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Volume 9.
Helena, Montana, Thursday, November 18, 1875.
No. 51
THE WEEKLY HERALD
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HIE l ARMEB» TIIlliMMi OUT.
Nleiuly Depopulation «f the New Eng>
land Farming DiNtrictH.
At one of the Berkshire (Mass-) cattle
shows the address, by Alexander Hyde, of
Lee, was upon the appropriate topic of "The
depopulation ot the rural districts, the causes
and the remedies." He stated that nearly
half the population of Massachusetts were
concentrated in her fourteen cities, and that
a score of populous towns contained a fraction
of the ba'auce. Of the .thirty-one towns in
Birkshire only eleven have increased in pop
ulation during the last live years, though the
population of the county has increased some
2,000 in this time. The increase had mainly
been in the three towns of Adams, Pittsfield
Dalton. The two great causes for the de
crease in the agricultural towns were a desire
for a more social life, and earning a living in
a more easy way than by agriculture, though
a want of good church privileges, good
schools and easy transportation also had an
influence. Mr. Hyde deprecated this state of
things, and encouraged the farmers to strengh
en the things that remain by keeping up the
churches, schools, roads, and all social insti
tutions, by cultivating smaller farms, and al
lowing the rocky hill pastures to grow up
with forest trees, giving more attention to
sheep husbandry, and especially to the rais
ing of mutton and lambs for the butcher, the
most profitable part of sheep husbandry in
these days. He gave it as his opinion that a
young man could make more money buying
a farm on one of the hill towns of Berkshire,
at the present low prices, than by obeying
Greeley s injunction, "Go West/ 1 These hill
towns also were becoming favorite resorts of
citizens, as here they could enjoy pure air
and water, fresh milk and butter, and have
Sunday seven days in the week, if "Ichabod"
is ever written on these hills it will be for the
want of enterprise on the part of the inhabi
tants. Here and there, scattered in the rural
districts, are individual farmers who are con
stantly improving their lands, and are mak
ing money and enjoying life in spite of the
general depression of society and property.
What these individuals are doing all can do,
and the glory of the hill towns, an intelligent
and virtuous population, will be retained.
FOILED AT LAST.
An Army Officer Who Embarked on a
Ship Never Heard From.
[From the Boston Herald.]
Major John S. Walker was a native of
Fryeburg, Me., where he fitted for college,
pursued the study of law', and was married
to his first wife. During the late war he was
appointed paymaster's clerk, subsequently
paymaster, and at the close of the war w r as
transferred to the army. For a short time he
was stationed at the south,- but finally was
ordered to Portland, Oregon, the place of his
residence at the time of his decease. On the
return from Alaska, where he had been sent
to pay off the troops, he embarked w r ith his
wife (a southern woman) on board the steamer
George S. Wright, bound for Portland, Jan
uary, 1873. Nothing has ever been heard of
the steamer, aud although many reports were
for a time in circulation, the fate of the pas
sengers and crew has remained a mystery.
Two years and a half after the supposed loss
of the vessel and all on board the remains of
Major Walker were found on the shore of an
island twelve miles west of Cape Cygane, the
southwest point of Alaska. Two Indians
were hunting and trapping otter and mink,
when they saw a strange object on the shore,
aud on landing they found the larger portion
of the remains with a life preserver around
them, while other parts were somewhat scat
tered. A few yards from the body they dis
covered two bunches of keys, a sleeve button
and about f 40 in gold coin.
They saw no relics of the steamer. Subse-
quently they told at Sitka what they had seen,
and by the keys and button the remains were
identified as those of Major Walker. A reve-
nue cutter recovered the remains and they
were buried at Fort Vancouver.
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Nickname** of American Cities.
The principal cities of the American Union
have from time to time received various nick
names. For example: New York is called
Gotham; Boston, the American Athens, also,
the Hub; Philadelphia, the Quaker City; Bal
timore, the Monumental City; Cincinnati,
the Queen City; New Orleans, the Crescent
City; Washington, the City of Magnificent
distances; Chicago, the Garden City; Buffalo,
Queen City of the Lakes; Rochester, Flower
City; Detroit, the City of the Straits; Cleve
land, the Forest City; Pittsburg, the Iron
City; New Haven, the City of Elms; Indian
apolis, the Railroad City; St. Louis, the City
of Mounds; Keokuk, the Gate City; Louisville,
the Falls City; Nashville, the City of Rocks;
Quincy, the Model City; Hannibal, the Bluff
Alexandria, the Delta City; Newburyport, the
Garden of Eden; Salem, the City of Peace.
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Tbe End of the World*
Be warned in time. The world is to be
burned up. The rainbow keeps the word of
non-destructive promise to our eyes, but
breaks it to our hopes. After the deluge
come no more universal drownings, but ages
of. withering heat shall dry the seas up ; life
shall disappear from the face of this globe ;
the firmament shall be rolled up like a scroll;
and hideous aridity shall reign over all.
Trausser says so, Trausser is an M. D. of
New Orleans, to whom the Copernican sys
tem of astronomy is as a kid glove, easy to
be turned inside out, and unfit for use at a
fire. He discards it. To him also do the
laws of Kepler appear a childish fraud, and
the elliptical orbits of the planets seem a de
lusion. "There is," says Trausser, "in the
sun and in the planets neither centripetal nor
centrifugal forces. The stars or suns, in ad
vancing from w est to east, cause our sun, the
earth, and all the planetary bodies to advance
in the same direction. Our globe has no need
of any primitive impulse in order to be set in
motion. If the sun came to be extinguished
suddenly the rotary movement of the earth
around its axis w r ould diminish gradually,
until it stopped entirely, without causing any
damage upon its surface^ and if subsequently
the sun recovered its pow'er of emitting light,
the earth would resume immediately its nor
mal movement slowly and progressively."
The earth, on TrausseFs plan, does not move
around the sun. The sun moves around a
fixed center, outside tbe orbit of the earth.
The point around which the earth travels is
east of the center around which the other
planets (sun included) travel and is not fixed,
but describes a small circle around the general
planetary center once iu each 24,000 years.
Owing to our being thus a little off center,
the arcs of this circle w T hich the earth de
scribes at each season are unequal, and the
difference in the length of the seasons is thus
accounted for. There is a constant westward
tendency of the sun, w'hich delays that lumin
ary's return to each succeeding equinox—
against the order of the zodiacal signs. The
rétrogradation, slight each year, bears fright
ful consequences in the long run, since it will
eventually bring the sun and the earth in
deadly proximity, as it has done before, if
Trausser knows himself. He says: "About
5,334 years ago the sun and the earth met in
the same side of the heavens (at 0 degree of
Aries, vernal equinox,) without ceasing to
circulate each one in its own orbit. The sun
intersected at the terrestrial equator the first
meridian of the secular period in which we
are. This proximity of the sun and of the
earth at their maximum occasioned the most
awful disasters in increasing more and more
the solar heat on our globe during several
centuries. The temperate zones and the
equatorial regions were reduced to have no
more, either animals or plants, under the
long action of a burning sun." This is to
happen again. Of course such a heat will
draw the w'aters into the air. For hundreds
of years this sphere will be the theater of
most tremendous natural convulsions. The
burning ground will send its exhalations up
to flaming clouds, the envelope of air will
expand to enormous heights, charged with
superheated steams and gases. As years roll
away and the baleful orb of day withdraws
the upper layers of the air will cool, and its
waters will descend into the lower, and they
in their appointed turn will fall and fall with
vast and terrible shocks, until their accumu
lated condensations drop upon the earth in a
grand cataclysm that will wipe out all traces
of the land as it was before. And when at
last the vapors shall pass off and the waters
subside, a new world, smiling and refreshed,
will swing away upon its eastward course
toward its next assignment ■with the sun,
another 12,000 years removed. Then will
come another order of creation, from the cell
to man ; another succession of gradual civili
zation and enlightenment; the ground we
fancy we have trod for the first time will be
rediscovered ; another antiquity will succeed
more epochs lost to history ; the story of the
rocks will be spelled out anew, and by the
time the intellect of those peoples of the fu
ture shall have wakened into light another
grand tragedy will precede the re-enactment
of the same old catastrophe—and so on per
haps forever. We are pleased to state, how
ever, that Dr. Trausser places the next crisp
ing operation at a distance of time for which
w r e really do feel personally obliged to him,
inasmuch as it quite stills all apprehensions—
some 6,900 years hence. The preparatory
process will be so slow, moreover, that our
descendants (in whom we take quite as lively
a family interest as in our ancestors of 5,000
years since) will have been gradually and
painlessly taken out of the w 7 ay previous to
the supreme moment.
The Soldiers of 1812.
The extraordinary longevity of the surviv
ors of tbe war of 1812 is certainly a curious
fact well worthy of notice. That was not a
great war ; not many troops were engaged,
and no very large force mustered into the
service of the United States, and the war
came to an end almost sixty-one years ago.
Yet the Commissioner of Pensions records
15,875 survivors of that war on the rolls of
the Pension Office. Very few, indeed, of
these can be less than eighty years of age,
and the number must be nearly if not quite
ten per cent, of the whole force mustered for
service. If the veterans of the late rebellion
prove so tenacious of life, nearly twojhundred
thousand of them will survive the year 1926.
We should be very glad to believe that all of
them would live much longer than that, but
we cannot expect it, for it is against the
course of nature. It is hard to resist the con
viction that a large share of the fifteen thou
sand veterans of 1812 are impostors.
"Poor fellow'—he had a good deal in him,"
was the sorrowing remark of a Mississippi
editor over the body of a subscriber shot in a
gin mill. The coroner's inquest subsequently
verified the assertion.
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A Carions Coincidence.
An ex-Lieutenant of the United States
Navy, referring to the alleged murder of
Harriet Lane by Henry Wain wright in the
Whitechapel road, writes as follows to the
London Times :
"Arriving but recently from America, I
was painfully startled in reading from a half
torn and mutilated copy of the Times the
names of Harriet Lane" and "Wainwright,"
names so familiar to the American public
that generations will come and go ere they
will be forgotten. Two years prior to the
outbreak of the civil war in America, a ves
sel was launched from one of the govern
ment dockyards, designed for service as a
revenue cruiser and government yacht, and
was christened the Harriet Lane. Upon the
arrival of the Prince of Wales in America the
government assigned the Harriet Lane as the
vessel specially selected to carry the Prince
and his suite in his tours of observation. The
vessel had been named in honor ot Miss
Harriet Lane, the niece of President Bu
chanan, and at that time mistress of the
White House. It was the steamer Harriet
Lane that carried the Prince from Washing
ton to Mount Vernon, on the Potomac; the
grave of George Washington. At the out
break of the war the Harriet Lane was turned
over to the Navy Department for service, and
she participated in several engagements on
the coast ; took part in the battle of Hatteras
and also at the bombardments of the forts on
the Mississippi below New Orleans, serving
in the latter engagements as flagship of Com
modore Porter's division in Admiral Far
ragut's fleet. Subsequently the Harriet Lane
was ordered to the Texas coast, and Com
modore Wainwright was appointed to her
command. While lying at anchor in one of
the harbors of the Texas coast, in company
with the war steamer Fort Jackson, on the
night of the 1st of January, 1863, she was
surrounded by a fleet of Confederate steamers,
protected with cotton bales. The Confederate
steamers were said to have between four and
five thousand men on them. Commander
Wainwright refused to surrender, and the
Confederates, after some hard fighting, suc
ceeded in carrying the Harriet Lane by the
board, and her decks witnessed a terrible
hand-to-hand encounter. Blood ran from her
scuppers like water. Commander Wainwright
and nearly all the officers and crew of me
Harriet Lane were killed in defending the
vessel. At early dawn her flag was hauled
down by the Confederate and their own sub
stituted in lieu of it. She was never again
seen as a United States cruiser."
Wh«rc Kaiser Wilhelm Lives.
Wayland Hoyt whites as follows to the Bos
ton Journal :
The Emperor does not seem to have any
thing he wishes to conceal. I spent a very
interesting hour in passing through the pal
ace, which is his constant city residence. It
is not very grand, or even sumptuous. But
enter it and you at once feel that you are in
the home of a soldier. It is almost an arsen
al it is so warlike every w T ay. Old armor and
new armor—fragments of shells—the me
mentoes of battles, models ot different kinds
of soldiers in their appropriate uniform,
models of various guns, great relief maps of
battle fields and fortresses—these are every
where about. Almost all the pictures, too,
are martial—battle scene aft^r battle scene;
some of older conflicts, others of modern
fights, iu which the Emperor himself is the
conspicuous figure. I went into the Emper
or's private study aud library. I saw the
chair in which he sits, the desk at which he
writes, the pile of dispatches awaiting his at
tention, the books he uses, the papers fresh
from his hand. It is manifestly a workman's
place—this study. The grim old Emperor is
evidently no idler. He keeps his hand on
things. I am told that he is at his table regu
larly every morning at 6. Well, no one can
help honoring the fearless old fellow 7 amid
such painstaking devotion to duty. Sixteen
miles from Berlin is Potsdam, the favorite
residence of King Fredeiick the Great. Here,
too, is the present Emperor's summer palace.
Well, there is many a country seat in Amer
ica more splendid. I was most interested in
this palace, in the Emperor's sleeping-room
It is utterly plain. His bed is but a single
mattress upon a narrow and common bed
stead.
Origin null History of the Piano.
The piano began to make its appearance
about the beginning of the eighteenth century
Its invention, l.ke many others, is disputed',
and England, France, Italy and Germany
claim to have a share in the honor. Pianos
were certainly made for the first time in the
four countries w'ithin a very few 7 years of
each other, but in Germany alone did they
succeed. Silbermann improved upon the in
vention of Schroeter, and constructed pianos
which met with Bach's approbation. From
this dates the success of the piano in Ger
many. Frederick the Great had no less than
forty of Silbermann's pianos in his palace at
Berlin, and when Bach visited him he insist
ed upon the old man's trying every one.
Stein of Augsburg was also a celebrated mak
er, and Mozart in one of his letters describes
the care taken by Stein in seasoning the wood
which w 7 as expose^ to all sorts of weather,
and afterward had the cracks filled up with
slips of w T ood glued into them. In England
the piano made no sensible progress until
1760, when tw'elve German w r orkmen, after
wards called the "twelve apostles," arrived
in search of employment. Dibdin, at a con
cert in 1767, played on the first piano public
ly exhibited, and after that the instrument
became very popular, and harpsichords more
and more in disrepute. Sebastian Erard made
a great improvement in the touch, and Broad
wood, who came to London from Scotland
in 1751, introduced w'hat he called his "grand
action," w'bich improved many defects.
From that day until the present, the piano in
England has been improving.
LION HUNTING.
Thrilling Experiences ol an English
Officer—Habits of the Lion and the
Panther.
The Paris correspondent o£ the Boston Ad
vertiser sends that paper the following letter,
relating the experiences of an old African
soldier, who he says, speaks of nothing he
has not personally seen, and who modestly
withholds only such episodes as would place
himself in convenient position :
Dear Friend : You wish me to introduce
you into the true secrets of the African lion
hunt, which you must know little resembles
the fantastic tales told by certain European
travelers, and dilated upon by newspapers
and novel writers until there is no possibility
of separating truth from fiction, or drawing
to any satisfactory degree a conclusion re
garding the lion aud panther, which are in
fact our only dangerous African carnivorous
animals. Lions are quite numerous in cer
tain parts of the province of Constantine,
rare in those of Algiers and Oran. Panthers,
on the contrary, are seldom seen in the last
two provinces, but are numerous in Algiers.
The habits of these two carnivora differ es
sentially. As a general rule, neither the one
nor the other attacks man, unless molested
or threatened by him. It sometimes happens,
however, that a panther surprised while eat
ing springs furiously upon the man whose
imprudent toot has troubled the silence of
his repast, and in this case there is noth
ing to hope, as before the bravest man can
have got possession of his arms he is a bruis
ed and broken mass. The panther tears and
mutilates the body, even after all life has fled,
but does not devour it. In general he kills
for the pleasure of killing, and even when
attacking a flock or herd he vents his savage
fury on many before deciding to eat one.
The lion, on the contrary, springs upon his
victim and at once devours it, or, dragging it
to a preferred dining-spot, quittly makes his
repast, nor thinks of troubling the rest of the
flock until renewed appetite leads him to sat
isfy hunger in the same w 7 ay. If, during the
repast, he sees a man approach, and is not
ravenous, he gets up and walks aw 7 ay slowly,
one may say solemnly—or sometimes, not
even deigning this,he raises his majestic head
looks at the intruder, and by a half-friendly
growl -warna Lina that he will not t iten rl heimr
troubled when at dinner. A pedestrian find
ing himself in this position does well to with
draw slowly, for, should he become frighten
ed and run, the lion is quite capable of feel
ing a desire to overtake him, and in that case
will; even in that case, if the man has pres
ence of mind sufficient to understand the
danger, and do the only thing remaining to
be done, he may still escape safe and sound.
For the lion seems oftenest actuated by a
half-playful, friendly sentiment, and so he
does not lose his respect for man—seldom
troubles him. Often-times he joins and
passes the pedestrian, and when at a good
distance crouches across his path, watching
his approach. If the man has the unfortu
nate idea of turning to run away, he is lost;
but if he comes on quietly, neither faster nor
slower than his usual pace, looking his ene
my steadily in the face, showing no signs
of fear, he has every chance to escape. The
lion will growl, wag his tail in rather a terri
fying way, but, allowing the man to pass be
fore him, gets up, and as though admitting to
himself that he had honestly lost the game,
go quietly back to his lair.
A lion rarely attacks women, and I once
witnessed a scene which will go further than
the longest explanation toward illustrating
this. It was a hot sultry day in July. The
sirocco made the atmosphere dense with sand
and glare; the very earth seemed on fire. I
was returning from a little expedition on the
frontiers of Tunis, and as I had some mat
ters to settle with tribes in tbe environs of
la Calle, I left my troops to return to Con
stantine, and, followed only by two spahis ,
turned my steps toward la Calle. Having
started just before day, we arrived about four
o'clock iu tbe afternoon at the ford of the
little river de la Mafrap. Our horses, as well
as ourselves, were sadly in want of food and
drink, aud we stopped to refresh ourselves at
a little inn kept by an European, and situated
on a low mound, two or three hundred yards
from the ford. While waiting for my frugal
repast I unbuckled my sword, laid by my
pistols, and stretched out comfortably in the
shade, idly watching a band of Arab women
washing clothes in tbe river. All at once I
was startled by cries proceeding from the op
posite side of a sand-heap bordering the river,
and a half dozen women came rushing into
the midst of their peaceable companions,
dragging them into the shallow water, and
behind them a magnificent lion, his tail
proudly in the air, and his great brown eyes
looking carelessly from one to the other.
Paying no attention to their retreat into the
river, he followed them there, rubbing him
self up against them, not seeming to mind
in the least their cries or terrified gesticula
tions, and when he had enough of it he took
a long drink of the running water, and, turn
ing majestically, walked away into the moun
tains from whence he had come. This lion
was a stranger in that part of the country,
and when on the following day I went in
search of him he had disappeared.
I will recall another souvenir of this expe
diton which will prove to you the harmless
nature of an unattacked lion.
One day, after a rather serious skirmish
against the revolted tribes, I led my two bat
tallions of infantry to a little river situated
two miles from the fort where we were sta
tioned, in order to allow them to bathe and
clean their arms. As a measure of prudence
I allowed but half the men to disarm and en
ter the river at a time, the remaining battalion
being on tbe quivive , ready for defense. As
there w 7 as no need for haste, I allowed the
men what time they liked for bathing and
cleaning, and night, which falls so suddenly
in Africa, surprised us on our return at a
few' moments' march from the fort. I was
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suddenly alarmed by the report of a gun,
whose sound, being very different from any
in use among the Arabs, spoke plainly of
having been fired by one of my own meo,
and I at once brought my column to a halt
and galloped off in the direction from whence
the single report had come. At a short dis
tance 1 met a soldier recently arrived in Afri
ca, who had been detained behind his com
rades by a very adequate and singular cause,
and who in hastening up, hoping to arrive
before the doors were closed for tbe night,
excused himself timidly for being late and
having fired at last at a troublesome calf or
cow 7 which had barred his passage and seem
ed determined to keep him from joining his
regiment. He assured me he had done all he
could to get rid of him, pushing him w ith the
butt end of his gun, etc., but to no purpose,
and at last hacl been obliged to tire at him so
close that he had rolled instantly dead at his
feet. Suspecting the truth, I reassured the
man, and as night was complete!} 7 upon us,
rejoined my troops and entered the fort. On
the following morning I dispatched the cul
prit with a dozen men to bring back the mur
dered animal, and let me decide whether a
calf was to be paid for or a reward be given
to the slayer of a lion; and, as I had rightly
imagined, the latter proved to be the case,
and our unconscious hero received from the
government sixty francs reward for the finest
lion killed that year.
During the summer of 1856 the General
commanding the province of Constantine w r as
obliged to replace the chief of a trouble
some Arab tribe at the foot of the Moun
tains of Kabyla, w 7 ho had been killed by those
under him, and named a young Arab of good
race, much esteemed for his intelligence and
courage, and Second Lieutenant in the Third
Regiment of spahis. As soon as he had re
ceived his dangerous command, Kaid Has
man gathered his family about him and plant
ed his tents in the midst of his tribe. The
great fantasia , (a sham battle where guns
only charged w r ith powder are tired in every
direction) which always accompanies the in
auguration of a new chief, was organized ac
cording to custom, but it was plain to see that
a spirit of discontent animated most of the
cavaliers, for Kaid was not of their own tribe,
and the Arab is of a jealous and vindictive
nature. Hardly had the festivities commenc
ed when bullets were heard to whiz through
the air. and Kaid'« bournou« U'ub trarcro
ed by more than one—happily w ithout even
grazing him—and instantly, without the slight
est emotion, he ordered a circle to be formed
around him, and addressing himself more
particularly to those whom he suspected to
be his deadly enemies, he said:
You are but awkward, clumsy women;
when a man wishes to shoot his chief he
makes sure of his bullet and his aim. Y T ou
have missed me, aud this time I pardon both
your wickedness and stupidity. 1 know 7 those
who have tried to kill me, and I promise them
that if this little game recommences 1 shall
not miss them. Now 7 disband, and go to your
tents.
Wishing to be reassured as to how my
brave Kaid Hasman could maintain its com
mand and govern the treacherous Arabs about
him, I arrived on the following day with a
strong escort of spahis , and the fantasia w 7 as
again prepared in my honor. This time no
gun was charged with lead, and the ceremony
passed off to the complete satisfaction of all
parties. Next day 1 returned the civility by
ordering a w 7 ild boar hunt, in which all the
cavaliers took part, and had they still nour
ished a treacherous sentiment toward their
brave chief, a better occasion could not have
been for misdirecting one of the many bullets
which were fired. But they were completely
conquered, nor had Kaid Ilasman any further
difficulty in governing them.
But to return to my lion story. The day
after our famous wild boar hunt Kaid and 1,
followed only by about a dozen cavaliers,
went off on a little hunt of our own in quite
another direction. Starting at about live
o'clock in the morning, we returned at about
the same hour in the evening, half dead of
hunger, thirst and heat. We were walking
our horses aloug the dried bed of a river, I at
the head, Kaid, with but one barrel of Lis
gun loaded, a few 7 yards behind me, and still
further back one of his cavaliers. The rest
of our band had loitered or dispersed. Sud-
denly my horse made a tremendous jump,
and at the same instant I heard a crushing of
bl anches behind me ; a cry, and the sound
as of the falling of a horse and rider; then
the report of a gun, and, as I turned Kaid
and his horse brushed rudely by me, and I
saw behind, lying in a strange, wild heap,
the cavalier, his horse, and upon them a
gigantic lion, the last, happily, quite dead.
All this must have passed as follows : The
lion had come down from the mountains, and
finding himself in the ravine just as we passed
had patiently allowed two of us to go on un-
molested, but the third was more than he
could stand, and the sound of approaching
galloping horses probably augmenting his im-
patience, he sprang upon the horse and rider,
making a nasty tear on the cheek and shoul-
der of one, and a much deeper one on the
haunch of the other. Hearing the noise Kaid
Hasman had turned, and, with Arab prompt-
neas, had fired his one remaining barrel,
scarcely taking aim. Fortunately the bullet
had entered the lion's eye, and death had
been instantaneous. As to the unlucky cava-
lier and horse, they were able, notwithstand-
ing their wounds, to return to their tent, and
in a few days were quite right again. Not
long after this Kaid Hasman killed a second
lion, likewise by accident.
- m -**<^^*-**- m . --
The Duke of Portland has an annual in-
come of 4)360,000, most of which he expends
in vast building enterprises. He is a recluse
himself. He never answers a letter, and al-
though a member of four London clubs he
never goes to them, So far as society is
concerned, he is dead to the world.
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The official majority for Kirkwood, (Rep.)
Governer of Iowa, is 31,745.