AMAZON'S OF OA HOMEY. FEMALE WARRIORS WITH WHOM THE FRENCH 60LDIERS MUST FIGHT. They Are Trained to Arma, and Form the Principal Part of Their Monarch'* Aruiy. The Strict Uule* with Which Their LITM Are Surrounded. Here, indeed, is a novel state of affairs. France is at war with Dahomey, and the chivalrous sabreurs and tirailleurs of a nation noted for its politeness and defer ence to woman are to march inland from the west coast of Africa with the inten tion of carrying Aglionie hy storm. Ag borne is the capital of Dahomey, the resi dence of the king, and i 3 defended by an army of 4,000 auiazons. It will become necessary in the ensuing conflict for the French soldier to fight and fight hard, for the foe he is to meet, although be longing to what is known as the weakei sex, has as far as possible been kept from any knowledge of the foibles and frailties of femininity. The amazons of Dahomey have a his tory and a record. Something like a century and a half ago the king of the country fled to his capital after sustain ing defeat by a powerful enemy. His warriors wero slain, bis allies dispersed and the situation seemed utterly desper -10, u AN AMAZON OF THE GUARD, ate. As a last resource the monarch armed 2,000 women and sent them out to do battle with the enemy. The female legion retrieved the fortunes of their king by the display of a valor which the men had not shown, and since the event ful day on which they swept as victors through the dismayed ranks of Daho mey's invaders the amazonsof the house hold guard have been the chief reliance of the potentates who have succeeded King Agaja on the throne. The corps of ainnzons consists of 4,000 women who are sworn to chastity. No female of the country can marry until she has the king's consent, and if, upon view, ho decides that she is better suited for war than for wedlock, her engage ment is annulled, and she is entered on the roll of soldiers. From that on till the day of her death she is more closely guarded from temptation than the fair est bud in the highest social circles of civilization. It is death for her to violate any of the rules to which she is subject ed, and she is more isolated from the vther sex than a nun. The man who dares keep the road when a squad of ainnzons approaches, does so at the peril of his life. The tinkle of the amazon bell warns all males to retreat or dodge down some byway until the warrior women have passed on. Only the fa vored few who are allowed to carry the lion stick of the king dare meet bis ma jesty's body guard face to face. Although the ainnzons can never wed, married women who enter the regiments are allowed to keep up their domestic re lations, but all their female children are auiazons from birth, and the only future before them is (lie celibate life of the sol dier. Although it is a capital crime to ap proach or court a member of this famous body guard of Dahomey's monarch, love is the same the world over and laughs alike at locksmiths or the most dreadful penal ties. Not along ago the king learned that 150 of his amazons had entered into matrimonial relations in violation of the laws and without his consent. All the guilty women wero killed at Agbome, and their husbands shared their fate. On their march inland the French will find themselves much troubled by the lack of water. It is scarcer and gener ally worse than the rum, being half mud. If they catch the king of the country they will secure a man who has a long string of titles. Ho is described as "big ness with no way of lifting;" "a rock the finger nail cannot scratch;" "the lion of lions." In the French chamber of deputies re cently M. Etienne stated the cause of the disagreement between the two na tions. He said that the king of Da homey had refused to recognize the French protectorate over the slave coast, and had invaded that territory, but had been repulsed. He also said that if the king refused to satisfy the demands of Franco it would be necessary to take vigorous measures, not with a view to the conquest of Dahomey, but for pur pose of giving n salutary lesson to the king and people. 0 Chicago's First White Female Chilli. " Hampton, la., is the residence of Mrs. S. A. Holmes, whose claim to distinction is that she was the first white female to be born in Chica f*°' er ler > Benjamin Harris, Ygß. with his family, W **7 TON moved to Chica fljk Li '( *>°' or Fort Dear ie V-- tak ' >orn > as it was M"* J>W<> lhen called, at an early day. Not ~\ y more than half a r*. dozen whites, all y~ T p'P' of whom were MRS. 8. A. HOLMES, f" f had preceded them. Mrs. Holmes was born in the fort Jan. 11, 1832. She was married in 1852, and is the mother of fourteen children, ten of whom are living. MURDERED IN A SWAMP. lb© Terrible Crime for Which lioglnald Uirchcll Is Held to Answer. The murder of Frederick Benwell near Princeton, Ont., is on a par, so far as sur roundings and sensationalism go, with the trunk tragedy of St. Louis, in which Preller lost his life and for which Max ell. AND MKS. BIRCHELL. well was hanged. The man whose neck is in danger this tiuie is Reginald Birch ell, and if the story told at the coroner's inquest is correct, he lured his victim from England to Canada on the pretense of forming a partnership as gentlemen farmers, and then murdered him in cold blood to secure his cash and valuables. The accused person is young in years, of good address and well connected. His wife is the daughter of a well known citizen of London. The spot where Benwell was done to death is an uncanny thicket set in the midst of swamps, and is desolate and fearful in its isolation. The body when found was lying astride a rotten stump. The legs were partly crossed, and the head bent backward against the spine. The right arm and hand had been frozen into an attitude of defiance, while the left hung J limp, and tli e re® *?! W, flesh was blue Uy)l from exposure to ~**i Many rumors r" li ni l h _J— are current rc garding Birchell, Se^- !yW : ' and Benwell, it \ v.fH is feared, is not his only victim. F - 0> BENWELL. The man lias "lived high" at various places in Canada, and has never had any visible means of support. All in all, the case is sensational and of international interest. A QUEER MISSOURI JAIL. How Prisoner* Fare When Incarcerated at Gainesville. At Gainesville, tbe capital of Ozark county, Mo., there is a jail of unique con struction. It is a two story log building eight by ten feet, and twenty feet high. There is neither door nor window to the lower story, and the upper story is reached by a ladder from the ground to a small platform at the heavy door, which is always double locked and barred. OZAKK COUNTY JAIL. There are six grated windows to the upper story, and when the jailer is inside and the ladder drawn up the place is al most as impregnable as a fortress. The top floor is used for detaining ordinary criminals, but desperate characters are placed in the dungeon beneath, the en trance being through a trap door and down n ladder. The place has no light save that furnished by a small kerosene lamp. Food is supplied the inmates in a bucket lowered by a rope into the hole. Eight men are now confined in the dun geon, and, despite its dismalness, the jailer thinks they are lucky to be there, as ''they uns are boss thieves." Monument to Henry W. Grutly. The Grady Monument committee, at a meeting recently held in Atlanta, ac cepted the design offered for their con sideration by Mr. Alexander Doyle, of New York city. The modeling of the side figures, and also of the body of Mr. Grady's statue, will be done in New York. When the time comes to make the head Mr. Doyle will remove his studio to Atlanta, where he can obtain the best suggestions to secure a perfect likeness. THE f RADY MONUMENT. The figures will- be cast in bronze, and either Georgia marble or Georgia granite will be used in constructing the shaft. According to the scale of prices charged by artists of note the work which Mr. Doyle proposes to do would to worth over SOO,OOO. He has consented, how ever, to undertake the task for a less amount, partly because of his friendship for th noted editor whose memory the statue is designed to perpetuate. It will take two years to complete the monu ment. Dike many other birds, magpies live to be very old in a state 06 freedom, but do not reach over 20 or 25 vears in cap tivity. WASHINGTON'S INSANE ASYLUM. A IlanilMoitio Structure Tlmt Will Accom modate .'IOO Patients. The stato of Washington lias now near ly ready for occupancy a new insane asylum at Medical Lake. The failure of the lirst contractors delayed the work on tho building for a time, but the project was carried to successful completion early in the present year by another firm. The asylum stands about a quar ter of a mile from the west bank of the lake. On the opposite side of that sheet of water is the town. The hospital grounds are sightly, and comprise 100 acres of land, forty of which are suitable for growing vegetables, and fruit can be produced on a much larger area. There is also a quarry of gray granite, and brick clay exists in abundance, so tho slate will have several sources of revenue from the property. pittite THE ASYLUM AT MEDICAL LAKE. The asylum, as it now stands, is a structure 41(5 feet long, and of an aver age width of 48 feet. It is of brick, with granite trimmings, and rests on a granite foundation. The bricks were made and the granite quarried on the ground. The main building is 74x48 on the ground, and four stories high. There is one ward on either side, each being 171x48, and three stories in height. The granite founda tion walls are 24 inches thick, and the brick walls 17 inches thick. The roof is of metallic shingles. There are 260 rooms, and accommodations for 300 pa tients. There are three reservoirs for use in case of fire, above the roof, hold ing 80,000 gallons of water. Completely furnished, the asylum will represent an outlay to the state of §200,000. Tin* Coming; COIINUK. The count of people in the United States will be made for a certain day in midsummer, probably iate in June, and experts are already giving somo ingeni ous estimates of (lie result. They vary from 64,000,000 to 08,000,000. One part of the latter estimate is of great interest. It is as follows: Since 1880 the number of immigrants in any one year has only twice fallen below 400,000, and that but a trifle, while it lias risen as high as 788,992 in 1882. The registered immi gration for the ten years is certainly above 5,000,000. Avid the unregistered from Canada and e.sewhere, and the total cannot fall below 5,500,000, of whom at least 3,000,000 wi re between the ages of 10 and 40. Of so many at the marrying ages (for a child of lu in 1831 is now aged 19) there must have been at least 1,000,000 mar riages, averaging five years duration each; and previous censuses show that of such newly formed families of for eigners the average is two children each living at the end of five years. Add, therefore, 2,000,000 for the native child ren of newly arrived foreigners. Total, 7,500,000 added by foreigners alone. De ducting their deaths—and the great mass of them come in the prime of life and health— thetotal would still remain above .6,000,000. 11, is a -umed that the increase of the 50,000,000 and odd of 1880 has been at least 22 percent., while some put it as high as 23 per cent. Thus they make the total 67,000,000 or 68,000,000. It will bo interesting to see bow the facts decide. Pinna for :> New Executive iHausiou. Mrs. Harrison lias prepared a design for a new executive mansion in the shape of additions to the present structure. She desires to inaugurate a movement which will relieve her successors from the inconveniences which she has en countered in trying to make the presi- oSifT | | MllS. HARRISON'S PLAN, dent's family comfortable. She has bad several conferences with senators and representatives regarding the inadequate accommodations of the executive man sion for the dual purposes of offices and residence, and has received assurance of co-operation in lier plans. The theory of Mrs. Harrison's design is the preserva tion of the original building intact, the addition on the east and west respective ly of counterparts of the original struct ure in general architectural style, their connection with the main edifice by a colonnade range, and the extension on the south of a wide conservatory or win ter garden, with a central rotunda or palm house, the entire series of struct ures forming the four sides of an inner park. To carry out Mrs. Harrison's ideas will cost §700,000. Another chapter is added to the ro mance and tragedy of tho sea by the tale brought to port by the captain of the Anchor line steamer Caledonia. He found the derelict bark Progress drifting about the Atlantic. The only living things aboard were a pig and a mad dog. Both were killed, the vessel was set on lire, and by tho light of lier blaz ing timbers the Caledonia steamed on through the fog toward New York city. A Vendean gentleman attired in tho picturesque garb of his province, and j armed with a ticket of admission, was j recently barred from the French cliam- j ber of deputies because of his quaint 1 dress. The matter has been mado the! Bubject of legislative inquiry, and the i friends of the Vendean are highly indig- 1 Rant. TO TREAT HYDROPHOBIA. A I'upll of PaMteur Founds an Institute In New York City. Dr. Paul Gibier, a long time pupil and associate of Pasteur, has founded an in stitute in New York city where the vic tims of rabies can be treated pn tho same principles same virus as in f Pasteur's own laboratory. M. Gibier lias dark eyes, coal black liair and beard, KwKSI* If-V and teeth of un usual purity and \f whiteness. Ho is - i a short, dark ' complexioned DK- p AUL GIBIER. man, witli a head not unlike that of Pasteur himself, but be is much younger, being probably not over 30 years of age. Regarding bis methods the doctor re cently said: "When a patient comes here, after being bitten by a rabid animal, I wait two days after the day of tho bite, and then, if the case is an ordinary one and has no specially severe features, I inocu late liiin fifteen times during fifteen successive days. In the event of the wounds being sore, I inoculate eighteen days with stronger virus. I always begin with the weaker virus." Executions In France. Executions in France are still sur rounded with lugubrious mystery. The condemned do not know when they are to die, and almost any morning after conviction may be rudely awakened at daybreak and conducted to the guillo tine. This was the case recently with two lads who were under sentence for murder at Paris. They went to sleep one night, confident of a commutation of sentence. At dawn they were told to prepare for the end, and ten minutes later their heads dropped in the execu tioner's basket. The French are nothing if not sensational, even in the manner of punishing criminals. The Dcutli of tlie C himpanzee, Kiltie. The death of Kittie, the last of the chimpanzees in Central park, New York, probably decides the question of securing these interesting and intelligent animals for exhibition. They cannot stand the climate, and it seems almost like murder to export them from their native wilds. They inhabit a limited area of the Congo country, and can only be secured alive when infants, and then by the slaughter of the parents. The "babies'' are nursed by African women until old enough to eat, and then sold to traders. But exile means death, and they are a costly and unprofitable investment. A Jlnjlc City of the West. Sherman is a city built in a night. It lies opposite the town of Chamberlain, which is situated on tho east bank of the Missouri river, directly across from the Sioux reservation. News of the issuance A TOWN TVELVE HOURS OLD. of the president's proclamation opening the reservation to settlement reached Chamberlain at 4 p. m. one day recently. The lxiomers crossed the river at once and went to work. They selected a town site directly north of the Lower Brule agency. All night laborers kept at work, and in the morning what had been a level tract of prairie the previous afternoon was covered with buildings. Tho fol lowing day wagons were engaged haul ing in goods, and in a short time the magic city had become a busy mart of trade. A municipal government was organized and the hamlet received the name of Sherman. Tho illustration shows the appearance of the place on the morning of the first day following the peaceful invasion. A Now ISririge Across tlio Hudson. Tho historic Hudson is to be spanned by a new bridge. It is to be located a short distance north of Peekskill, N. Y., and in crossing the river will extend from Anthony's Nose, on the east bank, to the site of old Fort Clinton, on the west bank. Both places are high prom ontories of solid rock. The distance be- THE HIGHLAND BRIDGE, tween the piers at the water's edge is 1,620 feet, which will be crossed by a single span in length 25 feet greater than that of the Brooklyn bridge. The struc ture will stand 163 feet above high water mark. This bridge is intended to be used chiefly for railway traffic, and the chief item of transportation will bo coal for New England consumers. It will be completed in about two years. Despite the fact that his first air ship went to wreck, no one knows where, and that with it disappeared Professor Hogan, tho Michigan aeronaut, Inventor P. C. Campbell lias constructed a new vessel for navigating the air in which he has so much confidence that lie will make the trial trip himself. It is to be inflated with natural gas and will leave the earth at Niagara Falls. Where it will come down is problematical. WARRANTING FIREARMS. Au Interesting Sufi Showing the ltespon nihility of a Dealer in Itltiea. A sportsman has recovered £I,OOO damages from a firm in London for breach of warranty as to a rifle purchased by the plaintiff. The case was settled in court, after the plaintiff's case had been opened and a certain amount of evidence called, by the defendants submitting toa verdict of £I,OOO and costs. The result of this compromise was that certain in teresting issues and legal points in the case were not threshed out. What those points were will be seen from a sketch of the cause of action. The plaintiff is Mr. F. Hallo well Care w, a gentleman on the sunny side of thirty, and possessed of considerable private means. He lias gone in freely for sport since attaining his majority; he has fig ured in the pigskin between the flags, and in 1888 he bethought himself of that reputed sportsman's Eden, Southeast Africa, and its resources of big game. The defendants are Rowland Ward & Co., the naturalists and taxidermists of Piccadilly. Mr. Carew, prior to starting on his African trip, visited Messrs. Ward's establishment and took some les sons in skinning animals. In the course of conversation with Mr. Ward he mentioned that he contemplat ed obtaining his rifles from Holland's, the well known gunmakers, and one of the Ward firm thereupon volunteered to him that they could supply him with the weapons which he would need, of equal quality to those which he could obtain at Holland's, but at half the price. Mr. Carew accordingly consented to deal with them, and ordered from them the rifles which they suggested for his own use, together with the five-and-twenty Sniders for the use of his African native staff; he also bought his ammunition from the defendants. The rifles were delivered to him, the invoice being made out in the name of the defendants. He then took the rifles down to Nunhead to test them as to sighting, and on that occasion, and not previously, according to his evidence, the name of some third party as the manu facturer of them was mentioned to him by some one speaking on behalf of de fendants. The trial with the rifles satis fied him; he fired from the one which was the cause of action about ten trial shots. lie did not personally inform himself as to the charge which he used in the trials; but it seems that he used ammunition supplied by the defendants, and similar to that which he was taking from them for his use in Africa. In due time Mr. Carew sailed for Zan zibar, and started up country, spending about £I,OOO on his trip. Before long one of these rifles burst in his hands, causing him most serious injury, maim ing liim and disfiguring him more or less for life. His left hand is perma nently crippled; powder has burned into the skin of his face, and his hearing has been impaired by the explosion. His trip was, of course, spoiled by the catas trophe, and the outlay upon it was wasted. It appears that ho had fired the rifle which had burst some dozen times after ho reached Africa. On the occasion of the accident it was loaded with a cartridgo supplied by defendants. An expert examination of the burst rifle disclosed the cause of its weakness. The hole for the extractor pin had been in the lirst instance bored into the wall of the barrel. 1 The workman had then plugged the hole with steel wire and had rebored the hole. The effect of this boring had been to make the barrel defective in strength, leaving only one-sixty-fourth of an inch of metal where there should have been one-eighth. The explosion was due to this defective workmanship, according to the expert evidence of Mr. S. B. All port, the celebrated gunmaker, who is also chairman of the Birmingham proof board. —London Field. The Telephone in Germany. The telephone service is admirable, as is testified by the public appreciation, there being over 10.000 instruments in use in Berlin. There are no private tele phone companies in Germany, the tele phone, like the telegraph, being a branch of the postal service. The price for tele phone service is low, the annual charge for an instrument being 120 marks, or something less than §BO. The long dis tance service between the principal cities of the empire is being rapidly introduced. A telegram received for a person who has a telephone is at once delivered orally from the central office, and the written message then forwarded by the local post. Likewise a telegram is transmitted by the sender to the telegraph office by tele phone. The telephones in use are manu factured by Siemens & Halske, the great electricians, and arc said to be a great im provement upon the Bell patent, upon which they are based.—Cor. Mexican Financier. A Term It for Smoking. Nowadays Germany might well be called "the smokers' home." Every Ger man has his pipe and can smoke when ever he will, and within certain limits wherever he will. There are no restric tions against the use of tobacco, and one's desires in that direction are only circumscribed in particular places —such as churches, lecture rooms, opera houses, etc. But at one time in certain parts of Germany a man dare not walk on the street or highway with a pipe in his mouth without special permission so to do, for which permission he paid a year ly stipend.—Buffalo Commercial. Tliti Importance of Occupation. There is nothing that adds more to the zest of life than an interesting occupa tion; even if it means hard work, there is a recompense in the enjoyment of well earned rest. No work ought, however, to be overpowering or so exhaustive that one's energies fall below their aspira tions. 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