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MISS TH'URSBY’S MEDAL. “
It Was Given Originally by Czar Alex!)-
der II. to Tietjons. ’
NO one can meet Miss Emma Thur!
by without noticing that she wears Ill
ways about her neck or fastened a:
some part Of'her "gown, a large medal
Its history is full of interest. Alex
ander II, Emperor of Russia, was a]
ardent lover of music. At the time .0;
his visit rug Great Britain he heard fot
the first time at her majesty’s’ thea
tre in London Therese Caroline Tiet-
rjens, the great prima donna of 1211!
in day. She was then giving her» in)
lpersonation Of Valentine in “The Ha
vguenots.”
Alexander was enchantéd with hel
If mighty soprano v01ce. She became 1
l great favirite with him, and he woulc
‘Dever miss, if possible, an Opportunit:
to hear her sing. As a mark of his fa
lvor he presented 'her with the medal
simply requesting that at her deatl
she would bequeath it to one as great!
as she. ,
The medal is fully three inches il
diameter and is of Persian antiquity
although the large turquoise in II]!
center is a Russian amulet. It is sup
posed to prosper the went?! and is i
token of distinction. In its peculial
workmanship it is without a rival
A very long chain, also Persian in de
sign, is attached to the medal. On the
death Of Mme. Tietjens, in England
October 3, 1877, it was found that shl
had willedthe medal to Hermine Ru
dersdorfl’, who was then probably the
best appreciated concert singer in Eu
rope. She had been born at Ivan
owsky in the Ukraine, where her fath
er was known as a famous violinist
In 1871-2 she was engaged by the Bos
ton Festivals and afterward madé
her permanent home in this country
Her singing of Medeaat the Crystt‘
Palace is still remembered by many.
After she retired from public. life she
devoted herself to the teaching 01
,music. Miss Emma Thursby was one
:Of her pupils.
Miss Thursby was born in Brook-
lyn. She studied under Achille Erahl
,and at Milan under San Giovanni and
Lamperti. While she was completing
her studiesdn America with Mme. Du.
dersdorff, the latter had an Opportuni-
ty to become acquainted with her
voice. At the time of her extended
trip through Europe she was greeted
everywhere with enthusiasm. In
Sweden the people took the horse:
from her carriage that they might have
the honor of drawing it themselves
It is not surprising that to so beloved
a pupil Mme. Rudersdortf should have
ibequeathed the medal. It is said to
,be the only ornament Miss 'i‘nursby
lever wears—New York Sun.
HORSES'IN AMERICA.‘ . .
:50 Common That Even Beggars May Ride
The Poorest Have Nags.
‘ The land of the kangaroo and the
iwombat, Hwhere the mammal was
jnothing unless marsupial, 'till the Eu-
fropean arrived on the scene, may now
.be. called the land of horses. In New
South Wales the sight of a beggar on
,horseback excites no surprise. The
7poorest settler has a nag or two of his
own, and his children may be seen
riding to school like little lords._ A
{onedhorse township would be incon<
iceivable in a country where each vil-
ilage, almost, has its race meeting.
iWi-th a population scarcely over 1,250,.
EOOO, the colony owns more than 500,000
ghorses. And she now exports horses
”on a rapidly increasing scale. In 189-“:
:the colony exported 1,063 horses, Of
,the estimated value of £12,745; in .1890
the number was 8,138, value £123,500,
and last year there was a further in-
crease, India being the. leading cus-
tomer, Austrialian horses being found
admirably adapted for military pur-
poses in that part of the British em-
pire. Horses are exported also from
New South Wales to Victoria, New
Zealand, Western Austrialia, Fiji, the
Straits Settlements, Java and the Phil-
ippine-Islands.——-Household Words. '
Tin Sailors’ Hen Coop.
A sailorman is fond of pets,
ship is no place for animal life. HOW“
ever, there are few ships, sail or
steam, that do not carry out of port
a coop of hens and a rooster. These
seem to be for company, or associa-
tion, or something of that sort, for the
Oldest mariner never heard of one of
the hens being killed for the mess,
and a lien at sea absolutely refuses to
lay eggs, and small blame to them.
‘ The hen coop is generally placed on
the forward deck, near the fo’c’ale, in
which the sailors live. They have a
box Of sand in which to roll and are
made as comfortable as possible. At-
ter one or two voyages the hens be-
come excellent sailors, and it is a
queer sight to see them balance them-
selves on their sealegs when the ship
tosses and rolls. .
When the ship is in dock the fowls
are always driven into their coop and
kept there until the ship is at sea.
when they are released and given the
lfreedoin Of the deck. At night they
seek the shelter-cf their coop of their
own accord.-——Kansas City Star.
but a
. He Didn’t Return.
There is an old story‘ told about a.
bridegroom, who, a couple of hundred
.years ago, took his bride to church, but.
gas the party were arranging themselves
at the altar he remarked he had forg‘Ot-
ten something. He begged to be excused
for a. few minutes. He went out of the
church, am from that day to this has
{never been heard of. The bride had to
return home unmarried. ‘
"Jack played me an awful joke last
night, and I'm looking for a chance to
get even with him."
.“W-hy don’t you marry him?"
"0. that would be too mean. I’m not
so mad at him as that.”——Dansv:ilh
Breeze. ’ ‘
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T H E nv n NI NG— 9r e Z ET T E
Feeding an Anny.
Uncle Sam’s bill for his 186,000 so!-
diers is over $30,000 a. day, and if the
war keeps up for a year it will reach
the fine figure of $15,000,000. The old
fellow is feeding more soldiers than
there are people in Jersey City or New-
ark; more than the total population of
Colorado or West Virginia. This, of
course, doesn’t take into account the
thousands of men employed as civil-
ians by the War Department, or util-
ized by it in transporting and issuing
the food. Many of these men, too, are
fed by the Government.
By buying in large quantities, the
cost of the army ration is brought
is about as cheap in price and a great
deal better in quality than the ration
of the Bowery lodging house. Then,
to the eighteen cents is to be added
four cents for the transportation and
issuing Of the food. This, of itself. for
a year, would cost $2,715,600. “
The army rations for one day for
this vast body of soldiers amounts to
605,895 pounds, or nearly 303_tons. For
a year the enormous total would be re-
quired of 221,151,675 pounds, or over
110,575 tons, which means that a ton
of rations costs $135. In the army ra-
tion are a dozen constituents-bacon,
hard bread (which is hard tack, or
crackers, six inches in, diameter),
, beans, potatoes, cOifee, sugar, molasses,
vinegar, salt, soap, candles and black
pepper. This ration is about a. third
less in quantity than that served by
the State of New York to its soldiers.
Notwithstanding, there is such an ex-
cess in the quantity of the Govern-
ment ration that by drawing a comma-
tation of rations in money, other kinds
of food can bebought according to the
needs or the ~taste of the individual
companies. ‘ ’ -
A regiment, including only the sol-
diers, eats more than a ton and a half
of fOod a day. In measure of weight
this seems a good deal, but when the
I..--
cost is considered, it is ridiculously
small—six cents a meal for three
square meals a day, or about $180 for
an entire regiment.
’Every day the army consumes 69
tons of bacon, and in a year, 25,458
tons. Any butcher can tell how many
hogs it takes to turn out this item in
the ration. .
A pound of hard bread or hard tack
and a pound of potatoes go to each
soldier once a day. A year’s consump—
tion of' potatoes would be 1,131,500
bushels. The whole army eats 93 tons
of each a day. Beans‘ are highly nu-
tritious, more so, in fact, than pota-
toes, and 93 tons; baked and in soup,
are consumed by the army every day.
Butter is not a part of the ration, but
sugar is, and of the sweet seasoning as
much is supplied as of beans.-
The army recognizes but two stimu-
lants—coffee and tobacco. Tobacco is
not a part of the ration, but the Gov-
ernment supplies it at cost. The cof-
fee, it well made and served hot, will
go as far as any article of food to-
ward cheering up the soldier in the
early morning, and before going on
guard'at night, as well as when com-
ing of! his post. Each day the army
uses 7 tons of codes, and in the course
of a year,_2,715 tons. Sugar, but no
milk, goes with the coffee, though
milk, like butter, and other articles
called luxuries, can be had through
the process of commutation of rations.
He Was His Own Recommendation.
When a merchant had hired an of-
fice boy, one out of fifty applicants
who ansWered his advertisement, a
friend asked: “How did you“ come
to select that fellow, who didn’t have
a single recommendation?”
i “He had a great many,” replied the
merchant. “He wiped his feet when
he came in, and closed the door after
him, showing that he is careful; gave
up his seat to that lame old man,
,showing that he is kind and thought-
ful; he took Off his cap when he came
in, answering my quest-ions prompt-
ly and respectfully, showing that he
.is,polite and gentlemanly; he picked
up a book which I had purposely laid
our; the floor, and replaced it on the
table, while all the rest stepped over
it or shoved it aSide; and he waited
quietly for his turn, instead of push-
ing or crowding. ' When I talked to
him I noticed that his clothes were
carefully brushed, his hair in nice or-
der, and his teeth as white as milk;
and, when he wrote his name, I no-
ticed that his finger nails were clean.
those Of that handsome little fellow in
the blue jacket. Don’t you call these
things letters of recommendation? I
do, and I would give more for what
I can tell about a boy by using my
eyes ten minutes than for all the let-
ters of recommendation he can give
me.”
The selection proved a wise one.
The incident shows that
who is teaching her boy good manners
and habits of self-respect may be pro-
viding him with'a capital more sub- .
stantial than a. bank account—Suc-
cess. -
A Remarkabie Case.
The aloe, which is used so largely
for pills, &c., comes from quite a dif-
ferent plant to that which is famed
as blossoming once in a. hundred years
or so. The latter is the American
aloe, while the aloe of medicine is the
Aloe Socotrina, so called from the is-
land of S'Ocotra, of. which place it is a
native. . .
Every ton of Atlantic water when
evaporated yields 8llb. of salt, a ton of
Pacific water 791b., Arctic and Antarc-
tic waters yield 85lb. to the ton, and
Dead Sea water 1871b.
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From investigations into the effects
of tobacco it is stated that there were
no live microbes after twenty-four
hours in thecigars made up with wat-
,er: containing 1,500,000 cholera mt-
' orobes to the cubic centimetre.
down to eighteen cents a day, which ,
'. The Orient.
instead of being tipped with jet, like-
a mother .
ii"
Warra'nted Solid Gold. , ,
Beautiful Chased Holder.
$1.0m
ofl‘lce, giving the best of satisfaction, and they are in use in the ba
Orders are received from all parts of the country.
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the “Lincoln” is a $2.50 pen reduced to $1. 00. It is durable, always ready to “go"
but never drips, the ink flowing steadily and uniformly. Thev are in use in this
8, insurance
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FIRST 0H HKLoNMKE
GOLD MINING AND DEVELOPMENT COMPANY OF YUKON.
PRICE OF SHARES TO BE ADVANEED AUGUST 3|, I898.
Mr. Joseph Ladue, the pioneer of the Klondike, and founder of
Dawson City, aided by some of the most conservative and successful finan-
ciers of New York, is operating the strongest company yet formed for
mining and trading in the Yukon gold fields.
. To this Company he has transferred placer claims on Hunker and
Gold Bottom Creeks, the “ Marguerite" Quartz Mine, his Saw Mill,
his Timber Lease, that virtually monopolizes the saw timber on the
Klondike, and large holdings of Choice Town Lots in Dawson City.
The Company also owns the S. S. “ Morgan City” now earning $20,000 per
month, and has shipped up the Yukon several hundred tons of merchandise,
for trade, upon which a very large profit is assured. The U. S. Government
reports certify that the saw mill produces about two million feet of lumber
in the open season, sales price of which is from $40 to $240 per 1,000 feet
according to class. 9
CAPITAL OF THE COMPANY.
Preferred Stock, 6% cumulative, $1,000,000
Common Stock, ‘ 4,000,000
Total Capital, par value. no per share, W
The preferred stock has a first lien on earnings for its dividend,
and on the assets of the Company for its par value, and after all the
stock of the Company has received 6 per cent, the surplus earnings are
shared pro rats. by the preferred and common stock.
Thus the preferred stock practically offers the safeguards and advantages
of a first mortgage bond, coupled with an earning capacity as great as that of
the common stock.
The undersigned has obtained a short option on a. block of this preferred
stock which he now offers at par, $10.00 per share. This Option terminates
August 3151:, 1898, after which the price of the preferred stock will be
advanced by the Company to $12.50 per share.
This is the last opportunity to get the preferred stock at par, and
in time to participate in the autumn dividend. Shares will be alloted in the
order subscriptions are received.
‘ Send for map of Dawson, and data respecting Klondike. .
w. H. spoons.)
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