plumb and said that he partly admitted
admitted the accusation. If, he did not
represent the interest of hisf constituents
he would not be
fit to occjipy a seat in
the Senate.
Senator Blair
asked hind
whether! he
wr.uld vote- to reduce the aluty on lum
Senator Yance : "I will. 'jl thank tfjee,
Jew, for teaching me that word.?
senator uiair: now mfflcn will you
vote to reduce it? 7 r
Senator Vance : VI. will koUi to make
it so-free that there shall bel no duty on
the, planks that shelter till: boor man
from tne storm." j
Aiier luruier aiscussion p.iie hill was
laid aside without action onlthe pending
amendment. !
Tuesday
the Senate
-House As a
bill fori the
pecial order
dmission of
South Dakota and the organization of
North Dakota was brought
cupied the full day without
vote. ' " .- I
up and oc-
commsr to a
Senate On motion of
Mr Voorhees.
the Senate bill referring
to
le court of
claims of the
State Natio
pal bank of
Louisiana, for cotton taken
the treasury department aft
y agents of
r the 80th of
the calendar
June, lSGo, was taken from
and passed. -i
The tariff bill Avas 'then resumed, the
pending question to place salt on the free
list. i I
The debate drifted off td generalities
wnicn occupied the balance of the day.
the penate at 5:5; adjourneli
WePnesday Thei 1 torsi: continued
the discussion of the territorial admis
sion bill. !
Pending further debate,
the House,
Columbus,
after passing the bill! making
Uino a port ot delivery adjo
Senate The propositioi
Lined.
of Mr Vest
to put salt on the free list
yeas 23, najs 26. J
was rejected ;
Mr Allison offered some en
anges in the
to Tacirer's
committee amendment as
iron. Mr Jones, vof ArkansLs, moved to
put Tagger's iron on the f red
list- In the
debate which ensued Mr
Morgan said
that the object of 'the Senate j bill was to
increase the profits of manufacturers
Mr Allison denied this sta
tement, and
said tnat its object and purpose was to
enable laborers in this coumry to pro
duce things on equal terms Hth laborers
in otner countries. j
During a discussion bet w
pen Mr MOr
gan and Mrllawley, the fo'rifaer said that
if the negroes could be e pelled from
Aiaoama tne jirice of lands would go up
iuu per cent.
At thecondusion of Mr Morgan's
marks, Mr Chandler made an
argument
in favor of increasing the duty on skates.
There was further: discus don, but no
rote was reached on the ame adment, and
at 6 P M the Senate adjourr ed.
, Thursday The House continued the
discussion of the territoria
bill. y.'j !.-;'
ad mission J
Pending the reading of a substitute
offered by Mr McDonald, of Minnesota,
tne House at ojo clock adjourned
Senate Consideration o' tariff bill
continued. An amendment jto the tin
plate paragraph was offered and "adopt
ed. '';---( ", t -.' '
The? amendment proposic: r a duty on
sugar made from beets, sorgl urn or sugar
cane grown in the United State was then
taken ujk Messrs. : Sherm in, Plumb,
Stewart and .Morrill adv cated , the
amendment and declared thdy could not
see howvit could have any political effect, J
ana Mr Jiustis s
spoke at len&th in oppo-
sitiori to it.
Noj vote was reached, andlfter a short
executive spasinn thn Sonafd nf Ti-An rl
jourried.
i
Friday. Houssr.-Consn eration of
territorial bills was resume!, and Mr
McDonalds substitute, was r eacted by a
vote ot 11 to 122.
Mr Perkins, of Kansas, 'moved to
amend the Springer amendment by pro
viding that if the Sioux Fal s constitu
tion is ratified by the peop e of South
Dakota, the President " shal . issue his
proclamation declaring thd State of
South Dakota admitted into the Union.
Agreed to.
The House then proceeded! to vote on
the Omnibus bill, as amendeo,-as a sub
stitute for the Senate measure, and it was
agreed to by a close party
vote, after
which the Senate
bill so amended was
. passed.
WASHINGTON
The House took a recess from 5 until 7
o'clock, and the evening session was
devoted to pension bilis.
The Sexate at 11 :30 resumed consi d
eration of the tariff bill, the pending
question being on an amendment re
ported from the Finance committee, al
lowing a bounty of one cent per pound
on sugar produced from beets, sorghum
and sugar-cane t grown, in the United
States. ;. ,
Debate on amendment lasted until 5
o'clock without: intermission, having
taken a wide political range, the pnnci;
pal speakers being Messrs.
Butler, Chandler and Spooner.
The amendment was rejected
5:15 the Senate adjourned..
and at
FOREIGN ITEMS.
Letters received from Henry M. Stan
ley says that he and his expedition ,are in
good health.
The anarchists attending the Peace
Congress recently held at Madrid, de
cided to ferment a general resolution in
Europe in the event of a war involving
any oX the continental powers.
A large anti-slavery meeting was held
at Vienna Wednesday. ;
Russia will ; build three large men-of-war
during this year.
Pope Leo has presented to ' the Irish
churches gifts valued at $50,000, includ
ing the stole which he wore at his jubilee
services. ,
United States Minister Phelps, at the
Fishmonger's . Company banquet, Lon
don, responding to a toast, said : 4.'The
only complaint I bring against this
country is that my experience here makes
it more difficult to say, good-bye than to
perform any other duty which has de
volved upon me since I came here." In
conclusion he said that in saying fare
well he would adopt the poet's setiment,
"Say not good night, but in some Mp
pier day bid me good morning."
GENERAL NEWS.
: i i r
The Republican Legislative -caucus of
Oregon decided to re-elect J N Dolph to
the United .States Senate. L,
John L Sullivan has been drinking
quietly for two days, but is at home at
Boston now and in his friend's hand?.
James G Blaine, Jr , has entered a
machine shop as an apprentice. He is
said to be trying to make a ma-of him
self.'.." ' - , ;r. .:. i -; I . , '
Churchill county, Nevada, is in danger
of breaking in two. A crack has recent
ly appeared thiee feet wide, several mile3
long, and how detp no one can find
out.
Both the house and. Senate of West
Virginia have held secret ; sessions. In
the Senate four ballots were taken for
president, but the dead-lock is still un
broken. The largest mortgage ever placed on
record in West Virginia J was that of the
Chesapeake & Ohio Railroad company,
made to the Central Moitgage company,
of Ney York. It is for $30,000,000.
Frye of Maine, Maude rson of Nebrasr
ka,IIoar of Massachusetts, and McMil
lan of Michigan have all been re-elected
to the United States Senate. E O Wol
cott succeeds Thomas M Bowen from
Colorado. ,
In the United States District court at
Baltimore Capt Robert Mill, of the oys
ter schooner; Chicora, was found guilty
of brutally beating his dredgers, and
was sentenced to a line of $500 and one
year in jail.
The funeral services over the remains
of the late Mrs Jay Gould were held at
family residence, No 571) Fifth avenue,
New. York. The services were of the
simplest character, and were attended
only by the personal friends of the fam-
iiy:
Both Houses of the Delaware Legisla
ture convened and proceeded to ballot
for United States Senator. The ballot
resulted : Anthony Higgins, 1G; James
L Woicott, 0 ; A P Robinson, 5. - The
presiding oilicer thereupon announced
that Anthony Iliggins was elected.
A story has been going the rounds
of the press purporting to give an ac
count of Mrs" Harrison being snubbed by
Mrs Blaine on a Stata occosion at the
White House during Gen Garfield's ad
ministration. It is learned in Indiapo
lis that there is no truth in this story.
The American Colonization society
was organized seventy-three years ago.
During its existence it has sent over 10,
000 negroes to Africa. At the celebra
vration of its anniversary the other
night, in Washington, Dr Luther endor
sed Victor Hugo's prediction that "Af
rica is to be the continent of the twen
tieth century." i
Killed Over a Game of Cards.
Bedford, Ind. Special A Hairy
Williams, of the firm of Williams &
Lynch, railroad contractors, of Craw
fordsville, came to this place. He in
tended to leave Friday morning on the
early train for Louisville. About 11
o'clock he went to the National Hotel,
where he was stopping, and engaged in
a game of cards. About, 1 o'clock he
got into a dispute with a man named
Radcliffe, and , some words
changed. The latter ; ; shot
were ex-
Williams
twice in the Ho-ht. hl-Annf. fe-ilU nrr him nl-
most instantly, lie then went to jail
ana gave nimselt up. Williams leaves
a wife and one child. '
The Oldest Woman Llrin?.
Mrs. Frances Ann Rebecca Todd, who
resides near the village of Novic, Mich.,
is supposed, to be the oldest woman liv
ing. -She was bonTin December 1769,
in Norway, and is consequently J.1 19
years old. She was first married in
1S00 and bore eight children. Her hus
band dying she remarried, but was
granted a divorce inlS 10, after having
Jn 137 , she . again jriarriec and became
8uueu iour more cmiarea to ner lamilv.
the mother of three more children. Her
third husband died six; year3 later,
leaving the widow with three more
children to care for. The loss of the
third husband did not discourage her.
She finally removed to her present farm
of three acres, where she has been since
1S44. Times-Deniotrat.
- He Saved a Fortune.
New Orleans, La Last week Abra
ham Yandine died in a boarding house in
this city. The public administrator open
ed his possessions, and an inventory was
taken, j In an old trunk was found nearly"
f 100,000 in greenbacks and bonds. Hen
ry J Yandine, his brother, arrived from
New jersey and 'claimed "the estate. The"
deceased was from 1840 to 1856 in the
coal businesshere, and since that time up
io 1880, he was a-coal gauger. He was
of miserly habits, but the possession of
so much wealth was unknown. I
ALL OVERTHE SOUTH
NEWS FH02I EACH STATE.
NORTH CAROLINA.
A second street car line was chartered
by the city council of Asheville.
Governor Fowle was inaugurated with
imposing -ceremonies on Thursday, the
17th inst
- The Legislature of Nortn Carolina,
will have, about 1,400 justices of the
peoce to elect. - K .
Wesley Austin has been appointed as
sistant keeper of the light house"at Cape
Hatleras, North Carolina, vice L G
Damerst, resigned.
There were started in North Carolina
in 1883 no less than forty-one cotton
factories, eiglit more than any other
Southern State.
It is now said that George Vanderbilt
.will found a college for the education -of
women on the tracts of land that he has
recently bought near Asheville.
- A white man named Daniel Cameron
was found early Monday morning near
Keyser with a bullet hole through his
head and one in his breast. The white
man who was last seen with him, has
been arrested on suspicion and is in the
jail. It is supposed that Cameron was
murdered either Saturday night or early
Sunday morning.
SOUTH CAROLINA.
Chester is to have the telephone.
The "Comet" is a nw paper at Ker
shaw on the 3'Cs.
The result of late experiments in the
South Carolina is that tobacco can be
grown successfully in the State.
The factory of the Tyree Drug compa
ny will be moved from Staunton, Va.,
to Charleston.
Governor Richardson appointed the.
following gentlemen to constitute the
State board of medical examiners: Dr
A N Talley, chairman, Columbia ; Dr T
Grange Simons, Charleston; Dr C R
Faber, Fort Motte; Dr S M Orr, Ander
son, and Dr J C Wilcox, Darlington.
A pretty little vendetta is raging in
Newberry county among the members of
the Banks family. On Saturday last,
Butler Banks desperately- wounded S (3
Banks. A night or two afterwards the
dwelling house, barns and out houses of
Butler Banks were burned to the ground.
A houseful of little children were turned
out homeless to starve. The family is
not a wealthy one, and the end of the
feud Is not yet. .
VIRGINIA.
The latest advices from Pocahontas,
point to the satisfactory solution of the
contemplated strike of 4,000 coal miners
in that section." " - " ;'
The village of Red Springs, Va, has
been nearly destroyed by tire. Loss $30,
000. The wife of Postmaster Heckling
was killed by falling timbers, j
A little boy 12 years old named Chand
ler, wras caught up in the machinery of
the Cigarette 'Manufacturing Company,'
at Lynchburg, and was instantly crushed
to death.
The Valley Medical & Chemical Insti
tute, of Staunton, Va., has been organ
ized with Dr P W Shelton as president;
A B Arthur, vice-president, and Htber
Kerr, secretary. Capital- stock to be not
less than $200,000.
A remarkable case of poisoning cre
ated some excitement at Danville. On
Sunday, Jack Coates, an inrnate of the 1
jail, received a slice of molasses pudding
from his wife. He thought it was
"tricked" and refused to eat' it. 'Squire
Towkes, another inmate of the jail, ate
the pudding and was soon taken sick,
and died in great agony, with every
symptom of acute poison. The woman
who made the pudding has ljeen' ar
rested. FLORIDA
The Jacksonville, Fla.,
board of trade
passed a resolution
tion for oranges.
demandinor
protec-
The Governor has called a special leg
islative session for Feb. 5th to pass
health regulations for the State.
The State Farmers Alliance of Florida
began its annual session at Jacksonville
Thuisday with over one hundred dele
gates in attendance. President Oswald
Wilson, of Mariana, presided The ses
sion continued throughout the week. A
strong effort is being made to make
lacksonville a wholesale market for cot
ton and other products.
GEORGIA.
Governor Gordon, of Georgia, has
bought a stock farm of 1,760 acres in
Taylor county, that State.
Th owners of the Soque woollen
mills, of Clarksville, Ga., have assigned
to W S West. Liabilities $30,0Q0, as
sets $35,000.
WITHOUT FOOD OR SHELTER.
A Mother and Six Children Burred
Out of Their Home by a Mob.
About a month ago Butler Banks, of
Newberry county, S. C, was shot, and
suspicion pointed to James C. Banks as
his assailant, as the 4 wo men had been
unfriendly. -Last Saturday week Butler
Banks, hearing that James C. was in the
neighborhood canvassing for a book, lay
in wait for him, and taking deliberate
aim with a shot gun fired at his supposed
assailant as he passed by, ,wounding him
in four places.. James Banks implored
Butler, Banks, who is not a relative
although oi the same name, tq desist,
but the latter fired the second, barrel of
his shot gun and also the contents of a
pistol at James, though without - further
effect. James is in a dangerous condi
tion. Butler Banks has escaped.
? Last Saturday a party of men went to
the house of Butler Banks, where were
his wife and six little children, the eldest
being only thirteen, and .set fire to the
house, compelling the woman to remain
until its destruction was certain. The
men then set fire to the corn crib and
feed house, leaving the mother and little
ones without food or shelter or sufficient
clothing. There is great indignation,
but though the names of the incendiaries
aie said to be known no arrests have been
made.
A BlnfT Skipper Stops the Conrtin?.
An Old Bucksport (Me.) sea captain
thus describes the way in which he dis
missed an undesirable suitor for the hand
of h3 daughter the other night: I just
shotted him up the companion-way and
out on the gang-plank leading from my
house, and gently remarked that : the
wind wan off shore and the sooner he got
under way the better offing he would get
before morning.. He paid off and bore
away down the street."
Eleven hundred and forty-five writers
have contiibuted the articles for the
ninth edition of the Encyclopedia
Britacica, the last volume of which, has
iust been issued. .
NEWS AND NOTES FOR WOMEN.
In England there are 347 female black
smiths., ' i-
The very latest thing is the plaited
muslin bodice. '
Cornell has 1174 students, 132 of whom
are young women.
Pale shades of blue are second in favor
to the all prevailing greens.
The Presbyterians have decided to
have an order of deaconesses
Long, fingeriess mitts are a novelty.
They are worn with dinner gowns.
Mme. Hesa, of Paris, has refused $1000
for her hair, which is six feet long.
Cloth gowns'are made up in combina
tions of cieam white, brown and green.
A Brighton XMich. woman digs forty
five bushels of potatoes a day and comes
up smiling.
Mink-tail trimmings are used on gar
ments of mink or sealskin, furnishing an
effective contrast.
J Mrs. Ainelie Rives-Chanler is having
a $1000 gown constructed by a fashion
able, New York dressmaker.
I Ex-Km press Frederick has bought "a
site at tteglitzl for 100,000 marks to
build a hospital for orphan girls.
A new trimming of dark green, blue oi
brown dresses is an embroidery of silver
threads on bands of scarlet cloth.
A new collar for the corsage is of the
high military style, over which falls two
broken points, usually in a contrasting
color.
Black costumes are meeting with so
much favor just now that they may be
said to be restored to their old tinte popu
larity. Buttons in the form of a good-sized
padlock fitted with a key were very con
spicuous upon a recently imported cos
tume.
Gray and fawn color was the color
combination recently noted in a cloth
costume. Although odd, it was very
effective.
Most of the new sleeves have trans
verse or longitudinal puffs, or are gathered
into a deeply pointed cuff of velvet or
embroidery. t
The authorities of Vanderbilt Uni
versity are considering the propriety oi
admitting women to the privileges of
the University.
Novel earrings are in the form of
oyster shells, held together by a dia
mond or pearl, and having slender gold
wires attached.
Bonnet strings are now attached to the
lower middle portion of the crown, from
whence they are brought around and tied
under the chin.
' There are still living six wives of
Presidents, viz. : Mrs. Tyler, Mrs. Polk,
Mrs. Grant, Mrs. Hayes, Mrs. Garfield
and Mrs. Cleveland.
A new make . of hosiery is double
faced, being of spun silk on the outside
and Balbriggan underneath. They are
said to be very durable.
Whistling girls are springing up all
over the country with a promptness and
spontaneity that indicate an appalling
and altogether unsuspected amount of
previous practice. J
It is said that women have discharged
the greatest part in the commercial busi
ness of Franccj Parisian trade in parti
cular owes much of its reputation to the
enterprise of business women.
Ex-Queen Isabella, of Spain1, ' has be
come fascinated with the American game
of poker. At her house in Paris she holds
poker parties which are exciting enough
to satisfy even an Arizona co'wboy.
Something new in furs is the sealskin
pcifrine," square and short at back, with
its fringe of tails just reaching to the
waist, and square and so long as to come
near the knee, and give the effect of a
stole..
The cause of women's rights in France
has progressed to the point of the intro
duction of a bill to grant to trades women
paying licenses the right to vote at
election of Judges of the Tribunal of
Commerce.
In his speech at Edinburgh recently,
Lord Salisbury, the Prime Minister, de
clared himself in favor of woman suf
frage, and said he hoped tha day was
not far distant when women wouid be
allowed to vote.
In collars and cuffs a pretty novelty is
to Lave a double collar and cuff, the up
per one narrow and encircled with a
band of satin-stitched embroidery. They
are sometimes in colors, pink turning
over blue and so on.
A new foreign fancy is the wearing of
black neck fichus in place of veils. The
widest part is draped over head and
face, the ends cross the back, and then
come under the chin, and the effect i3
wonderfully soft and pretty.
A Spanish Genersl of Barcelona has
bequeated $200,000 to found a refuge for
the orphan daughters of poor officers, a
proviso being that each must be beauti
tiful in face and form, 4 "because the more
lovely a woman is the more she is ex
posed to danger in th's world."
Philadelphia has a large training
ichool for colored teachers, and its he id
is Miss Fanny J. Coffin, one of the most
notable colored women in the country.
She is a graduate of the Bhode Island
State Normal School and Oberlin Col
lege, and ha3 taught since ISOo.
Mme. Le Ray contemplates another
voyage of exploration. This intrepid
French woman, who have traveled all
over Asia Minor, is about to start for
Teheran, from whence she intends mak
ing excursions into the least accessible
portions of the Persian dominions.
A correspondent writing from New
York says that Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt
Irequently prepares the dessert for her
family, and that Mrs. Sloane is said to
have no rival as a salad maker. Mrs.
Colonel Ingersoll is noted for her choco
late puddings, and Mrs. Sherwood can
cook a tenderloin steak to perfection.
Bowie-Knives.
The "bowie-knife" was invented by
Rezim Bowie, who was borifin Tennes
see, but it was never intended by him to
be aught else but a hunting knife. Dur
ing a chase after wild cattle in the Atta
kapas, a cow, with which he was en
gaged in combat, caught his knife with
ner norn, and, drawing it through his
hand, very nearly cut his thumb off. On
his return home. he had made by his own
plantation blacksmith, a knife with a
piece placed across the hilt, so as to pre
vent a recurrence of the acident. His
friends saw and liked the knife, and he
had many made and presented to them.
It obtained its name from the fact that
James Bowie, a brother of the inventor,
very nearly met with a serious accident
on account of his gun failing to o off
during some hunting expedition. Rezim
then gave him his knife, remarking:
"Take old Bowie, Jim; she never hangs
fire."
The present Georgia Legislature con
tains more farmers than any of its recent
predecessors. Tbc-re are sixty-nine
fanners in the- House, against forty-six
lawyers. . '
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THE EMPRESS OF JAPAN.
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APPEARANCE AND DAILY HABITS
OF-fTHE EMPEEOR S WIFE-
A Handsome Woman of Unusual
Intellectual Attainments How
She OccnDies Her Time.
Frank G. Carpenter says in a Tokio
letter to the New York M'orli that the
Empress of Japan is just about as old as
her husband (thirty-eight jears). She is
a full head shorter than the average
-American woman . and has a slender
figure, very straight and very dignified.
She appreciatei her position and walks
like an Empress. It is now more than
a year since she adopted foreign clothes,
and her jet-black hair is combed in for
eign style and a' foreign waterfall sits
upon her shapely .crown. She has a fine
complexion, much lighter than the or
dinary Japanese, -and she ha3 that
drooping of th? lower lip which
is a mark of Japanese beauty.
The only pictures that are now procur
able of her are those in her old court
dress, but these give a fair idea of her
features, and her face is decidedly
aristocratic. "She does not," says the
Court Chamberlain, "paint her lower
lip norblacken het teeth, as was the
former custoai of Japanese wives, and
she wears now a stra'ght bang of hair
across her forehead." Her first European
costumes, so a society lady of Tokio
tells me, were ordered from Germany,
but the Germaus d.d not feel competent
for the task and sent her measure to
Worth at Paris. The clothes were made
and shipped back to Berlin, and the
German dressmakers there exposed them
as their own and all of the capital of
Germany was called in to inspect the
clothes which the Empress of Japan was
about to wear. Such an action wmld
hardly be possible in .the case of a
European queen, and I have heard it
condemned with much indignatiou here.
At present I am told that the Empress
buys her clothes, as far as possible, in
Japan. She is a thorough little Japanese
queen, and she is anxious to do every
thing to advance her own people.
"She is." in the words of the Court.
Chamberlain, "especially interested in
Japanese women, andsho tries to pro
mote their advancement in every way.
She is very charitable, and she is spe
cially patron of the Red Cross Society
and of the Tokio Charity Hospital. She
often visits the. hospital and her influr
ence is given for the good. At the late
eruption of Bandaisan she sent money
at once to relieve the sufferers from the
volcano, and she is especially interested
in the education of Japanese women.
There is a female school attended by the
girls of the nobles, which is known as
the Empress's school. She watches very
closely over this, and one of the pict
ures upon its walls consists of some
poetry written by her. The Empress of
Japan is a fine Chinese scholar, and she
is one of the best poets in the Empire. -Many
of her poems have been set to
music and have been used as national
songs, and quite a number of them have
been published in the Japanese news
papers." "Tell me something of the daily life
of the Empress," said I.
v "She has," replied the Court Chamber
lain, "an establishment of her own, and
it is quite a large one. She has her
maids of honor,' her private secretaries
and the ladies pf the court to deal with.
Her morning is occupied by the reading
and writing of lette n. She attends to
the supervision of her various charities
through others chiclly, and in the after
noon she devotes herself to social duties.
She receives at this time the wives of
the Ministers and the Princesses .who
may call upon, her, and if they come at
the proper time the;e sometimes take
tea with her. J: ho sometimes invites
these ladie3 to meetings to discuss mat
ters relating to the charity hospital, and
she his a , Grand Marshal and a
Chamberlain. She is, you. know, the
first Empress of the new order of
things, even as the Emperor is the
first Emperor. She wears but little
jewelry, though she has some diamond
rings and bracelets, bne is a tine horse
back rider, and often takes a turn on one
ot the horses of the imperial stables. She
wears a European riding habit and sits
her horse well."
The Emperor, the Empress and the
Crown Prince make up the royal family,
or at least the three most important mem
bers of it. Each of the e three has, as 1
said, an establishment of his own inside
of the palace "rounds. The Crown
Prince is heir-apparent to the throne.
He is the son ot the Emperor by Mme.
Yanagiwara. and not by the Empress
Haruko. The Mikado of Japan has the
right to twelve wives in addition to the
Empress, and the children of these, in
case of the failure of issue by the Km-1
press, have the right to the throne.
They are all legitimate and noble, and it
i3 to these wive3 in time? past that the
noblest of the court families" of to dny
date their origin. Very little is known
about the-m outside the royal pala e.
These wives do not appear at the Court
ceremonies, and I am told that each has
her little establishment inside of the
palace grounds. They, are a part of the
constitution of the royal family, and in
the directory of Japan for this year
I find that the Emperor has had by
them nine children, though all with the
exception of three of these have died.
Children thus born have nothing to do
with their mothers," and the young
Prince was brought up apart. I asked
the Court Chamberlain about this de
partment of the palace. , lie would say
nothing, and said it was not proper for
him to discuss'such a private 'matter of
the Emperor's.
Science for Cold Weather.
landlady "Why.
ever is the matter,"
Mr. J pnes "Nething; only trying to
keep my feet warm ; air's always warmer
above, you know.' Harper Bxzar.
Philadelphia has jnst consecrated a
church for deaf mutes the only one in
the world.
mwrn'' 'Mr. Mir
mrm ' M
Mr. Jones. wTmf.
HUMOR OF THE Day.
"Bound in calf Veal.
- Caught on the fly Trout.
Two physicians are a paradox.
The burning question Smoke.
Fireside companion The poker.
A loan fellow The pawnbroker.
Unpopular preserves Jim-jams.
A writ of attachment A love letter
Gld maids know what a mis-spent h'
means. 6
. Theoldest and rrost inveterate smoker
in history is Vesuvius.
It is the astronomer who most
quently rises to observe.
fie.
j When a man doubles his fists you caa
unruiy s-ay lie lias iour lianas.
The man who lives from hand to
mouth should not have far to go for his
dinner. .
To make a Russian name-imitate the
"fchug" of a bull frog, give one snee.e
and say "ski." .
Hotror and respect the busy bee.
Once full, he makes straight for honip'
Neio, fork New.
A young New England baby was
named William after his father, who was
bilious. II tri er's Bazar.
' A barking dog is the most courteous
of all animals. 11c makes his bow to
every passer-by. Biiujhimton Jteoub
lican. k "
Money can slip through a pretty small
hole sometimes. A Brooklyn man lost a
considerable sum lately through a pew
rent. . ' ;
All the street cars have a sign "oo
smoking," and. yet any conductor wiJJ
help a woman to a licht. JY?? Tcrrk
World. '
. A- good many of the cashiers who ara
settling m Canada are those who have
neglected to do any settling over here.
Woman (to tramp) "How's the soup?"
Tramp "'Tain't quite strong enough
ma'am, i wi?n you would wash a fej
more dishes in it."
Waiter "You
want frosrs.
uue3t "iNot zee wnoie ammaiie, i want
zee. vat-ypu call him zee drutnsteeks.
;Philade7phia Record.
Brown "Did you dispose of that last
lyric you wrote?" Young Byron ,40
yes, I got it off on the i publishers for a
song.-" Yankee Blade, i
Duluth people say that that city is
growiug.so rapidly that! sitting down m
the'suburbs, with the city against the
skyline, you can see itgrow.
"It requires 6nly two things to run a
successful campaign, sa:d the politi
cian. 'And what are they?" asked a
bystander. "Dollars and sense."
Tramp, picking up a five cent piece
"A bloody nickel, hum ! Wasn't nothin'
but a .onah all my life. Anybody else
but me 'a pick'd up that nickel and it 'a
been a quarter,. sure." (Sihs). "
Shakespeare was slightly mixed in his
'seven age;?." It is the "whining
school boy" whom the maternal eye has
detected in some flagrant act of dis
obedience that "shifts into the slippered
pantaloon."
Leader of the BoggsviUeonale quintet
to editor of the Jiogsville Herald
"What can we do to interest the public
in our organization?" Editor (without
looking up) "Disband." Burlington
Free Breix.
A baby girl in Missouri has been named
Rainbow. Sixteen years hence, when
she is caught in a summer shower, she
should feel very much t home, although
she would then be a liltlo rain deer.-
JVbrris'.oiru Herat I.
fhey say the. German Emperor
Is swoi!:ii to pitch in;
lie tharjciis up u s sipurs and longs
To m;il.o thf- s-uv.-u ut spin.
"Who w.-tiits t' jit a cock against
Tha l-'antaia t,.l' CcrH.u.4
ur.-;;yfm tree t're&s.
So that is the en tiro list of
Insolvent Maaer "Oh.
tXwyer "
your debts?'v
no; there are many other httie items.
Lawyer "Don't yo.ii want me - to add
them in delail?" Manager ".So; just
say, for further particulars see small
bills. " 1 me rica.
An exchange wants the name of the
man who invented the wheelbarrow;
but what many more persons crave is the
r.ame of the man who lets his wheel
bairow stand in the middle of the side
walk after dark. The latter is more
deserving of death. Xt rrhtown Ilera'd.
"Did that lady buy anything?" asked
the jewe!er of his new boy, as the lady
in question left the store, apparently in
a temper. ". he did not. She aked
me for an old gold breast pin, and I
asked her if she took this store for a junk
shop. Then she "went out." Jewdrt
Wciky.
.lift O.nght the Drift
Don't know what they talked about;
Anon they paused now walked about
In motions slow and swift;
But one declared, " Yoti worry me,
In vague conjectures hurry me:
I do not catch the drift."
The other then bean again
To elucidate his plan again.
And make the darkness lift;
But Dense declared, ".Nov break me up
If all ypu say can wake me up:
I do not catch the drift."
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r '&T - I iff' it V?v
The first exclaimed, "Now hark again."
Ha, ha! he missed the mark again,
The cloud3 refused to rift.
The other cried, "I wonder, Ned
W hat' wrong? Am I a dun lerheadf
I do not catch the drift."
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But Providence was making up
To give that chap a shaking up;
For like a torrent swift
An avalanche of snow, ha, ha!
Dropped on him there below, ha, haf
Ho, ho! he caught the drift.
Texas Sif tings.
hippopotamus seems to be
surely on the road to extermination
hunters as the American buffalo is.
as
by
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