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Stylish Single or Double Team with or without drivers' Safe horses for women andchildren- . SADDLEHoasss A sesoih‘ifi“? - the church is‘ceaseless. , ‘ mucus OCTOGENARIANS. Three Who. Are Making a Life ' Racewith the Century. . F‘— Great Men of Europe Who May Live to See she'cme or the Year 1900- Gladstona, Pope Leo and Prince Bismarck. —.——— Of the. three notable octogenarians of Europe Leo XIII” the supreme pontifl of the Catholic world; Gladstone, the err-chancellor of the German empire, the oldest' 1s Gladstone, who was born in 1809, and the youngest is Bismaick, born 1n 1810, is but two months younger than Gladstone. . The three octogenarians, says the New York Sun, differ as greatly from each other in their genius as in their life Work. Each of them possesses ex- ceptional traits of character. The pope, is spoken of as the “Pacificator,” Bis- marck as the “Man of Blood and Iron,” Gladstone as the “Grand Old Man.” The only one of these yet in active ' service is the pope, who was elected as supreme pontifi' In 1878. Prior to that time he had been archbishop of Damiata, apostolic nuncio to Belgium, bishop of Perugia, and member of the college of cardinals. Gladstone was a member of parlia- ment as early as 1832. He subsequently held a great variety of offices under the government, including the ofiice of chancellor of the exchequer. He was premier for the first time as successor to Disraeli m 1868, and for the second time' 1n 1880, and for the third time in 1886, and for the last time from 1892 to 1894, when he resigned. He has been the author of many books, theological, classical and political. Bismarck’s career has been less va- ried. In 1848 he was chosen a member of the second chamber of the Prussian diet. He was subsequently Prussian embassador to St. Petersburg and to Paris, Prussian minister of foreign af- fairs, and finally, in 1871, chancellor of the German empire, which he held un- til he Was relieved by the present kaiser. Of the three octogenarians, the pope is the one who possesses the most amia- ble and kindly disposition; Gladstone is a man of warm temper, which is apt to become hot when aroused; Bismarck is a person of exceeding irascibility, which characteristic, however, acco1d- ing to all accounts, has become greatly modified since his fall from power. The pope is the most eminent Catho- lic scholar and theologian of his time; Gladstone is a man of vast and varied learning; Bismarck has made no mark upon the age outside of statecraft. ‘ The pope’s activity' 1n the business of He keeps watch of his charge in every country; he receives and holds intercourse with prelates, priests, and other visitors from all parts of the world; he com- poses encyclicals upon many subjects, he labors incessantly for the unifica- tion of Christendom; he performs all his duties in a manner at once precise and vigilant. Gladstone, though re- tired from office, is busy with one thing or another every day of his life. He is engaged at literary labor; he travels at home and abroad; he keeps an eye upon the affairs of church and state; he gives utterance to his views upon public questions and retains his interest in them; his powers seem to be in excellent order; he takes the greatest enjoyment in life and action. He may yet again be heard' 1n parlia- ment. Bismarck, the youngest of the retirement for the remainder of his ex- istence. He himself has told, within the past few weeks, of the efiort he had to make to take part in the cele- bration of his eightieth birthday, and to receive the many delegations which have waited upon him; his participation in the ceremonies has been a hard trial for him; his speeches to the delegations have been very laborious and short; and it has frequently been necessary that he should receive the help of his friends while moving about. Gladstone’s thoughtful, careful and venerable wife lives to cheer his years; it was but recently that Bismarck be- came a widower; the supreme pontiff never marries. There are often reports about each of the three octogenarians that his death is at hand; but at least two of them are ceaselessly busy, and only one of them talks gloomily. It would seem that the pope is never kept from his duties by the condition of his health. It is certain that Gladstone’ s occasional ail- ments are of short duration. Bis- . marck’s frame has been more seriously shaken than that of either of his two contemporaries. Yet it were idle to speculate upon the prospects of life for any one of the three. It may be that the oldest of them will outlive the youngest. It Is not' 1n every age of the world that three such octogenarians as those here spoken of are seen. It is not often that three veterans of their dis- tinctiveness of character hold such places 1n the world as they have held contemporaneously. There have been but few instances in which a pope of the years of Leo XIII. has been as active as he is. Gladstone is without a parallel in British annals. Bismarck is without a rival in the past, as he was the first chancellor of the existing Ger- man empire. The three octogenarians must occupy a large place' 1n the political and eccle- siastical history of the nineteenth cen- tury. Infant Colonels. The infant son of the prince of Bul- garia, now ayear old, has, in honor of his first birthday, received his promo- tion from the rank of lieutenant colonel to that of colonel commandant of'the Fourth regiment of Hussars. He is one of about a hundred colonels who are still 1n petticoats and knickerbockers, every male member of the reigning house of Russia receiving a patent of colonel at his baptism, while German princes of the blood receive their first commission on their tenth birthday. . .5" ex-premier of England, and Bismarck, . born 1n 1815, while the pope, who was ' three octogenarians, has passed into ' , AN 000 BANQUET. At Which a Fashionable Londoner Buried His Bachelorhood. Most memexperiencedr in dining out have attended what might be aptly called “crank dinners” where some hobby came into play or an odd eccen- tricity was grotesquelyindicated. One of the queerest banquets of this char- acter took-place a few years ago at a fashionable restaurant in London, where an acquaintance engaged/a cab- inet particulier to celebrate what he called the “burial of his bachelor- hood.” The table was laid with a black satin cloth, the flowers in the epergnes were immortelles, the menu was written in a dead language on mimic tombstones, the name of each guest was inscribed on a cardboard cofiin which opened and contained a dark cigar to represent a. corpse and the wine appeared draped in crape and was served by mutes. When the guests arrived they came in two mourning coaches drawn by huge black horses with long tails, such as one sees wending their way to the cemeteries. The host was dressed in deep mourning, with sables around each arm. He was evidently in some respects a morbid man who reveled in his mortuary wit, for when the mana- ger of the restaurant knocked at the door (it was getting late) and desired to know if the obsequies were quite over the giver of the feast was reading the burial service with mock solemnity over an empty claret bottle. He addressed the manager as a “potent, grave and reverend seignior,” requested one of his guests to play him out'ito the strains of the V “Dead March in Saul” and protested that the dinner could not be completed “until it was half mourning.” This comedy or farce, interlude or whatever one may call it, was kept up to the very end by the convives departing as lugubriously and solemnly as they had entered. ENGLISH WOMEN. A Tribute to Them from the Pen of One of England’s Old Foes. The Temps has a correspondent in London who has evidently been most favorably impressed by the charms of the English ladies, says the London Daily‘ News. Nothing could be more ridiculous, he declares, than the fancy portrait of an English woman as seen in the mind’s eye of a Frenchman who knows nothing of England. Musset said: “As cold as an English woman,” and the French picture her as a creature with enormous feet, a jaw like that of a gorilla, bony hands and a flat neck, wearing a round hat, a green veil, spec- tacles, a plaid shawl and loose, ill-fit- ting stockings, falling over boots like those attached to a diver’s dress. Such an idea could only have been produced, he declares, by hatred of Pitt or the defeat at Waterloo. The gallant correspondent proceeds to compare English women with French women, not at all to the disadvantage of the former. What superficial ob- servers take’ for coldness in the English women, he declares. is really calmness, an easy bearing, a bold, grave confi- dent and unaffected manner, which ex- cludes coquetry in favor of personal dignity. The London woman, he adds, is brought up in a spirit of independ- ence which is wanting in French fe— male education. She may appear a lit- tle more mannish, perhaps, in conse— quence, but one gets used to this, and one finds she is none the less pretty or fair or fresh-colored or graceful or tender. _,_— THE FUTURE OF CHINA. John Will Now Rapidly Fall In with the Latest Industrial Methods. i“ The Chinese have a grand old litera-' ture and philosophic books by the side of which Plato and the Memora- bilia of Socrates seem mere bro- chures. The Chinese are essentially a literary and aesthetic people, although they, too, can boast of many campaigns and architectural monuments. Their public buildings in brick are few, but those in mud still fill us with admira- tion. Their traditions are wholly op- posed to .ours. Their traditions are very old, very theoretical. Barbarous traditions, grown up in the rough practice of life, are more easily displaced than those which have their roots imbedded in an ancient but ever green philosophical literature. But when the public examinations, on which success in life depends, shall cease, no matter by what blow, to con- fine themselves to Chinese classics alone, then gentleman John will be-- come as laborious, docile and enterpris- ing in modern war and finance and policy, and military and industrial methods and training, as humble coolie John already 15 in shopkeeping in San Francisco and Australia and the Straits. Then we shall have to look out. SEEKING , ANCESTORS. Librarians Worried by ‘Women Looking for Revolutionary For-cheats. “My life is made miserable,” said a librarian, plaintively, “by people who are anxious to become members of the Sons of the Revolution or the Daughters of the Revolution. Only about one-half of them succeed; but it takes a long time to prove to them that they can’t succeed. The craze started only a few years ago, with the organization of these societies, and it is still on the in- crease. ‘ ' “Most of the seekers of ancestors are women. A great many of them, I be- lieve, have never been in a library be- fore. They know nothing about how to begin a search.- They ply mewith questions. All I can do is to find out in what state their ancestors lived dur- ing the revolution and then turn over the state documents to them. Then, likely as not, they will ask me to help them search, but I draw the line at that. Their disappointment when they can’t find a single private in their favor is something terrible. Sometimes they get angry and say the books are wrong, the library is ~‘wmng and everybody is wrong. Again they find, to their hor- , ror, that they had ancestors interested in the revolution—ancestors who were ardent tories. ” . r 0, THE .UTU x111“ INSURANCE 00, OF NEW YORK. (1" RICHARD A. MoCURDY President. emen er eYear ingfleu 31.189 $221,213,721 33 194,347,157 58 $26,866,563 75‘ $48,597,43051- $23,126,728 45 Assets, - , - 4 , ', Liabilities ~ . . Surplus . - . Total Income . . Total Paid Policy-holders in 1895, Insurance and Annuities in force, $899, 074,453 78 Net gain in 1895 $61,647,645 36 NOTE—Insurance merely written. is discarded from this Statement 8. i actually issued and paid for in cash is included. 3 who IV misleading. and only insurances I have carefully examined the foregoing Statement and find the same to be correct. :11? CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor. £237 From the Surplus a dividend will be apportioned as usual. Reperf 0f the Examining Cemmittee. "5'4 .. "5’1? 231’; .2, 62M 'ktv-‘r: Oifieeef the Mutual life Insurance company of New York, February 11, I896. At a meeting of the Board of Trustees of this Company, held on the 18th day of ' December last, theundersigned were appointed a Committee to examine the annual Statement for the year ending December 31st, 1895, and to verify the same by com- parison with the assets of the Company. ' The Committee have carefully performed the duty assigned to them, and hereby certify that the Statement is in all particulars correct and that the. assets specified therein are in possession of the Company. In making this certificate the Committee bear testimo‘iiy to the high character of. the investments of the Company and express their approval of the system, order and. accuracy with which the accounts and vouchers have been kept, and the business in general transacted. I ' H. 0. Von Post, Charles R. Henderson, James C. Holden, Robert Olyphant, Wm. P. Dixon, J. H. Herrick. . Committee ROBERT A. GRANNIS, Vice-President.- WALTER R. GILLETTE, General Manager. ISAAC F. LLOYD, Second Vice-President, HENRY E. DUNCAN. Jr., Cor. Secy. WILLIAM J. EASTON, Secretary, fl ALBERT KLAMROTH, Asst. Secy. FREDERIC CROMWELL, Treasurer. JOHN A. FOND-A, Assistant Treasurer. JAMES TIMPSON, 2d Asst. Treas mt}: WILLIAM P. SANDS. Cashier EDWARD P. HOLDEN, Asst. Cashier EMORY MOCLINTOCK LL. D., F. I. A. ,Actuary. JOHN TATLOCK, JB., Asst. Actuary. WM. W. RICHARDS, Comptroller. 1s“ CHARLES A. PRELLER, Auditor, HENRY'S. BROWN, Asst. Comp.’ JOHN C. ELLIOTT, Superintendent of Domestic Agencies, EDWARD LYMAN SHORT, Gen. Solicitor. MEDICAL DIRECTORS ELIAS, J. MARSH, M. D. GRANVILLE M. WHITE, 11. D. -. GUSTAVUS S. WINSTON, M. D. JIEDEN W. NIGE®LSQ New Haven, General Agt. for State of Connecticut A. m. (DAMP. Local Agent.
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