—- — CAN IT BE SAVED? NASHVILLE AND ITS CONTENTS. Provisions of James K. Polk's Will to be Carried Out to the Letter--A Reproduction of the White House on a Smaller Scale. Special Nashville (Tenn) Letter.) The old homestead of James K. United States, is at this time, as it has been for some time past, an ob: ject of particular interest, owing to | choice statuary and other articles of | virtu. Rare pictures and hangings | adorn the walls. Bibelots, insignin | of office and rank, relics of public life and of public men, historical memorials, the gifts of patriots and | foreigners, are arranged in their abundance with a harmonious taste that lends to the interior of the old mansion an air of elegance | value not measurable in silver or { gold. All these must be sold, ac- cording to the will of the deceased president, with the real estate, and family is by purchase by the heirs. division of the estate among This property was purchased before was begun during the time of the Polks at Washington and was sufhi- ciently complete for residence before the President’s retirement from of- fice 1847 and 1848. Ths mansion presents two facades with great Corinthian porting verandas. and has approaches from each of the four streets forming the square it crosses, in the very heart of the city of Nashville, Tenn. The main front is to the south and is reached through the principal busi- ness thoroughfare of the city, from which the carriage drive sweeps through the immense iron gates. PRESIDENT JAMES A. POLK. The Vine street approach, howev- «er, has always been the preferred ap- proach of the family and pedestrian wisitors. A graveled walk, bordered with heavy twining shrubbery, lends an attractiveness to int that is the secret of its popul To the family it was the most venient approach to tion of the center of the city, though in later years this feature has been much modified by the spread of the city. This walk also connected with the one leading from the house to the tomb. which has been the Mecea of the great ma- jority of those visiting the place It is dou! if there is a more im- posing family mansion in t south than Polk latter's ! nad the | all planned to make the cl the white Mrs. Polk, and of the nation’ al after w the Polk built. The long | bracing its room, and the entrance arity. con livin g por- house from the tfal 5 Wii in the he lo even 16 exterior design nterior arrangements were fs from a decline ange house less noticeable to the great white house the model mansion was ~shaped hall, em- the reception runn into the ample west parlors, with twenty-foot ceil. ings, gives to the whole a palatial ef fect peculiar to the white house. The dining-rooms, guest chambers, upper fall and even the servants’ quarters are arranged on the. same generous scale. : In the southeast corner of the house, on the upper floor, is the room used by the president as his office during the short time allotted him to live in the new home sfter he sur- rendered the presidential chair March 4, i849. ‘Three months after this «date he was seized with a sudden ill- ness and only lived a few days. He died at the age of fifty-four. The widow continued to live in the great house until herdeath in August, 1891, forty-two years the survivor of her distinguished husband, than whom she was not less brilliant or talented. The great pleasure of her life through these many years of widowhood was to care for this favorite room of her = capil is hie HICH in angle fer ng | 9 MES. SARAM C. POLK. The family tomb, which contained the remains of husband and wife until they were removed to the state capitol grounds, stands on the east side of the grounds to the right the walk alluded to above as the for ted onvenient approac h omb was t r mstry y med Cf Our Coi- tion of the names and 1d death of TY One ne of the eolumn of some length ial from the of the art of Englan Bancroft th An appears m betwee or forty-two vears the remains of taken announcement to death, made the ¢ i by 1 : aro 57 i“ g " Lreorge en er n yinister, on tae Jd 4! hich rests n the columns. the ex-president lay in sacred seclu- , and when Mrs. Polk n compliance with her last wrappes in a ph nding sheet and quietly of sion died her request, were in white silk wi placed beside those Two years late were borne t impressiveness and 1 reinterred in the few hundred yards away. within a give the estate, real and over to pr i and Polk place, years stood as a p tion in Nashville fi st i ] rthe hence, and capitol short the time personal ivate and publi aueti {f OF sO many ablic H, which, has attrac will & i iful me As it and deserted, nument the beau maory. “Avs stands, solemn it In ares MARGE ch have so iry 1 LO $ ustome wed site JH tiful (585 t, touch there has been an sentimen pressed ure of forts to spot t f Ly How long may remair and all the treasures so lected by President Polk ously cared for by widow merchandise to be disposed on the most liberal terms that be secured. save and he grounds intact is ) legal financial nre ¢ nl Onis Of can GEORGE 8S McDowetL. EARTH'S OLDEST REPUBLIC. A Singular Little State, Jealous of its Independence, San Marino has just attracted the attention of the other nations by opening with great ceremony a splendid government palace which it has built for itself. San Marino is the oldest republic in the world. According to the legend, its founders, Marino and Leo, | hailed from Dalmatia. They founded | the republic on the Titan Mountain, which was presented to Marino by St. Felicissima, and Leo became | bishop of the diocese. Though its people are Italian, and | geographically it forms part of] Italy, it is quite independent of tho | Italian Government. Moreover, of | POLY. PACE, NASHVILLE, TEXN, ‘husband, in which he spent so much | time in reading, study and writing, | along the line of his earnest literary | pursuits. The room was held sacred | from curious intrusion for nearly | half a century, and in it to-day are the desk and furnishings as they a of the eminent owner. The his room is shelved from floor to eeiling to accommodate the exten sive collection of books which com- a library complete alike for statesman litterateur, Every nook of the great house, in Italy none has ever attempted to de- | prive the tiny State of its liberty. It | was respected even by the all-con- quering Napoleon, True, in 1797, he offered to supply the republie with | eannon, doubtless with ulterior aims tipon it, but his offer was declined with thanks. The country, though it possesses | he land is di- They pay no They are completely out of the world, They know little, and care less of what goes on in Italy, just below them, and separated from their ter- ritory only by a small bridge, or of the world around them. They live for their family, and the blind forces of angry nature are their only foes. on their territory longer than a week. Finally, they are extremely virtuous, A fow years ago the Monte Carlo Casino Company offered the com- munity an enormous sum if they would allow rouge et noir and rou- ly and {indignantly refused. So averse ure | they to innovations, that until quite { recently there was only one clock in i the whole State. The republic is governed by two { Consuls, called Regents, elected, one { by the patricians and the other by the citizens and country people. The i Council cousists of sixty members, elected for life, and comprising 20 nobles, 20 citizens and 20 agricultur- ists. This Council takes the place of the ancient Arringo, an assembly { composed of the chiefs of every fam- ily. There are also a Council of Twelve, an Governing Congress of nine { citizens, and another Congress for Foreign Affairs (?) { The republic is represented by Con- | suls in most of the chief cities of | Europe. A Body Guard of Dogs, been wit- of a fe- Cour- It was An exciting has nessed in Paris at the arrest male swindler in the Rue onnes, says a correspondent. iat a nicely situated standing in its own grounds, that has been for some time in the occupation of a man and woman who made a busi- ness of striking up an acquaintance with wealthy strangers, and entrap- ping them to the place in order to rob them. The last victim was an American, who had a pocketbook or 0,000 francs ($6, 000) scene des house © containing ' stolen from him. The matter ant enough tion of M (oe Paris deteclive police ho was Hnporis inl atten f the to merit head wen t to itil O robberies. — New Hi arant gdifierens vertiser. Terrible Torture in Morocco. A charge has been Omar's door—that of to the th sing fy rein players Ww ¢ by split. slave forced silence ting up Wy €1 ims with a dagger dr £ of treason he the LEis { GA was afte put shed by having the sh of his with hand sliced, t CLT be. be applied orders, = time the ishment t as case may cannot by Sultan’ { Blackwood's Magazine nn i excent ® Centenary of the Chrysanthemum. The chrysanthemum first bloomed in England in 1795; next year, there- fore, will be the centenary of the tual flower. But it was long neg ed by floriculturists, and its serious cultivation only dafes back about twenty-five years, when John New. ton, gardener to the Honorable So ciety of the Inner Temple, took it in hand. Now the chrysanthemum is all the rage. Yetin all years the efforts of floricuiturists have failed to evolve a satisfactory speci. men with hues approaching red. The variety, "G. W. Childs,’’ named after the late philanthropist, is de- scribed as showing erimson, which is not unpleasing, and was raised in America. ~{ New Orleans Picayune. ac eC these Horse Breeding in France. In the National Haras of France there are twenty-three stallion de- pots, containing 2,678 sires. Of these 195 are thoroughbreds, 87 are Arabs, 207 are Anglo-Arabs (a cross between the two others), 1.800 are hackney and other half-breeds, and 878 are heavy draught stallions. The have been in existence fourteen years, France has been increased there influence from 9.628 to 24,121. Half of the export of land-| New York World. The Fearful Moxa. Moxa is described ns a counter ir ritant, used espocially in cases of gout, rheumatism and nervous dis orders. It has been in use in Japan, where it originated, many centuries, The finer woolly parts of the young leaves of wormwood are applied to the skin in the form of small cones, and are set on fire by means of a mag- pitying Slang. They burn very slow. ly, and leave a blister, which after ward breaks and discharges. The operation is painful, but not severely 80, Among the lower classes its uss is said to be almost wn voras! ~. NAVAL SIGNALS. COURSE OF INSTRUCTION THE TRAINING SCHOOL. — AT Different Systems of Electrical Sig~ Work of the Signal Class. At the training station at port, R. I., where boys are fitted for a seafaring life, a dozen of the most advanced boys are taken apart and put in what is called the signal class, When in this class they are excused from all routine drill, and their time taken up almost entirely with signal drills, There are at present about six sig- nal codes which the apprentices have The and most used ol these is the Myer code, commonly known ie The letters are formed in by wavin the flag ‘oss the body from righ to left ‘othe right represents the number one, the left two, downward in front of the body three. to learn, first as tl Wig-wag this code ir ~ 1 i The alphabs { is made up of com- binations of the ficures 1 and 2 For A B 2112.€C 121 and go on By waving the flug twice to the left the letter A is made. Dropping the flagin frontof the body ‘end of word,” twice ‘end of sentence.’ three ! Lill a instance is is is once signifies : times, ** of message, y wile 8 ¢ IMesLIres ~ hi i national Code lesignated by flags of differ- enrey rad i keyvh . a typewriter, which chart house or : the operator can of the The person signalling hie key the letier A i, white and a red for an instant in would be where ive an unobstructed view surroundings. at r peated gnal the mes is i ai iieh the wns sent ditiey The person senagin sage then makes next letter and goes on with the message, waiting after each word to have the word repeated hat system has been supplied to all of our modern eraisers navies of Great Britain have already adopted this code. There of course, a difference in the alphabets of the different navies, but the principle is the same. Another code which is being tested in the navy is the system of search light signals. These signals are made by finshing the light upon the sky at intervals of five and ten seconds. A five-second flash standing for the figure one and a tenwecond flash for two. The arrangement of the alpha- bet in this code is exactly the same us in the Myer code. The flash light code has never been put to any prac- tical use as vet, but the officers of the new ships are experimenting is ships at sea will be able to communi cate at a distance of thirty the darkest night. The boys who do this signalling on the ships are prepared for it by a long and careful course of study at the training station at Newport. receiving const. ships on the port to the training station, where their instruction begins The boys are divided into compan- fes of eighteen, called gun crews. After an week's drill a crew of the brightest boys is selected, to be known as the signal class. They ave then turned over to a guarter-mas- ter, whose duty it is to instruct them is all branches of signalling. Their first instruction is in the Myer code or Wig-wag. Each one receives a card with the signal letters upon it; this they must study until it is learned by heart. Then two boys will take and, standing at [ win signal toench other, slowly at { first, and gradually increasing theie | speed as they grow acenistomed to j catching the messuces, | At the end of a wees the boys are | Generally 80 expert with the fag that THE JOKER'S BUDGET. JESTS AND YARNS BY FUNNY MEN OF THE PRESS. | it Is possible to wave the flag. {a boy thinks he is capable of eateh- ing any message in this code he re- | ports to the Quartermaster in charge, The Quartermaster will then take tha fing und send a message to the boy. {If the boy receives the IMessSnZe cor- rectly he will be marked ‘‘qualified”’ and passed to a higher class, he is taught the Naval and Here he a book containing pictures of the flags of the differe He th he } il bo COMmMes where tional codes will receive COloex nt studies is int letter in th 1 C0 le Then The apprentice kt of bot ertain containing i and t letter in the He is told t » knows idle ig oO messages, f the flag pole by up to a ariy iif paryy Le answer Messnres hen they | the ton oO of boys stationed an arty will nd and the ' 3 : : . learned this brane) ling the boys’ course i 10 e i are then sent p f ir shies th the train ract ADEPT AT LOCKPICKING. sarcerofa Man Whom No Cell Has Hestrained. visit profess onaliy writing for some account of himself i a reporter h wrote warles Kroekel, eighteen years of Philadelphia,’ and the name and address of a sister residing in this city.—{ Philadelphia Press. by © 7} age merely then A Chinese Love Letter. The ""Ostasiaticher Lloyd,” an au- thority on Chinese matter, in a recent article onthe manner of lovemaking in the flowery kingdom, publishes the following letter from a man who desired the daughter of a neighbor as a wife for his son “On my knees 1 beg you not to despise this cold and common request, but to listen to the words of the matrimonial agent and give your hone. orable daughter to my slave of a son, #0 that the pair, bound by silken greatest joy. In the beautiful spring time I shall offer wedding presents and give a couple of geese. And let us hope for long and continuous fortune and look forward through endless genera May they sing of plenty and have every joy. On my knees I beg of your eyes on these lines,” To this letter the father of the to the portion of his poor and pov. erty-stricken daughter, that she might not be without bedelothes, cotton clothing, hairpins and ears rings. Therefore it was to be hoped that the couple would have constant fortune.”’ A Lightning Liner, There is a miniature vessel in the model room of the United States navy department which has eighteen propellers ranged along its sides and pelled by electricity. The invent. three Among the 400-..Evidence--True to Her Promise--A Deep Man-~~ Both Wicked~~Sizing Them Up, Eto., Ete. AMOXG 4060), Ten Brok (wistfu vou devote some o wealth to charity? Miss Milvun—I about to jected THY don't inNmense ly)—Why { Your erect a4 home my if can find a large striction vile SOY Sk fd awl enough Dic 33 I Up i and ia intend to. for am be #1 Hitors the city, — : neard her suit Then troit Tr SLE! she ibune, = +f ter red “How'd } Bouglit Using IK PORTANT INFORMATION. Pete ding fron o 3 Toad * eqesiTian ia i paperi-—The di between can- i i: i} steed 3 3 vasback and redhead duck is so slight erence 1 taste and quality that even 3 dec ived Itinerant lke—Is that we to be y careful when 10 we take cold vittles from 1 redhead ir fer canvasback —— New experts : 20? Then "11 have were wonle see that they don't palm off duck us York Press On WITH BOOTH. PLAYED that 1 Eng. think r Booth in “You wouldn't i once played with land?’ “Pear me!’ sient old gentlemen, as the wretched mendicant “what did you play?’ “The bass drum, sir,” answered the mendieant meekly ; “but this SBal- vation Army biz is played out fer me. =i Puck. exclaimed the benev- he handed a quarter; 4 AUGORESTING ANOTHER REFORM. Mrs. Thusinsm-I have called, my dear Mrs, Hardfux, in the interest of humanity, to ask you to join with hundreds of our best women in sign ing this pledge not to wear another sealskin garment of any sort. Mrs. Hardfax<<I shall be delighted to sign it. Oh, what lovely stuffed birds those are on your hat! Where did you get them?{Chicago Tribune. HE WASN'T PARTICULAR. “Sir.” remarked the rich father to the suitor, “after the investigations 1 have made into your character | cannot give you my daughter. Em. ma.’ “All right”’ answered the per sistent suitor; “then how about one of the others? = Fliogende Blaetter. REPARTER, Mr. A. Just look at that doit of a man. What a charming wife he has, How true it is that the bigges fools always marry the prettis girls, Mrs, *
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