{NEWS OF THE WEEK.
—The work of clearing the wieck
on the Norfolk and Western Railroad
which occurred on the morning of the
22d, eight miles above Lyncéhburg,
Virginia, was begun on the 23d, and
sight bodies were recovered, The
names of the killed, so far as known,
are: Walter Iarris, William Henry,
James Donnelly, Edward Walker,
George Wililams, Grant Jackson and
S. Smith, The four last-named were
colored. Two more bodies are known
to be under the wreck, but the names
could not be ascertained. A freight
train on the Baltimore and Ohio Rail-
road jumped the track near Belmont,
Ohlo, on the 23d. A brakeman and
three tramps were injured and 16 cars
demolished. Mrs, Charles Scboon-
maker and her grandson James
Berrian, colored. were struck and
killed by a train just below Sing Sing,
New York on the 23d, while crossing
the track. Thomas Hennessy, living
near Fairview, Luzerne couoty, I'enna.,
went to that village on the 23d, to get
some medicine for his wife," who is
dangerously ill, He jmmped from a
railroad car in front of an engine on
another track and was fatally injured,
—During a fight in Luzerne, borough
two miles from Wilkesbarre, Pa., on the
22d, James Quinn shot Thomas Grif-
in and Thomas Dougherty, the latter
fatally. During a drunken row at the
house of John Meyer, in Nebraska
City, Nebraska, on the evening of the
22d. Charles Hoffmeister had his skull
crushed, and **Jack’’ Young and John
tally. Isaac Lambert, being drunk,
ghot and killed T. D. Hestle and two
colored men at Mount Pleasant, Ala-
bawa, on the 21st, At Clear Lake,
Iowa, on the evening of the 22d, Mrs.
Jessie McKinney shot and fatally
wounded J. ¥, Sullivan, a resident of
Forest City. Sullivan and two other
and refused to leave,
on a schooner at Chicago, on the
John Mangan fatally wounded Edward
Kennedy with a cutlass, Richard J. Ca-
pron, a capitalist, on the 23d,
entered the oflice of John King, a real
Oa
wail y
some business. They quarrelled and
pair of shears from a desk and stabbed
King three times.
Capron. who asserts that one of King's
clerks struck him before he did
stabbing, has been released on
awalt the result of King's injuries,
—R. W. Henry, a brilliant young
lawyer, shot and killed himself In Hop-
the 22d. He was 30 years old, The
cause of the suicide 13 unknown,
shot and fatally wounded while in her
home in New York, on the evening of
the 23d, by Callie Massese, Jealousy
is assigned as the cause that prompted
she shonting.
— Two men were arrested in
burg on the 23d while attempting to
swindle an old man,
cently been flooding the country with
counterfeit monsy, The men
to reveal their identity, but admitted
{rom Brooklyn and the other from Phil.
aged 18, The father had drawn the
of starting his son in business,
tion of a sidetrack in the Fitchburg
saliroad yard, in Boston. used for
storage purposes, collapsed as a traln
was being shifted upon it, owing to the
giving way of the piling upon which it
rested. Two cars fell into
and are nearly 20 feet uader water at
high tide. Charles Morris, a brake-
man, residing in Troy, New York, who
was on the platform between the cars,
was thrown into the water and
drowned. Dollie Van Horn, aged 16
years, was burned to death at Carding
ton, Uhto, on the 23d, by the explosion
of a gasoline stove,
~A severe storm struck Sandusky,
Jhio, on the afternoon of the 23d. The
wind blew a gale and hail fell in tor-
repte, Crops were badly damaged,
while fruit was stripped from the trees,
The damage in Huron county is esti-
mated at $100,000, A heavy rain anda
hail storm visited Yiywmouth, Wiscon-
sin, on the 22d. *‘The extent of the
hail fall may be judged from the fact
that it covered the ground to the depth
of several inches for hours after the
storm.”’ Fruit and crops were greatly
lamaged. The storm is thought to
have been quite general and to involve
s large area of country.
~George Hildebrand, a farmer, was
topped by three masked men while
iriving through the woods between
Newark and Bloomfield, New Jersey,
on the morning of the 24th, Hilde-
brand fought the highwaymen with his
whip until the approach of two other
wagons frightened them away,
~James Kane, 25 years of age, was
paid on the 2181 for work done in June
su the new Lehigh Valley Railroad
branch, four miles from Wilkesbarre,
Un the afiernoon of the 23d his lifeless
body, covered with marks of violence,
was found on the Central Rallroad
irack, near Penobscot, It is supposed
26 was murdered and robbed,
~A bite from a pet dog caused the
feath of Mrs, John 8. Martin, whose
funeral took place in Chicago on the
24th. From the 10th to midnight of
the 224 Mrs. Martin suffered the horrors
of bydrophobia. She was 28 vears oid,
—In Wilmington, Delaware, on the
th, Theodore W. Deats, a railread
ymploye, got eaught between two cars,
James 8, Wrightiugton, a car builder,
at work near by, ran to Deat’s assist.
ance, and rescued him, but in so doing
ae received injuries which caused his
feath in a short time.
. ==The Comptroller of the Currency
has declared the first dividend of 25 per
sent. in favor of the creditors of the
First National Bank of Auburn, New
RI HR mE
j amounting to $762,454, This bank
| failed January 28, 1888,
his brother and four others leit San
Pedro, California, in an open boat for
a trip around the Catalina Island, On
the 23d the boat was found bottom up,
and it is thought that the whole party
was drowned
— At Morley’s station, twenty miles
from Redding, California, James
Mason, an old stage driver, committed
suicide on the 23d. He bought a fifty-
pound box of giant powder, sat on it
and touched the explosive off with a
match, The Coroner gathered up twenty
pounds of the body in a basket, Wil-
liam Steinbecker, employed in a book-
bindery, committed suicide in Chicago
on the morning of the 24th, by shoot-
ing himself in the head. He had been
turned out of his boarding house after
a spree,
-Benjamin Dutton, a farm hand,
went to the house of John Lamont,
near Dryden, New York, on the even-
ing of the 24th, and shot Mr, Lamont
and Miss Roat, a young woman employ-
ed in the Lamont family, the latter fa-
tally. Dutton then escaped to the woods
and committed suicide. Dutton bad
been paying attention to the Roat girl,
but Lamont considered him unworthy
of her, and upon his advice she re-
jected his suit, Michael Flaherty was
arraigned In Jersey City, New Jersey,
on the 25th, Ie beat his mother in a
brutal manper about ten days ago
and she died on the 25th from the re-
at Quincy, lllinois, on the evening of
the 21st. The skiff was capsized and
Steel's body has been re-
It is now thought that
be was murdered and the boat upset to
Miss
has not yet been recovered,
of the
—in view loss of fruit
but the
insects have
birds,
The
of small fruits will be almost a total
fallure,
- A gunsmith namnéd Rudolph
was arrested in Chlecago, on the 24th,
on the charge of being the person who
i
who intended
ted Donfleld, Seviec acknowledged that
mite, and was placed under $7000 bail,
four
ted by the Grand
acd Chilebonn, he
Anarchists, were |
Jury for conspiracs
-- While John
P’. Anderson
I, at Johus-
“He
Las
or water, and deriving his fresh
from that part of the well below,
him speak,” An old
at Elm
| by the city, as been used for
scene of a fatal disaster on the
25th. Part of the gallery on one side
of the building collapsed
weight of two heavy folding machine,
the Lowell
: ing company of printers, and the
chines broke trough to the ground floor,
Six giris went down with the wreck, but
the
Another one was bruised in one eye,
and the rest escaped injury,
W. Ingersoll, of Pleasantville, New
and Atlantic City Railroad on the 25th
as he was crossing the track, Charles
from a freight train, near Bremen,
Ohio, on the 24th and was killed. Six
of his brothers were killed on raliroads,
Sarah Kelley died on the 25th at Belle.
ville, New Jersey, after having fasted
for 42 days, She was 53 years of age.
When she began to refuse food she
welghed 152 pounds, and at the time of
her death she weighed only 80 pounds,
~John Bolton and Frank Mercuzle
were overcoma by fire-damp In the
Neilson shaft, at Shamokin, Penna,, on
the 25th, and it is not believed that
they could recover,
~(ireat damage was done in Tama
and Grundy counties, Iowa by a hail
and wind storm on the evening of the
224, All the crops were destroyed in a
strip from two to four miles wide and
eighteen In length. Many farm build-
ings were levelled, a school house was
demolished, and many cattle were kill-
ed. A house near Rough Woods, in
Grundy county, was destroyed by
lightning, and two children perished in
it. On the 24th hail fell to a depth of
five inches iu portions of South Riche
ford, East Berkshire and Montgomery,
Vermont. In some places drifts one
foot deep were firmly frozen together,
and on the morning of the 256th hail
still lay to the depth of five inches on
the highway bridge at South Richford.
The growing crops were destroyed in
several places,
~ William Stanhope, a Justice of the
Peace at Syracuse, Nebraska, was as-
saulted by a gang of young roughs
while going home on the evening of the
24th. He was terriby beaten and cut
with rawhides, and may lose the sight
of ous eye, The assault is supposed to
be a consequence of some decisions by
Stanhope, His assailants had white
capes drawn over their faces, but they
are known, snd warrants will be issued
for their arrest,
=A burglar entered the residence of
ex-Secretary of the Interior Delano, at
Mt. Vernon, Ohlo, on the evening of
the 24th. The venerable Secretary, now
in his 80th year, procured a revolver,
confronted the burglar and drove him
from the premises,
~'*White Caps’® visited Carnes
Mills, Crawford county, Indiana, on
out of bed, tied them to trees sand
whipped them unmercifully with
They charged the
women with being unchaste. Their
shrieks were unheeded. The ‘White
Caps’’ then decided to ride to the house
of a reputable citizen, tell him of what
they had done, and order him to spread
the news, as was their custom. Their
consultation was overheard by three
men, who procured guns and lay in am-
bush, When the **White Caps’ ap-
peared the men fired upon them, Three
of the gang were shot, two of them,
John Saunders and Pryer Gregory, it
is thought fatally. Gregory 18 a well-
known country merchant and has a
family of grown children, Saunders is
asaloon keeper,and issald to bea worth-
leas fellow. The eldest woman, it 18 re-
ported, will die from the whipping she
received, District Attorney Fellows
has recommended Governor Hill to
commute the death senteuce of Mrs,
Cignarale to imprisonment for life.
Jacob Lucey was shot and killed by
George Jones, In St, Paul, Minnesota,
on the 27th, They had trouble about
money matters, John Sommers, a sa-
loon keeper in Chicago, was shot and
fatally wounded on the evening of the
25th by John Jones, his nephew, Som-
mers and his wife had a disagreement
and Jones sided with the woman. Rod-
erick sLowry, 8 nephew of Governor
Lowry of Mississippi, on the 23d, in
Jackson, beat and kicked his wife and
broke a pitcher over her head, He left
ber for dead and fled to the swamps,
A party of forty men has been making
an unsuccessful search for him since.
Mrs. Lowry is imuroving.
~The Chicago police on the 20ih
found in Sevic's shop, the gunsmith
arrested on the 25th, for alleged com-
phieity in the plot to kill Judges Gray
and Grinoell and Inspector Bonfield, a
market basket containing ten pounds
What 1s supposed to be
long, was found in a barrel of apples
on a train in Chicago, on the 26th.
The apples had been shipped from New
Albany, Indiana,
—A box car loaded with shelled
on the Union Paelfic Railroad,
Nebraska, on the evening of
and stood on end, Six
stealing a ride, were smoth-
y death.
Valley,
doth,
—Gieorge Howell, assistant cashier
of the Patchogue Bank, in Patchogue,
defauniter to the amount of $3163,
which, bowever, is secured to the bank
by a bond of $5000, which is signed by
of the bank.
package containing $10,000 was
steamer en route from
Portland to Astoria, in Oregon, on the
evening of the 24th. The Pacllic Ex-
press Company has paid the money and
detectives to find out the thief.
Eight freight car thieves, seven of
were arrested In Bur
Five of them
of
bat, Texas, on the 26th.
were caught in the act
from Texas Pacilic cars,
stealing
~The household of Daniel MeCarty,
in Wichita, Kansas, consisting of his
wife, four daughters and adaughter-in-
law, Mrs. Henshaw, were poisoned on
25th from drinking buttermilk. It
that Mr. MeCarty, Mrs.
Henshaw and daughter will die,
It is thought that the milk had Leen
kept in a copper vessel, Near Dento-
the daugh-
thought
one
brothers, Two
the third
brother and the father are not expected
to recover, "ihe mother was at church
thus missed her portion of the
poison.
her father and three
~ While prayer meeting was in pro-
gress in the Meridian Street Methodist
Church, in Indianapolis,
Eugene Zinzis swallowed a dose of
died before he could
the church, It is
steamer Adam
ty, Penna. ,
the evening of the 26th. Miss
Catherine Greenhalgh threw her three
weeks' old baby into the river. She
was arrested, The child's body was
not recovered. The bodies of two
children, a boy and a eirl, were found
floating 1n a creek in East St, Louis on
the 27th. It is thought they were both
murdered. ' Fremont Emmons stabbed
and killed Bertha Schultz, in Pawnee
City, Nebraska, on the evening of the
26th, because she would not marry him.
Deputy Sheriff I.. 8. Elmer shot and
killed Miss Mattie Kerbell, at Wahpe-
ton, Dakota, on the evening of the
256th. No eause 1s known for his act,
He was taken from jail by a mob on
the evening of tha 26.h, and lynched,
In Halifax county, near Meadsville,
Virginia, on the 26th, Bruce Younger,
colored, committed an assult upon
Mrs. Robert Dodge, who was in a de
licate condition. He was arrested, and
on the evening of the 20th, was taken
from jail by a party of men and
hanged to a tree,
~Thomas Reilly, who confessed to
having knocked down and robbed Mr.
Wakely, in New York, was on the
27th sent to the State Prison for 15
years and 7 months. Joseph Welsh, a
young ruffian who had assaulted and
robbed ladies In broad daylight, in
Pittsburg, was sentenced, on the 27th,
to 25 years’ imprisonment at hard labor
in the penitentiary. One of his vie-
lms, Mrs, B, L. Wood, died on the
23d, it is belleved, from the nervous
shock sustained at the time she was as-
saulted and robbed. J. I. Johnson
Howard, a negro, whose reputed
wealth gained for him the title of the
“Black Prince,” and who bas (or many
years past been active in polities in
Brooklyn, New York, was on the
27th sentenced to reven years’ impris-
onment. He was convicted of perjury
in swearing falsely that he owned cer-
tain property in Kings county, when
examined in the Supreme Court as to
his qualification as a bondsman,
~The bodies of Mr, and Mrs. Went-
worth, of Newton, Massachusetts, who
were drowned in the lake at Sunapee,
New Hampshire, two weeks ago, wo
afternoon of the 27th by a
~Just before the
Cdward Btewart, aged 27
the Old Dominion
diver,
years, fireman of
steamer Wyanoke,
stepping from a gang-plank at ish.
mond, Virginia, on the morning of the
27th, Oswin Backs, who was injured
by the explosion at the Adelaide Silk
Mill, in Allentown, Penna,, on the 9th
inst., died on the morning of the 27th.
The 16-year-old-son of ©, L. Pruden,
Assistant Secretary to the President,
was killed on the morning of the 27th
on a farm in Virginia, where he was
spending his vacation. in trying to
climb upon a loaded wagon he fell
under the wheels and was crushed to
death,
~—A steer got fast in the frame work
of an iron bridge near Emaus, Penpa.,
on the 27th, and was struck by the
engine of an ore freight train. Eigh-
teen cars were thrown off the track
and wrecked, The bridge was badly
damaged, and the track torn up for
150 yards, The loss will reach fully
5000, No trains can pass that point
for several days, and passengers will
be transferred there. John Moore, a
carpenter, aged 062 vears, who boarded
with his brother's family, in Detroit,
Michigan, shot and killed his sister-in-
law on the 27th. He had not been
paying for Lis board for elghieen
months past, and when asked by Mrs,
Moore to pay he became enraged and
shot her in the head, She died 20
minutes later, He then shot at Alice, the
16-year-old daughter of Mrs, Iroore,
but missed her, and then shot himself
in tne side, His wound is not serious.
- A despatch from Brighton,
miles east of Buffalo, New York, says
a serious break bas occured in the
Three Mile Level of the Erie Canal.
Several boats were broken in two and
ail the East boats are delayed, The
break was caused by rats, which had
made a large bole near the bed the
canal, through which the wat r found
an exit, Locking was suspended west
of the break and the water was drawn
through the eastern locks, preveuting
the flelds from being overflowed, The
pier of the Times Lumber Company, at
Baltimore, gave way on the morning
of the 27th, under the weight of 2,000,-
000 feet of lgmber piled upon {5
walter around was soon filled
Boating boards and scantlings,
damage is about $1000,
-The engine of the limited express,
coming east, jumped the tracks near
Canton, Ohio, on the morning of the
and upset. Engineer Morgan
and Fireman Butler were slightly hurt.
None of the passengers were injured
Tne damage sustained Ly the Pitis-
burg, Fort Wayne and Chicago Rail-
road Company Is estimated at between
$15,000 and $20,000, While a car cone
taining five men was ascending the plane
at the Montreal Ore Company’s mine,
in Lehigh county, Penna., on the even.
ing of the 20th, a break In the engine
caused the car to fall down the bank.
Daniel Pordenberger and Jolin Nuss
had legs broken, and Owen Griess,
Joseph Wetzel and Samuel Heimback
were also badly injured.
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SENATE,
d Slates Senate on the
25d, a bill for the relief of parties who
paid §2.50 per acre for United States
Government lands which have
been reduced in price to $1.25, was
reported and placed on the calendar,
The conference report on the River
and Harbor bill was agreed to. The
Fisheries trealy was taken up, and Mr,
Dawes spoke in opposition to it. Mr.
Stewart also argued against the ratifie
cation of the treaty. Mr. Wilson, from
the Judiciary Committee, made a re
port in regard to the election in Jack.
sou, Mississippl, A message was pres
sented from the President on the sub.
ject of lhe civil service, and referred.
Adjourned.
In the United States Senate on the
24th, the resolution to print 5000 addi
tional copies of the report of the Sen.
ats Committee on Pensions on thes sub
ject of vetoed pension bills was taken
up, the question being on zn amsand.
ment of Mr, Cockrell to print 100,000
copies of Presidential vetoes in the last
and present Congress. After a discus.
sion, In which the case of Mary Ann
Dobtierty was pretty thoroughly venti
lated by Mr. Cockrell, the resolution
went over, An amendment to the
Sundry Civil bill was reported, to in-
corporate in ita provision for the re-
funding of the direct tax. The Naval
Appropriation bill was considered. Mr,
Hoar offered a resolution, which was
referred, for the appointment of a
committees of seven, to inquire junto
and report npon the relations of basi.
ness and commerce between the United
States and Canada, the effect on the
commerce of the United States of the
Canadian system of railways and
canals, the number and amount of
claims against Great Britain for viola
tion of treaty obligations. Adjourned,
In the U. 8, Senate on the 25th, a
bill was passed appropriating $75,000
for a public building at Statesville,
North Carolina, The House bill for
an appraisers’ warehouse in New York
city was discussed and went over. The
Naval Appropriation bill was passed,
and goes back to the House for concur-
rence in amendments. Senate bill ap.
propriating $75,000 for a public build.
ing at Allentown, Penn, was passed,
After passing all the ivale pension
bills on the calendar, 127 in number, &
feat which was accomplished in fifty
minutes, the Senate adjourned.
In the U. N, Senate on the 20th, the
House bill for the allotment of lands in
severally to the United Peorias aud
Miamis in the Indian Territory was re-
ported and placed on the calendar.
e Army Appropriation bill was
passed, with amendments, The Fish.
eries Trealy was discussed. The Presi
dential vetoes were read and referred,
Adjourned,
In the U, 8, Senate on the 27th, the
Fisheries Sréuty as considered in open
session, afd Mr, Saulsbury spoke in
favor of its ratification. The Sundry
Civil bill was considered, pending
which the Ezaats adjourned.
HOoUsR,
In tho House on the 23d, the Senate
bill to protect the quarantine system of
the United States was passed. District
in the Unite
since
> A
of Columbia bills were considered, A |
the Pacific railroads to contract and |
operate separate telegraph lines was |
agreed to, Adjourned, |
In the House, on the 24th, Senate |
bills were passed appropriating $200,- |
000 for the erection of an appraisers’
warehouse in Chicago, aud prohibiting |
the transmission through the mails in
transparent envelopes of matler which
would be prohibited If printed or!
writtten on the outside of the envelope, |
Senate bili relative to detail of army |
and navy officers to educational insti. |
tutions was considered. The bill to |
forfeit lands in Minnesoto, granted to |
the Hasting and Dakota Railroad Com- |
pany, was reported and passed. The |
Senate bill to extend the laws of the |
United States over **No Man’s Land” |
was reported by Mr, Holman, who |
asked its Immediate consideration, |
Mr. Springer antagonized the measure
with the Oklahoma bill, and the latter
bill was considered in Commitee of |
the Whole. Pending debate the com-
mittee rose and a racess was taken,
The evening sessson was for the con-
sideration of bills reported from the |
Committee on Public Lands, Ad- |
journed, |
In the House on the 25th, a bill was
passed establishing a United States
Land Court for the Territories of Ari.
rons and New Mexico and the State of
Colorado, The House then went into
Committee of the Whole on the Okla-
bowma bill, but, as nobody was prepared
to speak on the bill, the committee rose, |
and a recess was taken, The evening
session was devoted to bills reported |
from the Committee on War Claims.
In the House on the 26th,
resolution was passed providi
porarily, until September 1st,
support of the Army. A bill
vide for the erection of post-office |
buildings In places where gross
i
i
ov tag !
ng Lem-
the
receipts amount to $3000 annually tor |
Lwo successive was considered,
An evening was held for
consideration of bills from the Judiciary
Commitlee,
In the House on the 27th,
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Years
BERKSON the
Mr, Mat- |
son asked that the
ing session as
consideration of general pension legis-
lation, but objection was made, The |
Army Appropriation bill was reparted
back with the Senate amendments and
referred to the Committee of 1
Whole. After passing some priv:
bills, the House {ook a recess unti
evening, when private
were considered, Adlourned.
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ON FACE READING.
be modified so t
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pension bills
The Countenance is Not the Reflex
of the Soa!, but Too Often Only a
Mask.
“Physiognomy
the tmagination
AR prominent stu
the other day,
continued, “I deny Ui
of a man’s face is rea
person's soul, as it 1s
ded be, and as the obje
uage is sald to be the concealment of
thought, so the expression one's |
countenance is bul the mask 10 conceal
one’s inner self,
“There is a
in the days of
nothing there was
usage among men, but that
each other's wanis and wishes
Od a8 Lhe world Was pure nd
urity appeared in the expres-
human face.
men sought to keep |
e evil that was in|
us preventl
becoming the
i8 raliier a vagan
than a science,”
lens
“and, there!
al the expression
¥ an index of
spe
I
“
EeDerally conce-
t Rie
to t of lang-
¥
in thet
n the
3
wh
1 and
from their faces Lb
their hearts, th
tenance {rom
the soul,
“No,” the speaker went on, ‘‘i
have no faith whatever in phsiognomy
a8 a science, for as a science it is fanci-
ful and wild, Take, for instance, the
portraits of men who have become fa-
wous in the world of statesmanship, |
philosophy, science, art or
search and scan their faces for traces |
to mark their fame, and how often you |
will be disappointed. The same is the |
case with men adepts In vice, cunniog |
and crite. Little can be told from the |
external appearance of individuals as to |
their appearance of individuals as to
their peculiar traits and characteristics
by which they ate known to their fel
low men.
“That certain habits of life aflix
their stamp to face or form is, no
doubt, true, but the solution of that
condition is not in the retlex action of
the mind and soul, bul for the reason
that a certain setlof muscles are
brought habitually into play and cause
a special development. 1s the man
necessarily all smiles and laughter that
has wrinkles at the outer corners of the
eyes and vpward curving lines around
his mouth? Yet those are the mechan-
ical lines which would indicate a merry-
hearted man, if the science of physiog-
pomy 18 true. Those lines are only
muscular, simply the result of habit,
and may be dictated by the rankest
hypocrisy.
**Naturally the brutal and ignorant
classes will lave coarser features and
will possess brutal and animal faces,
generally resulting from inberited qual-
ities, and theiefore they will do coarse
and brutal things, It would be an easy
matler to trace a resemblance belween
the faces and the crimes of such peo-
ple, in whom brutality and coarseness
predominate, but where will you find
the lines and ear marks of brutality in
the face of the handsome Wilkes Booth
or the cultured and elegant Eugene
Aram? Look upon the canvasses | ‘ar-
ing the portraits of the beautiful and
aielic flends that ruled the Emperors
of Rome and you will see only patri-
clan faces, but they brought the Em.
pire to destruction,
“Instances of this character might
be given indefinitely, but every one
who has made a careful study of the
subject will agree that the connection
between the expression and the
inner spiritual nature 1s a very dificult
one to trace.
a
Youxo Pogron fo jout)-urhat
prescription night, was a
mistake. It was intended for another
patient. Did you have it filled?
Patient—Yes, doctor.
Doctor Well, how are you feeling this
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QUEEN NATALIE'S TROUBLES,
A Short History of the Servian
Queen's Quarrel With
King Milan.
The marital troubles between King
Milan and his wife, Queen Natalie, and
complications arising therefrom,
threaten to involve several European
unpleasant dispute,
the fact that the Queen
promptly fled to German territory,
Prince Bismarck finds himself already
involved, and there 18 a possibility that
the Czar will be drawn in also, Aus
trina, too, by virtue of her geographical
interests and position, may have to take
a hand in the game, which, it is easy to
see, is merely a bit of political strategy,
having for its object the strengthening
of the various lines, Thus the love
affairs of an unhappily-mated couple
calculated to disturb ultimately the
peace of Europe, the Queen’s notice
that she will resist all efforts to take
her son from her having been followed
by an order tu her household to resist
by force any such action by the German
or Bervian oflicials,
The sadness of the nt
present situation
Lie mar-
riage was affair, King
Milan was only Prince of Ser }
via wl
in the early part of
Fag urely a love
rn,
a
oved the
while on
daught-
ihe
and
“ A
(
Oo a divorcee, and if
ily he
cannot
law of Servia
decrees of only be pronounc-
ed by ecclesiastical authorities. When
a divorce has been petitioned for, the
two contending parties must in the
first place be confronted with one an.
other, in order that an effort may be
made to bring about a reconciliation.
Should these efforts prove fruitless, the
petitioner alleges the grounds of accus-
ation, to which the respondent replies,
Many attempts were made to patch up
a truce between the couple after the
Queen left Servia by her own free will,
but really on compulsion; but the King
bad become gradually estranged from
Russian influence and a year age be
formally became an obedient vassal of
the Austrian Empire. His Russian
wife is devoted to the Czar, to whom,
it is expected, she will make her final
appeal,
Yinvery
oraing
Cause ace
divorce can
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Two Meals a Day.
In spite of what our Elizabethan
forefathers sald and did to the con
trary, and notwithstanding the opin.
tons of some eminent physicians of re-
cent times, evening is the only ra
tional time to dine, There should only
be two really substantial meals a day,
and these should be breakfast and din.
ner. A solid and highly nutritious
meal ought to begin the day’s work, an
equally solid and ually nutritions
meal should end it. hat is taken in
the course of the working hours may
be such as merely to satisfy the urgent
cravings of the appetite, and to main.
tain In a condition of steady movement
the ascencing or descending course of
the nerve energy.
AAI MII A
Concluded Not to Wait,
An obliging lady castomer in a oer
tain store in Philadelphia insisted that
she always traded with the proprietor
CP IOE a ron the cp he
un," sal
“Oh, well" was the « “I'l sit
right down and wait for him.” She
waited, and as the half hours sped she
“When will he be
?" she said, loftily. *‘In about
four weeks, madam,” was the o
“He 1s now on a business trip to Mon.
morning?
Patient—Mpo» ‘better,
tana.’ She traded with the clerks,