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.off to his laboratory.
{the attendants went to the church, but
HE DIDN’TI CARE FOE FLATTEEY.
But Thought His‘Vil’n Would Be Pleased
1.; Lu Venn-inane: A'd.
Years ago a- member of the' Indiana
in' 'a. brand—new "suit 01
broadcloth and a silk hat, g.o '—d headed
cane and \1 hite lawn tie, wandered up
into the s;1:-c‘ um, of the 0311 ;e1—Jo1:r
nhl, stood farm 11d in a liszlzss way,
looked over” thg papers, went down-
'stairs and came back several times.
Hé was asked to take a'seat, which he
declined elaborately, and ended by
drawing hisvchair in a confidential way.
up td’ the “Roundabout” man’s desk. .
"Couldn’t you,” he said, “put in the
paper that I am at the 'Gait' House
with my bride, and just fling in
' something about my being a promi-
nent Indianian? I- don’t care anything
about this s01t of thing myself, but you
know how the women are I want fif-
‘ ty copies of the paper sent to this ad-
dress.” And he laid down $2 50, gxin-
ned, got red in the' face, said “Good
mowing” and vanished ‘
Next morning he mad that “Mr.
John Huckleberry requests us to say
that he is at the Galt House with his
b1ide; that he is a prominent member
of the Indiana Legislature and that he ,
himself personally, cares nothing for
newer Laser notoriety, but that a society
note 11 cold be very gratifying to Mrs.
llucklebeny. He added that he want-
ed fit‘ty copies of the paper for distri-i;
‘bution to his constituents.”
Pastenr's Forgetfulness,-
The late Dr. Pasteur was as absent-
minded as Edison. Even on the morn-'
ing of his marriage he forgot all about
the approaching ceremony. and went
The bride and
no Pasteur turned up. A search was
instituted and Pasteur was found deer.
in chemical experiments and utterly
oblivious of the fact tht he was to be
made a benedict that day—Philadel-
phia Record. '
Seminoles A're Quiet.
Washington, Jan. 14. —General Brooke
has telegraphed from Chicago to the
War Department that he has decided to
await definite information about the
Indian troubles in Oklahoma before
sending tr'oops. He has received infm-
mation which indicates that the trouble
has beenvery much exaggerated, and
that everything is quiet. He has .sent
an ofiicer from Fort Reno to Earlbor-
ough to investigate.
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Chicago. TSt. Louis.
New York.
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Hardest things Hi the house to clean.
centrary things to keep clean. Most unpleasant
when not cleaned. Are made clean and kept clean
easily with that enemy of oil and- grease and dirt—v
TLargest package—greatest economy.
HE N. K. FAIRBANK COMPA -
Boston. Philadelphia.
an Englishman named Brown in that
. vious substance.
TRADE IN KANG‘ARoo SKINS. '
Abbot Eight; Thousand Received Each
Month in New York.
Kangaroo skins have been on the
market for about ten years. There are
some 8,000 kangaroo skins received in'
New York’ every month.
tanned in one large establishment in
Newark, N. 'J., and are then made into
fine shoes. They come from Australia
and New Zealand, Up to 1869 the
kangaroo were killed and eaten in Aus-
tralia, and only certain parts of their
hide were‘cut up into shoestrings. But
year discovered the remarkable char-
acte1 of the leather and brought sev-
eral thousand skins on speculation to
this country.
He tried to sell the hides to ,various
tanners, but they were 'shy of the nov-
elty, and he had. to sell them at a sac-
rifice to a bookbinder. The latter
made triangular corner pieces for led-I
gersand commercial books out of them
and so ascertained the good qualities"
of the leather. It was in this way that
several large leather factories W9“,
first attracted to the valuable proper-
ties of kangaroo hide. The skinjua
found to be very t nacious, and no.
compactnessgof thegrain prevents its
absorbing ~water, while the acids in
blocking meet with an'almost imper~
,.
S-- -719 tine second Time.
A Boston teacher had been giving a
“familiar talkon zoology to a class 01
ten-year-olds in a grammer school
To test their intelligence, he said, in
the course of his remarks.
“Who can tell me the highest form
of animal life?” J
A little girl held up he1 hand.
“Well, Mary?"
“The hy-ena,” shouted Mary, seri- ,
ously but triumphantly.
Repressing a smile, the teacher said:
“Is it Mary? Think again. Is a hye-x‘
113. the very highest? ‘Don’t answer
too quickly; take you1 time.”
“Oh, now I know’ c1ied Mary
the giraffe.’ ’———Harper’ 5 Bazar.
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Strange, but True.
“What wonderful self-restmint Dr.
Cutler has.”
“Indeed, I never noticed.”
“Yes, we called him in to see my,
brother yesterday, and he didn’t oper-
ate on him, for appendicitis.”—Cleve-
land Leader. -
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yours and others had read it, how muclIiI
'If it. had been
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3" Quarter .1]. MillionTPeoffle Efrem“
ed to Start for the Gold Regions' in'.
.11} o"...- the Earth.
Pomona, Cal" Jan. 17. ——'1‘he reopen—
ing of naxigation in the Yukon River
legion next March and Apiil is anx-
iously- aw 'aited Iby tens of thousand men
on the Pacific coast, and by many more
in the Eastern States. The rush of
meri and women to the Klondike gold
fields in 1898 is likely to be the most
extraordinary movement of men for-
tune“ ard in modern times. It has been
compared to the stampede of Eastern
people to the California gold fields in'
1849 and 1850, but all the miners who'
‘came. pouring into the new Eldorado
in the first three years of mining here
for the pi-ecious ores did not' number
more than 125, 000. Sev eial careful his-'
torians d0c not put the number at more
than 1003000. .
The emigration to the Klondike re-
surely be more than 70,000, and 150, 000
more people» from the Eastern States,
Canada, Europe, Australia, andSouth
ume of travel to the Klondike to more
than 220 ,000 souls. The rush of Eng-
lish, French 1and. Americans to South
Africa in the eighties had been cited
for comparison. There were never more
than 50,000 arrivals in the South Afri-
can mining regions in any one year.
The Australian gold excitement in 1859
started some 70,000 toward the Anti-
podes. The Comstock bonanza gold ex?
:itement in 1873 and ’74 drew some 15, -
300 miners to Nevada.
The five transcontinental railroads
have already. contracted to sell to
transportation agents in the Eastern
cities tickets for carrying ,more than
45,000 people going to the Klondike-be—
fore next June, and probably not one
prospective Klondiker in five has yet
been heard from by the railroad agents.
The two principal steam navigation
companies that” operate between Seat-
tle and San Francisco on the south
and the Yukon River on the north have
orders for the. transportation of more
than 20,000 travellers. The most con—
servative estimates by the passenger
agents. of the railroads to 'the Pacific
coast put the number of people they
will transport to the nOrthward vessels
at San Francisco, Seattle, Vancouver
and Tacoma this year at not less than
215, 000. -
At the shipping towns hundreds of
men are now employed day and night
in fitting up vessels suitable fer carry-
ing people and provisions to the Yu—
kon River from the time navigation
opens until next September. Every ves-
sel on the Pacific coast from Chili to
British Columbia that can be bought
and made serviceable for,a'sea voyage.
business. A score or more of sea-going
craft are now on the way from New,
”York, Philadelphia and New England
around the Horn to the Pacific coast.
to be ready for ,the grand rush to .Ala‘s—
ka.
1 It is estimated that more than $3, 000 -I_
Eornia alone for the Klondike business.
Several companies with millions of cap—
ital have been incorporated on this
coast lately for handling the Klondike
freight and passenger tra.fl"10 when the
new mining country has settled down
on an established basis. '
The Eastern people can have- little
idea of how completely he Klondike
fever has taken hold of nearlyail men
on the Pacific coast, particularly in Cal—
lfOl ma and Washington. In many lo-
we almost as general and. ear-nest as
going to the 11 a1 in the early sixties.
'INo' 'F'amvine in the Yukon Basin.
Portland; Ore., Jan.‘17.——Genei'a1 Mer-
riam, at- Vancouver Barracks, has-re~
er, who was'sent to’ Dyea by the War‘
Department to ascertain the condition
of affairs in th’e Yukon Basin. -Majo1'
Rucker’ 5 report concludes as follows:
“First—While there is a shortage of
stores in the Yukon Basin, :3. state of
famine does not at present exist, nor
',“Second—'Large expeditions with -
by horses or reindeer could not proceed
[101111 the Yukon Riv er further than the
Dawson.
“Third—Reindeer on 'Isuch an expedi-
mules or horses . \
' “Fourth—If Government assistance
ls conspicuously needed in the Yukon
it will be when the stores now in the’
hands of the people a1e exha’usted,
whiCh 'is not likely to be earliei tha‘h
April or May.’
Snow Locomotive Company, which has-
u. contnacgwith the Goveinment, does
not convey? relief into the Yukdn during
with sledges, should Carry them across
the Chilkoot Pass and down the lakes
and firms to the foot of Lake Labr't’rge
during Marchfi and there await. t‘ 1e
breaking up of the ice in the IYuk. n.
The supplies could then be taken to
Dawson by boats.
General. Mer1iam .has extended the
time of. starting the expedition to the
middle of February, by which date the
Snow locomotive people say- they will
be able to Start their snow train into
the interior? ’ a.
Relief to De Sent to Klondike.
WaShingtofi, Jan. Iii—Acting Secre—
tary of War Meiklejohn emphatieai .y
denies the re'pOrt from Portland, Ore,- ~
that the War Department has issued
orders to postpogg the depai ture of the
Alaska relief. expedition, which is to
land on January 23. Mr." Meiklcjohn
says the relief expedition W'ill go ’at the
earliest pessible moment. -,-.If the expe—
ditiou is ’not Sent on the steamer Ore-
(n it is because better terms have
been made by some othersteamer . ‘r L'
1; ..e y...
Engineers Give 1".1"
'.lia1\al,'
m1g'ht hour demand.
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they 11 ere in Eastern localities for men ‘
foot of Lake Labarge, 400 miles from:
Major Rucker recommends that if the '
the Spring-~14 Fever That Has Spread -
gion from the Pacific coast alone will,
America are expected to swell. the vol-I~
is‘in preparation for the"«Klondike'
000 is being put into shipping in Cali- ’
,1.Llities in California the preparations.
for going to the «Klondike next' Spring
. I-New YoFk Herald.
ceived the report of Major J. H. Ruck— »
is it likely to in the immediate future. ’
quantities of supplies hauled on sledges -
tion are no more 5 ry: 'ceable than are
February the Government pack trains .
sail in the steamer oregon from Port- '
...‘:;.d: 11. Jan. 17. ——The Official Englz-v
:-1.~N‘. Joint Committee .has informed-
e Einployers' Federation of the? with-h,
Ion behalf 02- the men, of the
,day of Lent...
will take place on Wednesdays in.— J
COB RT CEREMONY
CHANGES IN 'WAS HJNGTON SOCIETY .
lNAUGURATED BY MRS. M’KINLEY.‘ -
At. the White House Receptions Refresh-
n‘n- 111 So dyed Only to those Receiving— —
Viauuls at; the 'Al'tern mu ~Fuuctimls of
Women .'"r the Ca‘ :inet lee Simple."
Ilt has been said with truth that no
.1e1gn1nggueen has more social power
than has the Wife of our President. In-
deed,1.,no woman of royal authority has
as many..,sociall responsibilities. Just
as it woui'dbe were she-the Queen-
Empress, an’invitationfrom Mrs. Mc—
Kinley takes precedence of all other
offers of hospitality which might be
extended by an Amelican woman No
cause othe1 than illnessor mourning
can be offered as an appropriate ex-
cuse for regretting an invitation dIe-
spatched ,by her order. An invitation
to the White House is always a suffi-
cient excuse for breakin’g'a previous
engagement elsewhere.
Mrs. McKinley willr not return of-
ficial calls.
enter p1 1vate houses as may any other
citizens if they wish, but such visits
can- never be regarded as returns for
calls. Social ethics, however, demand
. that the President and his wife be en-~
tertained at dinner one night- during
each social season by all of the mem-
bers. of the Cabinet in turn, beginning
with the Secretary of State. who is ‘our
premier, and ending'with .the Secrea
tary of. Agriculture. The 5President,
however, will never enter a foreign
embassy 0r" .legation, and the same
rule will~be observed by his Wife. A
foreign embas’sy or legation, technical-
ly speaking, is “foreign soil, just as is
a foreign war ship in our harbors.
A number of. radical changes have
been made in the secial calendar. For
several administrations Thursdays
have been reserved as Executive days,
so to speak, when alternating recep-
tions and dinners were held between
the beginning of the year and the first
Most of these functions,
stead. _
A great deal .is said each year con-
cerning the cost ‘of official hospitality
“here at court. It has often been argued
that Presidents cannot afford to put
aside anything to speak of out of their
annual salaries, because‘of the great
personal expense attached to oflicial
entertainment. -The cost of one sea-I
son’s hospitality at the White House
is variously estimated by good author-
ities at from five to twelve thousand
dollars a year. The official receptions
.at the White House cost veiy little-
Viands are served to the receiving par—
ties alone. The music is furnished
gratis by the government Marine Band,
and the floWexs—taken f1 om the White
House c0nse1 vatories—are also gov-
ernment property
s't-ate dinner is estimated at from five
hundred 'to one thousand dollars.
Of late years the refreshments offer-
ed at‘ afternoon receptions of women
of the Cabinet and of other higher cir-
cles have been of the simplest descripr
tion—u'sually consisting of tea, cakes
and bonbons " The cost for one af-
ternoon is comparatively small—ten
dollars being sufficient to cover it in
most instances.
orate collation's were spread at the
homes (if oiiiaals during these func-I'
tions. I'In first Cleveland adminis-
tration, f0 instance, Terrapin and
champagne punch were features of the
Whitney receptions, but such lavish
‘ displayrluCkily for 'the entertainers—
is now considered to be bad form.
I
Friday a Lucln Day. '
An American girl should regard Fii- .
day as lucky, sineeneanby all the most
notably successful-events in American
history took place on that day of the
"week Columbusfsailed on his voyage
of discovery on Friday, and discovered
America on that day,- ten weeks later.,-
St Augustine, the oldest town in this
countr, was. founded on Friday. The
Mayflower arrived in Providence on
Friday, and on Friday the Pilgrims
signed the August compact—the fore—
runner of the Constitution. Other
prominent event's taking place on Fri-
day were the birth of Washington, the
seizure of Bunker Hill, the surrender
of Saratoga, the surrender of Corn-
wallis .1t Yoxktown, the motion made
in Congress that the United States
were free and independent.
day as hangman’s day and appointing
executions to take place on othe1 days ,.
of the week;
Our Language 11 Poser. .
An American girl who recently stud-
"i.'~01 in Geimany tells of a German girl
who was studying English, and who
used to write letters in English to her
parents. One day the German girl
handed a letter to her,.’saying: ‘ “Here
my mother. . I want you_ to read it
01 e1 and see if it is properly Written”
The letter was all right, 'excepting the“
closing phrase, whichread as follows:
“God pickle and keep you.”
seen gution proved that the young Ger—
;1:: r.- woman in looking for a synonyme
' 2" “pieserve” had come across
311120.” ' -
\ Mitigating Ciicnmsta'nce. ,
' . m. plead guilty?” said the couit.
L as any reason why I should not
1 211 the full penalty?”
.13.,h yo’ honah. ”But was the'
, 1 1111 key ebah I- lifted, sah.’
Moe Piess.
'.1-‘~l si. 1111’s Sons English Educiltio'n. -
" 1 ‘ :rlish educational advantages are
ghly estimated by the King of Siam.
-e has a son at Han-Ow, another on
the training 'ship Britannia, and a
third under the care of a private tutor.
not far fromILondon. . -
She or her husband may
The cost‘ qt o‘n‘e-
Formerly very elab- -~
.In the,
South the Judges are abolishing Fri-'
An- in.- ..
'is the letter'which 'I‘ have written to ’
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