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AN EXQUISITE RING.
Made Originally for a Wealthy Hin-i
' doo Rajah.
Now It Is Owned by Mrs. Clarence
Muckuy, the Well-Known New
York Society Leader—Its Cost
(3in21 as $27,000.
The most remarkable ring in New
York is owned by that girlish, much-to-
be envied young matron, Mrs. Clarence
Mackay. The New York Journal de—
scribes it as follows:
It cost $27,000.
It is the only ring of its kind in Amer-
ica. -
It was made originally for areal Hin4
doo rajahi. _
It is quite as uncomfortable to wear
as it is curious to, look at. But that;
doesn’t trouble Mrs. Mackay .in the
least. She is delighted withlher new
treasure, and Wears it whenever it is ~
possible. .
As the wittyKittyDuer, she cared-more
for rings than even mest girls of fash-
ion, and since hermarriage her young
husband has remembered this fact to
such an extent that now Mrs. M-ackay
has the most ‘valuable- collection of
rings of any young married woman in
New York.
This new ring is her husband’s latest .
addition ‘toher collection. It is really
three rings in one, and is a copy of an
ancient Hindco ring of a. ranee Of
Peshawur.
it was owned by a Hindoo rajaih whose
financial condition forced him to part
with it. It was purchased by a prom-
inent Fifth avenue jeweler, who sold it
to Mr. Clarence Mackay. . .
The ring is heavy and massive, and
the old yellow Chinese gold setting
most curious. There are three rings al-
most invisibly attached to each other,
but so arranged that one cannot be
worn apart from the others, and each
ring has to be worn on a separate fin-
ger. In the center of the‘middle ring
MRS. MACKAY’S HINDOO RING.
(Only One of Its Kind in America, and .
' V‘Vorth $27,000.)
is a most superb ruby, which alone is
valued at $15,000. Below and above the |
ruby are emeralds of exquisite color,
which are a trifle taller in size than the
matchless ruby, and at either side of
the ruby are beautifully cut diamonds.
Altogether the gold setting holds five
gems. In length the ring measures 21/2
inches, and is 11/2 inches high. The set4
ting is most curious, and in itself is a.
work of art. It is delicately carved
with tiny dragon’s head, while. around
the edges are the gleaming, pointed
teeth. The jewels are set open at the
back so that the. ring may be easily
cleaned. Mrs. Mackay wore her new
Hindoo ring at the opera the other even-
ing. and in consequence one of her
hands was ungloved. To wear this big
ring with unconscious grace is no easy
matter, and yet Mrs. Mackay does so to
perfection. ’ -
Another of Mrs. Mackey’s rings rep-
resenting a fortune was a gift from her
father-in-law on her wedding day. It
consists of three big diamonds set. in
a. row, and is said to have cost $20,000.
She also has a ring of one matchless
ruby. very large and of exquisite color.
As for her turquoise rings, she sim~
ply has more than she knows what to
do wit [1. She is specially partial to tur-
quoiscs. and has a beautiful collection
Not so long ago, however, ’
of tlzese bluishegreen stones.
Perhaps her most valuable turquoise
is set as a belt pin. At. least it; is the
one Mrs. Mackay prizes most highly.
Besides its beauty, there is a bit of ro-
manpe about it.
It came as a surprise one day, hidden
away in a big box of rare'orchids. which
Clarence Mackay sent Kitty Duer be-
fore she became his ’wife. It is a big
turquoise, surrounded with pearls. an rl
Mrs. Mackay wears it 'with almost all _
of her gowns. ‘
She also has three. famous turquoise
corsage pins. The stones are unusunL-
ly large and are encircled with good-
’sized diamonds. One of her latest
gowns was made purposely to wear
with these beautiful pins. It is of-black
satin, enveloped with black tulle,
Spangled with bits of turquoise. - 1
Of Mrs. Mackay’s turquoise rings the
most valuable is a turquoise oblong in
shape. with the ends' pointed. and the
jewel surrounded with diamonds. mak-
ing an exceptionally large ring.
Pay of Ambassadors.
England pays its ambassadors as fol-
lows: France, 845.000; Germany, $40,-
000; Turkey, $40,000; Russia, $39,000;
‘Italy, $35,000; United States, $32,000.
In most cases the official receives per
quisites in addition. America pays'ita
ambassadors $17,500 each. i
_ gem Its Gust-01! creme...
England gets $150,000 a year from the ’
worn-nut uniforms of its army.
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g .the artist- was being shown t-hemethod
caused by the disposition. of the water
‘ vapor of the atmosphere on the metal
' lquickly constructed and a box of lique—
’ fied carbonic a-oid placed in. the base.
' When this gas evaporated the effect of
' his snow discovery.
beings have perished in war.
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GOVERNOR OF GUAM.
hurt. Leary, of the Cruiser San Fran;
cisco, Has Been Appointed to ‘
the Position.
Capt. Richard Phillips-Lear ’, United
States navy, commanding the cruiser
San Francisco, has been ordered by the
secretary of the navy to proceed to
Guam and assume the. governorship of
the island, taking the post to which
Capt. Kempif was assigned, but who
brought suflicientinflue'n cc tobearto es-
cape from whathe deemed exile. Capt.
Leary will take with him a. proclama—
tion‘ to the inhabitants of the. island,
stating the good intentions of the
United States government. and calling
CAPT. R. P. LEARY, U. S. N.
(Governor of the Island of Guam in the
Ladrones.)
upon the. islandersto be loyal tot-he
American flag. The government par-
ticularly desires to have a man of abil-
ity in Guam to' rule with a. firm hand,
and Capt. Leiary’s record would indi-
cate that no mistake has been made- in
his selection. Leary is counted by some
a dude and a, dandy, but when he was
senior United States officer at Samoa in.
1888, during the stirring times pre-
ceding the overthrow of Tamasese, he
showed that he had plenty of nerve to
uphold the authority of the United
States at dangerous moments.
In the recent war with Spain Leary
commanded the San Francisco, the
flagship of the North Atlantic patrol
squadron, Rear Admiral Howell oom-
mandinrg. Shortly before the protocol
was signed the. San Francisco was.
caught too close to the Morro batteries
of Havana and a Spanish shell tore a
great hole in the stern of the war ship
—the most effective. shot- fired from
Morro during the war. .
Capt. Leary, who is a native of Mary-
land, graduated from the naval acad-
emy in 1860 and new service in the
civil war. Much of his service has been
on lshe Pacific. He was commissioned
captain in April, 1897. _ .
' ODD SNOW STATUES.
French Sculptor Stunts a New and Pe-
culiar Art Fad, and Makes
Dots of M'on-cy. ‘
"A Paris sculptor, with an apprecia-
tion for and a. power to satisfy the de-
mand of the minute, has hit upon the
novel scheme of turning out “snow
statues” for such of his patrons as lean
to the unique in art. Statues of any
required shape are made and add great~
ly to the appearance of drawing-rooms
in the French capital. 'To all intent-s
and purposes these statues are caryed
out. of the compactly welded fleece. ‘As
a matter of fact, they are only coated
with snow, the under part-(being made
up of copper pipes, thin and light.
The discovery, which has resulted in"
a mass of orders reaching the sculptor
and a consequent substantial increase
in his revenues—for he changes “top— '
story” prices for his products—came in
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BUST MADE OF SNOW.
(A Specimen of. Art Now Quite Popular in'
France.)
thenaiureofan-accident. Itwas while
of ice making by machinery that. the
plan presented itself tohim. The lique-
fied gases, he noticed, in. their trip
thropgh the copper pipes produced on
the outsider-11 appearance unmistak-
ably that of snow. This had been
and the freezing of it by the action of
the acid. 4
.This system. reasoned the sculptor,
might; be applied to statuary. And he
applied it. A statue of thin copper was
freezing was produced, the. moisture in
the air was attracted to the copper
sides and; quickly frozen into the sem-
blance of snow. Many beautiful de-
signs have been turhed out in pursu-
ance'of this principle, and the sculptor
is said to be reaping a golden reward for
Sacrifice-d to the War God.
It is estimated that since the Chris-
tian era began over 4,000,000,000 human
. . Nature’s Lightning Rod. -
Itis a popular beliefi that a holly bush
planted near a, dwelling protects the
house from lightning2
MAY EFFECT. A 0003?.
Ian the World Is interested Just Now
in Gen. Zurlinden, Military
' Governor of Paris.
Gen. Zurlinden, the man who, it is
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- feared. may take advantage of the pres-
lent'crisis and precipitate a. coup d’etat
in France, is the military governor of
Paris. He is a- powerful, stern soldier,
and it is said that he is ambitious. The
only bar in his way is his nativity. He
is an Alsatian, not a Frenchman, but
has long been identified with the army.
Those who do not believe. that Zurlin-
den can effect a coup d’etat- call atten-
tion to the faCt that the general is 62
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GEN. ZURLINDEN.
(Military Governor of the City of Paris.)
years old. At the same time it is to be
remembered that he is as vigorous as a
man of 40, and his years have not cooled
'his ambition. Zurlinden. entered the
army in.- 1856. During the Franco-Ger-
man war he was a captain. He was one
of the heroes of Metz and was taken
prisoner with Marshal Bazaine. Escap-
ing from the fortress of Spandau,
where he was imprisoned, he placed. his
services at the disposal of the govern-‘
ment of national defense. In 1881 he
was promoted to the rank of colonel, in
1885 he was made brigadier general,
and in 1890' he became a division gen-
eral. He was minister of war during
the administration of Ribot, holding
that. portfolio in the first cabinet formed
under the presidency of M. Faure. Zur-
linden is the foremost. man in the.
French army. He embodies in himself
the rigorous militarism of the French
character. How far it will carry him
isa question in which the whole world
is interested.
HORACE A. TAYLOR.
Selected by President McKinley to
‘ Be One of the Assistant Secre-
' tar-lens of are Treasury.
H. A. Taylor is- the editor and pro-
prietor of the Madison (Wis) Journal.
'He is 61 years of age, and a New Yorker
by birth, having been born in St. Law-
rence county of. that state. He went
to Wisconsin in 1855,, and after working
' on a farm, drivinga stage and dealing
in real estate, he drifted into the news-
paper business, and, with his brother,
the late Lute A. Taylor, started the
River Falls Journal. He afterwards
published the. Hudson Times and Star,
with which paper he was connected for
over 30 years. He also engaged in the
lumber and banking business.
state timber agent from 1876 to 1881,
when he resigned to take the position
He returned to.
Wisconsin in 1883, and- five years later '
of consul to Marseilles.
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HORACE A. TAYLOR.
(Just Appointed Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury.) ,
he was elected to the state senate.
While serving as senator he was ap-
pointed United States railroad commis‘
siouer by President Harrison. During
the world’s fair Mr. Taylor represented
the department of the. interior on the
world’s flair commission. When here—
tircd from the railroad commission in.
1893 Mr. Taylor returned to Madison
and took charge of the Journal, in
whiqh he had purchased a controlling
interest, Since that time he has con-
fined himself to editorial work. ‘
Medieval Doctors Vindicuted.
. Ground oyster shells were given by
the medieval doctors to children suf-
ferin g from rickets and scrofula. Now
it appears that they were right. The
“shells contain lime, nitrogen, iron, sul-
phur, manganese, magnesia, flour, bro- .
mide,‘ phosphoric acid and iodine, all
excellent for feeble children. They say
that if growing children were to take
powdered oyster shell in their food
the teeth would be improved. '
\Vire Rope Lightning Rods.
The reason ’why- ships are not struck
by lightning is attributed to the gen-
eral use. which is now made of-wire
rope for rigging purposes, as well as to
the fact that the hulls of the ships- are
usually constructed of iron or steel.
Thus the whole Ship forms an excellent
and continuous conductor, by means of
which the electricity is led away ate"
the ocean before it has time to do any
serious damage,
He was -
.. .our money in-every in lance.
‘r-HE Evian in G GAZE'rrE
A FERSEVE'R'ANCE raiser.
The Western Union's Wary-of Dealing
with Female Applicants for
' Employment.
Many girls are employedrat the West-
ern .Union Telegraph company’s main
ofice in filing dispatches and other
work requiring no great skill. Now,
although they get only the. current
wages of worksersin such employ-
menlS, there are always many appli-
cants for every vacancy. In view of
this fact the company has adopted an.
interesting method of dealing with ap.
plications. Every girl applying is ques—
i-ioned as to her age, education and res-
idence. Furthermore, her height is.
taken. The facts as to the applicant
are then filed for future reference, and
she is advised in case she is really anx—
ious for a place to return at the end of
four months should she not. hear from ‘
the company before that time. The
reasons for this advice is that the list
of applications is destroyed every four
months, says the New York Sun.
Many applicants never come a sec-
ond time; some, however, come a sec-
ond, a third or even a fourth time, and,
although the officers of the company
hold out no special hope to any appli-
cant, they do say that here, as else-
where, perseverance often succeeds.
The requirement that. the applicant
shall appear in person each time is an
ingenious means of weeding out those
applicants that 'lack the perseverance,
which, other thin-gs being equal, is like-
1y to make a girl more useful to the
companythan a_ girl with less of that
quality. '
Menelek’s Amuaezment.
The latest-news of Emperor Menelek,
says the Manchester Guardian, touches
his interest in surgical operations. In
the hospital at Addis Abeba attached
to the Russian missiOn, he is continual-
ly watching the surgeons at their work.
Their skill often calls from him expres-
sions of admiration. His great desire
is to act the part of an'assistant—for
example, to hold. the limb when an am-
putation is being performed. He nevei
misses an operation. .
Arsenic Not Allowed.
In Sweden yarn is not allowed to be
sold if it- contains .0009 percent. of
arsenic. A carpet has been condemned
by the inspectors because it contained
1.000th part of a grain of arsenic in 16
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Quick urovnn 0! Guinea figs.
The guinea pig grows more quickly
than any other q'iiadruped. It is fully
grown when six weeks old, and begin:
to bear young at two months.
PALE WOMEN.
Bloodless Cheeks Denote Indigestion and
Other Disorders.
Vino! Should Be Taken In Order to Make
New, Rich Red Healthy Blood.
If you are pale, you may make up your
mind there is something serious the matter
In such cases Vinol should be taken. It
gives tone, health and strength to every organ
of the body. By enabling all of the organs
, to act as they should, and at the same time
facilitating the discharge of poisonous secre-
tions from the system, the blood is naturally
purified, becomes rich and healthy, and an
obvious improvement is plainly discerned in
the fa'ce of the patient.
' ‘ We guarantee that Vinol will cause red
checks to digplace a. pallid countenance. If
, you do not ii: d this is s '.-'we will refund you
‘ The taste of
inol is most delicious
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of Garcia and EX-Senator Brice and the alarming in-
crease In the death rate.
Brazilian Balm.
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