BOGUS RAW OYSTERS.
When Seasoned ,Said Not to be Distin-
guished from the Real Bionl're. .
The municipal authorities of Paris
are engaged in the suppression of at]
altooether novel form of food adultera- -
tion which is assuming phenomenal
proportions. Real oysters are expen-
sive in Pa‘ris, and so, with the object
of suiting slender purses, artificial oys—
ters on the half shell have been in-
vented, which are sold at 20 cents a
dozen, and they are so cleverly made
and look so nice and fresh that, once
lemon juice or vinegar has been added,
they cannot be distinguished from the
real article, especially when white
wine‘is taken in connection therewith.»
The only genuine thing about these
oysters is the shell, the manufacturers
buying second-hand shellsat a small
cost, and fastening the spurious oyster
in place with a tasteless paste. The
municipal laboratory has not yet pro-
claimed the ingredients of’which these;
bogus oysters are composed, but has
announced that they are! of a harm-
ful character.—New York Tribune.
FEMALE BACHCLOR’S REFLECTIONS.
If men were' as considerate 0f the'
good name of other women as they
are of their own sisters and mothers ’
they would talk about the weather
more than they do. - ’ '
The older a bachelor grows the more
ridiculous are his attempts to he gal-
lant. '
After a single man passes thirty-five
he will either'ri'grow morose, wild or
silly.
When a lady and gentleman are in
conversation it is generally the latter
who is embarrassed.
If all the women who say “no” would
only stick to it what. a world? of an-
guisifwould be spared.
Men wonder why girls kiss a-poodle
instead of them. If half of the men
could get one sniff of their own breath
they would never wonder again. ~
if the average young man would
spend more money on operas, lectures,
heel-Is ‘aud magazines, and less on cl»
has. beer, variety shows and horse
use. he would know more and his
' would like him better. _
about one man in 500 knows
:0 kiss gracefully. Yet every
ts conceited enough to believe he I
-.s that one.——Dansville Breeze.
é DID His DUTY AND DIED.
Doctor’s Blood Poisoned anongh His
x Peforming on Operation.
Camden,‘N. J., Jan..10.—Dr. O._ W. -
Braymer, died from blood poisoning.
yesterday morning after-a few hours’
illness. He was on the staff of surgeons
of the Cooper Hospital. .
On last Friday he officiated at an op-
eration in the hospital by which a (fan-
gerous abscess was removed from a
patient. It is supposed that the doctor
had a scratch on his forehead over the
right eye and that unconsciously he
touched it before washing his hands.
By Saturday morning an abscess had
begun to form over his eyes. On Sat-
urday afternoon he was obliged to take
to his bed; The poison acted rapidly,
and yesterday morning at 8 o’clock he
died.
Train Falls Fifteen. Feet.
Montgomery, Ala., Jan. 10.—,At 10
o’clock yesterday afternoon a. day
coach on west-bound train ‘No. 36 of
the Western Alabama Railroad went
through Cubahatchie Bridge, twenty-
one miles east of Montgomery, falling
fifteen feet. The conductor and fiagman
were injured seriously» and eighteen
passengers received bruises or other in-
juries, none of which are serious.
Have Permission To Strike.
Boston, Jan. 10.—The Executive Com—
mittee of the Mule Spinners’ Union
yesterday gave permission to the mule
spinners of Lowell and New Bedford
to strike, and an assessment of 25 cents
per week was levied on the members
of the union. The Executive Commit- .
tee also ordered $500 from the national
funds to be placed at the disposal of
the Strike Committee.
To Reorganize Singerley Bank.
Philadelphia, Jan. 10.——Saturday was
the last day for receiving the assents
of creditors to the plan of reorganizing
the broken Chestnut Street Bank and
Trust Company. Assignee Earle of the
trust company, announced that the as-
sents aggregate $2,000,000 of the total
liabilities, and that the plan will be put
through with success.
' A Puzzled Correspondent.
“I’m afraid,” said Mr. Meekton,
‘that I’ll have to give up trying to
glease' Henrietta."
“Why?”
“If I write her short letters she
.ays I am slighting her, and if I write
ong ones she says I seem to have a
;reatodeal of time to waste.”—Wash~
ug'ton Star.
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. Congressman , McCleary Discusses
Basis for Circulation.
PLAN or THE COMMISSION
Notes Issued on- Commercial Assets 8'
Proper and Safe Systein--The Redemp:
tion Fund Another Means of Security--
The Commission’s Plan a Safe One.
Washington, Jan. 11.—The proposi-
tion of the Monetary Commission, that
the banking circulation of the country
be based on commercial 'assetsgunder
proper safeguards, instead of on Unit-
ed States bonds, has caused some in-
quiry as to just what is meant by
”commercial assets.“ The question has
been answered by Representative Mo'-
Creary, of Minnesota, who is a mem-
ber of the House Committee on Bank-
ing, ard has given much study to the
subject. '
“The business or commercial assets
of a bank,”, Mr. McCleary said, ‘fconsist
of its commercial paper coming due at
various times. The whole assets of a
bank, ofall classes, include all forms
of indebtfidness due to the bank. Tm:
distinction between commercialasscts
and those of other classes is that the
commercial assets usually represent
business transactions between mer-
chants, and in any case consist of notes
due within a short term. Taking, for
’the sake of illustration, the reports of
the national banks of the United States
on Oct. 5, 1897, the total assets of all
classes were $3,705,133,707.
single item was “loans and discounts,”
which amounted to $2,051,009.438. The
other leading items were’ the United
States bonds on deposit with the Treas—
ury to secure circulation, $227,483,950;
stocks and securities in the possession
of the banks, $208,831,503; demand- debts
due from other national banks, $155,-
980,447; due from approved reserve
agents (the banks in the reserve cities
where the country banks carry a por-
tion of their funds), $297,017,805; specie.
$239,387,702; and legal tender notes and
certificates of deposit for legal tender
notes, $149,494,929.‘ It~is the item of
“loans and discounts” which consti-
tutes the backbone of the commercial
assets of a bank. The other items are
mostly recoverable in cash on demand,
and alarge proportion consists in cash
aétually in hand.” ‘
Available Resources.
“But how are these resources avail-
able for,the protection of note issues?”
was asked.
“Substantially all the assets of na-
tional banks,” was the reply, “except
necessary buildings and fixtures, which
stood on Oct. 5, 1897, at $79,113,954, are
quick assets, or should be such. It is
when they cease to be quick assets by
becoming unmarketable and losing
their computed value that a bank is
driven into embarrassment. The loans
and discounts include the advances
made in currency, bank notes, orabank—
‘fgng credits, which are represented by
the notes in most cases are based upon
actual transactions in merchandise,
which constitutes a security for the re-
covery of the loan, although the mer-
chandise-is not specifically pledged, as
in the case of property represented by
a warehouse receipt. Where the loans
are not based upon transactions in
merchandise, they are based upon the
credit and property of both the maker
of the note and the indorser, so that if
one proves incapable of meeting the
obligation at maturity, recourse is bad
to the other.”
“How much real strength does this
give to the bank notes issued under
such a system?" _
“The bank has maturing daily a cer—
tain proportion of the notes which it
has discounted. The amount thus ma-
turing daily in the'United States at all
the banking institutions is estimated at
$25,000,000. A bank which needs to‘ini
crease its cash reserve, therefore, has
only to diminish its new loans from
day to day and husband the cash re;
ceived from those which mature. As
most of these loans run for not longer
than ninety days, the average daily
collections cannot be less than one-
ninetieth part of7its whole outstanding
discounts, and would amount in a. week
to about 8 per cent. of the amount. As
many of the loans are for sixty days
and for shorter terms, the actual col-
lections would be a much larger pro-
portion of a whole leume of commer-.
cial assets.”
'A Safe Plan. .
“You consider then the plan of the
Monetary Commission an entirely safe
one, from the standpoint of the note-
holder?” . -. ‘ '
“In dealing with the question of cir-
culation alone," answered Mr. .Mc-
Cleary, “the essential question . is
whether the assets are sufficient to
cover the notes, and it is obvious that
they are many times more than suf-
ficient under the plan of the Monetary
Commission. That plan makes the
notes a first lien upon the assets, so
5that they must be paid before any
other charges are met. The plan of the
commission, moreover, provides, that
there shall be keptin the Treasury of
the United States “a redemption fund,
raised by a taX‘of' 5 per cent. upon the
volume of notes in circulation not cov-
ered by .United States bonds. This fund
. is to constitute a common resource. out
of which the notes of failed banks are
to be~promptly paid, pending mores"-
ings by the Government to recover the
amount from the assets of the failed
bank. The noteholder thus secures the
immediate redemption of the note,
without loss or delay, while the Cox/-
ernment has not only the great sum
raised for this purpose from all the
banks,- but’ the first claim upon the as-
sets of the‘failed bank for the aniount
which it has Withdrawn from the safe—
ty-' fund for the redemption or. the
notes.”
Electrocuted at Sing Sing. .
Sing Sing, Jan. 11.—The electric cur-
rent cut‘ short a prayer On the lips of
Hadley Adolphus Sutherland, the col-
ored boy, scarcely twenty years old.
who killed his sweetheart in Brooklyn
last March, and he, died 'in the execu-
tion chair at twenty-three minutes past
eleven O’clock yesterday.‘ He exhibited
a. wonderful nerve, though he wasena
tirely free from bravado. Thee‘xecu-
tion was perfectly successfula Suther-..
and receiving the death bolt within
‘ 355' than aaminute after‘entering, the,
The largest
BUSHNELL. INAUGURATED.
Exciting ”Day in ColumbnSqupositlon
to Hanna Still Confident.
Columbus, . 0., Jan. 11.—-Yester‘day
was othe most exciting inauguration
day ever known in Columbus.~Long. be-‘
fore noon the streets were thronged
with people, who poured in from every
direction. At noon railway officials es-
.timated‘ there had been 5,000 arrivals -
since Sunday. ~ The Bushnell badges
were in the majority. During the fore-
noon 'the .State House was surrounded
by pebpleyelling for Bushnell. ‘
As it Was impossible for the crowds
to get inside the Capitol Building, the
Governor was called into the grounds,
where he addressed the multiutde and
received in review one delegation after
another; These demonstrations con-
tinued until noon when Governor Bush-
nell was esCorted to the veranda of the
State House. The floral designs were
elaborate.
The Legislature reconvened yester-
day morning, and the inauguration of
the government occurred shortly after
noon. The inaugural address of Gov-
ernor Bushnell was short and con-
tained no reference to the contest for
the Senatorship. ,
Although the balloting begins in both
branches of the Legislature to-day, it
is settled in advance that there will be
no election at that time. The Senate
will stand 19 to 17 against Hanna, and,
the House will likely give him a. ma—
jority of one or more.
If the opposition .to-day shows the
strength it claimed yesterday and casts
all its votes for oneman, there will be
an election, as it would then have a
majority in both Houses on Senator, as
it did have on organization one week
ago. The opposition still claims the
House by at least 55 to 54, which would, -
make the General Assembly stand 74 to
71 on joint ballot against Hanna.
Hanna Agent Accused of Bribery.
Last night’s sensation in' the Sen-
atorial fight was the charge of bribery
made against Hanna’s agents. The
charge is that Henry Harrison Boice,
of New York, representing Hanna, en-
deavored to bribe Jei r. C. Otis, an anti-
Hanna Republican ll‘iGl‘z‘lbel‘ from Cin-
cinnati. ' ‘ ,
' To suport this charge the anti-
Hanna managers have what they claim
to be‘stenographic reports of telephone
conversations between Rathbdne, one
of Hanna’s-managers, and Boice, who,'
it is alleged, was sent to Cincinnati to
buy Otis’s vote. They also exhibit in
handwriting resembling that of Boice
a receipt for $1,750, which was to be the
first installment paid to Otis.
OFFERS FITZ $35,000.
Crobett Makes This Remarkable Offer for
a Fight to :1 Finish.
St. Louis, Jan. 11.——In the second act
of his play in" this city last night Jim
Corbett announced. that he would give
$35,000 to Fitzsimmons to fight him, the
entire sum to go to Fitzsimmons if he
faiis to put him out in ten rounds. The
house simply went wild. Men stood up
on the seats and cheered and howled
as if they suddenly had gone mad.
Never before in the history of pugil-
ism has such-a proposition beefi,made
by one fighter to another.
endeavored to taunt each other into a.
fight, and even have gone so far as to
give or offerto give $1,000 to get an-
other in the ring. But the offer of $35,-
000 fer a fight—win or lose—was un-
dreamed and unheard of.
At the close of the theatrical per—
formance Corbett gave out his formal
challenge. In it he says: .
,“As a. last inducement to overcome
your obvious reluctance to meet me
again, I will make that proposition still
more favorable. Thus; A purse of
$35,000 stands ready to be offered as a
prize for a. meeting in the ring with
you. To this I will add $10,060 of my
own, conditionally, that you agree to
box me to a finish. This makes $35,-
000.
. “I offer this entire sum if I fail to
stop you in ten rounds—with two pro-
visions, viz.:
“First, That the contest must con-
tinue to a finish; and,
"Second, That I shall have something
'to say in regard to the appointment of
a referee, who will not be unfairly
prejudiced in your favor.
“This is my final proposition. Take
it or leave it. If you really want fight,
it offers. A sum s ready exceeding
your gross receipts in five battles. If
you want reputation, you can make it
better by meeting me than by meeting
all others together. If you doubt this,
ask the public each night when you ex-
hibit. ‘
EITZ WON’T SIGN.
Julian Repeats That Corbett Must Fight
' Maher First.
‘ St. Paul, Jan. 11.-—-~lt now looks as if
Dan Stuart had made a trip to this
city for nothing when he came here to_
get Bob Fitzsimmons to Sign articles
for another fight with Jim Corbett. Af-
ter much trouble he succeeded in get-
ting hold of Fitz. although he is stop-
ping in the same hotel with him.’ The
champion told hi a. to see Julian. When
Stuart did see the pompous manager,
he repeated what he has said so often,
that Corbett will have tovbeat Maher
before Fitz will give him another go.
Stuart had in his pocket articles of-
fering $15,000 for a fight to take place
on Aug. 10. ' Julian said he didn’t care
to see the articles, as they Wouldn't
.sign unless a clause was inserted pro-
viding that Corbett“ would fight Maher
,before he can expect a, go with Fitz-
simmons.- _ ' _ - .
' Secretary Alger Seriously Ill.
\Vashington, Jan. ll.——Russell A. A1—
ger, Secretary of {Wan is seriously ill.
His condition yesterday became so
alarming that Dr. ‘3. Lloyd Eda :ruder,
a specialist, was called into consulta—
tion with Surgeon, Wood, the Secre-
tary’s physcian.
Gen. Alger’s disease has been diag-
nosed as typhoid fever. He has been
confined to his residence for four
weeks. It was first said that he had
a mild attack of the grip. Within the
last few days it has been admitted that.
he was suffering from a low“ grade
fever. - ‘ ' ' ' '
‘ Died with Gold Tied to Him.
»V\’ilkesbarre, (Pan, Jan. ‘1'1.-—'-.Patrick
Kearney, Who led a 'herrnitlife, was
:‘f'ou'nd detrdat‘his home in_ Piltston yes-
'~;terday. . He had been- dead;- Several
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