‘ rumor. wor'r use. The Roputed ,Brlde Eleot's Sister, De- nounces the Story as a Falsehood. NEW YORK, Dec. 10. —Rev. T. De Witt Talmage has personally put the seal of un- truthfulness on the published report of his coming marriage With Miss Susie Man- gam, daughter of Daniel D. Mangam, the millionaire commission merchant, residing at Sing Sing. “Sometimes people guess right, and at other times people guess wrong, but on this particular occasion the guessing is “wrong. The story is untrue. I am not to wed,” said Dr. Talmage when seen at the Astor House today. A press representa- tive made a journey to Sing Sing today in search of corroboration or denial of the story that Miss Susie Mangam was about to become; the wife of the famous Brook- lyn preacher. The home of Miss Mangam is a big mansion “on. the hill,” overlooking the broad Hudhon. In answer to the reporter’s ring a stately young woman opened the door. There was indignation expressed in her look and her attitude and when the visitor asked, “Is it true that Miss Susie Mangam is engaged to be married to Rev. Dr. Talmage ” she replied, with much feeling, “It is not true, and there is not the slightest foundation, in fact, for the cruel report.” “Am I addressing Miss Mangam, or may I see her?” “N o; my sister is not at home. ” ‘ Then after a moment she added: “'She is in New York. You must see Dr. Talmage and find out from him any further information you may desire on the subject.” . Miss Mangam is 30 years of age and the daughter of Daniel D. Mangam, a com- mission merchant, with oifices at 77 Broad street. Dr. Talmage has been a frequent guest at the Mangam residence, in Sing Sing, for months past. Dr. Talmage has been married twice. His first wife was Miss Mary Avery of Brooklyn, who was drowned in the Schuyl- k'ill river two years after her marriage, leaving a daughter. Dr. Talmage’s wife whom he married five years after this tragic occurrence was Susan C. Whittemore, also of Brooklyn. She died after a brief illness in Danville, N. Y., Aug. 5, 1895. The immediate cause of her death was nervous prostration. Jessie Talmage, the child of the doctor’s first wife, married Warren G. Smith, a wholesale jeweler of New York. Their any child is Hazel, about 9 years old, who is a great favorite with her grandfather.‘ Dr. Talmage’s othc. 111.1rried daughters are May, the wife of li'anicl G. Mangam, agrain broker, wh '1 lives at 41 Garden place, Brooklyn, and Edith, who lives in Richmond, where her husband, Allan Dennan, is a wealthy tobacco merchant. Maud and Daisy are still in their teens. 5"“. 1.1- A 1111511 foil SARAH. The Friends of Dime. Decoration'For Her. I PARIS, Dec. 10.—MM. Victorian Sardou, Ludovic Halevy and Francois Coppee . waited upon President Faure, asking him to bestow the Legion of Honor upon Mme. Sarah Bernhardt 111 connection With.the fetes' in her honor. The president admitted the weight of such request on behalf of the Academy, but he said that he could not take the ini- tiative in a project which was certain to meet opposition on the part ofthe chancel- lery of the legion, which was strongly against decorating actresses with the or- der because of their fears that other well justified demands would be made. Mme. Bernhardt’s admirers believe that the Chancellery will make an exception in this case and will include the decoration in t‘ 1e New Year list. As a souvenir 0f the fetes in her honor Mme. Bernhardt has resolved to execute a bust of M. Sardou. /This will be her twelfth sculpture of a celebrity. Embalsador Uhl's Daughter Married. BERLIN, Dec. 10. — Miss Lucy Uhl, daughter of the United States ambassador to Germany, Mr. Edwin F. Uhl, was mar- ried this afternoon to Professor Guy Thompson of Yale university. During the morning the band of the Alexander regis meat of guards serenaded the young cou- pie. : Death of Louis Auguste Rogeard. PARIS, Dec.10. -- M. Louis Auguste Regeard, born in 1820, a well known French publicist, died here today. The Weather. I Generally fair; cooler; light westerly winds. FIEANOIAL AND COMMERCIAL. Closing: Quotations of the New York Stock Exchange. New YORK. Dec. 9.—Money. on call easy at 2 per cent. Prime mercantile paper. [email protected] per cent. Sterling exchange easier. with actual business in bankers‘ bills at $4. 86®4. 86% for de- mand and.$4.88%@4.88% for 60 days. Posted rates. [email protected]% and [email protected]}§. Commer- cial‘bills,1,.$4.82%. Silver certificates, sales. $354211“ 651411.81"- silver, 65%0. Mexican dollars,-r 50360,- Government bonds firm. State bonds dull;.>i.Railroad bonds firm. Closing prices: Atchison .......... 13% N. J. Central ...... 103 Bur. & Quincy. . . . 78 C.. C., C. dz St. L. . 28% Northern Pacific. 14% Chesapeakedz 0.. 17% Do. pref .......... Chicago Gas ...... 74% N. Y. Central ..... 95 Cordage ........... 6% Omaha ........... Cotton Oil ........ 12%; _ Ontario & West” g3: Del. & Hudson...127 Pacific Mail.. Erie ................ 1536 .Reading ...... 28 GeneralEleotrie..~S_l§éé:-. Rock Island...... 68% Hecking Valley? . 19% Silver Bullion. .55 Lackawannaz... ]..58% .St. Paul ......... Lake Shore... "15% ,Sngar Refinery: 311756 Texas Pacific. 9% -------------- Lea Louisville & Nash 50% Missouri Pacific“ :22 Northwestern... . .10314 Union Pacific ..... u10% W'abash profs..." :3: .,Western Union... General- :Mnrkets. New YORK. Dec. 9.—.FLOUR——State and western dull and weak; city mills patents, 85 2505. 50: winter patents. $4. 90@5. 15: city 115111: clears. [email protected];, winter straights. $4. m4. 70. WHEAT—No. 2 red opened weak and de- clined under disappointing; cables. larger spring wheat receipts than expected and liqui- dation: March. 88®88%o.: May,. 0-. CORN—No. 2 quiet, but. steady on lig t re- ceipts; May, 81%@32c. , OATS—No. 2 ruled dull: track. white. state. ”320.: track. white, western. PORK—Dull: mean. 58. W. 75:. family. 910. 50 911- LARD- Dull; nominal. ”BUTTER—Steady: state dairy, 11@20c.: state mory. 16@23Kc- prime western steam. $4.15. small. loyc. , EGG —.Dull; state and Pennsylvania, 220 etc..-wbstorn.13K@21K°- SUGAR- Raw quiet;- fair , 2 15-160.: centrifugal. 90 £833; ”fifth I“NICE—Quiet; domestic. We Japan. 4% W- TALLOW—Dull: city. 395cc con MEMO. RAY—— Weak: shipping. ' choioefloaltc. Bernhardt Ask a - North American. 5% ' HEESE—Steady:. state. large. mmiéc. .3; .Boih Pacers Sent to one Address 54:62.: re- ' 456cm mid quiet: eras ed. 50.; pa U otENglu 4011 y at : BS—Qniet; ew Orleans. .for 3.11:0“ w THE E'VENIN THE 1111111111 NW :3 he TIM I To Subscribe ‘for the . rm ~A-nn- WA... . s.-. .‘A.......a . ._ :rorsloo a Year“ . f and to the Golden State. some to New York in their shells, but ‘ most of them are “l1uskcd” before be- Amoor river. CHE RUNS THE RANCH." "‘ A Cafi'ornia Woman Who Raises Walnut and Fine Pampas Grass. Mrs. Harriet W. R. Strong is a rancl woman of California, where the specie: flourishes. horny-handed daughter of toil. She 11 described as dainty, fragile, shrewd daring, cordial, gentle-faced. Her etc; is quick; her voice low and musical She is an accomplished linguist, a mu sician, a painter, the President of z fashionable club, plumes are the finest in the country. Nobody would think of calling Mrs Strong :1 narrow or one—sided person Versatility and walnuts are he) strongest points. The former has ex panded without hindrance. The wal oujs haven‘t done quite so well as the) might if Mrs. Strong hadn’t set on! ‘:he pampas grass among the trees, bu: she means to make that all right very soon. The pampas plants will haw :0 more. but they will be merely trans planted. It is a fact, without any lou attempt at punning, that Mrs. Strong plumes herself on her success in this oranch of her ranching. Mrs. Strong's husband diedjn 1888 1nd his widow very quickly found the1 her agents were improving their ex :eptional opportunities for running tilt business into the ground. This is 5 very easy thing to do'with a ranch She decided. therefore, to run it her self, and, as is generally the case whet 1 woman takes hold of a business, she 'got herself well laughed at for her no :ions. When she spent $700 on pam pas plants the men of the neighbor 100d were so amused that they sat ir- 211e sun for hours together and had a oeautiful time telling each other whai 1 feel a woman was when it came to msiness. They don‘t do that new. Mrs. Strong Jarvcsts 300,004) plumes from he] :wcnty-eight acres and sells them fo1 from $15 to $20 a thousand. This is n addition to the w alnuts, which are n thcs same 1a11d.but have been some what stunted by the pampas'. The numes are gathered in September, and :lie work has to be done promptly. Sixty—five laborers harvest the twenty- :ight acres. The plume grows up in a ong sheath, as an ear of corn does, 1nd it must be cut before this sheath )pens, lest the sun spoil the fronds. i‘he’ plumes are first stripped and ta- ;en to the drying place. If they are )ut out in the evening they are white 1nd ready to be taken up by morning. l‘hcn they go to the curing house, where they are kept six weeks. In addition to the pampas grass, which is an excellent food for cattle, 511's. Strong raises walnuts, oranges, alivcs. and figs. She is President of , ';he America-n: Walnut Growers’ A8397; ’ :iation. She is interested in irrigation 1nd mining schemes, and has recently ~)ateuted a reservoir system for im- )ounding the debris of hydraulic min- ng. She thinks it will settle matters She has patented a process for dam- ning up and storing water for irriga- :ion. by using the reversed arch. Furthermore, she has a hobby. She ireams of founding an institution where women may learn the principles )f the science of business. She is 10w the President of a business league, which she hopes to see grow until it fulfils her hopes. Altogether, Mrs. Strong appears to be as marvelous a )roduct of the Pacific slope as it has .urncd out for a long time—New York Sun. Where the Nuts Come From. “Nuts is nuts" at Halloween in Stret- aand. We eat most of the dainties Jere at Chiistmas time. thcncc do :hey conic? Take ti 19. French walnuts. consid- rred by many the sweetest nut that giows \'cw Y01k imports 8,000 or 10000 bags of them eveiv ycai, but let fiom 11‘1 ance. Most of them come from Naples. A superior article which is fast replacing the foreign article is brought from California. It is grown m the Les Nietos district and shipped eastward by the carload. California grows no end- of almonds also. but Spain is still a powerful sec- These nuts mg offered for sale. for the confec- tioners and bakers prefer to buy them so. But shelled almonds are imported - in large quantities via. London from the Valley of the Jordan. Hazel nuts. you would, think. are ' common enough in this country. but it 's a fact that New . - 150,000 bushels from Spain and Eng- York imports land—more than half of what we eat. The filbert is a variety of hazel nut. [t is grown almost exclusively on the in Asia. Nearly all the dried figs imported to :his country come from Turkey and Samaria. Very few New Yorkers ever tasted a fresh fig, but those who rave declare it infinitely superior to the (lllL‘d tig.~\ew Yexk Her.ald 5... CONUNDRUMS. When ”are debts like (-cz'fee?~—’When they settle themselves by standing. When is a piece of .wood like a men-t irclfl—Wheu it is made into a ruler. When does a defeated ship give her ast blow?——ii‘hen she strikes her flag. Why is the Bank of England like a :hrush?—~Bccause it often changes its aotes. Why should many hand-organ tunes )0 considered classical?—Because they trethe precinctions 0f Handel. “That is that which no one-wishes to save, yet, when he has it, he would be very sorry to lose?—A bald head. .What is the difference between a French pastrycook and a bill-sticker“: —One puffs up paste, the other pastes 1p puffs. What is the diiference between a husbandman and a seamstress?— —The. )ne gathers what he sows, the other .. rews what she gathers. HA/F‘I‘TF‘ She is‘ not, however, 1' and her pampaz‘ , ' 1 ‘ L A Jamestown Landmark Gone. _‘ Jans'rowx, N. Y., Dec. 9.—The old. Soderholm block, one of the landmarks of the town, burned today. The building was owned by J. M. Jphnson, and the upper floor was used for a boarding house. The occupants were amused just in time to es- cape in their night clothing. George Kill- man, a ledger on the lower floor, was choked by the smoke and may die. Good NJ!" For Travelers- ALBANY, Dec. 9. -—-A passenger on a steamboat who loses money from his state- room while he is an actual occupant of the room is entitled to recover from the steam. boat owners, is the decision of the court of appeals today. The case decided was that of Henry C. Adams against the New J er,- sey Steamboat company, otherwise knowg as the People’ s line ‘Vestern Union Divide'hd. NEW YORK, Dec. 9.——’1‘he executive com- mittee of the Western Union Telegraph _ company has recommended the declara- iion of the regular quarterly dividend of l / per cent by the full board of directors. The Chess Championship. MOSCOW, Dec. 9.—-Lasker and Steinitz today drew the eighth game, a Buy Lopez, played by the former, after 55 moves. Present score—Insker, 5; Steinitz, O; drawn, 3. ‘ children attending 'these A' Kind Hearted Edit-der. Mr Billings took up his cup of what the landlady Called coffee, taSted it, snifl’ed it, and 'set it down. “Have you anything to say against the coffee, . Mr. Billings?”- asked the landlady. "\0, me. ’am,” answered Billings. "1 never speak ill of the absent. ” iono— “Recent inquiries in Baltimore have disclosed what must be recognized as one of the gravest perils‘ of our schools. It appears that thousands bf institutions are suffering from defective vision, l apd that many of them are in danger of losing the power of sight altogether, The movement in favor of independ+ ence is making considerable headway in Canada, but it will never amount to anything serious so long as the De minion is dominated by the musty conservatism which now controls its. political life. At the present rate oi progress Canada won‘t be ready for independence for another century. i l I -l :7 o E a: E o 5 L fire-pot. fire-pot. ©©©©©©©©©©©O©®©OOO® 151 P ' 0f the 1adiat0r to the fire-pot has been a matter of great study and experiment 011 the part of the manufacturers of the Bay State Furnace. nanufacturers place a large radiator 011 a small The customer believes that he is getting a large furnace for a little money, whereas hewill get more heat from a 5111 allcr radiator 9n the same The reason is simple: the gas and pro— ’. ducts of combustion do not fill the fines, so that the greater part of the radiation 15 useless. Bay State Furnaces all have a fire-pot which is. of the proper size to fully develop every bility of the radiatory. sult your local dealer. BARSTOW STOVE C0. ' FOUVDRlES—Providence. R. l. BOSTON OFFICE—56 Union St. ©©©©©O©©©©©©©©©O©©©©©©©® Many The possi- Con- 228 Water St., NEW YORK 8 ©0000©©©©©©©©©©©©©© A combination of leavening agents that are pu' e, strong and pro-eminently satisfactory in their actiOn, has resulted in which is " The kind Boss makes his biscuits with " and has for 32 years. 01 cr 3,000,000 pounds sold in the past year testify to t/Iez'r popularity. 1 MANUFACTURERS C. D. BOSS & SON_, NEW LONDON, CONN. For the last 20 years We have kept Piso’ s Cure for Gen- and would sooner think sumption in st et along without sugar in Ceresco, a groceryman could his store than we Could without iso’ s Cure. It is a sure seIIer.-——RAVEN & CO., Druggists, Michigan, September 2,1896. Brocklyn Vault LightCompany MANUFACTURERS. " 9 OFFICE, 481 DRIGGs "At: 211111.? BROOKLYNN. Y.
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