NEWS OF THE WEEK
~—A heavy southwest gale, accom.
panied by rain and thunder, visited
Coney Island on the evening of the 12th,
Awninge, signs, etc., were blown away,
The glass pavilion, Friordy's pavilion,
Bader’s, Perry's and other hotels were
damaged slightly. The new archway
and frame of the depot at the boulevard
terminus of the Sea Beach Railroad ex-
tension were leveled to the ground. A
severe storm passed over Westchester,
New York, on the 12th, destroying
trees and buildings. At Williams
bridge a house in process of construc-
tion was blown down, and a barn was
Struck by lightning and burned. Fences
were blown down, telegraph poles were
prostrated and several houses were
wrecked
—Much damage was done in the
upper part of New York city on the
12th. Sings and awnings were torn
lown and houses unroofed. The gale
was felt more generally in Manhattan-
ville, where several buildings were un-
roofed and one house entirely de-
molished. No persons were injured.
several Western Union and fire alarm
oles were torn down and thrown across
the streets, Lightning struck a num-
ber of houses, and at Manhattanville
several trees were levelled. In some
nstances the electric currents came out
of the telephones several feet and were
~-Dr, Charles W. Paine committed
snicide in Grand Rapids, Michigan, on
the 13th, It is supposed he was
despondent at having been disinherited
by his father, who recently died in
New York. Mrs, James R. Trotter, a
confirmed invalid, committed suicide
by cutting her throat in Huntsville,
Alabama, on the 13th,
— A Niagara Falls excursion train
on the Nickel Plate Railroad was run
into by a freight train in a cut near
Silver Creek, New York, on the 14th,
and the smoking and baggage cars were
telescoped. About 18 persons were
killed and 13 injured, several danger-
ously, If not fatally.
—Henxy A. Dix, City Clerk of
Quincy, Illinois, was arrested on the
13th on the charge of emhezzling the
city’s funds, It is believed the amount
stolen is about $3000. Dix was elfcted
last spring for the sixth consecutive
time.
~Much of the business portion of
Brooklyn, Iowa, was burned on the
morning of the 15th, The loss Is esti-
mated at $75,000. One of the Grand
Haven Company’s mills, of Grand
Haven, Michigan, was burned on the
15th, Toss, $30 000; insurance, $7000.
The ice houses and outbuildings of the
Lake View Brewery, in Buffalo, was
burned on the 15th.
ered by an insurance of $58,000.
men were injured by the falling of a
accompanied with crackling sounds.
—Drexel & Co., Treasurers for the |
‘haileston Relief Fund on the 13th, |
icknowledged additional contributions |
imounting to $2322.78, making the
total $32 668.65. A special committee |
ippointed by the Produce Exchange |
soilected $320,
—It is reported from San Antonio,
Texas, that Captein Lawton, who
8 preparing his official report, says *‘he |
8 not entitled to all the credit of cap- |
luring Geronimo, and that Lieutenant |
Gatewood, of the Sixth Cavalry, was at |
Geronimo’s camp and received the sur- |
rendering hostiles a few moments
before he (Lawton) arrived.” Gero |
nimo and the other prisoners “spent |
the Sabbath in their tents playing |
cards,’ . |
—A woman named Gardenheim, 70 |
years of age, was found dead in her!
house at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the |
morning of the 12th, with two bullet |
boles in her head. “The Adams boys,” |
ner daughter-in-laws’
brothers have |
son oil over the furniture In one of the
‘ooms of the William Penn Hotel, in
Pittsburg, on the 13th, and then
jet fire to it, after which he quickly
left the house. The porter discovered
and extinguished the fire without
alarming the guests. Hamilton was |
arrested subsequently while loitering |
in the vicinity of the hotel, but refused
io give any reason for the act.
—A cave-in, covering a large space,
sccurred on the 13th in the Mar-
vine colliery of the Delaware and Hud.
jon Canal Company at Scranton, |
Penna. One man, named Shafer 1s |
reported killed, and seven others are |
:ntombed In the mine, The missing |
men are John Carden, John Young, |
Patek McNulty, Carmac Maguire, |
Patrick Cavanaugh, Patrick Murphy |
and Patrick Harrison. Five men were |
njured.
-—An epidemic of dysenteric sick- |
ness, ending, in the cases of children,
mn spinal meningitis and death, pre- |
7alls in the village of Avona, Iowa |
rounty, Wisconsin. The public schools
1ave been closed and all public gather-
ngs abandoned.
~The signal man at Nantucket re-
sorts that a large, unknown three-
nasted schooner is sunk in the vicinity
of Sandy Pont, sails hanging loose and i
werboard. No particulars can be |
earned. Four Hundred bags of flour |
were found near Tuckanuck Beach,
narked T. C. N, XY. C.
—Ex-Judge P, White was shot dead |
’y some unknown assassin in Clay
Jounty. Kentucky, on the 12th. In
August last be was elected Superin-
endent of Common Schools. For
‘wo weeks two merchants named Ver-
ell and French, living at Hazard,
Perry County, Tennessee, have been at |
‘eud. Each had *“‘a large following, |
umed with Winchester rifles.” On
dis 13th a fight took place between |
she gangs, and one man was killed and |
shiree were wounded on the French |
tide. A moonshiner named Chenault |
wus shot dead by a young man named
McKey, at Etna, Tennessee, on the
2th. The only provocation for the deed |
vas a (aunt by Chenault that McKey
wd his friends, “were too poor to buy |
wy more whisky.” Mrs. Buckmire,
in aged woman, was robbed and mur-
lered in Geneva, Illinois, on the 13th.
der body was found ina chicken house,
where it is supposed to have been car-
‘ied by the robbers, who set fire to her
iwelling after ransacking it. At
Westernport, Maryland, on the 14th,
Edward White, a well-known citizen,
was shot dead on the street by a luna-
de named David Johnson. In the
*'vening a mob attacked the building
where Johnson was confined and
iynched him on a bridge above the Po-
wmae river. Afler hanging him they
shrew the body into the stream.
~-Matthew Hotheffer, a keeper at
ihe Zoological Garden in Cincinnati,
was fatally clawed by a grizzly bear
on tife 13th, while he was sweeping in
front of a den. He died in a few
hours after.
~The First National Bank of Doug-
ass, Wyoming Territory, has been
ordered to begin business with a capi-
al of $75,000.
ot Sot oo
P na., on
in veal botinos caus.
ing a loss estimated at $28, A
ireman named Weisner was killed by
the buildings. The
tron tt eon
was on
The Insurances reported are
the track or ria nino,
by. MeCarty engineer, on the
killed;
Michael Keefe, was 80
that he died in an Hos
floor. Henry Dausman & Co's tobacco
factory, in St. Louis, was burned on
the evening of the 14th. Loss, $35,000:
insurance, : $30,000, A fire damaged
the 14th. The fire again broke out on
~—A widow named Denny and two
little girls were run over and killed on
While a work
train was backing on a down grade at
the Chapin mine, at Iron Mountain,
and two of them were killed. An ex-
press train on the East Tennessee Rail-
road struck a cow on a curve near Chat-
tanooga on the evening of the 15th.
The engine turned over an embank-
ment, killing the engineer and fireman,
~The Treasury department on the
the three per cent bonds. This makes
fifty-two millions of these bonds called
for redemption since July 1st.
were drowned while bathing in
pond near Little Rock, Arkansas, on
the 14th, one of them pershing in an
attempt to save the her. Their
mother became a mane from the
shock.
~The boiler of the Reading Coal and
Iron Company’s Merriam breaker at
Mt. Carmel, Penna., exploded on the
15th. Four other boilers were wrecked,
house and breaker were
greatly damaged, and Jacob Shutt,
John Crow and Michael Patrick were
dangerously injured. In consequence
of the explosion 500 men will be idle
for a week.
~The bodies of an unknown woman
and child were found on the 15th, in
the lake at Chicago.
months, and they had evidently been
in the water only a few hours. The
woman was dressed in a calico wrap-
per, and the child had been tied to her
~The Fourth Street National Bank,
the Santa Rosa
National Bank, of Santa Rosa, Cali-
—B . Sunfisld & Co.. grocers, of Chi-
cago, had a hearing before Justice
Hawkins; on the 14th, on the charge of
lling bogus butter for the genuine ar-
refused to entertain any motion for the
—Two masked robbers entered the
on the 15th,
knocking down Park aud
escaped with $1500 in cash,
~Mrs, Morris Sanders, aged 22 years,
and, after
his wife,
tival in Reading over a week ago, died
on the 15th,
and Herman Burton, neighboring
Texas, about
in the same lot.
Richmond,
After
and fatally stabbed Lewis,
revolver and shot himself in the neck.
His recovery is doubtful. John Wyatt
and Demps Loftin, neighbors, in Mar-
shall County, Kentucky, had not
spoken to each other for years, They
met at a funeral on the 15th, and
Loftin gpoke to Wyati. The latter
knocked Loftin down with a stone,
whereupon Loftin drew a knife and
stabbed his antagonist to death,
~Severe wind storms occurred on
the 16th in the West and Northwest.
In Terra Haute, many large buildings
in the centre of the city were unroofed
and their interiors damaged by rain.
The aggregate loss is estimated at
$45,000. An eating house on the Fair
grounds was blown down and the
wreck caught fire, seriously burning a
woman a boy. Six or eight build-
Ings in Newport, Indiana, were demol-
ished, and a number of houses in Mon-
tezuma were unroofed, but no lives
lost. The damage along
is at
reported
$00,000. At Michigan City, trees, out~
houses and lumber piles were levelled,
The te wires botween Toledo
and Detroit were broken,
~A freight train was thrown from
the track near South Lyons, Mich
early on the 16th, by the removal
rail by wreckers,
~There was a slight shock of earth-
quake in Charleston, at four o'clock on
the morning of the 15th, There was
**possibly a light shock” in the evening
‘‘but this is uncertain, as any vibra
tion caused by passing vehicles or the
pulling down of walls is apt to be re-
garded as caused by an earthquake,’
The Relief Committee has issued over
1000 forms of application for assistance
in rebuilding or repairing houses. “*At-
tention has been directed to the char-
acter of the mortar used, consisting
largely of yellow sand, and the City
Council will probably take action on
the subject, to prevent any Budden-
sieck disasters in the hurry of rebuild-
ing.” Ex-Senator Simon Cameron has
sent $1000 to Charleston for the relief
fund.
-A large train loaded with iron
ore was wrecked by an open switch
on the Pennsylvania Railroad at Rah-
way, New Jersey, on the 16th. Six
cars and an engine were demolished.
Morris logan, engineer, was shghtly
injured. While a Missouri Pacifie
| freight train was going through St,
| Louis on the 15th, three cars left the
| track and ran Into and demolished a
| pied by Patrick Walsh, who was asleep
{in the house at the time. The bricks
jand mortar fell on lnm
| his back was severely injured.
| =A warrant
| This is accepted in settlement of all
{ law what she long has been in fact, the
| property of the Government.’
~Mall advices from China and Japan
the total number
ance this year
resulted fatally, The
| that the epidemic is now abating. In.
telligence from Seoul, Corea, Bays
{ cholera is still ragmng in that city.
| out of a population of 250,000,
| equally fatal, At Shinshu, Province
i one month,
| Two Union Pacific trains collided
{ at Gilmore, Nebraska, on the 16th, and
| were demolished. E. M. Jones, fire.
man, was killed, and Engineer Neeley
had an arm broken. Engineer Bollon,
“*who overlooked his orders.’ was ar-
rested. An express train from Cin-
cinnati ran into a freight train near
Columbus, Ohio, on the 16th. There
was a terrible wreck of cars and en.
gines, but no lives were lost. An
engineer named Pratt was badly in-
tured, and a number of passengers
were severely shaken up. A freight
train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road struck a horse on the bridge ai
Independence, Ohio, on the 16th. The
shock broke the bridge in two, and the
locomotive fell into the creek lLelow.
The engineer was killed and the fire-
man injured,
— John Schryock, a wealthy farmer
of Olney, lllinois, was murdered on
the 16th. The murderers robbed his
i house of $3000 and then burned it
down, A farmer named Upsold cut
| his wife's throat and then hanged him-
{ self near Chetek, Wisconsin, on the
17th. Domestic unbappivess was the
cause, A policeman named Chubba,
was fatally shot by a drunken man he
was trying to arrest in Eau Claire,
Wisconsin, on the 17th.
— Rev, Jesse Cook, colored, was
banged on the 17th in Butler, Georgia,
for wife murder. The banging was
witnessed by 8000 people. He made a
| full confession.
During a storm at Hermosa, Lli-
nois, on the 16ih, several carpenters
working on some frame buildings took
shelter in one of them. It was struek
by lightning, and three of the men
| were injured by the electric bolt, two
of them so badly that their recovery is
doubtful. The storm on the 16th did
much damage in North Belleville, 131i-
| nois. Chimneys and smoke-stacks were
blown down, bulldingg unroofed and
trees levelled,
~The total vote of Arkansas in the
recent election was 143.000, and the
Democratic majority, 37,000,
| Legislature stands: House, Democrats,
| 67: Republicans and **Wheelers," 23;
Senate. 27 Democrats,
and “Wheelers.
gate al Sarsloga Lake, was acciden-
tally shot dead on the 17th by a boy
named William B. :
loading a shot-gun,
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Grandfather's Watch,
Grandfather's watch is battered and old.
Innocent quite of jewel or gold:
Poor and common, and worn and cracked,
Much like grandfather's self In fact
Yet its wheezy volce has a cheerfnl sound,
And the ohiid as she listens in wonder
bound
To 1ts mystic tales of departed time
Is smiling as though at a pleasant rhyme.
What are the tales the old watch tells?
Of seventy years it counts the knells;
Years whose every setting sun
Was marked by labor faithfully done.
With primitive form and clumsy skill,
And clumsier help when the work went
i,
Yet serving their time as best they can—
This is the story of watch and man!
Many a-all has the old watch hushed,
Mauvy a blow has the old man crushed,
Meddled with, tinkered and sorely tried
At last rejected and thrown aside
For modern rivals, all selerce and gold,
Useless and erippled despived and old,
Under a cloud and under a ban
This is the story of wateh and man.
But there's a reverse to the pleture sad;
Human hearts they can still make glad,
The wateh in its dented silver case
Can bring asmile to the fair child's face.
The wan all battered and silvery, 100,
With a moral can cheer both me and yon,
“Mark our time as well a8 we can’ —
This is the lesson of watch and wan.
WIMPSEY'S PREDICAMENT,
milder-faced
find
A meeker-appearing,
individual would be difficult to
looking person as **Sheriff.”
It was between a small Indiana town
and the county seat, late in the even-
ing, and the car was nearly empty.
“What is that man guilty of?"
He
The conductor smiled, “Murdered
the peace-—1 guess that’s about all,” he
“A lady mn the case, I pre-
sume, or several of therm.”
**But I should never take him for a
lady-killer,” persisted the curious pas-
senger.
The conductor spoke to the sheriff
and that oficial laughed and clapped
his mild-eyed prisoner on the shoulder,
*“The passengers wanter know what
you've been doin’, Wimpsey."’
Wimpsey turned toward us with a
depracatlory air. “Do they?’ he half
woaned. ‘Wal, [ hain’t bin
jest nothin’, only let myself be kinder
hauled roun’ like by a parcel o' wimin,
tii! I hain't got any sense left.”
The sheriff roared,
“That's whal'® the matter, Witp-
sey. Tell em all about it-—the whole
story.”
The train was smoothly
over the Indiana the lights
burned dimiy, and iL was a rather cold
time to hear a story of any kina.
“*Might as well, I reckon,” sighed
the prisoner, rolling his eyes up to the
ventilators as if to draw in some neces-
sary fresh air in that way, 71 hain't
had a minute's peace sense I come to
this yere e¢ivilized country. Ye see
I've been a livin® out West, In Dakota,
where the wimin folks ain't verv thiek,
an’ I never bother my brains bout ‘em.
Jut when Uncle Jack died and left me
his farm here in Indiany, I come on,
an’ fust thing I knowed I wuz goin’ in
a~doin’
rumbling
prairie;
hops. Fust, there wuz Tom Blander's
gal, Kizzy, at a big picnic, an Cousig
Jane interduced us, an’ there was no
gettin’ out ov it. _She tuk my arm an’
said it wuz much pleasanter outer the
beaten path, ‘round where Lhe vierlets
So we started off an’ went an’
sat down ona big log, an’ talked an’
talked. She allowed it must be mighty
go an’ git her some day an’ show her
round. Itok her home in my spring
waggin, an’ she sald Le sure an’ come
soon ter make her a call. In less'n
three weeks we wuz promised, an’ made
it all ter be married in th’ fall,”
The prisoner paused, and his smooth
face assumed an expression of deep
me ancholy,
company her cousin Sally come over
Blanders', She wuz mighty peart an’
uv the famiiy. Sally wuz a awful con-
fidin’ sort 0’ gal, and, when she got her
eyes on a feller it jest went right
through. Kizzy hadn't never let on
"bout us bein’ engaged, though her
folks suspicioned it: an’ Sally didn’t
know nothin' *bout it.
“We gol on famous tagether, an’ one
day we went ridin’ in my brand new
buggy, an’ she was handsomer’n ever,
an’ she should miss me 50 much when
she went back home ter Jonesville; an’
I got kinder reckless, I allow, fur next
thing I knowed, Sally wuz engaged ter
me, too!”
Wimpsey mopped his forehead with a
bandana, and his melancholy increased.
““The nex’ day Sally went home, an’
I wuz feeling mighty mean, I tell
ve! But Kizzy's aunt Maria come an’
carried her ter her house ter spend
a week, an’ wuz awful an’ so
[ druv over ter th’ church fair. I'd
got to be purty much of a susiety chap
by this time, an’ blackened my boots
interduced me ter Mis’ Virginny Pep-
per, the smartest widder in the town,
sie said, but not the youngest by
any means, if she was dressed like a
16-year-old gal, I didn’t tuk no fancy
to ’er, but she stuck closer ter me ’n
a burr, an’ allowed I must be awful
lonesome with nobody keepin’ house
for me, but I hired a gal, an’ I oughter
have a good, capable housekeeper, with
a lot uv experience. Then she wanted
me to let ’er fix up things fur me roun’
the house fur a while, an’ show me how
comfortable she could make it for
a tired man to come home to every
evening. It beats allf natur’, but that
try it awhile at $15 er month,
“Wal, she made ’er appearance the
She
But she seemed so tuk with me
possible. ’Tain’t no sorter use, though,
when a woman is right in the house,
an’ ye'velgot ter meet ‘er three times a
day. Mis’ Pepper she knowed what
she was about, an’ I knowed, too, but
‘a8 Loo much fur me.”
Wimpsey and then
oceeded,
sighed deeply
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“1 never could understand how
r other we got engaged. Leastways
She'd got such a high-strung
Atl that time I kep'
goin’ to see Kizzy, jest the same, an’
wuz getlin’ serious, I tell ve, strangers.
an’ Mis’ Pepper she reckoned
bark tea to feed me on. But I had too
much pepper tea, a-ready gents, that's
what alled me!"
The Sberiff roared again, “Go on,
Wimpsey,” he said, leaning back com-
“*Bime by, 1 reckoned th’ only wey
to get outer my difficulties wuz t* sell
out an’ make tracks fur Dakota
Rizzy had sot the time for our weddin’
in November, an’ Bally she says she
allus "lowed ter be married Christoias,
This wuz nigh onter ez much ez
I could ask fur; but when Mis’ Pepper
suggested that New Year's wuz a good
timed be i knowed ‘twas
ter Jined, 1
"bout time fur me out.
to lite
“Unbeknownst t’
farm
avybody round 1
an’ all ter a speklator
from Chicago an’ he wuz ter take pos-
session nex’ day! Ef I'd a-known what
wuz good for my gizzard 1'd a started
off that minute, but like a big fool 1
went back an’ sat down an’ writ a Jet.
ter ter Kizzy an’ one ter Sally, tellin’
‘em I wuz goin’ away fur good, but 1'd
alius keep her memory green in my
heart. 1 tried t’ act as though nothin’
wuz up, for Mis’ Pepper she wuz sharp-
eved ez a cal.
“While we wuz sottin® in the livin’
room after supper, all at onct Mis’ Pep-
per jumped up an’ grabbed a folded
paper off the floor under the table. 1
knowed in a minute it wuz the bill o°
sale 1 must a’ pulled outer my pocket
with my handkerchief or somethin’.
***Gaive me that paper,’
commandin’ ez 1 could.
it
god the
sez 1, ez
“She just opened it quicker’n light-
nip, an’ read it *fore 1 could git hold o’
he=. Then she burst out:
** *So yer goin’ ter run away from me,
ve mean, low-lived feller, are ye?’
“*How d've know?" sex I. which
wuz all I could get out, I whiz that
** ‘Take yer ole paper,’ she says,
it in my face, ‘but ye kin
understand that you don’t git rid o°
me 80 easy. Ye've promised to marry
ter whar ye go er what ye do!”
‘Jest then there came a powerful
the door, an’ without
hey?’
“Mis’ Pepper she yelled like a wild
ma, not knowin’ nothin’ bout the row.
an’ Mis’ Pepper an’ Tom Blanders
standin’ there like idgeots,
What's up? sez be.
“Here's this feller gone and sold his
farm an’ goin’ off, an’ he engaged
to marry my daughter Thanksgiving
"he begun.
* “You're mistook bout the marry.
in’, burst out Sally's brother; he's
a goin’ ter marry my sister Sal on
Christmas.’
“Then Mis’ Pepper hollered right
out: ‘You're both a-lyin’, he's engaged
ter marry we on New Year's.'
“Then the row begun, but ’twasn’t
none o' my fault. Kizzy's dad an’
knock, though, an’ 80 he ’cused me o’
sault an battery, an’ had me arrested
Just as I wuz gittin’ onter the train.”
“Yes,” laughed the Sheriff: *“an’
’m a-takin’ him up for trial. He’!
have a jolly good time among the
county jallbirds, won't he though ?”’ and
this portion of the strong arm of
the law winked wickedly at the [Assen -
gers,
‘Blamed ef I hadn’t rather is in jall
than to be bauled rcun’ bya parcel o’
women,” sald Wimpsey dejectedly, 1
ain’t no Moitmon,” he added, with
{ & groan; “‘ef I wuz, I reckon it "ud be
| all right,»
The Bheriff laughed again, and the
| conductor passed on and out of the car
{ in a hurry, leaving the door unlatched.
| The engine stopped for water and
| a sharp gust blew the door wide open,
| The other passengers had all seated
{ themselves back for a nap, and even
Wimpsey drew his slouch hat over his
eyes and looked as if he would like
forget his misfortunes few
moments,
*“Confound the fellow, why can’t be
shut the door?” growled the Sheriff.
I did not mind a little fresh my-
| seif, and kept quiet. Then the Sherifi
| glanced at his blindfolded prisoner and
got up and walked the length of
| to shut the door himself. Some one or
the platform spoke to him, znd he hel
the door knob in his
he stepped outside and accepted
| couple of first-class cigars, Then he
turned and closed the door carefully
{ and started down the isle.
“Great stakes! Where's Wimpsey?’
We ali Jooked up from our dozing at
the words. It was a faci; the mild
| mannered, much-abased Wimpsey ha
slipped through the back door and dis
appeared. At that ilastaut the tral
| started, and although the Sheriff had
| the train stopped and search made
| it was fruitless. Wimpsey had effectex
| his escape from the Sheriff and the tria
aud the three prospective wives, Ni
doubt be is now flourishing im Dakota
where the women folks are not thick
{enough to endanger his peace hn
future, and where, let us hope, he ha:
| found only one true heart to sympa
thize with bim in his past predicament
for a
adr
the ca;
hand while
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How the Pope Lid
The Yope, now 78 years
very regular life and is in a condi
ton of health, At 6a. m. he celebrate:
mass in his private chapel AL T ba
breakfasts on a cup of choc
milk, with sometimes raw eggs beater
up. Immediately afterwards he re
ceives the visits of his court, and Car
dinal Jacobini reports what has occarre
in the world and gives him an account
of the letiers received on papal busi.
Besides these official letters,
from all parts of the
world, mainly from priests, missiopa
ries, monks and nuns, waile others con
tain certain sums of money from peni-
tents, and many
blessing, pecuniary aid or advice,
After these letters i
have been translated and thelr
briefly reported to the 1
placed in the papal archives. [lundred:
of telegrams also arrive each day, the
greater part asking for on
articulo mortis, which naturally, ofte:
only reach their destination after the
petitioner is dead. Ai 1 o'clock the
Pope dives and then retires to hus room
nniil the heat of the day 1s Atl
6 p.m. Le repairs to the Vatican gar-
dens where his carriage him.
Sometimes he prefers to walk and
{ rest in an elegant Eastern iiosk, whick
has recently been erected on one of the
prettie t spots in the garden where he
takescoffee and ices, surrounded by his
intimate friends, Precisely al sunset
the party breaks up and the Pope re
turns to his palace, as Ins physician
bave fortndden him to remain out of
doors after that hour on account of the
malaria which prevails in the vailey
below Mount Mario, At 2 o'clock
after half an hour spent in praver, the
| Pope retires to bed
Ol, UVes ;
Ladd
pale and
ness,
others arrive
are petitions for a
un all languages
contents
* .
Ops .
Ley are
'
Lencdict
past,
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How the Japanese are Trained.
It is said that a Japanese mechanic
CAD measure distances with his eve.
| He can reduce wood and iron 10 squares
and levels In that way. IIe wil cul a
| board or a stick a @iven nusaber of feet,
using his cye to determine the length
and breadth. Every Japanese boy whe
18 faurly weil educated draws with just
He fg.
| ures everything which Le wabts to
| illustrate. Having occasion once to
ask a Japanese student something about
| methods of warfare in that country
| (be had been a soldier attached to one
of the great Damols) be immediately
figured his explanation ju & veal draw.
ing on paper. He could uot command
enough English words to make his
meaning clear, but he could make it
clear by a sketch with his pencil, Not
one American boy in ten who bas re
ceived a fair common-schoo! education
could have made a {roe hand draw.
ing illustrating the use of war Imple-
ments or implements of uxdustry,
a
SICK MUSBAND Did the
that I am to take all that
Em ot
a y in 1 3 to
kill a mule,” Wife (an
{as much facility as he writes