Cooperstown courier., November 09, 1883, Image 6

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EARTHQUAKE ECHOES.
Front the Argonaut.
"What's that?"
"I don't know. It looks as if the rool
were falling in."
Thus said my companion and myself.
We were driving in a buggy down Broad
way, Oakland, and were looking at a
.building then called the "Wilcox Build
ing." It was the morning of October21,
1S(»S.
A« I .-aid, we were looking at this
building. A new story had just been
added to i!, and we were speculating as
to tne fafety of making such additions to
buildings whose wills were only desig
nated for structures of lesser height. It
was five minutes to eight o'clock. We
had pulled up, and were looking curi
ously at the new story when my com
panion made the remark:
"What's that?"
It did indeed look as if the roof were
Jailing in. The walls budged out, the
roof seemed to sink, the building moved
sli :'itly, and then recovered its perpen
dicular. We were both so amazed that
:we could only,, .stare in open-mouthed
wonder.
AT this moment I noticed that the
horse was acting queerly. He did not
look as if he were going to run away,
but simply as if something extraordinary
were puzzling his equine brain. I fan
cied there might be something wrong
with the harness, and giving tne lines
)o my companion, jumped out to .see.
As my feet struck the ground I thought
for a moment tnat I must be mad. The
earth rocked beneath me it rocked
with such violence that I could Hardly
stand. I seized the shaft, partly to
steady myself, and partly to get to the
horse's head, for he was giving such
signs of agitation that I feared he might
runaway.
As I got to the horse's head, there
was a dull, rumbling roar, and a cloud
of dust lose up and down the street.
Then there was a crashing, jingling
sound, and 1 saw many window-fronts
upon Broadway falling into the street.
Following them came an avalanche of
bricks and mortar from falling chimneys
and tire-walls. And iast of all came a
dense mass of people from the shops
and houses. Your human does not move
as quickly as inanimate objects during
an earthquake. When lie does, he
sometimes regrets it, for ifhe arrives at
the same time as the falling bricks and
mortar, he wishes he hadn't—unless, of
course, he be a good Christian, whose
salvation is all fixed and his good deeds
chalked up, in which case, of course, a
"ions joy should pervade his breast.
All that I have related took but a
few seconds. And in about a minute after
the shock began Broadway was filled
with runaway teams of every descrip
tion.
There was at that time an open square,
or vacant lot, on Broadway, containing
nothing but trees. I remember notic
ing these trees, and being struck, even
then, at their absurd appearance. (One
thinks quickly during an earthquake.)
As the waves of the earth-spa3m rolled
along, the trees ruse and fell, inclining
first to one side, then to the oilier, bob
bing and bowing in a ludicrous fashion.
Those who were on this side of the
bay that morning may think this de
scription of the shock exaggerated. But
when they consider that the local cen
tre of the earthquake of '68 was evident
ly at San Leandro, will see that
they are mistaken, u. there some
buildings were entirely demolished,
others twisted upon their foundations,
and fissures and cracks opened in the
earth many rods in length. Scarcely a
chimney waB lelt standing in Oakland or
Alameda.
A curious phase of the earthquake
way the Oelief on the part of the Oak
lander? that San Francisco was
destroyed.
A thick haze hung over the bay. It
was impossible to see an^ of the spires
and towers of San Francisco. The tele
graph wires were down the draw
uridge over San \ntonio Creek was
thrown out of gen1 »y the shock the
train (there was ut one then) was
penned up on the other side of the es
tuary. The only way of reaching the
city was ly freight-boat which the]' ran
on" the creek. To this repaired the
anxious Oaklanders and we still more
anxious 8an Franciscans.
On the little pier at the foot of Broad
way was a crowd of several hundred
men. It was divided into
little groups, in the centre of each
of which was an excited man, telling
where lie was and what he did at the
time of the shock. lie was perpetually
being interrupted by other excited men,
who wanted to tell what they did and
where they were. Every man in every
uroup was engaged in moving his arms
inri-tnill-wise, to illustrate how the
c.irth had quivered. In moments of ex
citement the Anglo-Saxon race becomes
::s eesticulative as the Latin.
One man in particular I remember.
le was one of those small men with im
mense fustian voices—one who could
jiitroar any one else, and by virtue oi
i:is
superior lung power had succeeded
in telling his personal expsrience over
any number of times. As soon as he
had finished it, he began ugain.
I may
•.
be necessary to remark here
hat all through the morning of the 21st
nere were continuous shocks. People
id their nerves completely unhinged
the first shock, and the geutle yet
minous oscillations of mother earth
.Naptthem permanently so. I will further
nark (apparently without coherence)
tthere was an immense heap of coal
up on the edge of the pier.
The little man with the big voice was
talking. His oration rail thus:
I'OU see, we had jist got up from
'kfast when that there first shock
-i'i. My wife she started to run. I
to her, 'Now, Jemima,' says I,
itever is the use of runnin." But
wouldn't listen to nuthin', so I jist
bed her and held her till it was
,\ ". And what do you think?—when
shock come to an end, Jemima she
.' ted and I was jist as cool aB I am
Drip—drip—drip—drip!"
he coal was falling into the water
ov -r the edge of the pier. Every one
tu nod—the slightest noise was ominous.
"DHD—drip—drin—drinl flash! Dash!
Hpalshl"
The pier was rocking to and fro—first
gently, then with vigor, then with a
vicious thump which meant mischief.
There was a sudden absquatulation to
dry land. The crowd resolved itself
into an immense and swiftly mo ring
fan, the apex pointing toward the shore.
The apex was our friend, the little man
with the big voice.
At this point uianv of the Oakland ers
lost their interest in San Francisco.
They could not be again induced to go
unon the pier. They contented them
selves with vaguely remarking that they
"would wait and see," and with whoop
ing up others who ssemed disinclined
to "go.
At last the boat made tier appearance.
I think it was the old ferry-boat Louise,
long since disappeared from these wa
ters—under that name, at least. It was
not a very large crowd that boarded her.
There was a good deal ol'talk about tidal
waves and hings, and the people looked
upon us very much, I fancy, a3 the
Spaniards did on Columbus when he set
out upon his voyage into unknown seas.
Most of us, as I have said, were San
Franciscans. On the boat, I remember
was Michael Reese. Michael was
drenched with woe. He feared that
where San Franciseo had reared her
fair tower-crowned hill-tops to the sky,
there was nothing but ashes, dust, and
desolation—hence pecuniary damage to
Michael Keese. He was a large, adipose
greasy mass of suffering, He even
wept. Tears ran down his fat cheeks,
and mingled with the imperfectly re
moved remnants of his breakfast.
A group stood around him, attempt
to comfort him. I do not fancy they
felt anything but contempt for him, yet
they respected his millions. And this
blubbering millionaire was being cod
dled like a blubbering school-boy.
"Ach Gott!" sighed Michael, blowing
his nose with a large red bandanna
handkerchief, "icli bin ruined! All
dose years vat I shtruggle vas tro
wn avay.
Who couid dell noddings aboud an erd
kvaxe, I like to know? Dot is not like
a fire. Dose insurance gonipanies dev
will not pay me noddings. Lieber Gott
Berhaps dose insurance gompanies vos
cone up, too."
And a fresh burst of tears came to the
relief of the over-burdened million
aire.
John W. Dwinelle approached, and
satirically comforted the weeping Dives.
"Do not be so cast down, Mr. Reese,"
said he. "Things are not so bad, I im
agine, as they aie represented. We
shall presently be in sight of the city,
and I think we shall see it standing. Ah,
excuse me, Mr. Reese—you had eggs for
breakfast, I fancy."
And he indicated to the weeper a
large mass of ese-velk. unon his star
board jaw, partially mixed with tears.
Miclntel scrap id it off and resumed" his
weeping.
But soon we came where the fog-veil
was not so thick, and the top of the
shot-tower was seen piercing the haze.
I remember that some enthusiastic spir
its gave three cheers for the safety of
the city. And as we gradually ap
proached the pier, it was seen that the
city Wis apparently all there. We did
not learn until later that the shock had
been lighter on the San Francisco side
than on the other.
We hastened up the streets, looking
for damaged houses, ruined walls, and
corpses. We did not see as many as we
had expected. Coming up Clay street
however, near Sansorae, there was a
frightened boy who, surrounded by a
crowd of people, was pointing at a mass
of blood and brains on the sidewalk.
His jaws were working convulsively, bat
no sound came from them, A bystander
told me that the boy had witnessed the
death of the man who formerly used
the brains, and that the sight so horri
fied him that he had remained in that
condition ever since tne shock—a mat
ter of a couple of hours. The man, it
seems, had run out of the building
when the first shock came, and had got
to the sidewalk just in time to catch the
tailing fire-wall upon the top of his head.
I do not propose to weary my read
ers with an account of the earthquake.
It is ancient history. But these things
came into my head the other morning,
when I was awakened at one o'clock by
the lamihar vibrating, twisting, grinding,
motion—the creaking of the groaning
bricks, the ominous rumble of the shud
dering metal roof. 1 said to myself:
"The most severe shock since '6S."
And, 60 saying, these recollections came
to me, and I jotted them down.
But I will indulge myself in telling one
or two anecdotes which I recall. There
was a gentleman here from the east at
the time, whe had been sighing for an
earthquake. I have met many like
him, by the way, but I never saw any
of them who wanted to feel two. I do
not refer to temblors, but to good stiff
shocks. No one who has ever felt one
wants to leel another.
This pilgrim, then had been yearning
for an earthquake. Fortunately for
him, it came before he went away". He
went away as soon as he could get away,
1 may add. He was living in Brenham
Piace, and was awakened by the shock.
He knew what it was. No man needs
an introduction to an earthquake. He
fled through the door. He nearly took
it with him. He was clad only in a
short night-shirt, but despite that fact
he went into the centre of the Plaza,
and there he remained. He could not
be induced to re-enter the house. Fi
nally, he hired a small boy to go and
get his clothes, and dressed himself be
fore the populace.
Later in the day he ventured out of
the Plaza, and, accompanied by Tommy
Newcombe, went to Barry & Patten's to
get a drink. The barkeeper mixed the
drinks and placed them uptn the coun
ter. Newcombe pushed his back, re
questing the barkeeper to take the ice
out. The other did the same, It was
half past ten o'clock. There WAS a
slight jingle of glasses, then a crash,
and the bar leaned forward
and courtesied to the two friends in the
most familiar fashion. The barkeeper
was almost buried in a vitreous ava
lanche. The eastern man knew, with
out being told, that this was another
earthquake. He made for the street.
He cot there before anybody else in the
house. This despite the fact that he
lacked experience. These Eastern men
are very quick to learn about some
things—particularly earthtfuakes. He
reached the street with such impetuosity
that he was on the other side before he
knew it. There was a building there be
longing to Satn Brannan, the top of
which was crowned with two long stones,
meeting like a V. One of these fell with
the second shock, just as our Eastern
friend reached the sidewalk. The stone
came shooting down like a conical pro
ject'le, struck the flagged sidewalk,made
a clean hole and disappeared in the
depths below. The hole was about six
inches away from the Eastern man. He
nearly fell into it.
He took the next steamer for home.
When this shock took place,! hap
pened to be in the Odd Fellows' Bank,
then on Montgomery street, opposite
where the Safe Deposit building now is.
A group of us were talking over the first
shock. I remarked that I had not been
in a building when the first shock came,
but that, had I been, I would have, re
mained. I further said that I considered
running trom a huildingas highly dango r
ous, instancing the unfortunate man
who was killed on Clay Street as a case
in point. Ail agreed with me. One in
particular—a friend named Maillot—re
marked:
"You are perfectly right. The man
who would run out of a building during
an earthquake shock is a d—d fool."
The words were scarcely out of
mouth when the half past ten o'clock
shock came. I do not remember very
distinctly how 1 cot there, but in about
three seconds 1 lound myself in the
middle of the street. I have no recol
lection of coming down stairs. Strange
to say all the other fellows were there
too. Maillot looked at me, and re
marked, with grim humor:
"1 thought you never ran f.-om an
earthquake."
"I never do."
"But you ran then."
"No. I didn't run. I flew."
So I did. And 1 very much fear I
tnav again.
Signs of an Open Winter as Re
vealed by an Aged Indianian.
From tie Terra Haute Express.
"What kind of a winter are we going
to have uncle?" asked an express re
porter of an old squirrel hunter and
mink trapper who makeb his home in
the hills across the liver.
"I kinder calculate that we will have
a rather mild winter all the indications
point to such."
"What signs do you go by uncle?"
"I have a good many signs, and I
never knew one of them to fail yet.
When I sav we are going to have a mild
winter, you can depend on it. Haven't
1 lived in this country for forty years,
and haven't I watched the winters right
along, and ©nghten't I be able to tell?"
"Are the corn husks thin this year?"
"You better rekon they are. There
are only two or three layers of them,
and they are as thin as calico. Why,
the corn is all dry enough now to go
through a snow without injury. The
one or two frosts we have had have
sucked all the sap out of it."
"Are there any other indications be
sides the corn husks?"
"You better believe there are. Now,
when the sun crossed the line the wind
blew from the southeast. That indicates
a mild winter every time. If it had
blown from the north you could have
been prepared to hear the wind blow
great guns."
"Is that all?"
"Not by a long ways. 1 could tell you
enough to till a book. My dog holed
a ground hog the other day. I had
nothing to do, so I set to work and dug
the animal out. He dida't have a leaf
or a twig in his hole hadn't nothing in
the shape of a nest"
"Isn't it too early for ground hogs to
make their nests?"
"Now I see how little you know about
a ground liog. A ground hog lias his
hole dug, or has picked out his lioie, by
the first of September. If it's going to
be a cold winter he has it filled with
leaves by this time."
"Is there any thing else?"
"Yes. The coons havn't commenced
to gnaw the corn. That is a splendid
sign. And another sign, and a sign that
never fails, the woodpeckers haven't
commenced to drum. Now, if this was
going to be a cold winter al! the old
dead trees mid be covered with red
heads pecking away at a hole in which
to store nuts."
"Isn't it too early tor that yet?"
"Not a bit. They should have their
holes all pecked bv this time, and be
ready to fill them. "There is notasinart
er bird than the woodpecker he knows
what he's about when he is pecking
away at an old limb from morning till
night."
A Congregationalist in a Uuirer
sahst's Pulpit.
From the Boston Travler.
A good and true story is going the
rounds of Boston about the adventure
of a worthy Congregationalist pastor,
who ministers to a suburban church. He
had agreed to supply a Roxbury pulpit
for an absent brother. He came into
Boston, and promptly took a Highland
car for the scene of his evening's labor.
In due time he descried a steeple, and
reaching the church, got out, walked in,
took off bis overcoat in the vestsy, and
went straightway to the pulpit. He
glanced around on the congregation, and
proceeded, after a minute or two's de
lay, to give out a good old Congregation
al hymn. The congregation proceeded
to find the place, the organ gave the
tune and the singing began. While it
WAS in progress the sexton walked up
the pulpit stairs and said to our subur
ban friend friend
"M will be here in a few minutes."
The situation flashed upon him, but,
suppressing his emotion, he asked:
"Why, isn't this Mr. 's church?"
"No, sir," calmly replied the sexton
"this is the Universalist Church."
There was an exchange of places a few
minutes later. The friends of the subur
ban minister are now fond of asking him
how become to enter the Universalist
ministry. He laughs, and solaces him
self with the remark
"Well I got them te sing a good ortho
dox hymn, anyhow."
Colonel Michaei Sueridan has bought
a house in Washington near that of hii
brother, the coming general of the army.
Current Paragraphs.
The German Emperor astcnishes ev
erybody by his vitality. He ia nearly
sighty-seven years old, thirteen years
jlder than his great ancestor, "Oid
Fritz," when tha', monarch broke down,
*nd his life has been one of great activ
ity.
Governor Crosby of Montana, Bays
that ene day, when the presidential
party were crossing a dryjgulch in North
ern Wypming. they saw written in char
coal over the door of a vacant cabin the
following. "Only nine miles t» water
and twenty miles from wood. No grub
in the house. God bless our home."
Mr. W. D. Howells, while visiting Bal
timore lately, was met by a reporter
wlic interpreted his views regarding
English and American literature as fol
lows: "In many respects we excel the
English in periodical literature. Our il
lustrations are of a much finer quality.
The short stories, which are features of
our monthly publications,' have few
counterparts in England. I think that
English customs and English disposi
tion tend more strongly to the pub
lication ef books than of magazines."
How some men do maguify their vo
cations. A correspondent of a Vermont
paper who has been sending that paper
weekly a patch of items about who has
had his barn shingled and who has gone
a visiting has "severed his connection,"
as they call it, with the paper, or had it
severed for him, and writes a thrilling
valedictory, half a column long, which
ends as follows: "Kindred spirits are
thrown together for pleasure and labor,
the tide licks our feet, and, with the
web of life all unwoven, t-he delicate
silken threads are snapped assunder.
We exchange farewells and pass out on
the tide. Readers of the Vermont
Tribune, we have sailed our heaven
bound crafts a few days together. We
are in sound of the breakers! Give me
your hand—farewell!"
Chief Justice Beglie, of British Colum
bia, recently said to a jury which had
failed to find a murderer guilty: "On
your conscience will rest the stigma of
returning such a disgraceful verdict, and
one at variance .vith the evidence on
which you have sworn to find the guilt
or innocence of the prisoner. Many
repetitions of such conduct as yours will
make trial by jury a horrible farce, and
the citv of V"ict( na, which you inhabit,
a nest of immorality and crime, encour
aged by the immunity from the law
which criminals will receive from the
announcement ef such a verdict as yours.
Go I have nothing more to say to you."
To the prisoner, who committed the
murder with a sand-bag, he then said:
"You are discharged go and sand-bag
some of these jurvmen they deserve
it."
There are some very curious laws in
Saxony regarding servants, girls more
especially. The mistress is obliged by
jaw to allow the servant one pound of
butter and one of coffee per month, or
the equivalent in money. If the girl
furnishes her own bedding she secures
11-2 cents per night for so doing. Sev
enty cents a month is allowed for her
washing, and she receives five per cent,
upon all purchases she makes. She is
required to give one month's notice be
fore leaving her place. The law also re
quires that each servant keep a book for
recommendations, in which, upon her
leaving her place, her mistress is com
pelled to 6tate the cause and the girl's
character.
The question of what becomes of pins
has often been mooted but never an
swered. Yet it is certainly peculiar
that an article of everyday use which is
manufactured in numerous quantities
should disappear in equal proportion.
It is estimated that no less than 50,000,
000 pins are daily manufactured in Eng
land and Dublin, and that out of this
number 37,000,000 are produced in Bir
mingham alone, thus leaving lo,000,000
for the production of Dublin, Stroud and
London. The weight of wire, both iron
and brass, consumed' for this purpose
is 1,2751-2 tons every year.
Chicago divorces have been universal
ly considered easy of attainmen t, but it
appears that in Switzerland, among the
lower clasess, a custom prevails that
throws Chicago into the shade. There
young people marry with the distinct
understanding that if they do not iike
each other they will separate. If, at
the end of the year, they shall mutually
declare before a court that they do not
wish to remain married any longer, be
cause of imcompatibility of tempera
ment, they get a divorce. Hymen's
chains are looselv worn in Switzerland.
The Fascinating Widow.
A writer in Harper's observes that
the feminine mind is often not a little
puzzled to understand why the fascin
ations of a widow are so much more po
tent than those of a single woman, why
it is that in every gathering the widow
will carry of tno partners from under
the very nose of the spinster who is in
the very flower—wall-flower—of her
youth. Coes she speak with the tongues
of men and angels more than the rest of
us? Is she better bred? Does she fl it
ter with more skill or dress with more
effect? Is she prettier? they ask, per
haps. Is it the jointure left by her mar*
quia of Carabas, or because she has been
indorsed by a lord of creation? Or is it
the shadow of an early grief which at
tracts, or the exhibition of a most beau
tiful resignation? In the young girl's
estimation the suttee was about the
right kind of a widow. Ought not the
only flame left for her be thai of the
funeral pyre? And is there not some
thing ungenerous, she asks, in a world
where husbands are scarce, for a wo
man to appropriate more than one? Is
it not a sort of denial of immorality? But
the young trirl is told that these are
the fine-spun feelings of a sentimental
ist, that the widow daes r-ght to
live in the world, and not, like old mor
tality, among graves. Very possibly
she may not wish to marrv" agan, but
Bhe may not have buried all her little
vanities, her love of admiration, her in
terest in human kind, especially man­
kind, in the grave witu tier husband.
Isithei fault iftbe men prefer her so
ciety? Perhaps it is her very indiffer
ence, having pleased one man, whether
others are piea&ed or not, that is irresis
tible, or the confidence which that fact
give?. Perhaps it is because she jiever
preaches to them over somebody else's
shoulder because tobacco smoke does
not affect her because bhe is not afraid,
to show her interest because, knowir.a
their weakness, she yet likes their soci
ety because her unprotected position
and her becoming weeds appeal to the
manly heart or because she has learned
tact in the scrimmage with her hus
band's relations. Perhaps through hav
ing loved and lost, she has touched a
wider gamut of emotions, and her ex
perience has made her more interesting
than the callow girl. Doubtless society
needs widows just as much as it does
single women and married people, to
give a spice and variety to life, and it
would be a thousand pities if the Hin
doo custom were to come into vogue in
our duv and deprive some of us of a
grievance.
The Ijieense System in England
A careful study of the subject en a 1-1 es
me to lav before your readers in this
letter an intelligent statement of the
regulations under which the retail liq
uor traffic is carried on in this cour.try.
First all persons engaged in this traflic
must have a license. The victualler's li
cense allows the person holding it to
sell all kinds of drinks, but there are li
censes for the sale of beer and cider:
others for the sale of beer and whio
others for cider and perry, and still oth
ers for table beer only or wine only.
The houses at which beer is sold, with
out spirits, are called "beer houses," to
distinguish them from "publics," which,
opeiate under a victualler's or "full" li
cense. Of the former, not including
those which are "licensed to sell only for
consumption off the premises, there are
84,077 in the United Kingdom, against
9:i,.'48 of the latter class of houses.
The total number of persons
in Great Britain and Ireland holding
license of one kind or another to deal
in and retail exciseable liquors for use as
a beverage is 229,097, the revenue from
these licenses amounting for the year
ling March the Ml, 1883, to nearly $10,
(i.0,000. The houses resembling most
closely the A meri :as saloon are the two
classes already singled out—viz., beer
houses and publics, particularly the lat
ter. A beer license cost $17.51) a year,
and the premises covered by it. to meet
the requirements of law must be of an
annual rental value of 00 to 150, ac
cording lo location.
A house'tor which a victualler's li
cense is sought must have at least two
public rooms in which spirits are sold,
and one in which they are not sold, ex
cessive of the rooms occupied by the
family keeping it. In cities having not.
lesa than lt 0,000 inhabitants the annual
value of such house must be not less
than $100,000 the mininum is $150, Snd
elsewhere it is as low as $75. The cost
of a "full" license varies according to
an annual value of the premises, paid'
annual value to be taken at either
the amount at which the place is rated,
or the amount of rent it brings, or at an
independent valuation, as the licensing
authorities may determine. If the an
nual value were $75 and under $100, the
license would be HO a year, and so on
in fair graduation, up to a $3,500 house
in which case the liconse would cost an
annual sum of $350, that amount being
the maximum. The license for a house
of an annual valuation of $500 would cost
$150 a year
The power of granting or refusing
licenses rests with local magistrates, but
should these dignataries refuse to renew
or transfer a license when requested to
do so, the licenses, having given bonds
for the costs, may carry his grievance to
the general or quarter'sessions—Correa
respondeiice Philadelphia Press.
A Npanisii Dandy, Seventeenth
Century.
His hair was parted on the crown ot
lus head and tied behind with a blue
ribbon about four fingers' breadth and
about two yards long, which hung down
at its full length his breeches were of
black velvet, buttoned down on each
knee with five or six buttons he had a
vest on BO short that it scarce reached
below his pockets, a scalloped doublet,
with banging sleeves, about four Angers'
breadth, made of white embroidered
satin. His cloak was of black bays, and
he, being a spark, had rapped it around
his arm, because this was more gallant,
with a very light buckler in his hand,
and which has a steel pike standing out
in the middle they carry it with them
when they walk in the night on any oc
casion he held in the other t:and a
sword, longer than a half-pike, and the
iron for its guard was enough to make a
breast and back plate. These swords be
ing so lone that they ca-not he drawn out
anless a man has the arms of a giant,
the sheath therefore flies open in laving
the finger on a little spring. He had
likewise a dagger, whose blade was very
narrow it was fastened to his belt on
his back he had such a straight coliar
that he could neither stoop nor turn
alout his head. Nothing can le more
ridiculous than what they wear ab nit
their necks, for it is neither a ruff, baud,
nor cravat. His hat was of a pro.iigious
size, with a great band twisted about it,
bigger than a mourning one. His shoes
were of us fine leather as that whereof
gloves are made, and all slashed and cut,
notwithstanding the cold, and so exact
ly close to his feet, and having no heels,
that they Heemed rather pasted on. in
entering he made a reverence after the
Spanisn fashion, his two legs cross one
another, and stooping as women do
when they salute one another he was
strongly periumed, and they are ail so.
Countess Danois.
Tweniv-eight parishes of Louisiana
were inundated by the Mississippi over
flow last year, ana the damage is reck
oned at $60,000,000.
Seven new hotels, four with 1,000
rooms each, are being built in London.