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THE MORGANTON STAR, FRIDAY, JANUARY 27, 1888. w rm o i r t i tm po GEXS:il IT; WAIiTvACE'S WIFE scius?i:s iati: in a hare3i. "What .TJoes On In Secluded Apart mcnts Imxuvies of the Ha rem The Interior of Turkish Houses. The wife of General Lew "Wallace, dice United States Minister to Turkey, contributes to the New York World an article on the harem life of Turkish ladies. "Wc quote: The word harem means the holy 01 sanctified, and in general sense is given to any spot peculiarly hallowed. I was a long while learning that the name applies to the spacious inclosed court about mosques ; not a "barred prison but consecrated ground, revered as a sanc tuary, i To wever blank and bare the re mainder of the house may be and usually is the forbidden room.3 are well furnished accorded to Moslem fancy, in which is copied, as far as possible, their iclcal paradise an adorable palace with I a thousand windows, and before everv window a sparkling fountain. Free light,- abundant space, shady gardens, where the nightingale sinirs among the roses, and rushing waters cool the air. These are the luxuries which foreshadow the golden pleasure-fields kept for the faithful by the Houris. The women, old and young, assemble in the sacred room.-, with their children snd attendants, and they are the centre of the world to the home-keeping Turk, who cares nothing for travel and never emigrates. His spare time and money are spent there, and the wife is, in tho tender Aral ian phrase, the keeper of her husband's soul. Turkish homes are much alike. The entrance is through a double door, lanre enough for horses and carriage. Beyond it is a swing screen, suspended like a gate, which hides the vestibule, oi court, when the street door opens. Two outside staircases appear, one leading to the men's apartments, the other to the women's. At the first landing the visit or finds the black aga or guard before the door of the apartment, to which only one man is admitted, and which is for bidden to the sight and thought of all men, save that one. There is no special place to eat or sleep in. A low divan, running round the wall of each room, is made a bed by night, the clothes being kept in presses by day. In imperial palaces the coverlets are of Lahore stuffs, embroidered with coloreed silks interwoven with pearls and turquoises, the sheets are of fine cotton barred with stripes of silk like tatin ribbon. The pillows have silk and gold, and during summer mosquite nets of Tripoli gauze, spotted with gold, are suspended by gilt hoops over the sleeper. Nothing gayer or daintier can be imag ined. Formerly cashmere shawls served as "spreads" for the beds of the rich. The small round mirror, fromed in velvet, is always at hand for todet use, and the laying on of cosmetics is so deep that it is named "face-writing." Turk ish women understand the arts of repair ing the ravages of time, and their toilet service is varied and effective. Meals were served on bright brass trays of various sizes, and a piece of bread serves as spoon, knife and fork, so deftly used that there is neither spilling nor crumbling about the low table beside which cushions , are ranged instead, of chairs. Exquisite neatness prevails, and many attendants are in waiting. Every Turkish harem has its bath rooms, three in number, if the owner is well-to-do. The first is square, chiefly of marble (in the Sultan's palace, of Egyptian alabaster), lighted from a glass dome. A large reservoir built against the outer wall, with an opening into the bath, contains the water, half of which is heated by a furnace below it. Hot air pipes throw intense heat into the room, fountains lead the water from the reser voir and here the rubbing process is conducted. The second room is less lieated and furnished only with a marble platform holding mattsesses and cush ions, where the bathers repose after the latigue of ablutions too many for de-! POM nf I rr ITH.A 4 T- . r 1- itnf ' eat fruits and sweets and finally wrap themselves in soft burnouses and pass to the outer chamber, where they drowse and doze on downy couches till they re cover from the steaming heat and the langor that follows a long, warm bath. Besides these, there are public baths "where women spand many hours in gossip and the passive enjoyment of being thoroughly rubbed, brushed, combed nd perfumed. Ladies of rank are now struggling into the miseries of French toilet, but the old Turkish dress is much prettier. A loose, flowing robe of silk or crape wrought with gold and silks, without belt or tightness tfJ limit its comfort. Nothing better a,lapted to their climate can be imagined. The white veil, prescribed bylaw, with ut which no one may appear on the street 0r in presence of man, is of thin gauze, folded bas and placed over the head, coning down near the eyebrows. A rger piece covers the lower half of the ce and is secured to the back hair by Jeweled pins. It makes a light, pretty fcaban ,hich is a merciful charity to the homely and enhances the grace of the graceful ; not hiding the paradise eyes &Q those eyes! Well might the min trels en their liquid splendor to the reflection of midnight stars at the bot- ' torn of a well. And the veils grow thin ner and thinner in spite of foimans, issued by the Sultan anl read in all the mosques, calling attention of heads of families to this backsliding and violation of the law of of the Prophet. Often have I been r.sked, How do Con stantinople ladies enjoy themselves? Like others who love leisure, in visiting promenading, dress and shopping. Their chief joy is to float in a caique to the ValW e j Waters, the beauty spot of the Bosphorus. UQ r.aay the Mahometan Sunday hundreds glide by dressed in brilliant colors, mistlike veils faintly shading their faces. The rowers wear jackets of scar let, stiff with shining broidery. An armed slave is on duty, clad in barbaric stuffs. Cushions of eider-down, crimson hangings touching the blue water, make the enchanting picture. Oh, how its beauty comes back to me now ! Their talk with each other is of their children, the changes and intrigues of the palace, ani of .iress The Turkish woman aoes not know the word responsi bility. She has undisputed control of her property and time, is able to take her own part, and by finesse and persever ance manages to have her own way. The seclusion of the harem give much time for discussion and many a question of grave import is there debated. The women are well, informed in politics, fond of intrigue, and so artful that our missionary, Dr. Dwight, of Constanti nople, writes: "Any one who has a private scheme tc advance, a policy to develop, an office to gain or to keep, a L;oy to provide for, or an enemy to CTUsh, sends his wife to the harem of a gra ndee. Women here bring about the most astounding results. Their manner is ceremonious during formal calls, and they still kiss the hem of the garment in deference to age or superiority. In familiar places, they have a sweet frankness Jike untrained young girls and listen with interest to accounts of our ways of livings, how we keep house, do great charities, manage the churches, &c, &c. "How hard," they say in tender pity, "that life may be good for you, but would not be at all good for us. You are made for work, vt-e are made for love; this suits us best." So they lean back on the silky cushions, taste the conserve of rose and of quince, light their cigarettes and are happy. Great Age of Fishes. It is not generally known that there is nardly any limit of the age of a fish. The late Professor Baird, of the United States Fish Commission, is the authority for the statement that there is authentic evidence to show that carp have main- tained an age of 200 years. There is a tradition that within fifty years a pike was living in Russia whose age dated back to the fifteenth century. There are gold-fish in Washington that have belonged to one family over fifty years. They do not appear much larger than when they were originally placed in the aquarium, and are every bit as lively as when young. The Russian Minister says that in the royal aquarium at St. Petersburg there are fish to-day that have been known by the records to have been in them 140 years. Some of them are, he says, over five times a3 large as they were when first captured, while some have not grown an inch. An attache of the Chineselegationsays that there are sacred fish kept in some of the palaces in China that are older than any of those in Russia. The Modern Brahman's Aims in Life. The modern Brahman, however, is but a sadly degenerated representative of his intellectual forefathers. His aim in life now seems only to live as easily as pos sible on the ignorance, superstition and veneration of the lower castes. There are but few of them deeply read in their ancient theology ; so that they have be come little better than "blind leaders of the blind." Thus it has come to pass that a body cf men numbering not more than a few hundred thousand, have held over 200,000,000 of their fellow country- f A a a 1 a i men for thirty centuries in the terrors of a system of sacerdotal legislation, enforc ing its claims to the last limit of endur ance at the price of the utter ignorance, degradation and slavery of their nation. Sir Alfred Lyall in a recent report says : "The religion of the non-Mohammedan population of India is a tangled jungle of disorderly superstitions, ghosts and demons, demi-gods and deified saints, household gods, local gods, tribal gods, universal gods, with their countless shrines and temples, and the din of their discordant rites; deities who abhor a fly's death; those who still delight in human sacrifices. ;uch is the result of the evolution of the Indo-Germaaic or Aryan brain in the tropical East. Al though our branch of the family cannot boast of having risen so early in the morning of civilization, we can at leasl . affcrd to congratulate ourselves on th amount of wTork done since we did get ap. It is a curious query, with the aid of the experiences of our Hindu brethren, to ask, will 2,000 years find our descend ants degenerated to an analogous ex tent?" PUthlurg Dirpatch. A solid cut glass bedstead, richly worked, was lately made at Birmingham, England, for a Calcutta millionaire. FACTS FOR THE CURIOUS. AU trust ShipTf 5 nf TTnnf Texas, is seven feet tea inches tall and "ii still crowing ! Tubac, a small town in Pima County, Arizona, claims to be the oldest settlement i in the United States. Its town records extend back to 1539. Day began at sunrise among most ol the Northern nations, at sunset amons the Athenians and Jews, and among the Romans at midnight. Italy ceased to be the center of the I Roman world with the removal of the ! capital from Rome to Byzantium (Con- stantinople) by Constantine, in the fourth century. Daniel Lyons, of Walla Walla, W. T., found partially buried in the sand on the Snake River the skeleton of an Indian, ! some ot tne 1 ibs of which were thoroughly petrified. Another of the numerous silver dollars of the coinage of 180-1, of which onlv four were orijrinallv struck h-. tnmw! up in the West. This part'cular one i held by a resident of Urbana, Ohio, wha i values it at $:00. ; The Democrat of Crawfordsville, Ga., speaks of a potato grown near that town, upon which nature had formed an al most perfect "B." The Democrat recites ! flirt eer that the vpwtal-.lo tvis duct of land owrcdl.y a man whose'ini-1 tial letter is "B." ' The singular fact is demopstritd thM I while the most rapid cannon -ho- ' , destroyed six of the ... . . ' "".most dangerous Ones. It is SU!r"ested scarceiv attain a veloeitv or ;nn rrtr ' second over 1.500 miles per hour me teorites are k-own to penetrate the air with a velocity of 40,000, or even 00,000, meters per second, a . velocity which raises the air at once to a temperature ol 4,000 degrees to 0,000 degrees Centi grade. The grave of a Viking was opened re cently, and in it was found the skeleton of the old warrior, who had evidently been buried in a sitting posture, with his face to the West. He had been clad in a woolen coat, clasped with a golden clasp, and belted with & leather belt, with two gold buckles. Over his lap lay a wooden shield covered with bronze and rimmed with iron, and by his side in a wooden scabbard was a two-edged iron sword, thirty inches long, and near it were an iron dagger and spear. At his feet was a bucket of wood and bronze, such as the Saxons used to carry on their war ships. Brave Boys. There is something grand in the opera tions of the lioyal Humane Society of London. It casts a glance over the vast extent of the British Empire, noting every instance in which a human life is saved by generous bravery. It investi gates the circumstances nd bestows upon each hero the honor of its recogni tion, which is the more precious because it is not vulgarized by any kind of ma terial reward. The last list of persons thus distin guished contains thirty-seven names, and among them are, as usual, those of several brave boys. One of these was Stanley Dawson Smith, aged twelve years, who,in August last, rescued from drowning his tw-o sisters, aged seventeen and thirteen. The elder girl was teaching the younger to swim, when the retiring tide carried both beyond their depth. The gallant boy, who was bathing near them, swam to their assistance and happily succeeded in helping both to regain their footing. To him the. Society awarded its bronze medal. In the same month a Hindu lad of eighteen, named Talladhur Dharsee, saved from drowning, at far-off Bombay, another Hindu boy, who had fallen into a well. To him also a medal was awarded. Besides medals, the society gives testimonals on vellum or on parch ment for gallantry in attempting to save life, even when the attempt is not suc cessful. Youttts Companion. After many years of experimenting .nth the object of increasing the 6peed of vessels and lessening their draft by a change in the formation of the hull, ? Pennsylvania inventor has succeeded It. constructing a boat which he claims ful fills the desiderata so long sought, and Is n entire accordance with true sciential theory. This boat which is some thirty six feet long, is of the shape known as the concave bottom, the hull beiDg built in a right and left hand spiral form from the bow to the middle section. The ccu formationofthe hull in this case Is such as to displace water in a manner closolj approximating to the wave-line theory, beginning at the cut-water, the displace ment being accomplished gradually until the centre of the boat is reached, when the reverse action of the displacement begins; the concave begins where the convex ends. The greater the speed, the greater the lifting power, the boat rising on the water, and consequently moving with greater speed without an increase of power. An accommodation train in service on the Omaha road between St. Paul and Stillwater is known among railroad men as the hospital train, from the fact that every engineer who has run on the train for several years past ha3 either had a stroke of paralysis while at the trottle or been injured in some way. Dangers to Navigation. I? is estimated that about one-eighth f the man? vcssels ueyer heard from are lost u3' collision with sunken or i jut- mg wrecks. The charts of the Hydro graphic Office show all the dercTcts re ported, but the list is not complete, be cause seme captains fail to report a dere lict when seen by them. Many of the disasters at sea are caused by neglect of proper precautions. The loss of the-Ore-con was an instance of the kind. There is a rule that all steamshins must have their commrtments closed from the timo they leave one port until they arrive at another. One provision against disaster is seldom observed which reads: "Every . ship, whether sailing or steamship, shall in a fog or moist or falling snow go at a moderate rate of speed." The Banks of Newfoundland arc seldom free from fo and the number of fishing boats that dot these waters can be counted by the hun dreds. Few of the ocean steamer-! how- ever, slacken s peed while crossing the Banks. t'oiiisions with icebergs, it is urged, mvlt a-so je avoided, as captaino may obtain from the Hvdrogranhic Office a chart showing the most northerly passage which can Ikj taken without danger of encountering floes, or Lvrgs. The record f the scasoa 7 .thus shows that 1G j steamers and mx sailing vessels have been damaS-a b ke- Th(? Department sent t)lb 1 lt('h some time ago to find ucstro-v ot these Seating , . .. . -- v. .. puiwmmvui. .-n.iuin money o keep a vessel similar to the Dispatch continually employed, thereby removing this danger to sailbg vessels and steamer.-!. Sao York Pre& Unknown To Each Other. A great ICew York morning newspaper is a wonderful thing. There are so many on the " staff " that even the head men are not always acquainted with all of their subordinates. This sometimes gives a good chance to the subordinates to do some things which in a smaller newspaper they would not think of doing. Here is a case in point. I recently at tended a dinner given by a scientific society in this city. The dinner was at one of the first-class caterers and it was first-class in every respect. The editor-in-chief of one cf the leading morning newspapers was present and occupied a seat quite close to the President of the society at the head of the table. Near the foot of the table sat a reporter forhia own paper, who was -quite prominent, but whose work was, for the most part, in Albany rather than in New York. I asked the Albany reporter if he had ex changed greetings with his chief that evening. He replied. "Xo, I have not. I scarcely know the man even by sight. I am certain that he does not know nvj at all. As long as I do not say anything he will not know that I am here I am having a lark to-night, and if hn knows that such a man as I am is in exist ence, he has no thought but that I am digging away in the office of the . It is sometimes an advantage not to be too well known." Graphic. Controlling a Hors2 by Electricity. Professor 1?. II. Harrison, of the veter inary school of Harvard College, has completed some interesting experiments of the new deviee for controlling refrac tory horses. A valuable trotting horse, which formerly went under the name of the Gray Eagle, and which ha3 a record of 2 :2?, was sent to the school for treat ment of a fractured jaw, which had been the result of attempts to control him. The animal had the habit of taking the bit in his teeth and bolting. Dr. Harri son contrived to connect the bit by two small wires along the reins with a small galvano-faradic battery, which wa9 car ried in the buggy. It was so arranged that the driver could give an electric shock of greater or less intensity to the horse, but which would not do the ani mal any injury. Dr. Harrison took care to use the contrivance only with the use of the words "whoa" and "steady." The trial was an immediate success. The horse, after two or three checks, at once became docile, and obeyed the driver's commands instantly. This moming a final trial was given the horse under try ing circumstances. He came to a halt from a 2 :40 gait or to a walk with equal docility on the driver's order. He was tried under conditions which ordinarily would have frightened him and caused him to bolt, and the result was equally satisfactory. New York Sun. A bill has been introduced in the United States Senate by Senator Dawes, of Massachusetts, to impose a license tax of -$1,000 per armum upon manufacturers of adulterated lard, ."00 upon wholesale dealers in the same, and S jO upon retai dealers. The bill provides that adulter ated lard shall be sold only in packages branded and labeled, so that all pur chasers may know what they are buying. A tax of one cent per pound is levied upon all domestic adulterated lard, and a duty of two cents per pound on im ported adulterated lard. Penalties are provided for violations of the provisions of ths law. From the middle of the sixteenth to the middle of the eighteenth century, Amsterdam enjoyed the distinction of be ing the chief commercial city in Europe. Strings KisrojlypMcs. On Tortcr Creek, in Sonoma County, Cal., on a large 1 o.dder of horn-blend syenite, are to be seen hieroglyphic etch ings similar to those found in Arizona and Nevada. 'J hey are generally oblong circles or oval?, Some of them contain crosses. A half mile to the eastward, near a high ledge of serpentine rock, are found some an::cnt working the re- mains of a shaft, as though prospecting : had been done at some time long past. These workings and the hieroglyphics were seen by the first settlers, and being j similar to those found elsewhere, must belong to the same pre-historic race. Specular copper ore :s found in limited quantities in the immed:ate vicinity, and the excavations may hive been made bj the searchers after op; er. Frank A. Madeira, now a rcs'dent of Santa Cruz, spent one winter some year ago on the spot. D::ring that time he found several relics of the ancient inhabitants. The half of a "iirmtic stone moitar. mu:h J larger iluin tkoe in use at the time ol the incur-ion of the Spaniards and Amer icans, was found; also a pestle o; syenite containing phaliic signs, similar to those Le fluent on polemics and politics; he found at llaifmoori L.y, ::o.v in the pos- j must write of the President aad punip-se-sion of tlie St.uc Mineraloiical Bureau. J kins; he must mind men of higii degree i Several similar mortars v.v.e also found, -V lYr.;- Un,lir. Shooting Arrows. In the days when the Buffalo was found ; jn vast herds cn the Western plains, there j were Indians who. while riding at a gal- ' Inn. rrmld sp:im nn nrrnw thrnnrrl, . l,i,f. I ! 17 o , iaio S OOCI V Ilexaikable as this shooting i was yet it did not coual that reached bv the archers of ancient times. Mr. Dison, in his history of Galrlock, Scotland, says that the Macliaes of that district were ; such skilful archers that they could hit a man at the distance of four and even five hundred vards. lie instances the killing of a serving-man at five hundred yards, j and of two men killing several McLeods at four hundred yards. Lest the reader should discount the tlistance of the ranije, the author mentions several wonderful thots made by Turks. In 1794, the Turk ish ambassador shot an arrow, in a field near London, four hundred and fifteen yards against the wind, and four hundred and eighty-two yards with the wind. The secretary of the ambassador, on hearing the expressions of surprise from the Eng lish gentlemen present, said the Sultan had shot five hundred yards. This was the greatest performance of modern days. j but a pillar, standing on a plain near Constantinople, recorded shots ranging up to eight hundred yards. Sir Hobe.-t Aicslie, British ambassador to the Sublime Porte, records that in 179$ he was present when the Sultan shot an arrow nine hundred and seventy-two yards. Youth's Coi.oianior. Th3 Press anj its Burden. The presi endures thf? a!ilifiion of deui licadisni from the pulpit, Xh - bar at:d the stage: from corporations, societies and individual. It is expected to yh.M its interests it is reouested to five ? trpn"th tc the weak, eyes to the blind, clothes to the naked and bread to the hungry. It is asked to cover up infirmities, hide weak ness, wink at quacks, bolster up all dull, ap-headed politicians and flatter the vain. It is, in short, to be all things to all men; and if it looks foi any rward it is denounced as mean and sorelid. There is no interest under the whole heavens that is expected to give so much t so ciety without pay or thanks as the pre?s. Ujr'iifion Ihiicktuc. California's Largest Orchard. California, says the Chicago Atrj, has some big orchards, and the largest is in the Suisua valley, and is owned by A. T. Hatch, President cf the California Fruit Union. 3Ir. Hatch has 200 acres in pear trees, 139 in peaches, 70 in apri cots, 10 in nectarines, 210 in almonds,40 in cherries, 100 in plums and prunes, besides 40 acres of currants and goose berries, and hundreds of lemon and orange trees. Of these acres, 300 bore fruit this season tc the amount of 2,000 tons, which brought the owner $100,000. He calculates that when the whole orchard is in full bearing it will produce 8,000 tons of fruit, worth $400,000. In a Safj Place. "Joseph," said the mthf.nt to the bright young man with the beit of references, "the bookkeeper teils m you have lost the key of the safe, and he cannot get at the books." "xc, sir, one of them; you gave me two, you re member." "Yes, I had duplicates made, in case of accident. And the ether one?" "Oh, sir, I took care of that. I was afraid I might lo;c one of them, ycu know." "And is the other all right j" Ye3 sn. I put it, -'here t icro was no danger of its being lot It is in the safe, sir." Bo Jon Tra?scripL The youngc?t racing syndicate in the world is that known as D. J. McCarthy & Brother. The senior member of the firm is 12 years old, the junior member but a little over 10. They belong in San Francisco and own C. II. Todd.the horse which won the American Derby at Chi cago last spring and brought nearly 14,000 into the pockets of the tenior member by so doing. Th3 Crjniry Editor. There is an idea in the mind3 of many who ought to know better that th country editor" stand on the lowest platform of the profession, and that ha j who is employed in any cnp.-.cit7, no matter how humble, on a metropolitan Journal is his superior. There is no greater mistake. An editor who ha held important chairs in metropolitan oiuces. and who has the reputation of havin been successful, remarked: "I do not hesitate to write the leaders of the most important journals, but I would tremble to undertake the management of a vil lage newspaper." There is no place in the profession S3 difficult to Til as that of a country editor. In cities a man who can do one department well bothers himself about no other. Nor need he; he gets the knick of his speciilty, and continues at it. But the country editor must bo good in all depArtmsats; he must be well read oa all sublets; he must be able to discern the trer.d of the public mind in politics religi n and so cial topics; he must discu-s agriculture ind anarchy with equal precision ; he must and descend to thing of low estate; in j short, he rau-t bi an "all-rou:i 1 man." ; u i? in-.s iaa; ruiices ine pamioj or a I country editor so hard t- fill. It is this ' training that mikes the g-! country ' "l":tor su-b a splendid mar.ag.T for There H r.o place, y o:Iice, where such all-round training can be had. The position of a country c litor is not held in the esteem it shou'd b?. Country papers are notrcspecte I r.s they ought to be. If a family can afford only one paper, let that b; the home pajier; for it con cerns a family more to know what is bclag done in its own county than it dceito know the news of distant places. The city paper cannot give, and d-cs not pretend to give,the local n;ws that its country readers must have; but the good country paper does give & very fair epitome of the world's news. Xo other publication can supply thw place of a gcod local paper. If both can not be retained if cither the ! city journal or country newspaper must go, let it be the former; for nothing caa supply the place of the local paper Printer's Circular. A Quiet Gams in Chinatown. The Chinese are what we call inveter ate gambler. Th? few thuu-r.nds of them wh; live in ,'ev.- York v.o.k hard, mostly at lai:ndcn:g, bu: hv.e abso lutely no ili-trac t'ons. --miking opium, going Jo Sui.day-;tl; la learn English, and playing games f chance. Mott street, of which sev r.d blocks are entirely given up to Chinese slorc, rcs- tn'.ir.int?, laundries r.a-1 i;:o or less masked gambling-room, r.:di abun dant facilities for this I ttt r r. r.;i; -rncnt. The horribly dens e-f hi'-h :ts and desperadoes, sometime pitlut'd by the I diurnal sensationalist, do not vxht; or, i if thnv tin n. fVuMsiw i:ic -. r i.o.i opportunity totudy and elc-crilK; them. Fan-taa and ether g:;mc, however, abound; and the occasional raids made by the police necessitate a certain amount of secrecy, as well as provision for spirit ing away the entire "layout" at a mo ment's warning. The brass coins are used merely as counters in the gime, which consists in betting upon the icmrant of a heap of pieces, after removing them by fours until not more than four rma'u. j The hr.lcs in the center crab c tui crou pier to rake or poke tLe:n ao ut on the table with his magic wand. The oblonir bits of pasteboard arc playing-cards. Frank Lt slit's. A Lccky Reporter. Occasional wisdom of the worldly kind among Bohemians is worthy of remark. Twelve years ago a young reporter on the Tribun- who was enabled to eara $18 & week, had an opportunity to go "West. In a few weeks he came back, drifted about among his friends and raised $3, 000 and went back again. This sum he invested in a cattle ranch up north of Cheyenne. A couple of days ago he turned up oa Broadway with a large and violently developed desire to illuminate the town. He is now worth a cool $500,000, and he comes to New York every winter to cel ebrate. Upon these occasions he " blows in " several thousand dollars within three or four months, 'and then he goes back to "Wyoming and watches hi3 cattle for the balance of the year. The business has its drawbacks, but the ex-reporter de clares with emphasis that on the whole he wouldn't exchange it for life on a newspaper at $1$ a week Xeio York Yor!J. A r.stsr tfoase. . A Jumbo i.:GG-e wa rc-ceat'y shot on Spence river in the Dead river region ol Maine by one of the famous hunters ol those wild. It rr. tracked on thf stream, chasrd across the line into Can ada and then b :ck into Maine, five ilays being consumed before the fatal shot wa fired. The monster wa- nine years old. measured nine feet fi tn base of horn3 to end of tail, stood 22 ha ds high, Lad a girth of 9 feet 4 inches and str-tched out measured 13 feet from ci d of nose to end of toes. Its horns sprcd four feet and the width of palai wa3 4 J inch. Sring fcld Hepullicax.
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