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VOLUME VIII. _ HUNTSVILLE. ALA., SATURDAY, JANUARY 29, iM. NUMBER 11.
KRWS IN BRIEF.
Compiled from Various Sources.
As expedition of Swedes and Belgians
left Antwerp on the 24th for the Congo
country.__
Mbs. Voortief.s, wife Senator Voor
hees. of Indiana, died at Washington on
the 21st. ___
Hos. A. S. Paddock has been elected
United States Senator from Nebraska to
succeed Senator \ an Wyck.
i'nr. funeral of four of the victims of
the Baltimore & Ohio wreck at. Reps*}!**,
took place at Republic, O., on the 19th.
Btasi.ey. the African explorer, has of
fers froin many gof# vho wish to ac
company kir* Of Ins prfekhrit expedition.
Ti K Canadian Government is jutt’ant
on r the discouragement given the seces
sion and repeal movement b^ Mr. Glad
stone. __
A company has leased lands and made
preparations for lea^-mining on a large
-rale in Petti* au'a adjoining counties of
Missouri.
FvvoiiGir.K reports have been made on
the appli*' at ions of Washington Territory
wdi^.itaua to be admitted into the Union j
.abates.
The annual examination at West Point
was completed on the 21st. Thirty-nine
cadets were found deficient and have been
dismissed.
Hr sky M STANi.Ef embarked at London
onthcifKt for Brindisi, en route to Suez,
from whence he will proceed to the relief
Of Emin Bey.
Mbs. Yii.as gave a breakfast of fourteen
coverson the 20th in honor of Mrs. Cleve
land an, 1 Miss Hovns, of Chicago, who is
Mrs. Vilas' guest.
It is said that Justices Murray and
Gray, of the United States Supreme
Court, will refuse to sit in the telephone
cases on account of interest of relatives.
Tiif. National Board of Trade, in session
at Washington, on the 20th, declared itself,
by a close A'ote, not in favor of Govern
ment subsidies to American-built vessels.
Dow. Jones & Co.’s news agency, of
New York, charges that the Western
Union Telegraph Company has been fur
nishing private dispatches to a rival
agency.
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Peter McGeocii has won the famous
suit brought agair.st him at Milwaukee by
Daniel Wells, Jr., 0n matters growing out
nt the great D’.rel deal in which Peter was
involved.
The aye castle at Montreal is nearly com
pleted, and a preliminary illumination
and V-yrotechnic disply on the night of the
demonstrated the beauty and eftect
»''JJiQss of the design.
The Secretary of the Treasury has de
signated $13,887,030 in three per cent,
bunds for which the cash will be ready for
their redemption on March 1, after which
date interest will cease.
The Do i 11ard tobacco factory strikers
at Jersey City, N. J., determined to re
turn to work on the 24th. The firm will
not increase wages and will reduce the
force fully ten per cent.
InE Treasury Department has decided
that no drawback can be allowed on the
exportation of imported bottles tilled with
beer manufactured in the United States
from domestic materials.
A sensation in social life at Washing
nn "as created on the 23d when a party
Uninvited guests at a private entertain
~ <t at the residence of the British Minis
j/^ere invited to retire by the Misses
J!.,E Xecretarv of the Treasury has
- -Mied -xisting relations so as to allow
entry of naturally frozen fish, im
I ' ! m the condition in which they are
U’. without having been salted or
-inenvise preserved.
Ue final dress rehearsal of the latest
^"i*of sir Arthur Sullivan and W. S.
’ :i,,rt. which is to be made known to the
, under the suggestive title of “Rud
L core: or. the Witches’ Curse.” took
i ,: '6 on the 21st iu tho Savoy Theater,
London.
11E Dicnds of Congressman Hiscock are
mmenting upon the fact that both Gar
,U; ! B'.ainc were elected to the Senate
1 'P.ving tlie chair in the ways and
_committee now occupied by the
-'-New Yorker, who has just captured
Lnited States Senatorship.
jM''Kr’ 'he historic army posts selected
abandonment under the plan for the
^■'"Mration of troops by regiments at
,“ -cpoMs m ar railway centers are Forts
T.;‘;1 u!-- Fnion, N. M., and Hayes, Kas.
■ -’urris ins of these posts will be sent
' iivor when the post is established
* "ext summer.
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it, . who was out Cabinet call
s',^1 'y’-shington on the 20th went up the
tv, 1 "* Secretary Lamar’s house, and
tia!', b,"dv‘ '‘he the Kiug of France,
t- tiu'V11 again without seeing the
' m>’ .i 1*11’ Cabinet. Mrs. Lamar was
froiiT.v Wearie<i by her railroad journey
mit>e South to see any one.
three\ut^EVEI'AS'D shook hands with
i tti l‘(ired and twenty-seven persons
I Mrs. fir, i"11 'n one hour. Mrs. Folsom,
i Prev, n'| '">'ear a"d Mrs. Sicard gave their
I °ou;,i . l" , lhe midday reception, but
Mrs. n J. .take Part in the handshaking,
exercise ,'vand sa-vs she does not find the
greatly ad laborious, but enjoys it
I fc? ^ -
hl .e'ent> which is likely, of Mat
: record^ a?a*? reiccted bykthe {Senate
l- .umbia, w, ieeds f°r the District of
■‘biaria,, „i ,,m' Sm>'b, assistant
*>, wbr,u. Hoase of Representa
pr, u !.8 born a slave in the District,
i^utancp in .L 1)6 nominee, with
'r;“*tioa ' “lv ""oe of his speedy con
XLIXTH CONGRESS,
tN the Senate on the 10th a biU was reported
for the protection of American fishing vessels.
▲ conference committee was appointed on the
Forfeiture of the Backbone Land-Grant bill.
A bill authorizing the construction of a bridge
over the Mississippi river, between Eads’
bridge and the mouth of the Missouri river, Was
amended and passed. Conferees wefe ap
pointed on the Army Appropriation
bill. The bill appropriating &!00,000 I
for the Charleston jetties was passed.
An executive session was held, Ad
journed.In the House the resolution set
ting apart a day for consideration of the Blair
Educational bill was discussed. The Inter
State Commerce bill was considered. Tbe hill
authorizing the Construction of a bridge over
the Mississippi river at St. Louis was passed
A resolution was offered calling on the Secre
tary ot the Treasury for information regarding
the Pacific railroad debt. Adjourned.
IX the Senate 6n the 20th a message was re
eved from the President vetoing a pension
Wll. A petition from manufacturers and mer
chants of St. Louis for the repeal of tfitefnai
Revenue laws was presented-. The bill was re
ported for the completion of the monument to
the mother of Washington; also, the bill to
amend the act authorizing the construction of
the Arthur Kill bridge. Notice was given that
on Tuesday, the 25th, the resolotibh proposing a
woman suffrage an>eOdVnent would be called
up. The conference report On the Electoral
Count bill Was agreed to.In the House a
resolution was adopted calling on the Secretory
of the Treasury for a statement of the Gov
ernment's accounts With the Pacific railroads.
Reports from committees on a number of bills
were presented. The Senate bill passed amend
ing the law regarding patents, trade marks and
copyrights. An agreement was made to vote
on the morning of the 2lst on the adoption of
the conference report on the Inter-State Com
merce bill, after which the bill was take up ar,«
discussed.
In the Senate on the 21st Mr. Spooner was
appointed to succeed General Logan on the
committee on privileges and elections. A peti
tion was presented from the Woman's Chris'
tian Temperance Union the District of
Columbia for protection against vice and law
lessness. A resolution was adopted calling for
the correspondence regarding the seizure of the
American schooner Rebecca at Tampico, Mex
ico. After secret session the Senate adjourned
until the 24th.In the House the
Inter-State Commerce bill was voted on
and passed—yeas, 219; nays, 41. A resolution
was offered and referred calling for the corre
spondence regarding the Canadian fisheries.
The conference report on the bill for allotment
of lands ih severalty to Indians was agreed to.
Private business was considered in committee
of the Whole. An evening session was held
and several pension bills were passed.
The Senate was not in session on tne 22<1.
In the House the committee on judiciary re
ported adversely the resolutions of inquiry as
to the Union Pacific consolidation. The Dis
trict of Columbia Appropriation bill was re
ported. The Senate amendments to the
bill for forfeiture of the New Or
leans, Baton Rouge & Vicksburg Rail
road lands were concurred in. The
resolution with reference to the Hawaiian
treaty, asking the judiciary committee to re
port whether a treaty involving a rate of du ty
is valid without concurrence of the House,
was adopted. A motion to go into committee
of the whole on the River and Harbor bill was
carried, and the bill was taken up and dis
cussed.
In the Senate on the 24th the credentials of
Senators Farwell (111.) and Davis (Minn.) were
presented. The bill concerning post-offices of
the third class was passed. A protracted dis
cussion took place on the bill to authorize the
President of the United States to protect and
defend the rights of American fishermen, and
the bill was passed with only one dissenting
vote (Riddleberger).In the House
the response of the Secretary of the
Treasury to the resolution asking for informa
tion concerning Pacific railway indebtedness
was read Mr. Lawler introduced a resolution
directing the committee on naval affairs to in
quire into the expediency of appropriating $50,
000,000 for construction of war vessels. The
House then went into committee of the whole,
and adjourned without doing anything.
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PERSONAL AND GENERAL.
The Montreal (Can.) Court of Appeals
has refused a writ of habeas corpus to
Hoke, the Peoria (111.) defaulter, and he
will be surrendered to the United Stated
officers.
The Detroit (Mich.) brewers have won
in the contest with their workmen, the
latter having returned to work: under the
old conditions.
Jay Gould is said to have offered £100
000 for the Dallas (Tex.) Courtdiouse and
grounds for a union depot.
Rev. John Patterson, of Ctombridge.
Wis., who cut his throat during a tem
porary lit of insanity died on tlte 23d.
The Lucknow Paper mills, at Bridgeton,
N. J., were burned on the 22d. The works
were valued at £42.00'.); insurance £13,250.
The funeral of Mrs. V jorheee took place
at Washington on the 23d.
Sir Joseph Whitworth, the eminent
English engineer, died at Mkmte Carlo on
the 23d.
A man named Moser was killed bfy a
boiler explosion at Van Mater, la., on the
23d.
The long-continued drought in Centijal
Illinois has been broken tty copious raips.
Of fifteen Rapublican Senators to be
sworn in on the 4th of Mao-eh, four are^ex
Confederates.
Train robbers did a very fine job near
Gordon. Tex., on the 23d. Eight of Bhem
stopped a train and robbed the ex) ress
and mail cars. Tho amount of their plun
der is not known.
Spain is willing to grant amnes'ty to
Zorilla and other political exiles, who* will
return home.
A Cheek Indian boy named Seabron,
charged with three murders near Euiiaula.
J. T., has been captured and carried to
Fort Smith.
Boom.eh O’Neil’s case was called in
New York on the 24th.
Brisbane, the capital of Queensland,
has been swept by a great cyclone, doing
immense damage.
Mrs. Langtry denies the receuftly cir
culated report that her husband i&dead.
At Odessa the Russians are discharging
all Jews in their employ.
Tue Indians at Ft. Belknap have agreed
to take lands in severalty.
The report that Premier McDonald of
Canada is insane is officially denied.
Governor Foraker of Ohio has issued a
pi-oclamation quarantining against Illi
nois cattle.
It is estimated that the landstrum %vill
add a million men to the Austrian army.
Ex-Governor Bate of Tennessee got
the caucus nomination for United States
Senator on the night of the 24th.
Prince Bismarck addressed the Prus
sian Diet on 24th on the appropriations
budget.
'The crew of tho abandoned British
steamer Nettuno were landed at Greenock,
Scotland, on the 24th.
Commanders of French fortresses are
ordered to be at their posts before Febru
ary 20. Trouble is anticipated.
It is reported that the French have de
feated the Tonquin rebels at Thou Hoa,
and that five hundred insurgents werO
killed.
A. boiler explosion in the steel-works at
JEtnaborough, Pa., on the 24th killed two
men and wounded several others.
JnE Andaris of India are preparing to
attack the Ahleer of Afghanistan in the
Spring. They ask Ayoub Khan to lead
them.
Military preparations by the Austro
Hungarian Government continue unbated.
Arguments began in the United States
Supreme Court on the 24th in the tele
phone cases.
At O’Neil City, Neb., on the 24th, a mob
drove an editor named Claiborne and his
wife and a man named Tebault out of
town.
TriE Government revenues for this month
are thus far decidedly larger than was
expected, and indicate a fair debt reduc
tion.
The House committee on public build
ings and grounds has agreed to report
bills increasing the appropriations fot
public buildings at Winona, Minn.; from
$100,(ICO to $125,000, and at Harrisonburg,
Va., from $50,000 to $00,000.
It has beeu hinted about the "War De
partment that a general officer of the
army may possibly be pldced ofi the re
tired list early in June by the President
after he reaches sixty-two years of age,
instead of waiting until his compulsory
retirement under the law two years later.
According to the official asylum re
port, lunacy in Massachusetts is on the in
crease'
Director Thorne of Cordova observa
tory, South America, has discovered a
new comet.
Philadelphia ministers in mass-meet
ing on the 24th, denounced the ballet a?
immodest and immoral.
Major George Lockwood,of New York
lias resigned his position as chief clerk ol
the Interior Department, afteffiight y ears’
service.
Owing to its length and delay in en
grossing the Inter-State Commerce bill
had not been laid before the President for
liis action up to the 24th.
TnERE were less than fifty visitors at
the President’s reception on the 24th. The
crowd was so small that the President did
not go down stairs, but received them ir
the Cabinet-room.
The recent bond call leaves only $40,000,
000 of three per cent, bonds outstanding.
It is Secretary Manning's purpose to call
these in four calls as rapidly as the rev
enues permit.
The friends of tho trade-dollar redemp
tion are endeavoring to bring about a
reconciliation among members of the
House coinage committee. Whfile the
present division continues they believe
Messrs. Bland and Lanham will prevent
consideration of the bill.
The First Comptroller has disallowed
another claim of Colonel John S. Mosby
for a refund of fees, etc., improperly (as
he claims) turned into the treasury while
Consul at Hong Kong, amounting to about
$6,000. Colonel Mosby’s claims against the
Government, which have been diur.lliowed.
amount to $12,000.
LATE NEWS ITEMS. ’
Cholera is making frightful ravages in
South America.
New Yo'K City is threatened with a
small-pox epidemic, ami it is believed the
publication of the fact will cost the cifc’y
$10,000,000 of trade.
Prof. Hopkins and Dr. C. H. Mee'^g of
the national prohibition executive com
mittee lectured at Jackson, ^iss ., on the
25th, taJjing the ground that to ,ila]ie pro.
hibition effective a third paiT y devoted te
its interests must be organic
• /
The Governor of Ohi<\ on the 25th np
pointetf ex-President fcP ayes to be trustee
of the'Ohdo State UnJ' versity for the term
of sevhu years.
T. B. Parneli/( sheriff of Muhlenberg
county, KJy., v/js shot and killed on the
22d, whife. attempting to arrest James A,
Hopkins, wly, is charged with.murder.
The Governor of Ohio has issuedl a
proclamfey'on quarantining against cattle
from Illin ois.
Ex-Gf W. B. Bate was elected United
State^f^enntor by the Tennessee Legisla
ture <3 n the 25th.
I»'Yellow stone county, Ga., five men in
aro'oush fired upon Andy Howard. The
q/.en having emptied their guns, without
death resulting, rushed upon Howard and
1 stamped him so baillv that, his bowels pro
truded, aud death ensued iu twenty-four
hours.
The imports of dry goods for the week
ending on the 22d amounted to $2,878,141.
The amount thrown on the market was
$2,955,208.
At Memphis, on the 22d, 0,300 bales of
cottou were destroyed by tire. Loss .+285,
000.
Jackson, Miss., is to have the special
delivery system.
A freight TRAIN on the Louisville and
Nauhville road was wrecked near Hum
boldt, Tenn., on the 22d.
There was a demonstration at New
New York on the 23d in compliment to
Michael Davitt and Iiis wife. Nearly 10,000
persons were present.
The British government is alarmed on
account of its having heard that Uermany
is likely to ask France to explain the
meaning of the French military move
ments on the frontier.
Since November 1st over 900 locomotive
engines have been ordered. Sim* January
lsrover 4000 freight, lumber ami eoafi cars.
The annual examination at West Point
has just been completed. Thirty-nine ca
dets were found deficient and have been
dismissed.
•\ suit ior '400,000 damages was filed in
the Circuit C. urt at St. Louis, on the 22d,
by the St. Joseph and St. Louis railroad
against the St. Louis, Iron Mountain and
Southern, aud the Missouri Pacific Kai1*
road Companies. I
THE FISHERIES QUESTION, i
Pall Text of the BUI Passed by the Senate
Empowering the President to Close Our
Ports to Canadian Vessels In Retaliation
for Indignities and Harassments to Amer
ican Fishermen.
Washington, Jan. 26.—The full text of
the Fisheries bill as it passed the Senate
yesterday is as follows:
A BLULi
to authorize the President of the United States
th protect and defend the rights of American
fishing vessels, American fishermen, Ameri
can trading and other vessels, in certain cases,
and for other purposes.
Be ", enacted by the Senate and House of
Represent,es of the United States of Ameri
ca, in Congress assembled: That whenever the
President of the United States shall be satis
fied that American fishing vessels, or American
fishermen visiting or being in the waters, or at
any ports or places of the British domin
ions of North America, are, or then
lately have been denied or abridged in the
enjoyment of any rights secured to them by
treaty or law, or are, or, then, lately have been,
unjustly vexed or harrassed in the enjoyment
of snch rights, or subjected to unreasonable
restrictions, regulations or requirements iD
respect to sttch rights; or, whenever the Presi
dent of the United States shall be satisfied that
any such fishing vessels or fishermen, having a
permit under the laws of the United States to
touch and trade at any port or ports, place or
place*, in the British dominions of North :
America, are, or, then, lately have been, denied
the privilege of entering such port or ports,
place or places, in the same manner and under
the same regulations as may exist therein ap
plicable to trading vessels of the most
favored nation, or shall be unjustly vexed oi
harassed in respect thereto, or shall be pre
vented from purchasing such supplies as may
there he lawfully so id to trading vessels of the
most favored nation; or whenever the Presi
dent of the United States shall be satisfied
that any other vessels of th6 United States or
their masters or crews, so arriving at or being
in such British waters or ports or places pf the
British uoininious of J'Torth America, are, dr
then lately have been denied any of the privi- ■
leges therein accorded to the vessels, their
masters or crews of the most favored nation, 01
unjustly vexed or harassed in respect of the
same, then, and in either of all of such
cases, It shall be lawful and it shall be the duty
of the President of the United States in his
discretion, by proclamation to that effect, to
rtptiy vessels, their masters and crews, of the
British dominions of North America any en
trance into the waters, ports or places of, ot
within the United States [with such exceptions
in regard to vesselB in . distress, stress of
weather or needing supplies, fts the President
shall deem proper] whether such vessels shall
have come directly from said dominions on
such destined voyage, or by way of some port
or place In such destined voyage elsewhere,
and, also, if he thinks proper, to deny entry in
to any port or place of the United States ol
fresh fish or salt fish, or any other product
of said dominions, or other goods coming
from said dominions to the United States. The
President may, in his discretion, apply such
! proclamation to any part or to all of the fore
going i)“fried subjects: and may qualify, limit
and reiilV such proclamation from time to
time, as he may deem necessary to the full and
just execution of the purposes of this act. Every
violation of any such proclamation, or any part
thereof, is hereby declared illegal, and all ves
sels and goods so coming or being within the
waters, ports or places of the United States
| contrary to suchprocla '.ation shall be forfeited
to the United States; and such forfeiture
5 shall be enforced and proceeded upon
in the ^&me manner and with the sam
effect in the case of vessels or goods whose
importation or coming to or being in the waters
or verts -Jf the United States contrary to law
»<tv mow be enforced and proceeded upom j
Ttv<*?y person who shall violate any of the B
X'Kfons of this act> or such proclala*
f ,fre8Wlen» »a4» la ^rsuanoe hereof, shall be
aeem€“ti ^^aiity 0f a misdemeanor, and on con
victiqaj 'hereof, shall be punished by a fine not
excer'.,jing $1,000 or by imprisonment for a term
n°* exceeding two years, or by both said punish
v .ents in the discretion of the court.
FATAL EXPLOSION.
Two JIfn Killed and Several Injured by a
Boiler Explosion at Sharpgburg, Pa.
Pittsburgh, Pa., Jan. 34.—One of the
boilers at Spang's Iron mill at Sharps
burg, six miles from this city, exploded at
■ five o’clock this morning, instantly killing
i the fireman, James Patterson, fatally
| burning an unknown tramp who was
I sleeping in the boiler room, and seriously
! injuring six mill employes who had just
| arrived to begin their day’s work. A
portion of the boiler was thrown over two
■ hundred feet. The entire end of the mill
1 was blown out, and the building so shat
■ tered that it will probably fall. The
; cause of the explosion is being investi
! gated. Another employe was badly
I burned in shutting off the natural gas with
; which the mill was supplied. Had the ac
cident occurred a few moments later the
loss of life would have been terrible, as
all the employes would have then been at
work.
Later investigation at the scene of the
terrible explosion at Spang, Chalfant &
Co.’s iron mill at Sharpsburg discloses the
fact that an entire battery of four huge
steel boilers had been blown to atoms
and scattered to almost incredible dis
tances. The structure is badly wrecked
and will have to be rebuilt.
The following is the list of killed and
wounded:
Thos. Patterson, fireman; killed in
stantly.
Wm. Corville, the tramp who was sleep
ing in the boiler house; died on the way
to the hospital.
Andrew Rice, mill boy; badly cut about
the head.
J. Evans, roller; foot crushed.
Jas. Phillips, helper: knee broken.
Griffith Humphries: spine injured.
Thos. Protherow, stoker; foot crushed.
Bartley Naughton, helper; cut in head
and spine injured.
Lewis Clouse, watchman; head cut.
Jno. Williams, puddler; hand injured.
Fireman Patterson leaves a wife and
several children. Corville was unmarried.
The firm estimates its loss at 115,000.
Lured to Ruin Through the Lore of Dress
Newark, N. J., Jan. 24.—In searching
for the murderer of Rachel Albrect, the
local police ran across a New York womar
named Mrs. Jacobs, whom they have
every reason to believe has been supply
ing disreputahle houses in Newark with
young girls. It is said that she not onl’y
provided the girls, but furnished tjtie
houses complete with household rtwi’aire
ments, executing a mortgage on the (iffects
to seorureherself. Her plan was to let shop
girls have dresses on the easy payment
plan, and when they fell behind in tbeii
pay meets to offer to procure them re
munerative employment,in every case - lur
ing girls to their ruin.
CAREER OF AN APPRENTICE.
Mr. Herkomer') Instructive Story of Hli
Father’s Life and Struggles.
My father, of course, is a splendid
sample of the past age that honored
apprenticeship. Let your hearers know
what the dignity of apprenticeship
means. My father was apprenticed at
fourteen years of age, had to do all the
hard work of boys of that time, clean
his master’s boots, etc.; and tlioughshe
sat with the master’s family (as all the
other workmen did) at table, he never
had quite to eat. He hart
learn his trade & Whgil as he could by
watching and without real tuition. On
Sundays the apprentices of all the
trades were marshaled in procession,
accompanied by gendarmes, to the
three schools—Sunday-school, day
school and drawing-school. During
that time my father already showed
ability as a draughtsman. His master
saw his talent, and wanted him to com
pete for the one silver medal given that
year to the apprentices for drawing in
Munich, but be was too poor to buy
the material. So the master gave him
the paper, Indian ink and materials,
and his drawings gained the silver
medal. I have those drawings now.
They are masterly in their beautiful
precision and delicacy of touch. Prizes
were awarded by the mayor of the
town in the fine old town hall of
Munich—there was a great crowd oi
people to see the apprentices get their
prizes, and when my father received
his medal from the hands of the mayor
a blast of trumpets sounded to mark
the event. It was the only time in
his life, said my father, that “h<e
did not feel his legs when he
walked ont.” Those are great tri
umphs. He then worked his way up to
be journeyman workman, and then
traveled on foot, with a knapsack on
his back, to Amsterdam, Brussels and
Paris, learning all the different meth
ods of work in each city and country,
when he made his master-piece, and
was pronounced an extra good master
of Ills craft. He then made another
tour on foot, and when he returned
went in for a thorough course of per
spective and geometry, a»nd also studied
the Gothic style from its foundation.
He then settled in his native place,
starting with the commission to make
a Jew altar' the church. But his
mind was “ahead” of the times. He j
had his romantic notions and wished
to build his own house. He pulled
down the house left him by his father,
which was in a bad state, and built a
charming house, which still stands,
and in which 1 was born. But though |
it was simple it was dignified. How- |
ever, 1848 spoilt Germany. He
was too “tight.” OY'J * n
—*— * in 1851 we three
-my lather and mother and I (two
years old)—emigrated to America.
There the climate after six years af
fected the health of my mother and
myself, and we came to England. Now
in England at that time there was no
taste for workmanship. We struggled
with poverty until I could earn some
money. But here mark the difference.
The noble man who had gone through
the severe training never allowed pov
erty to take one dignified thought from
him or to make him feel that life had
I only misery for him. He gave up
smoking and drinking alcoholic
liquors and even eating meat
so as to reduce expenses.
My dear mother gave music
lessons for middle-class people. We
had to live on thirty shillings a week.
With this the “master workman,” my
father, had a few chances of showing
his skill; but he did buy a little wood
from time to time, and did beautiful j
carved work without, however, being j
able to sell it. Still he was a master, j
and lived a dignified life that could only j
come to a man when trained as he was
trained. He never would have had the
self-control without that training. He
was my one companion as a boy. I
worked with him. He knew how to j
guide my enthusiasm and with scarcely
any means at hand I learned a craft, I
learned to use my hands, and every
day of my life do I bless the difficulties
that really threw me so much in his
company. He was to me not only a
father but an “ideal” man. All his
emotions, all his principles I drank in,
and now it is my privilege to be able tc
work out the dream of his life. All the
work he has done for years will have a
shrine, and so, too, the work of his two
brothers—the carver and the weaver
in my great house. The blessings oi
temperance he has given me also.
Can you imagine such a life withoul
an apprenticeship? :I can not. It is tb'
curse of th e age that young people .
to jump m&uritv at a h -* W1S‘
that the, is not to ,"oU*1 ’ ‘tn(l
done,” to deal in u°.butto “get
mak' « ^ ! *e article, not tc
“ f ^ Respectability has cursed this
ag,„ m this country a craftsman is not
apposed to be a gentleman_Pall Mall
Gaieltt, -
-She (emphatically)—“How fcud oi
nature to bestow on the blind the fac
ulty of distinguishing colors by th«
sense of touch!” He (philosophically)
Yes: but it is not altogether com
fined to the sightless. Jn this ham
world, a fellow needn't be blind to fe«
blue. —Chicago Standard. 7
OF GENERAL INTEREST.
—The sixteen hundred convicts in
Sing Sing eat twenty-one barrels of flour
daily.—M. Y. Sun.
_It is reported on excellent authority
that no pet dog is properly accoutred
now unless he wears a silver bangle on
his off hind leg.—N. Y. Mail.
—A Boston party put a large terrapin
in a box and kept it there three months
withoi Last week he
+-'ok it. • -vt it weighed
an ounce . * than it did three months
;e*ro. So * '.vs 1
—There is an appealing touch of
pathos in ex-Minister Lowell’s response
to a criticism on his use of a word de
claring that till recently, till within a
few months, he had never thought of
going to the dictionary to be sure of a
word.—Boston Budget.
—In Philadelphia recently a wedding
ceremony was performed with the Port
ugese ritual. The couple stood under
a silken canopy, which was upheld by
four posts decorated with flowers, and
at the conclusion of the ceremony the
groom crushed a glass under his foot as
a symbolic act.
—One of the largest and finest gout
nuggets ever unearthed in California
is now on exhibition in San Francisco.
It is about the size of an ordinary
Derby hat, and weighs thirty-five
pounds and is worth $6,000. Gie.it
“gobs” of gold hang out of its sides.—
San Francisco Chronicle.
_Among the toys of the children of
the Imperial family of Austria is a
group of china soldiers, representing
all the different uniforms an 'the Aus
trian army from the most 'remo’tc da vs
to the present. The Emperor Frar*cig
Joseph received it from hi> fatb ^ and
gave ittto the ‘Crown Pviney Rudo]ph.
who was eight years ol*4 at that '
—Tim champion \oh(>^n gJide hag
been construed(l at Kingston, N. Y,
Thetohng^us go a long distance down
<>ne incline and, paradoxical as
it maa appear, on the return trip they
demand nearly as great a distance, at
tin vend of which, on ascending a Ion"
fitsht of stairs, the tobogganers find
tnhemselves at the point where they
started from.—N, Y. Herald.
I he General Presbyterian Assem*
biy has autLomn tiveiy declared that
Ad.itn was without natural parentage
of any kind. This was an advantage:
If some of yur would-be American aris
tocrat^ . eii- W ithout parentage bf any
kiiid, tluw might be aide to trace t>>'-’~
a*|p«stiy back tw,j 0i- thru* - _.r
v it| '-'it SUikiti" - ' generations
ae‘ " 0 a, Dutcher or a soap-fat
..—Norristown (Pa.) Herald.
—In Saco, Me., one night recently
Miss Bertha Weymouth filled a jug
with water, corked it and put it on the
stove to heat before taking it to bed.
When it was hot enough she started up
stairs and then, with a big bang, the
cork flew out and the hot water spurted
into her face, scalding her badly. She
now knows more about the power of
6tenm than she did.—Boston Herald.
—President Grevy, of the French Re
public, receives a yearly salary of $240,
000, besides the following allowances:
$20,000 for heating anil lighting, serv
ants, and washing, $60,000 for his
entertainments and journeys; $05,000
for the maintenance of his game pre
serves. He also lias an elegant resi
dence provided for him, is a deadhead
on all railroads, has a free box at the
opera and theater and is not called up
on to contribute for the relief of earth
uuake sufferers.
—l>r. Gilles de la Tourette has re
cently published a monograph upon
normal locomotion ami the variation in
the gait caused by diseases of the nerv
ous system. He found, from a com
parison of a large number of cases,
that the average length of a pace is, for
men, twenty-five inches; for women,
twenty inches. The step with the right
foot is somewhat longer than that with
the left. The feet are separated late
rally in walking about four and one
half inches in men and about live
inches in women,
—Workmen while repairing a house
In Brooklyn, N. Y., discovered a bag
containing two thousand five hundred
dollars in gold under one of the floors,
and turned it over to the landlord. The
last occupant, a man whose wife „
in the house, now sues the 1" ^ died
the money, alleging tha* ..ndlord for
helpmeet nsetl to nis late thrifty
his pockets b extract money from
never fim' .aoitually, that he could
tlud ' .j trace of it, and is convinced
- <-ae concealed treasure was the ae
c n null ate d deposits she had relieved
him of.—Brooklyn Union.
—*‘if you had a note to pay to-day,”
he said, as he wit in an Ihsurance office
looking straight at the agent, “and
you had all the money but five dollars,
would you ask a friend to lend it to you
or would you let your note go to pro
test and ruin your credit?” “Let the
note go to protest, of course!” was the
prompt reply. Then the clock ti'’ i
and ticket ■* _ i.
ing to tin
and the
guessed i
entrance
cifully p<
troit Fr
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