HE EXPIRED PEACEFULLY YES- TERDAY MORNING. Frederick the Third Proclalmed. Berrix, March 9.—~The Emperor Ww llliam died at half-past 8 o'clock this morning. The Reichsanzeiger gives the follow ing details of the ist hours of Eme peror William. On Wednesday, when his strength began to fail, the Emperor spoke re- peatedly to I'rince William about the condition of the Crown Prince and about political and military affaairs, On Thursday he talked with his daughter, the Grand Duchess of Baden, about the death of her son, Prince Louis. At noon he asked for Prince Bismarck, who came and conversed with him on the political situation. The Ewmperor spoke clearly, and thanked the Chancellor for his servics to the country. Incresed feebleness soon followed, attended with delirium. His volce became feebler and feebler, finally sinking to a whisper. At 5 o'clock he was so weak that the members of the family, Prince Bis- marck and Count Von Moltke and the servants of the household gathered around the bed. The Emperor, sup- ported by the doctors, held the hand of his wife on one side and his daughter's hand on the other. Prince William stood alone at the head of the couch. Chaplain Koegel spoke a few words of consolation, to which the Emperor whispered occasional responses. At 5.30 o'clock the patient manifested extreme weakpess and death seemed imminent, Suddenly the Emperor rallied and asked for Count Von Moltke and Prince William, with both of whom he talked about the state of the army and the Prussian people, entering into minute particulars when speaking of military matters, to the astonishment of both his listeners. Ho then referred to Germany’s alliances with various countries aud the possibility of war. But during the latter portion of his remarks the fantasies of delirium were mingled with coherent utterances This temporary recovery of strength lasted till 10 o'clock. At frequent intervals he conversed in a touching, sarnest manner with those about him. Between 10 and 12 o'clock he ap- peared to sleep. At about 2 o'clock it was observed that a seriouschaunge was beginning to take place in the Em- peror’s face, although there was again NEWS OF THE WEEK. —Mrs. 1. W, Legge, injured by the Mount Vernon, lllinols, evclone, died on the morning of the 3d, John P, Jordan, a boy, was shot dead in Baltl- more on the 3d, by George IL. Horn, another boy. They were playing with a pistol which they did not know was loaded. Emma Lange, 16 years old, committed suicide at her home in Chleago, on the 2d, by taking polson, On the evening of the lst, she stayed out late with objectionable company and her father whipped her. In New York, on the evening of the 34 a party of thirty young men and women started in an omnibus for King’s Bridge, to have a dance and supper at a hotel. When near King’s Bridge the omnibus rolled down an embankment 20 feet high. All of the party received bruises, but none of them were killed. Two of the young women, Minnie O’Nelland Annie May, were taken to the Ninety-ninth Street Hospital, suffering from concussion of the back. The others were able to go home. A west-bound fast freight train on the Erie Hailroad, which left Jersey City on the evening of the 3d, ran Into an open switch at the Susquehanna and Western allroad crossing. The train was drawn by two engines, One of them was wrecked and the other badly damaged, while twelve box cars were smashed, No person was injured, —A small butlding, used for mixing fulminate, at the works of the Union Metallic Caziridge Company,in Bridge- ton, Connecticut, was blown to'atoms on the 5th, and Henry Becker, the only occupant, was killed. The cause of the explosion is not known. —Two freight trains on the Cincin- nati, New Orleans and Texas Paclfic railroad collided at Pine Knot, Ken- tucky, on the evening of the 4th, Fire- man John Adams was killed, Solomon Perkins, a tramp, was fatally, and four train hands, severely, injured, -—W, Thomas, a TPhiladelphia coal dealer, was arrested in Boston, on the 5th, on a dispatch from Inspector Byrnes, of New York. Thomas is charged with passing worthless checks in payment of board bills at hotels in New York eity. On the evening of the 4tt, at New Buffalo, a few miles west of Fargo, Dakota, 'ull- man Conductor Towne was attacked in the drawing-room of his car by two masked men, who sand-bagged him and robbed him of $90, They then ~ we the doctors declared that be was dead. was partially conscious, Emperor “Fritz! dear Fritz”? Emperor William marks in cash exclaimed, left 300,000,000 mausoleum at Charlottenburg, with a white cloth on the bedside on which ha died in the imperial chamber, The body is sarrounded with candles, The expression of the face is extremely peaceful and placid. The members of the royal family left the palace at 10 o'clock. The Public Grief. The death of the Emperor was an- pounced to the populace by the lower- rw the palace. all tlie public buildings. An immense concourse of people 1s gathered outside the pa ace. The multitude is silent and sorrowful, The Staate-Anzeiger publishes the following proclamation: “It has pleased God to call his Maj- esty the Emperor and King, our most gracious master, from life after a short illness and after a richly blessed reign. The whole nation mourns with the Royal House the decease of the dearly b:loved and venerable monarch whose wisdem has ruled so long and glori- ously over iis fortunes in war and in peace,’ “Tue MINISTER OF STATE." Erederick ILL Proclaimed, BERLIN, March 9.—The new King was proclalmed Frederick 111, He gi ns “Frederick” without reference to Emperor or Kiog. The new Emperor telegraphed Bis- matck to-day: “in the moment of deepest mourning for the death of his Majesty the Emperor and King, my beloved father, | express to you, as we | as to the Ministry of State, my tnanks for the devotion and loyaity with which you have all served him, and I reckon upon all your support in the difficult task which has devolved upon me, I leave on the morning of the 10th for Berlin.” The Emperor Las also forwarded the following ordinance to the Ministers of State, on the subject of public mourning: “With regard to the national mourn- ing which has heretofore been custom- ary, we will not order any provision, but will rather leave it to every Ger- msn to determine how he will give ex. pression to his aflliction at the death of such a monarch, and how long he will deem It appropiate to restrict partici. pation In public entertainments,” The regiments of the Guard were on full dress parade, in the act of present. arms, when apprised of the death of the Emperor by their officers. They will not take the oath of allegiance to the new Emperor until his commands are received. reparations for the recep- tion of the naw sovereign are actively on st the palace, He will travel Berlin by a special train, which will reach Turin on Saturday night and Munich at 8 o'c'ozk Sunday morning. It is expected thut one of His Majesty's first Steph wil bathe granting of amnes- ty to cal offenders. Sheet-iron books, Two books formed with sheet-iton leaves have been sent to exhibition and left him for dead. He was found shortly after the train bad started Ly a -A despatch from Spokane Falls, Washington Territory, says the black havoe on the ervation disease i aint of “The medicine men licat the disease with hot steam under a blanket and dip in the river—a treatment at tended with a fatal result in nearly The whites in that see- tion have the disease, but it yields to treatment in their cases, The Indians with the Nez Perces Indians side of Colville Forty-two are dead from 1 health there some time ago. — A storm prevailed at Winchester, Virginia, on the 5th, and snow fell to a depth of eight inches. ~—PDeputy U. 5. marshals arrived at Fort Smith, Arkansas, on the even. ing 'of the 4th with Joseph Beasly Jackson Stiller and Lafayette Teel, Nation, Martin Steinhauser, a farmer, residing near Palmyra, Wisconsin, was found on the floor of his house in a dying condition on the 4th, His wife said he had been wounded by burglars, but, before he died, Steinbauser sald his wife shot him in order to get him out of the way. Richard J. Hanes, ex-Sheriff of Muskingum county, Ohio, shot a woman with whom he had been living, in Zanesville, on the evening of the 4th, and then escaped. The bullet struck a gold watch and turned aside, making a bad flesh wound. She will recover. —The body of Henry Schubach, a wealthy Brooklyn tailor, was found floating in the Gowanus canal on the bth. Schubach mysteriously disap- peared on January 1st, after making New Year's calls, His jewelry and money were untouched. —A cyclone passed over the south. western portion of 8t, Landry Pansh, Louisiana, on the afternoon of the 6th, Twelve dwellings were demolished, a child was killed and several persons were severely Injured, ~ While blasting out a drill hole at the bottom of a shaft at the Cleveland Mine, Ishpeming, Michigan, on the evening of the 5th, a premature explo. sion took place, k lling Charles Ensel, John Williams, Eric Matterson, Wil- jiam Cindle and Alfred Lucas, It is supposed the dynamite was ignited by the heat of agaspipe which was charged with it, and which had been heated and straightened in the blacksmith shop just before being used. Six tons of dyna- mite, stored in a house on a farm of Oliver Hampton, near Richmond, Indiana, exploded on the 6th. David Hampton was killed, and Mrs. Cham- ness, residing a quarter of a mile away, was severely injured about the head by flying debris, The ex- ground 15 feet deep and 25 feet in diameter, It is thought the explosion was caused by Hamplon dropping a cartridge, as he was known to be very careless, Houses in Eaton, Ohio, 20 miles distant, were shaken by the explosion. ~In February, 1886, David Silber. stein, aged 7 years, fell on the track of the Houston, West dtreet and Pavonia Railroad, in New York, and one of his AIMS WAS Tun over by a ats muking « —1In Harrisburg, on the 6th, Mrs, Lerue Lemer, wife of a pholographer, swallowed carbolic acid In for medicine, and Edna Lenhart, an inmate of the Children’s Industrial Home, was terribly burned while dry- ing her dress at a stove. Both patients are expected to die, — A despatch from Fargo, Dakota, says news was brought into Menne- waukan on the 3d, by a young Nor- wegian, that a man and his son, living at Popluar Grove, 24 miles southeast of Fort Totten, had been eaten alive by a pack of wolves while shoveling snow from a hay stack. William Johnston, a prominent druggist of Detroit, Michi- gan, was drowned in the Detroit river at Amherstburg, Ontario, on the Oth, The heavy ice upset his boat. -A freight train on the FPennsylva- ma Railroad ran into the rear of an empty passenger train, near Johns- town, Penna, on the evening of the 6th, Conductor Charles Filatkowski was kliled and Brakemen Parkes and Stew- art were fatally injured, The crew on the freight train escaped by jumping. Dr. J, H. Parvis, a well known physi- gian of Middletown, Delaware, was struck and killed by a train while driv- ing on the raliroad crossing on the evening of the 6th, The continued rains washed out an embankment near Benham, Texas, on the evening of the 4th, leaving the rallroad track suppor. ted for 60 feet by the fish bars which connect the rails, A farmer discovered the washout, and succeeded in stopping a freight and the ‘*Cannon Ball” Ex- press just at the brink cf the hole. there was serious danger that the strike of the engineers and firemen would spread widely, *‘It 1s impossible to appease our men when they know that the railroad companies all over the country are giving aid to the Burling. ton. We are continually in receipt of telegrams showing that the companies are rendering assistance, and it is pot in my power or the power of any other man to restrain them unless such things are stopped.” — A severe shock of earthquake was on the morning of the Tih, balidings were shaken, but no damage was done. A sharp shock was also felt at los Angeles, the severest for 18 years, Houses were badly shaken and people rushed into the street. The seismoscope at the meteorological office iu Nashau, New Hampstire, on the Tuesday evening. It was of short duration with a slight vibratory move- ment, Two freight trains on the Iowa Central Railroad collided, near Hamp- ton, lowa, on the 6th. Two of the braxemen, Williams and were fatally hurt, The two engines and nineteen freight cars were piled up in a worthless heap. ~ At Charleston, South Carolina, on the Tih, J. C. Bond, Mrs. Julia Bond, J. O. Bond, Dr. L. M, Shaser and his son, RB. E. 1. Shaser, were arrested on a charge of defrauding the Sapreme Council of the Royal Templars of Tew- death of John O. Bond, who Is really alive, Mrs. Bond and John O. Bond wera discharged from custody upon swearing that their names on all of the papers were forgeries, Dr. Shaser and son, Dr. Robinson and J. A. Robinson, Jr., were also arrested on a charge of defrauding the same organization out of $20,000 by certifying to the death of the fictitious John R. Lyman. Dr. Sha- fer and son and J, C. Bond were com- mitted to jail in default of ball, The Robinsons are out on ball in both cases, Dr. Jrmes P. Boud and Thomas Bond, who figured in the Dadley cass, are also indicted, — An unknown man, about 30 years of age, ascended to the Llevated Rail- road Station, at Hanover Square, New York, on the evening of the Tth, filled his mouth with Paris green and threw h:omself in front of as approaching train, He was crushed to death, He was apparently a German, but there was nothing to identity him. Wiliam 8. Hartwell, formerly an official of the Northwestern Railroad, committed suicide, in Chicago, on the morning of the 7th. He was about 40 years of age, Despondency was the cause of his sui- cide, By the falling of an Immense iron crane in Allls & Co.’s iron works, at Milwaukee, on the 7th, two men were injured, one fatally, and the property was damaged to the extent of $10,000, William Fellinger was killed and his brother Jolin fatally injured by a fall of coal in the Miners’ Mills Colliery, near Wilkesbarre, on the evening of the 7th. The carbonizer at the pow- der mill of the Ladin & Rand Powder Company, at Cressona, Penpa., ex- ploded on the afternoon of the Tih, shattering and setting fire to the bulld- ing, which, with Ils contents, was de stroyed. James Marburger, in charg of the machine, was badly, perhaps fa* tally, injured by the explosion, «Counsel for the Chicago, Burling- ton and Quincy Railroad on the Sih, filed a petition in the United States Court setting forth the history of the strike and praying for an injunction agaiust Chief Arthur and the engl neers’ Brotherhood, as well as an order on the Wabash Road compelling it to handle Burlington freight in discharge of its duty as a common carrier. The order issued by the Court covers the ground of the bill. The Press Com- mittee of the strikers, authorized to speak for Chief Arthur, smd an in. junction against Mr. Arthur would not to do this through thelr executive ofi- cers,-but are also willing to place the whole matter in the hands of three decision. ~At the Fishback Rolling Mill of tha Pottaville Iron and Steel Company, in Pottsville, Penna., on the 8th, a belt. slipped and the speed of the en- gine was increased to such a velocity that it cansed the great flywheel to burst. The building and main chim- ney were badly damaged, Charles Freizler, a laborer, was killed, and several others injured. In George- stove while tending a baby. Hel clothes caught fire and both she and the baby were fatally burned. The boiler of the engine at the ore mine of the Thomas Iron Company, at Topton, Penna., exploded on the morn- ing of the 8th, wrecking the bullding and severely scalding Willlam Block, Ambrose Schweyer, George Bott and Henry Bast, James Kelly and William Dean were injured, the former fatally, by falling from a ladder, while paint- ing a church in Pittsburg, on the morning of the 8th. A man named O’Neill fell asleep near the railroad track at Marietta, Georgla, on the 8th and had his head cul off by a passing train, — Peter Voelker, a well-known stone contractor, in 'ittsburg, was murdered in frons of bis own doorway and in the presence of his wife on the evening of the Tth, by an unknown man, who made his escape. The cause of the {murder is a mystery. Jullus Quinn, William Antwerp and Joseph George, living In Indian Territory, were, ac- cording to adespatch from Wichita, Kansas, burned out of a log cabin on the evening of the 4th, and shot down underbrush, The land they squatted upon was m the range of cattleman George 11. Delaney. The latter tried many ways lo get the squatters to leave the country, but failed. People in that vicinity charge Delaney’s men wilh | complicity in the murder, — While playing with a gun near Attica, Kapras, on the 5th, Charles Parkhurst, aged 12 years, shot and killed Charles Sleppy and fatally woun- ded George Sleppy. William Deuory's powder mills, in Trout Run Valley, pear Shamokin, Penna., blew up on the morning of the 8th, The mountain { was fired by the explosion, and large forest fires were raging on the evening of the Sth, — Another statement was issued on the 9th by Chief Arthur, in whish he sald that the real issus with the Chica- go, Budlinglon and Quincy Railroal is | wages, lle says the rallroad offic als clearly recognize the main issues, and, in fact, the only issues of importance to be ‘pay to be governed by the miles | and the abolition of classification based | upon length of service,” — L.0uis Richter shot and killed his cousin, Louisa Smith, aged 17, in Evansville, Indiana, on the afternoon of the Bth and then killed himself, | Richter was in love with the girl, but | she did not seem to reciprocate his af. | feclions, and it 18 thought this unbal- | anced his mind. At New Era, Tennes- | see, on the afternoon of the Tin, Rufus Kittrell, a merchant, and his son i George quarreled wilh a rival merchant, | named Ferns Ernsteln, .and his son. A fight followed, in which old Kittrell { was killed and young Kittrell was mor- | tally wounded, Ferris Ernstein was {also wounded. It is said the elder ! Kittrell has killed seven men since the | war. louis Blech, who was shot by | George A. Kimball the bank robber, ina Bradford, Pennsylvania, died on the afternoon of the Uih, — Henry C. Parker, a New York provision broker, wens to bis home, in Brooklyn, with an unknown cowmpan- ion on the evening of the 9.h. Both were intoxicated. Later people in the house detected escaping gas, and, upon the door being forced, Parker and his companion were both found dead in bed. —A collision occurred on the Bur ington and Missouri Railroad at Hum. boidt, Nebraska, on the afternoon of the Sih, between two passenger trains, Five persons were injured, none fa- tally. ~A heavy blizzard raged on the 9th bet ween Duluth and St, Paul, and no trains have arrived at Duluth since the enveaing of the Sth. 60th CONGRESS.— First Session. BENATE, In the U. 8. Senate on the 5th, a petition was presented from the Wo- men’s Christian Temperance Union for the repeal of the whisky tax and for a prohibition amendment to the Cons titution, The credentials of Mr. Beck, 1880, were presented and filed. Mr. Reagan, reported a bill “to regulate commerce carried on by telegraph’ {the Spooner bill), Mr. Cullom moved that the bill go to the Committee on Inter-State Commerce, After some debate he withdrew the motion, and the bill and report were laid on the table for the present, A concurrent resolution from the House was agreed to, directing the Secretary of the Navy to designate a national vesssel of war to couvey the remains of ex President Paez, of Veneuzela, from New York to Laguayra. A blll was reported in- corporating the Atlantic ana Pacific Ship Caval Company. The Urgent Deficiency bill was taken up an amendments were considered, end. ing action the Senate went Into execu. tive session, and, when the doors were reopened, adjourned, In the U. 8 Senate on the 6th, Mr, Morrill, from the Finance Committee, adversely Mr. Beck's bill for brief statements of their contents snd | to be presented and referred without debate; another, permitting treaties to i Senate, The Dependent Pension bill was considered, and Mr, Ingalls, leav- ing the chalr, made a bitter political speech. Mr, Blackburn replied to Mr, Ingalls, Adjourned. was reported allowing the pay of Hear Admiral to Commodores while acting a8 Rear Admirals, The Urgent Dell- clency bill was considered, and the House provision requiring the Pablic Printer to enforce the Eight-hour law nays 20, Other amendments were adopted, and the bill was passed, After an execu- tive session the Senate adjourned, HOUSE | io the United States House of Rep- | resentatives, on the 84, Henry C, Sey- | mour, elected from the Eleventh Dis- { trict of Michigan, to succeed Seth C, | Moffatt, deceased, was qualified and | took his seat, The bill authorizing the {issue of fractional sliver certificates | was reported and placed on the calen- dar, Mr, Crain, from the Committee lon Election of President and Vice i President, reported his joint resolution | proposing constitutional amendments i changing the time for the commence- | meat of the Presidential term and {changing tbe date for the annual {meeting of Congress, The Pacific | Railroad Telegraph bill was passed-— | yeas, 197; nays, 4. On motion of Mr, | Randall, of Penusylvania, a bill was | passed relieving certamn volunteers land regular soldiers in the late {war and the war with Mexico { from the charge of desertion, Mr, | Bland moved to adjourn. This mo- | tion being defeated, in order to pre- i vent | he demanded, the regular order. The NEW YORK'S POLISH JEWS, —————— People Whose Rules of Life Hosen ble Those of Bible Times, On Sunday is the best Lime Lo Bee Li.:9 colony, because then it offers the strapgest and strongest contrasl wilh way is the main thoroughfare in this colony. The once grand avenue of the rich Quakers of forty years ago-—the street that led to the houses of the progenitors of Henry Bergh and Derry Wall and the now aristocratic loose veits, The solid big houses are Lhere yet, with their high stoops and broad fronts and mansion-like appearance, but how changed, how sadly changed. Pillows and carpets hang from their upper windows, whal were once the dining rooms and parlors are packed thick with workmen and workwomen making clothing, and the windows and walls are lined with bales of the cheap est coats and trousers lmaginable, Queer, blousy wemen in greasy wigs and very old-looking men in their long beards are running hither and thither, The roadway and gotters are full of refuse and waste, the air is heavy witl bad odors, the breath on all the window panes is the breath of squalor, neglect and indifference Lo appearance and comfort. Very strange signs are over the doors. The characters are Hebrew, The oniy words we can read are the proper names, nearly all ending in the “letters *'sky’’ or “ski” Bunday i these folks, as to all but the liberal He brew, is as Monday isto us. There i only one way In which Lhey observe our Sabbath. This is by closing theaters. They do t 13 because our laws forbid their being opened. By mounting any one of a do flights of s*eps we can step from New York to Modern Asia Minor, almost tc snclent Judea, It is in the synagogue Lier {| Chair announced the regular order to be i the further consideration of the bill to | provide for the issue of circulating inctes to National Banking Associa- tions, and, as this was a bill which Mr. Bland has uniformly opposed, his un- caused a laugh, The House, however, adjourned at this poinl In the House, on the GLb, a resolo tion was adopted directing the Com. | mittee on Printing to inquire whether the scale of pr vogue the { Government Printing Office prior to | January 1, 1877, should not ices In in be | established, A number of bills and res i olutions were introduced aud referred {under the call of States, Awong {them was a resolution by Mr, White, of Indiana, for the appointment of a | special committee of lve to Investigate | tne Chicago, Quincey and Burlington Railroad strike, and to act as media- | tors between the company and Chlsd ! Arthur, Adjourned. In the House on tne 7th, Mr. Bel- | mont, from the Committee | Affairs, reported a resolution, which { was adopted, requesting the President, { if not incompatible with the public in- | terest, to send to the House the cor- | respondence between our Goverament, | Great Britain and Venezuela in refer | ence to the question of disputed bound. | ary between British Guiana and Ven- j ezuela. Bills were reported pension. ! ing prisoners of war; in aid of the Cen- itennial and Memorial Association of | Valley Forge, and to creale a Depart. {ment of Agriculture and Labor. A iil was passed appropriating $560,000 for a public bullding in Sedalia, Mis- souri. The House went into commit. tee on bills reported from the Commit- tee on Indian Affairs, Two bills were reported to the House and passed, one ratifying an agreement with certain Indians in Montana In regard to the | cession of their reservat'on lands for | public settlement; the other to divide | the Great Sioux reservation into sepa- rate smaller reservations. Adjourned, In the House, on the 8th, a bill was passed appropriating $10,000 for the purchase of certain swords belonging to the widow of Geperal James Shields Mr. Rayner, of Maryland, from the Commerce Committee, reported the bill to establish a postal telegraph. A bill was passed for the allotment of lands in severally in the White Earth and Red Lake reservations to the Chip. pewa Indians in Minnesota, and open- ing up to settiement the other reserva. tions of Indians in that State, Ad- journed, In the United States House of Rep- resentatives, on the Oth, the “Owmn bas War Claim" bill was considered and passed. It provides for the payment of a number ¢f claims arising out of the operations ¢f the late war in the South- ern States, An evening session was beld for the cousideration of pension bila, smoke in Warfare, Smoke will certainly play an impor tant part in the warfare of the future, At Milford Haven and at Longford harbor it was artificially created in large quantities in order to form screens behind which attacking forces might, unobserved, approach within suort range of forts and batteries, On each occasion rafls laden with combustibles were set on fire and floated into posi- tion: from which the wind carried the smoke in a more or less dense cloud in the direction of the defense. Ou the other hand, ever since the introduction of modern ordinance and rapid ride fire, it has been felt: that the huge volumes of smoke which would be belched forth during a battle of the present day would probably. prevent the use of big guns to the best advantage. Smoke, in fact, may, according to circumstances, be either a great assistance or a grave lm pediment in warfare. The ideal state of things is, of course, one in which the production of smoke shall be controll. ed, 80 that either a clear atmosphere or {that this change confronts us. They | are bare, forlorn places—izers rooms i full of benches—but they are bigh'y | important to this strange community. Here the rabbis preside, and the rabb. is, as he used to be, the chief source | of authority and wisdom. He preaches Lere on Saturdays, teaches schoo the week, holds court perpetually judge before whom all Clssens: disputes are brought, marries, ens, confirms, blesses, advises, exhorts, and, in a word, guides and controls his Bock, Like nearly a'l the men he wears a velvel cap, and Nike all he refrains fron shaviog his beard, His language is sometimes Hebrew, { but 1n most cases he uses the longue of | bis people, a simular mixture of He | brew and Polish, or Hebrew and the {tongue whatever other Slave race he {belong ‘%. All about the neighbor hood sre bookstores, and the books an | all printed im one polyglot or anothe { corresponding with the talk of the pec pie. The young girls are more or less ig | and pleasing to the eye. The majority | are swart, but sowe are very fai { blondes with golden tresses. All the | marned women look alike, Lowever | for bave shaved their heads anc | wear wigs—of black bair, proceeding in their looks from little stems of con or horsehair. It is said that this me- chanism of the wig does not show when they pew, but I never saw one {hat did not show its sacrels any more than 1 ever saw a Chinaman’ queue that was not lengthened with black thread or horsehair, These mar- ried women are made (0 look less at- tractive by their fashion of weaning their walst bands almost under their | armpits. The strongest predilection ir of red dresses, and their next strongest is for wearing them for lengths of Lume exceeding human belief, Their wigs serve instead of other head covering, ms that one is next to never seen in a hat or bonnpel, no matter where or how far she goes. Even on railroad journeys they go bare headed, They are nol allowed to cover while in church. where they sit apart from the men, aud I have heard that among the strictest of the orthodox the womer may not cover iu the presence of the! husbands. However, a perusal o© Deuteronomy and Leviticus (whic 1 beg leave to state are books io tin Bible) will show exactly whal he strictest rules of {he race were, and u the main, remain to-day. aE ng and christ chaslises, all are i Railroad Heserve. An old rallroad man sald ft was » curious thing that railroad oficial pever permitted their employes to tel anything about an accident. “It worth & man’s position to do it,” Ie said. “I remember once when [ wa in Omaha. It was about the Lime thal the Union Pacific gave orders {« shorten up the time, An old snginee: who was to make the first ron on ue pew schedule, sald just before he mounted his cab that the engines or the Union Pacific were too heavy tw make that time, and that it would teas up the track. When the engineer gol to the end of his run he found message discharging Lim, “Railroad companies are just tha! strict with thelr employes. They not only do not allow them to give any in formation, but do not allow them t« make any remarks about the company’ business, 1 was coming into CUhicage ane day on a Chicago and Northwest ern train. I was a stranger Lo the con- ductor, and I thought I would have a Iittle quiet fun with him. Se I asked him in a sort of confideatial way where ¥
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