’ soil about one inch thick.
Romeo AND JULIET AGAIN.
A Montague-Capulet Love Tragedy in Real
Life in Austria.
An extraordinary love tragedy, re?
calling the story of Romed and Juliet,
is reported from Alt-foldt. Irma. says
a Vienna letter to the Londoa News.
Some time ago the daughterof a high-
ly respected family made the acquain-
tance of an employe of the local ad-'
ministration, whose uncle is one of the
princes of the Hungarian church. The
two fell deeply in love and often met by
stealth, as, the young man’s parents
could not forget a lawsuit they had had
with the girl’s family and which was
decided against them. The girl’s fa-
ther, who was once a millionaire, but
whom speculation had reduced, tried
to persuade his daughter to marry a
rich land owner who was anxiousjo
make her his wife. The young man
succeeded, however, in getting a dis-
pensation through his clerical uncle,
and a secret marriage was performed.
The girl’s parents again made a vio-
llent sceneto induce her to marry the
land owner. She took their words so
much to heart that she took a large
dose of opium and next morning was
found unconscious in her bed. The
young husband, hearing the news, ran
to the house and in the general confu-
sion entered the room. Seeing her pale.
and motionless and believing her to be
dead, he blew his brains out with a re-
volver he had brought with him. The
report awoke the young woman, whom
the opium had held in a trance. When
she saw her lover lifeless on the ground
near her she took the revolver from his
dead hand and shot herself.
QUEEN AND THE “ORB.”
How the Brave Girl Suffered Silently at
the Coronation.
5” In the coronation the ceremonies last-
ed mdre than four hours, and through—
out the queen played her part with
wonderful composure. Care, says a
writer in the Westminster Budget, had
been taken to provide a crown suitable
for her small‘ head, but no one had
thought about reducing the size of the
orb which she was required to carry
in her tiny hand.
“What am I to do with it?” she asked
in concern.
“Carry it, your majesty,” replied
Lord John Thynne.
“Am I? It is very heavy," the queen
answered in atoneof amazement. How-
ever, it was too late to protest, and she
. obeyed the exigencies of the situation.
A worse mistake had been made with
regard to the ruby coronation ring.
The jeweler had made it to fither maj-
esty’s little finger, whereas the arch-
bishop declared that according to the
rubric it must be put upon the larger
finger, and accordingly forced it into
that position. The queen bore her
painfully swelling finger with the same
Heroism that she carried the weighty
orb. Afterward the finger was so much
swollen that it had to be bathed in ice
water before the ring could be drawn
off.
MEERSCHAU M.
Methods That Are Used to Prepare It for
Market.
Meerschaum is extracted in the same
way as coal. The stone as extracted
is called “ham tash” (rough block)
and is soft enough to be out easily with
a. knife. It is white, With a yellowish
tint, and is covered with a red clayey
In this
state the blocks are purchased by deal-
ers on the spot, not by weight nor by
measurement. These rough blocks are
dried and subjected to a certain prep-
aration before, being conveyed 'to Eski-
Sherhir. Some of them are as small
as a walnut, while others attain the size
of a. cubic foot. Those which combine
regularity of surface and size are the
best. The manipulation required-be-
fore they are ready for exportation
is long and costly. The clayey soil
attached is removed and the meer-
schaum dried. In summer exposure
for five or six days in the sun’s rays suf-
fices, but in winter a room heated to
the required temperature is required,
and the drying proceéss takes eight or
ten days. “Then well dried the blocks
are well cleaned and polished. Then
they are sorted into about 12 classes.
each class being packed with great
care in separate cases and each block
being wrapped in cotton wool.
SAFETY. FOR PASSENGERS.
How It ls Secured on Eastern Excursion
Steamers.
Those of our readers who have had
the curiosity to examine the appoint-
ments and equipments of excursion
boats such as ply about the bays and
harbors of the Atlantic coast, says Busi-
ness, may have noticed on the main
deck a weighted and suspended pointer,
so arranged as to indicate by its swing-
ing movements the deviation of the
boat from even keel. Some weights on
wheels, commonly termed “chain
boxes,” are at hand for use in evening ;
‘ Joseph Derr, a farmer residing at Plain-
the load of the boat. As the boat lists
to one side, when the eager sight-seers
rush pell-mell to secure some special
view, the chain boxes are quickly rolled
in the opposite direction, and when, by
_, reason of a change in point of interest,
the crowd runs to the opposite side of
the boat, the chain boxes in turn are
wheeled to the contrary direction. The
pointer or indicator, hanging against a
post near the center of the boat, serves
to direct the movements of the deck-
hands with the boxes.
Dr. Johnson's Mouse.
‘ F Considerable discussion, says a Lon-
don exchange, is taking place in Lich-
field with regard to the condition of
the house in the market square in which
Dr. Johnson was born and lived. In
view of the possibility of the house
falling into a state of decay an agita-
tion has been commenced in favor of
' public action, and it is now understood
that at the next meeting of the city
v council a proposiion will be made to
‘- acquire it for use as a Johnson museum
or club, a number of local residents
having offered to give to it relies which
' they possess of the famous lexicog—
rapher.
WHISKERS UNDER HIS VEST.
How One Man Employs His Hirsute Ap-
penda ges to Advantage.
“Are beards lucrhtive, or, in other
words, can one make any money by
wearing them long?” said a young man
about town, reports the Philadelphia
Call. “Upon the first thought and per-
haps even after onexhas evolved the
question carefully in his mind, he would
reply no. But they are wrong, as the fol-
lowing case of an old artist will show.
By ‘old artist’ is not meant a genius
like I-Iarnet, Angelo or men of that
class, but a painter who, besides being
noted for his superior work in portraits,
is conspicuous for the quantity of hair
which sprouts from his chin. This
gentleman, it is said, has won many a
wager on his beard, which is of>such
greatlength that he. is compelled to wear
it underneath his vest. No one ever sees
the hirsute. growth, except when he ex-
hibits it to settle a. bet. To saunter
into a saloon and get into conversation
with some of the customers there has
bpcome a hobby with him, for in doing
so he has an object. IIe frequently
gets a drink in consequence of betting
with some other fellow who has a fair-
ly long beard as to whose is the longest, ..
and it is seldom that he loses a wager'
of this kind, for his whiskers extend
to_the bottom of his waistcoat.” ,
MUSIC HATH STRENGTH.
Plano Players Are Heavy Weights on the
i Ivory Keys.
It requires more force to sound a.
note gently on the piano than to lift
the lid of a kettle. A German com—
poser has figured that minimum pres-
sure of the finger playing pian-
issimo is equal to 110 grams—a quarter
of a pound. Few kettle lids weigh
more than twoounces. At times a
force of six pounds is thrown upon a
single key to produce a solitary effect.
With chords the force is generally
spread over the various notes sounded
simultaneously, though a greater out-
put of force is undoubtedly expended.
This is what gives pianists the wonder-
ful strength in their fingers so often
commented on. '
A story used to be told of Paderewski
that he could crack a pane of plate
glass half an inch thick merely by plac—
ing one hand upon it, as if upon a piano
keyboard, and striking it sharply with
its middle finger. Chopin’s last study
in C minor has a passage which takes
two minutes and five seconds to play.
The total pressure brought to bear on
this, it is estimated. is equal to three
full tons. The average “tonnage” of an
hour’s piano playing of Chopin’s music
varies from 12 to 84 tons.
A TOAD BAROMETER.
The Creature, in Its Own Way, Predicts
Rain and Shine.
A remarkable story is told in the
New York Tribune about a curious
living barometer in a conservatory at
Fla-infield, N. J. The indicator of
weather changes is a diminutive tree
toad, whose apartment is so arranged
that the slightest change in the density
of the air is foretold with wonderful
accuracy. The toad was caught at Felt-
ville a few months ago, and Mrs. Lissig-
nolo placed the little reptile in a large
glass jar. Standing at an angle in the
jar about two-thirds full of water is
a small but perfectly formed ladder.
and upon this the toad rests continu-
ally, never moving a muscle except
when a change in the weather is to oc-
cur. When the earth is dry and the
skies clear, the toad squats contented-
ly upon the topmost rung of the lad-
der. Just as soon as storm ap-
proaches, and many hours before it
can be seen orrfelt in New Jersey, the
tree toad begins to descend in the lad-
der step by step. The nearer the storm
comes the lower the toad goes, until at
close approach of the stormy weather
it sits half submerged in the water.
The little fellow has been christened
“Mr. Dunn, of Plainfield.”
Not an Insult.
Maj. Lomax, of the United States
army, visiting in Canada soon after the
war of 1812, was entertained in Quebec
by the ofiicers of one of the royal regi-
ments. After dinner, speeches and
toasts being in order, one of the Brit-
ish officers, having imbibed too gener-
ously of the champagne, gave as a
toast: “The president of the United
States, dead or alive.” The toast was
accepted with laughter. Maj. Lomax
rose to respond, saying: “Permit me
to give as my toast: ‘The prince re-
gent, drunk or sober.’ ” The British
officer sprang instantly to his feet, and
in angry tones demanded: “Sir, do you
intend that remark as an insult?” To
which Maj. Lomax calmly replied:
“No, sir; as the reply to one.”
Wanted the Cow Most.
A sensation was created at Carlisle,
Pa., the other night at the home of
Henry Uunclorf, where a wedding was
to have taken place. The bride-to—be
llcnry Dundorf, where a wedding was
field, was the recalcitant groom. The
guests had arrived and the wedding
dinner was in preparation at the Dun-
dorf home, but the groom did not ar-
rive, and the bride began shedding tears.
Then the groom appeared and in a busi-
ness like way informed the girl and her
father that the marriage would have to
be postponed, as the money he had
saved toward defraying wedding ex-
penses he now intended to use in the
purchase of a cow. Derr then left the
house.
“Excuse Mistakes.”
A good-natured mistress lately acted
as amanuensis for a negro maid who
could neither read no, write. The
servant had not enough intelligence to
guess that the lady who wielded the
pen for her was well known in the
world of letters, and made what is pro-
vincially called “a pretty penny” by
her use of the quill now called into
requisition to inscribe from dictation
several letters to southern friends
of the dictator. To her scribe’s intense
amusement each epistle concluded with
the petition: “Please excuse all mis-
takes.”
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'run;EvENING=oAZErTE
OUR CITIES SAVED BY RUSS'A- iLAWYE’I-is WERE HARD FIGHTERS.
Remarkable Statement Made by the Grand
Duke Alexis.
Two interesting and significant
stories ”were told in the Brooklyn navy
yard the other day which have a special
bearing on events now in progress of
development. The first relates to the
young German emperor, who made sev-
eral visits to the white squadron when
it was at Kiel.
One day he was talking with a cele-
brated American captain.
“Captain,” said he, “I see that most of
your country’s warships are fast cruis-
ers. What do you call them, ah, com-
merce destroyers, do you not?”
“Yes, emperor,” said the American. .
“We’ve been watching you on this
side,” the emperor went on, “and we
have come to the conclusion that these
ships are built for a war with England.
What other nation has any commerce
to destroy ?”
There was a silence after this, for our
captain had said more than he intended.
Grand Duke Alexis, who is a full Rus-
sian admiral and the head of the Rus-
sian navy, was also a frequent visitor to
the Americans at Kiel. One day, watch-
ing the Columbia, the. grand duke said
to the captain:
“I’m glad you Americans are rebuild-
ing your fleet. Do you know what most
impressed me when I visited your coun-
try? The first thing was your wonder-
ful natural wealth and the second the
absolutely inadequate means at your
disposal for natural defense.- Twice in
my career I have heard the project- of
capturing one or two of your great
cities and holding them for ransom de-
liberately discussed by officers of Eu-
ropean fleets whose countries had hard
work to make ends meet. And they
meant it, too, but they were told that
Russia and the United States are
friends.”
USEFUL BALE OF COTTON.
Assisted the Actors to Carry Out Their
Show Bill Pledges.
“You may say what you please about
the Mexicans,” said J. G. Walling, of
Denver, who has spent a couple of years
in the republic in the interests of-smre
silver mines in which he is part owner,
says a Houston Post reporter, but when
they make a law over there they enforce
it. One of their laws is that when a cir—
cus or theatrical company of any kind
bills a town they have got to carry out
the programme just as advertised, or
the authorities swoop down on them and
gobble the door receipts and generally
fire the wholecompany into jail. So,
you see. it don’t do for them to blow
their horn too much before the gentle
Aztecs. I remember one summer that
Lilly Clay’s burlesque company adver-
tised to show in San Luis Potosi. They
had gorgeous colored lithographs up all
over town, showing the giddicst lot of
blondes that you ever saw, not overbur-
dened 'with clothes, and displaying the
most generous contours and propor-
tions. The house was packed and .the
company came out in the grand butter-
fly ballet, but alas! the generous pro-
proportions and the graceful contours.
save in a few exceptions, were not as
advertised. In a few minutes the offi-
cers of the law had the company in the
toils.”
“Did they break up the show?”
“No. The manager held a consulta-
tion with the officers and settled the
matter by sending for half a bale of cot-
ton, and the troop retired to their
dressing-rooms and. emerged later On
more than fulfilling the promised
glories of the bill posters. The show
then proceeded and everybody was
happy.”
Mr. W'alling says this is true and it
will have to go.
'ONE ON HAWKSHAW.
He fielded 3 Den of Licensed Housebreak-
ers and Robbers.
One of the detectives connected with
the bureau at the city hall .went into a
barber shop the other evening and sat
in one of the chairs to be shaved, says
the Philadelphia Record. “'liile the
barber was making ready to shave him
hestarted one of his characteristic con—
versations. Receiving short answers
to every question that. he put to the-d.-
tective, however, the tonsorial artist
bro ught the tcte-a-tete to a close and si-
lence reigned supreme.
The local I-Iawkshaw was in half a
doze while the barber was busily en-
gaged in applying a lather on his face,
when suddenly thc sound of a itammer
striking against some metallic sub-
stance was heard emanating from the
rear of the barber shop. 'lfhen voices
were heard in the following dialogue:
“That was a good job that. we done out
at Germantown last week, Pete.” “Yes.
that was the neatest piece of work m-
done for some time; there was so li ttlc
tI'Ouble with it.”
opened his eyes and became interested.
The first voice continued:
“It brought us in $325 and we had
better—”
His conversation at- this stage was in-
terrupted by knocks on the door and
hearing the detective’s voice calling
out: “Leave me in or I’ll break down
the door,” one of the men in the back
room threw the door open. The Hawk-
shaw, expecting to find a den of coun-
terfeiters or burglars, rushed through
‘ the door and fell into aplumber’s shop,
where two of the employes were work-
ing.
5. {1" i, i'q
_ ‘ Qualified to Teach.
The esteem in which the sailor’s call-
ing is held in Massachusetts coast towns
is indicated by a story that comes from '
Martha’s Vineyard. A teacher was
wanted and a sailor applied for the po-
sition. He had to pass an examination
by the committee, and he trembled at
the ordeal, being sadly unlearned in
book lore. The chairman began the ex-
amination: “Mr. , what is the shape
of the earth?” “It is round, sir,” the
candidate answered. “How do you
know?” “Because I have sailed around
it three times.” “That will do, sir!”
He received his “certificate” as a teacher
The detect ive zit-once n
Distinguished Attorneys .W'ho Battled
Brave-1y for Their Clients.
Clients love a hard fighter, and the
onlookers are impressed with his zeal.
In my own experience, says a writer in
the Southern Magazine, I have had
cases where I advised my clients not to
sue because I was sure they had no
chance, and although they followec
my advice, instead of employing other
counsel‘, they’refused to pay a reason-
able fee, and in one case left me to my
the court costs. And I have seldom ad-
vised a client to compromise or submit
to arbitration that I did not displease
him. I‘ equires moral courage to ad-
vise one against his inclinations, but it
is sometimes a lawyer’s saefid duty.
Whatever may be said as to its moral—
ity or true wisdom. yet I must say I re-
gard this aggressive and partisan spirit
more conducive to modern success than
pibfound judgment, for I have seen
lawyers succeed chiefly by reason of
it in whom the logical faculty was not
at all conspicuous. In speaking of
success, it will be observed that I do
not mean the eminence of such men as
Erskine, Wirt, W'ebster, “'illiam Pinck-
ney, Rufus Choate and Charles O’Conor,
but such success as is attained by the
leading members of the bar in every
town or city of the United States, who
have a good practice, sometimes very
lucrative, though they are unknown to
fame and forgotten outside their
neighborhood when they are gone.
PASSING OF THE ELEPHANT:
It Is Said That the Circus Favorite Is 38-,
coming;- Scare-f.
There is a wail in the New York
Ledger that there is every reason to
believe that elephants, like the Ameri-
can bison. are fast disappearing. In
1886 a. worker in ivory in Sheffield, Eng-
land, cndeavored, in all seriousness, to
figure out how long the elephant would
last. His own house, he said, had in
the one year used 1,280 pairs of tusks,
which meant the killing of more than
that many animals, for not every ele-
phant yields two tusks of ivory to the
ivory hunter. That the African species
is fast disappearing there is little doubt.
There are many elephants in Ceylon,
and from that island most of those that
are displayed in traveling menageries
and zoological gardens come. The
showman has very little use for the
African elephant, because he is less in-
telligent than his Indian cousin and
much meaner in disposition. The Af-
rican elephant is the longer~legged and
smaller-bodied animal. Jumbo, who
was‘a half-breed, had the long legs of
the African and the body of the Indian
elephant. Jumbo was undoubtedly the
largest of all elephants, standing 1.? feet
eight inches in height. The largest
elephant remembered in India was one
ridden by the viceroy in 1880, which
stood ten feet four inches. Col. Pollock
records that the king of Burmah had a.
sacred white elephant which was two
inches taller.
MOUND BUILDERS’ CORN.
After Burial for Centuries It Grows Like
' Seed Grain.
A curious experiment was made this
summer by Charles Graham, anursery-
man of this county, and the result lies
upon the desk before your correspon-
dent as he writes, says a letter in the In-
dianapolis News. Last year Mr. A. A.
Graham, of Mount Vernon, Ind., made
a visit to the vicinity of Alton, Ill., and
called upon a friend, who had just
opened a mound builders’ burial‘mound.
Upon the mound grew several large
trees, among them an oak four feet in
diameter, and thus the age of the mound .
was established as considerable. In it
were found the crumbling remains of
bones, and among other utensils a large
pot, containing a maize very much like
our present common red corn. Of this
Mr. Graham secured several grains, and
on returning home planted it. It grew,
and the result was that he produced a
strain of corn which is most likely the
ancestor of the corn we now cultivate.
-In spite of having been in the grave
for certainly not .less than 400 years,
.it grew very rapidly and produced a
large, well-shaped ear upon a fairly tall
stalk. The ear is well set, the grains
being somewhat smaller than any of the
present varieties, except pop—corn. In
shape the grain resembles dried sweet
corn, being rough and wrinkled. In
taste it is sweet and agreeable.
“Editing: One Tuoumnd Miles to Church.
The history of Canada, especially its
earlier history, preserves the story of
many a d c-ed of heroism and devotion on
the part of Christian missionaries who
worked and perished among the In—
dians, but there are few stories which
reflect so much credit on Indian piety
as that published from Quebec. Mon-
Jtagnuis and Eskimos came from the
southern shore of Hudson straits towor-
ship in the province of Quebec. This in-
volved a tramp on foot of 1,000 miles.
No pilgrimage in the middle ages was
ever made in circumstances of greater
hardship. The citizen who is loath to
walk a block to church along a smooth,
dry pavement ought to think of these
Indians plodding 1,000 miles through
an inhospitable country, through for-
ests, across rivers, mountains and lakes,
to render a duty they owe to their re-
ligion.
From the. Sands. .
And apropos of sea bathing. an
amusing incident happened on the
beach one morning. The girls were
drying their bathing suits while sit-
ting a la Turque on the sand, and one
Who was hatless and stockingless was
holding a parasol over her to keep the
sun from burning her bare legs and
freckling her nose. With hardly a mo-
ment’s warning it commenced to rain,
and there was a gathering up of wraps
and a scampering for the bathhouses
from all except the maid with the para-
sol. She danced out into the breakers,
parasol and all, and was going to finish
her bath in Spite of the rain, but she
wasn’t going to get her “hair- out of
without another question being asked. ’ curl.”
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