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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY '2’, 1891. _
A PUG-ILISTIC VIEW.
Billy Edwards, the “bouncer” of the
Hofl’man house bar-room in New York
favors Charles A. Dana for United
States senator because he .isa “hard
hitter.” <Does Billy wantjto be ser—
geant-at-arms in case Dana gets
elected?
ENGLAND’S 3!;an WINTER.
England, as well as this country. is
just now experiencing very cold weath-
er. The cable states that during" the
past 74 years the thermometer has
never averaged lower than during this
week in London, when it registered
only ten degrees above zero. There is
every prospectof a severe winter on the
Continent, as well as in the British
Isles.
PTHE—MONE’ltf-IEY CONFERENCE. ,
Europe will watch with quite as
much interest as this country the ac-
tion of the International Monetary con-
ference, which is to be held in Wash—
ington in the second week in January
with a view to agreement on a common
Pan-American ratio of silver to gold.
The: ratio which is virtually agreed
upon by all continental Europe is ,1 to
15;}, while the legal ratio in the United
States is 1 to 16.
OOOv—-———'—‘
HERIDEN INOCULATED WIT}! CON-
, SOLIDATION LYMPII.
The- consolidation of the town and
city governments of New Haven is
likely to be effected without oppostion
of- anykind. A movement toward that
end right here in Meriden would be a
good idea. There is no need of having
twosets of- officers to govern a commu—
nity no larger than this, any more than
it {is a necessity to have an election
every year to elect them.—[Meriden
Journal. - -
WHI1'1'IE1c!.s.gAL1;An'Tln'.
'A cultivated lady, presiding over a
pleasant home in one of Boston’s su—
burbs, took her three daughters to call
upon Mr. \Vhittier, at his home in
Amesbury. The poet received them
cordially, kissing the youngest, a
bright little girl, of ten. “There ! ”
said ’ the delighted mother to the child,
‘ ‘now you, as well as your sisters. will,
have something'to be proud of” “What
is that? ” asked Whittier, with interest.
The lady explained that when her older
daughters were children, she had taken
them to call upon Longfellow, who had
bestowed upon them a similar mark of
attention. “What Longfellow has
done, I surely may be permitted to do,”
said the grand old poet, gallantly, and
stooping his tall form, he kissed both
young ladies, who blushed and looked
conscious, butfsmiled delightedly.
COO
That Telegraph Pole.
“Struck a queer ol‘d fellow up country,”
said one of the men who planted the'poles
‘ for a new telegraph company in this state.
“He first came across us about two miles
from his house as he was driving home
. from the village.
“Says he, ‘Coming up my way with them
air?’
“ ‘G-uws so,’ said I.
“ ‘Wal, don’t yer tech the sile along my
fence. Wouldn’t have one ’er them poles
planted ’erlo'ng side my primises for a bun—
. dred. Spile the looks of everything.’
“I told him that we would see about it,
and he rode away swearing bloody mur—
der. W'ell, we got up to his farm late the
next day, and if it wasn’t a dirty mean
place then I’ll eat a. coil of wire. Blinds
off, barn caved in, old pung canted up in
the front yard—oh, it gave me a pain. Old
Particular was there in full war paint.
_ He cursed and blew and threatened when
- we began to set a pole in his door yard.
But we went ahead with the biz and left
with the earachc. The man said he’d
never sleep till he’d chopped the old gal-
lers down, and he wouldn’t eat till he’d
used the Wood to cook his grub.
“I laughed when l drove down by that
house a. few days ago, about a year after
we planted the poles. it looked as though
old huil’y had become pretty well reconciled
lo ‘that outrage.”
“His wife had hitched a clothesline on
to that pole. and he had used it for the cor-
ner post of a shelter shed. Then on t’other
side he had nailed a cleat, and hung up a.
bush scythe and mud hoe. A calf and a
‘ big Sheep were hitched to it. He had some
boards, some iron rods and bolts lying
near, and as near as I could judge was get-
ting “lady to swing a gate on the much
enduring Dole. Above all the other em-
bellishments on the pole were two signs,
‘iSlggTes foR Sale,’ and ‘OthiOn on TeWs-
( a .
”I called the kicker out of the tie up and
informed him that we should move the
P016, and as I hurriedly drove away I heard
him shouting: ‘Why, then, to gosh ’t all
JOOS’lum don’ Ye? It’s been an eyesore
ever sence you stuck it in my door yardl' ”
-Lewiston Journal.
Anaesthetics for the ninth Penalty.
it would seem morally to be a debatable
question whether it shouldbe considered
advisable that the soul of the condemned
criminal should receive its impetus into
eternity when absolume stupefied by
ether. Those who know death to be ap.
preaching prefer, as a rule, to meet it wit-
tingly with a clear brain, even though
ranked by physical pain of an excruciating
nature. One of thegreatest empresseswho
ever lived refused to go to sleep when she
. knew her death was near, because when
she died she wished to meet death with-
apen eyes and an unclouded sense. If the
suggestion for the use of anesthetics in
:apital punishment should be pressed with
foi'ce it is probable that the great resistance
to that change would be based on the
ground that it stupefied the criminal be-
Eore it killed him.-—Boston Advertiser.
There isn’t a ' library, a reading room, a.
museum, anart gallery or anything of that
character open in Washington'after dark.
Such a dearth of places for improving rec:
reation is not- found in any. cityof .50,”
people as Washington with its 200,000 pop-t
ulation presents.
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ED" IN’THE OLD LAw’eooxs.
Peculiar Actiians of a Dislntcrrcd Corpse.
One Man Dreams-of a. Crime Before It
Istommitted—A Mother Sees Her Son
Killed and Avenges His Death.
Law reports of the Sixteenth and Seven-
teenth centuries contain numerous refer-
ences to supernatural occurrences in court
and on the scaffold. One of the most re—
markable records of this-kind is connected
with a murder trial which took place in
England early in the reign of the first
Charles. Sir John Maynard, one of the
firstlawyers of the century, is the author-
ity-for the supernatural events of‘the-trial,
and in his quaint preface to his notes he
says he “thought good to report the‘evi-
dence which was given, which many did
hear, that the memory thereof might not
be lost by miscarriage of papers or other-
wise.”
One Johan Norkett, a farmer’s wife, had
died, and at the coroner’s inquest evidence
was given proving that the woman’s throat
had been cut from ear to car. At first the
jury favored a verdict of felo de se, and the
body was interred; but rumors became
general pointing to foul play, and the body
was exhumed. Thirty days after the death
the jury assembled before the body, and
four suspected persons were brought in.
The only evidence against the prisoners
was that they slept in an adjoining room,
and that no one had passed that room;
“therefore, if she did not murder herself,
they must be the murderers.”
QUEER ACTIONS OF A CORPSE.
What took place at the remarkable post
mortem inquiry may best be described in
the words of a. witness at the subsequent
trial, who {was described as “an ancient
and grave person, minister to the parish
where this murder was committed.” This
estimable gentleman said: “They (the
prisoners) did touch the dead body, where-
upon the brow of the dead, which was be-
fore a livid and carrion color, began to
have a dew or gentle sweat arise upon it,
which increased by degrees till the sweat
ran down in drops upon the face, the brow
turned and changed to a lively color, and
the dead opened one of her eyes and shut
it again, which she did three several times.
She likewise' thrust out the» ring or mar-
riage finger three times, and pulled it in
again, and the finger dropped blood on the
floor.”
Naturally enough such remarkable evi—
dence as this was. received with some sus-
picion by the court, although the wit-
ness, to again quote Sir John Maynard,
“was a reverend person about 60 years of
age, as could be guessed. His testimony
was delivered gravely and temperately, but
to the great admiration of the auditory.”
Ample confirmation of an obviously im—
partial character was, however, forthcom-
ing, and the “admiration” turned to hor-
ror, so much so that the prisoners were
convicted, and two of them suffered death
at the hand of the common hangman.
Neither of the victims, one of whom was an
aged woman, could ever be prevailed upon
to confess any complicity in the crime.
saw inn CRIME I): A DREAM.
ln 1751 an Irish murderer was convicted
largely upon dream evidence. A VVater-
ford publican named Rogers dreamed one
night that he saw a man murder another
man on a green spot on the summit of an
adjoining mountain. l-lc ' was able next
day to describe both men with perfect ac-
curacy, and did so to many of his friends.
One of the men was exceptionally strong,
the other weak and puny; but it was the
latter who, in the vision, committed the
murder. Rogers persuaded the parish
priest to accompany him to the spot, which
he found without difficulty, but where
there seemed to be no traces of a murder
or a struggle. Hence Rogers got rather
laughed at. Next day, however, two men
entered the public house, and Mrs. Rogers
at once recognized them from her husband’s
description as the heroes in the vision.
Much alarmed she fetched her husband,
who was also certain they were the two
men.
When they rose to leave Rogers begged
the one he expected to be murdered to re‘
main, but without avail. He nearly faint-
ed with fright after the men had left, and
finally persuaded a neighbor to accompany
him to the green spot on the hill, where,
sure enough, the tragedy of the dream had
taken place in reality. The murderer was
tracked and caught, and Rogers'was the
principal witness. His recital of his dream
was so vivid that the prisoner at once con-
fessed, adding that he killed his compan—
ion exactly as foretold in the dream. The
weapon used was a knife, and as eight
stabs were seen by Rogers in his dream, so
the murderer admitted that he drove his
knife up to the handle in his conipanion’s
body exactly that number of times.
A MOTHER’S VIVID DREAM.
In 1810 awoman named Kraeme appeared
before a Frankfort justice and asked to be
sworn, as she had valuable information
about a. crime committed in a remote vil-
lage in Russia, many days’ journey from
her German home. The story she told the
justice was this: Ten years before her only
son had left home. She heard nothing of
him, and had no idea at all where he was liv—
ing until the night before, when his spirit
appeared to her and told her what she now
hastened to relate. The revelation wast-hat
after leaving home the young man had
wandered about Europe till he had finally
found permanent work in the village of
Kiaf, in Russia. Here he had fallen in
love with a serf’s daughter who had a Rus-
sian beau. On the preceding night this
latter had inveigled the young Teuton into
the country, where he had stabbed him
and then concealed the body in a cave off
the highway.
The justice knew that his informant was
peer and had never been outside of her
native town, and he was so struck with
the vividness of her description of victim,
assailant and location that he forwarded it
to a notary in Kiaf. _
Meantime Carl Kraeine had been missed,
and on the receipt of the dream , story the
police hunted for the cave, found it exactly
as located, and also found the body, with
a wound corresponding with that described
in the vision. The murderer was at once
arrested, and the Widow Kraeme under—
took the long journey to avenge her son’s
death. Her recital in court was vivid in
the extreme, and she screamed with fright
when she first sawthe prisoner, whom she
identified and picked out from among a.
crowd of men ina dimly lighted cell. She
also-identified the woman Who was at the
bOttom of the trouble—St. Louis Globe-
Democrat.
_ Useful Maxims.
Without, danger danger cannot be sur-
mounted. Withthe humblathere isper- _
petual Mace. Wit. once .‘boughttiswvorth
mice taught... wardsmaymassabutiblows '
_ heavy. Yieldingitempsrstpwfrre-
sentments- Youth;.istitheg=seasbn.fortim-
movement. Zenmtotialkanm ,gmade‘ihis
choice of silence,_New»ngeW ,
such a-display of silver.
- It -must:have costafortune."
Thosn'cacrtcrandrmal’ipca .
A.Commomvea.lth;avcnue~ physicianhad
WW'with-;.aԤfcw3pmfmsional. eras
nits-pandas i he cigars were lighted-tho
talkidrifted 1;. the *2 tobacco habit, first, in
itsvgefl’ecttupou.the-> race at large, and then
tofitsgpeculiargelfects upon various indie
vilina'ls. I know a :man, said the elder
physician—infant, he is now in my employ
winds a victim of the strangest whims
iniregardfto the useaof the weed that ever
cmnc under my observation. He is a
Scotchman, about 60 _, years old. Twelve
years..ago he deserted from the English
navy and came to 2 this country, when I
gavezh‘rm a position as coachman. One
morning I went into the stable, and no-
ticed‘that a hole about two feet square had
been cut in a partition between two stalls,
and alittle shelf had been nailed up under-
heath it. I wondered what on earth it had
beenzdone for, but Donald was away at the
time and when he came back it had slipped
my mind. '
It was" a Week afterward before I had 00
casion to go into the stable again,--and“when
I.did.I found Donald standing. on a. stool,
lwninghisclbow on the shelf, with a long
claygpipeinhismouth, smoking away like
agood one andblowing the smoke through ‘
the:1ittle window he had cut. Upon my
quwn'oning,;him he told me that of the
twenty-yeamzhe had passed in her majesty’s
semicevtemof it had been on board a pow-
dersship where'the rules against smoking
were very- strict. During allthis time he
had'ibeennccustomed four times aday to
standnpon a chest and lean out of a port-
hole‘tosmoke, so that no one wouldsmell
it,.and when at last he took French leave
hefound that he could not get any tis~
faction out of a pipe unless indul in
thouold posture, and so you Gm find him
after-each meal and for half an hour before
going to-bed, standing on that stool blow-
ing hissmoke through the little window.
——Boston Herald.
Too Willing to Be Acceptable.
A needy Frenchman once heard that a
marriage was on the tapis between the
daughter of a certain wealthy merchant
and the son of a rich banker. The dowry
that was to be given to the bride was 500,-
000 francs. The merchant was well known
to be on the lookout for a good bargain or
to save a dollar, so on this the Parisian
founded his hopes on a good dinner at
least.
He accordingly called at the merchant’s
residence and asked the privilege of seeing
him on very important business. After a
while he was admitted to his presence.
“The matter, sir, on which I call,” he
began, “involves for you the practical
saving of 250,000 francs. I”-——
“Oh, my dear sir,” interrupted the mer-
chant, “this is too serious to be discussed
before dinner, and as it is now my hour
for dining, pray take dinner with me, and
we will afterward consider your proposi;
tiou at our leisure.”
Having partaken of a meal that lefta
pleasant flavor in the unfortunate’s mem-
ory the rest of his life they returned to the
merchant’s study.
“And now I am ready to hear your pro-
posal,” he remarked.
The Parisian after a moment’s thought
began:
“I understand, sir, your daughter is to
be shortly married to the son of the banker
D’Argent.”
“Yes, that is true.”
“And that her dowry is half a million?"
This was also assented to.
“Well, then, here is my idea. I am
ready to take her for half that sum, and
thus you will save or gain exactly 250,000
francs—Philadelphia Times. ,
A Newspaper Proprietor-’5 Whims.
“James Gordon Bennett’s methods are
peculiar,” said an old newspaper man in
an interview with a reporter. “He once
brought up aman from an outside town
to work the police courts. After a day or
two he just as quickly sent him back to
work there on space rates. The boy got
rather rattled and declared he would get
even with Bennett. He did. There was a
bad smash-u p on the road, and he sent an
exclusive account to The Sun. Bennett
of course wanted to know why The Herald
was heat, and when he learned it was his
whilom police man who had scooped him
he sent for him again and made him assist-
ant dramatic editor. He said he should
not beat him again. .
“Shortly afterward, when in Paris, Ben—
nett cabled this man to come there and act
as city editor of the Paris edition. He
went, and remained for two weeks, when
Bennett, who had gone elsewhere, tele-
graphed him to go to London and report
to Oakey Hall, who then had charge of the
London edition. Hall told him he had no
work for him, and sent a. message to Ben-
nett to that effect. Bennett then at once
replied, ‘Tell him to go to hados.’ Probh-
bly he did, for he remained in London.”—
Pittsburg Dispatch.
Test of Quickuess in Fencing.
A very interesting method of testing the
quickness of a. sword thrust consists in
photo—chronographic measurement. The
movement of the foil point is too quick to
be measured by the eye, but by the aid of
the photo—chronographic apparatus it can
be plainly shown. The fencer is dressed in
white, placed in front of a black back-
ground, the foil is chalked and a metallic
“spangle” is fastened to the tip by wax.
The photo-chronographic machine ‘being
set in rotation, the trajectory of the tip of
the foil during the movement of the
fencer is shown by a series of dots.
As two successive images are one-fif-
teenth of a. second apart in time, it follows
that by counting these images the entire
time occupied from the beginning to the
end of the movement can be determined.
In a recent test it was found that the
stroke occupied a. little less than four-
tenths of a second. By this means two
swordsmen can be compared, and their
relative quickness easily and exactly de-
termined—New York Commercial Adver-
tiser.
Over 40,000 Hotels in the Country.
Does any one dispute my assertion that
there are 40,000 hotels in this country? I
have only to point out to you that there
are over 60,000 postoflices enumerated in
the official directory by the authority of
the government, and as every one knows
there-is never a postoflice anywhere but a
hotel is a. nearby and necessary adjunct,
andas there are many hotels in great cities
where there is but one postoflice it is re:-
sonableto conclude that there are as many
hotels as postofiices in the United States.
Therefore I maintain that my estimate of
40,000 hotels is considerably below a rea-
sonable estimate—Hotel Register.
After “Potluck."
She—Wasn’t Mrs. Tiptop's supper do-
’li—ghtful?
He—It was horrid.
“What-nonsense! I never in my life saw
And such china!
"She sets a mightymeanstable.”
“Table? It’s solidmahogany inlaid with
, obcnyiand sold.”eGood ' >
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