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i -THE MAD MANIA FOR SPECULATION
NOW RIFE IN ENGLAND.
Padulous Fertunrs Wade In a Day— Divi.
Sends Ramge From 23 to 150 Per Cent.
All Former Records %roken — Stump
Must Come Yoon.
One of the most remark.
ments of this generation, v hic vovives
reminiscences of the far. stn wea
ta 2
mov
DON
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AN ATHLETIC MISSIONARY.
Famous at Football,
C. 0. Gill, who, with his wife, has
just left this country to do missionary
work in China, is a prominent figure in
the annals of football. Not only was he
captain of the Yale team in 1859, his
year of gradoation, buat, furthermore,
he was and still is regarded by experts
"in the game as the ideal player in the
position of tackle, Like Gowan and
Cumnock
George of Princeton fame,
€. 0. Gill, Who Has Just Gone to China,
THE MANIA FOR GOLD
HERE’S YOUR CHANCE To GET RICHES
AND ADVENTURE.
The Golifields of Cspe Horn Gold In
Plenty and Danger Rife—You May Make |
Your Fortane, but
Instead — A fitirring
For some time past reports have been
roming across the ocean of a mad mania |
id Be Killed |
took time, and it was nod until the end Ww F :
of the following antsxctié winter that he DAY OF A UL PERIL i
got his plant in operstion. He was thvm ! ~~
able to pasa an average of 50 cubic yards |
of sand through his slaioes per day.
From this he clexned wp in the course |
of the first year after the discovery 14 | Body of ©
pounds (weight avoirdupois) of pure St _©'jovnseluus
gold, 7
As another indication of the richness
of this territory, I can say that we took
on a government official who had beim
as the station two leagues back comeid-
erably lees than a year, but ho hud
THRILLING ADVENTURE OF BALLOON- |
ISTS CLOSES LOWELL CELEBRATION. i
Auronset Hera on
Swaying Perch by Fellow Passengers.
Many rs of Hasardous Adventure.
Overcome Escaping Gas.
The bal trip of ‘ ‘merchants’ week’
| at. Lowell, Mass., will always be re:
|. membered by the three men who made
fald be:
foans cannot understand it. 1canvot ses.
and Perry Trafford of Harvard, Slay-
back of Wesleyan and other aotable foot-
ball men, Gill held that a man who
played football for all there was in the
game had no time for roughing his op-
ponents, and he was known as one of
the fairest as well as one of the hardest
players of his time. ;
Yale men still tell of Gill's first and
last slogging match in the gridiron
bubble, has been the wild and foverich
speculation in African mining shares
‘which has kept London in a whirl fer
the last 12 months and is still in fall
forca. Americans returning fron. Eng-
Jand tell the most romantic tales of for:
tunes being made in those stocks
During his visit to London Hon
Howard Douglass bad occasion to meet
geveral brokers and financiers and be
eame quite well versed upon the subject.
“There bes never been any time ith
- the history of Ameries, with the possi- |
ble exception of the gold excitement in
the Gould-Fisk days, that can comparp
with the fever in’ London today. Amer
place on the Yale team, and his rival
for the place was a friend of his. So de-
termined was the other man to get the
coveted . place that in practice games
when lined up againit Gill he would
employ all kinds of rough tactics. Gill
bore it all patiently util one day the
| rival tackle elbowed across his face, al-
i most breaking hisnose. Quick as a flash
‘how they can escape a treinendouns crash
field. It was when he was trying for a
for speculation that has overtaken the | 1... 04 up enongh gold to satisfy hina.
British nation. The dispatches tell of for- | He was going home to Buenos Ayres rica,
tunes made by lucky investers in South | He had worked diggings outside the
African gold mining shares; of poor | Paramo claim, using common sluive
men literally waking up to find them- boxes. :
selves rich and consequently Jatons; | ‘But of all spots in the Cape Horn re-
how a former circus employee, one | give, Sloggets bay, on the south coast of
Barney Barnato, has so shrewdly in- | Tierra del Fuego, about 40 miles west
vested that he is a modern Midas, a! of the strait of Le Maire, is the most
new Monte Cristo, ‘‘rich beyond the tantalizing. More expeditions have been
dreams of avarice.’’*
Many a youth has felt the blood rush | gett bay than to any two gold diggings
through his veins at these Aladdinlike besides. Almost every expedition has
stories with a desire not to go to Lon- | gotten gold, and ye: never did an expe-
don and become a mere gambler, but to | dition there pay the outfitters. Indeed
try his fortunes in the land ‘whence | more lives have been lost trying foe
comes this wealth—is South Africa, Sloggett bay gold than at any two points
and the wonderful Kaffirland. | besides. And that is saying a great deal.
: Very hkely the placer gold found in
Now in the very midst of these tales
an American, ‘‘who speaks whereof he | all the streams of Tierra del Fuego
fitted out in Punta Arenas to go to Slog- |
the ascension, Professor James K. Allen
of Providence, Dennis A. Sullivan and
Dr. Willian L. Rombongh of Lowell.
They are safe at home, but ten min-
utes after leaving the common they
“never expert -d to see their homes again.
' When two miles in the air and over
Chelmsford street in Lowell, Professor
Allen, who had gix carrier pigeons, sug-
gested that one of the birds be let loose.
One of the men reached towurd Pro-
+ fessor ‘Allen to take the bird when he
discovered that the professor was lifeless
apparently in his perch. at
' The excited men in the basket only
had time to grab Professor Allen's legs:
. a8 they dangled on one side of his perch
| in season to save him from
!
r fr = . .
~ STORIES OF THE RAY,
Eat, Drink and I M + F
ron
“I want to t~l yon svoutar’ of
honses that ¥ pu. ove: vy,” aa’ be
West Side man. ~~ The: ize foar iild-
ings, and they ¢ a | Y
“The first one, beginning at the east,
is a restaurant where you get a meal for
20 cents and can always know what
they are cooking for you before they
bring it in. :
- “The second is a saloon, with the
ovraal free lunch signs outside and the
bottles in the window. The third isa
kind of eoncert hall adjunct to the sa-
ao omorrow.
Fu
oomsagy
{ Joon. In the evening there is music in
the place and they have a few variety
(performers that they ring in oon a little
‘stage to entertain the erowd. :
‘The fourth place is an undertaking
establishment with a casket iu the win-
dow. An undertuker’s place doesn’t often
happen to be right next to a noisy con-
cert hall, aud the contrast between the
two establishments fist airracted nvy at-
tention and made me mieroeted in the
“It seemed to me, thongh, the often-
er I passed along the street that there
was something f{ayuiliar about the row
of places. It reminded ns of something,
but I couidn’t Link what it was, vuti)
: when this extraordinary craze will be- going head-
"come 8 matter of histery and tho vie-
+ tims will be numbered by the thousands.
one day it came to me like a flash. I
was standing across the stréet from the
four places, and all at cwee that old
knows,’ comes forward with a book in | (stream gold as distinguished from that - long through space.
which he tells of goldfields in South | in the beach) and that in the strearas A minute or two before, in answer to
America far richer than Australia or | emptying into the strait of Magelln an inquiry, ‘Professor Allen informed
| Gill hit him, and for a few seconds the
| sound of blows cracked like whip
| strokes, for both men were fine boxers.
“From what I could learn—and 1 met
~~ several gentlemen who are very heavy
dealers in that stock—fabaloys fortunes
are being made right now. Think of $5
shares being eagerly sought for at $200,
and of & mob of investors and specu:
___letors grasping at almost any price for
1 * 4he shares of companies of which only
"the bames are announced, without even
8 of the assets, business or
: : Notwithstanding the fact that
is is well known that the mines, rivers
«and sections giving gold and diamonds
fn Africa have been worked for years
and years, the populace willingly be-
lieves the wild stories told of new
discovered in savage lends, and
‘Without hesitation purchases the stock
". In the new mines.
a
° dividends ran from 25 to 150 per cent.
In addition to those mines (hat are
kpown to be heavy dividend pavers,
‘there are 132 other companies, the shares
of which are listed; but which are nat
: imeoluded among the dividend pavers.
"There is a valuation at present of over
_. §1,000,000,000, covering only a portion
of the Kaffir shares, so that you can
- geadily see the wonderful iuterest that
the investors in England are showing in
this field.
. “Ia the output of gold in that tern!
tory sufficient to keep np the Africun
gold mine fever?’’
© “lg 1890 the output amounted to
. from 85,000 to 48,000 ounces per
month. In 1894 the output rose fron
149,814 to 182,108 ounces. Thus far,
im 1895, the yield has been
578 ounces. The output shows no
of decrease. The exhibit for the
month of August of 208,573 ounces,
i ) reckoning gold at $20 an ounce, was an
ct of $4,071,460 to the gold stock
. of the world, and reckoning one dollar
_ in gold ms the equivalent of four dollars
“fn credits shows an addition of over:
. $16,000,000 of available credits as the
. remult of one month's operation. in
African flelde.
“When it is realised that the gold
output in 1893 was 1,210,868 ounces;
im 1898, 1,478,478 ounces; in 1894,
8,094,159 ourices, and thus far in 1895,
1,616,578 ounces, the effect upon the
value not only of securities, butrof com-
modities and of the world’s trade, can
be appreciated. ''—Cincinnati Enquirer.
+ The Right Pig by the Ear.
sagacity sometimes dis-
“In 1894, as I was told there, the
1,316,-
addition in August alone from this one |
the
_osity and should be scen to be appreciated. |
i
Then the other man went down with a
badly sprained ankle. With an excla-
mation of regret (Fill picked him up in
. his arms and carried him off the field
| The injured man gave up his attempt
| to gain the place, and Gill was put on
| the team. It is said that from that time
| on Gill never struck a blow on the field.
His enormous strength war sufficient to
deter his opponents oh other teams from
| taking any liberties with him. As he
| appears in ministerial garb now he
. looks a scholar rather than an athlete,
| and his appearance gives no evidence of
his great physical power..— New York
Sun.
LEACH THEN AND NOW.
How He Abused Onay ns a Corrnptioniss
nod Bingster an Few Yeurs Ago.
Frank I.onch who resigned his
position last wir. as real estate deputy
sheriff in Philadelphia with a great floun
ish of trumpets and widespread advertise
ment of his fealty to Colonel Qaay at a
“est of $6,000 per year, was not so loyal to
Mr. Quay fourteen yeass ago. Mr. Leach
ars
senator Quay was the power in politics
then, and nothing that Mr. Leach could
gay or write agaivit him waa too hitter,
In the Hastiags Leacqueriers in Yhidadol
phia there is. an address dated Philadel
phia, Sept. 17, 1831, and signed ‘by Frank
Willing Loach. The circular calls on the
young Republicans of Philadelphia to
“arise and smite the ringsters,”’ who at
this time were led by Quay. * Mr. Leach
refers to then as ‘infamously corrupt
leaders,” as “‘hosses’” and deserving of
“annihilation.” He goes on to describe
them as ‘these leaders who have grown
gray in the service of self,” and he calls
for ‘the overthrow of the bosses within
the party lines." ; i
This was Mr. Leach, the reformer, in
1881. Today we have this self same re
former publishing broadcast bis allegt-
ande and undying fedity to those same
“infamously corrupt leaders” of fourteen
years ago. :
Mr. Leach’ circular is a political curi-
Why the Demeoc:ata Are for Quay.
Republicans all over the state wiil do
wel! to note the fact shat leading Demo
against the state administration.
natural.
aid of the Democrats for the defant of the
Republican majority, and for this service
sides this cause for gratitude the Deme-
cratic editors no doubt have a lively ex-
pectation of benefits to come from Mr.
Quay's efforts. Looking back they see
shat his management has recently given
- | Republican Pennsylvania two Democratie
sdministrations, and for them the lamp
of experience is bright enough to guide
| them into any path where Mr. Quay leads
the way. —Wellsboro Agitator.
he President's Brother-in-law Speaks.
N. B. Bacon of Toledo, a brother-in-
law of President Cleveland, was inter-
viewed in regard to Mr. Cleveland's
| feelings on the third term question. Mr.
Baoon said:
“1 am satisfied that he would much
his | prefer to devote his time at the expira-
as they do or
2 be stood ina
arms are scarcely as
d as one’s .two fingers, and
would hardly equal in diam-
nail. Notwithstanding
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sms strong and hearty. —Cincinnati
Ia ome block in Monmouth, Ills., ro-
side seven widows, each of whom owns
her bome. Cut this ont and send it tc
‘some deserving man who has not yet |
ms te it
wand a mate. —Chicago Tribune.
& Not Hustling st AIL :
At the present time Calvin S. Brice
is ramming eight railroads and a cam-
paign. Yet he is not particularly busy.
~Chicago Times-Herald.
sion of his present term to his law prao-
“In plain words, then, he is not a
‘candidate?’ a
_ **That is my understanding of the sit-
uation exactly,’’ replied Mr. Bacon.
When asked whom he thought the
| president would favor in case he was
not himself a candidate, Mr. Baton
. anid: ‘‘He ison very friendly terms with
. Mr. Whitney, and their official and
| sonal relations have been closely alli
: § may say in the same connection that
bis relations with Mr. Carlis® are also
| very close. Whethet he has any prefer-
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dme diminutiveness, the child | ence between the two I canmot say. For!
that matter, there may be others whom !
he would loek m with equal faver,
00 1 do not think be would undertake
o fashion the sentiment of the party to-
1 ward any man individually.’’'—Speocial
to New York Herald.
| Come nearer, my dear one, and list while I tell
(Wateh out for that cartman, the knave!)
Of the heart full of passionate love that wells
(Geewhitaker! What a close shave!)
Since I met you last week on the Boulevard
I've felt
(Keep your eye on that horse
mors!) :
That life without you were = desclate waste—
(Has the mud gone all over your bloomers?)
| I thought when I saw you, “Ab, bere is ny
; and his hu-
fate, : :
| (Hurry up! Make a dive round that truck!)
| And gladly resigned myself to it, dear love—
i -(Confound that big wheel! Just my luck!)
‘ Bay oné word, just one word! Let me look in
your eyes i
(A eable car! Quick! To the right!)
And there will I read what your lips will not
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oo By—
(Oh, the myriads of stars! What a sight!)
—Wheel. ..
that tiine was a reformer and & bitter |
opponent of Senator Quay and his friends. |
cratic journals are among the inost zeal- |
ous promoters of Mr. Quay's campaign |
This is |
A few weeks ago Mr. Quay led |
his personal henchmen in the house tothe |
the Democrats ows him much. But be
California in their palmiest days. It |
comes like a sort of Monroe doctrine for |
home use, to tell ns to invest our mon-
ey and strength on our own side of the |
Atlantic.
It is not indeed a
afraid of work, hardships and of rough
adventures galore, but for a strong, star- |.
dy, adventurous youth it is surely El}
Dorado. But let the author tell his own |
story. The gqnotations are from the ad-
vance sheets of ‘‘The Gold Diggings of |
Cape Horn,'' by John R. Spears.
| If some of the readers of this book
have an unrestrainable longing for wild |
| adventure, with the possibility of sud-
| denly acquiring riches throw: in as an
| incentive to endurance, let them pack
| its outfits and hasten away to the
| region lyinl between Cape Horn and
tho strait of Magellan to dig for gold.
| Neither Australia nor California in’
' its roughest days afforded -the dan-
' gers, nor did either make the showings’
, of gold—real placer gold for the poor’
manto dig—that have been and are =till,
to be foand in Tierra del Foego and the |
adjoining islands. Nor is the gold in|
“all cases too fine to be saved by ordi- |
pary rade slnices, for ‘‘nuggets as big
i as kern ideal gnid of!
the plic T miuner—have been fonnd by
the handfn}, and may still be bad in’
ong well known locality if the miner is
willing and to endnre the hard-
; hips and escape the dangers incident |
to the search. : :
| Bat becaunsé of the hardships and dan- |
| gers it is a veritable tantalus land. !
~ There are many more skeletons of dead |
| miners than anthentic records of wealth |
' acquired in Tierra del Fuego, while]
those who have now and again struck |
| it rich and gotten clean off with the |
! dust usually have gone no farther with 1
| it than Punta Arenas in the strait of |
| Magellan, for Panta Arenas is to this |
! region what San Francisco was to Cali-
fornia and Virginia City to the deserts
| of Nevada. = :
“The story of the Cape Horn gold dig- |
| gings is especially remarkable in this, |
| that the geld there should have remain- |
' ed undiscovered during the centuries |
‘that passed after the first navigators
landed in the region.
In the year 1876 a small schooner en-
gaged in the seal fishery, and command- |
ed bya noted Argentine sailor, Don |
' Gregorio Ibanez, was stranded near
' Cape Virgin, the extreme southeast cor-
ner of Patagonia. The crew, without
exception, had the good fortune to es-
cape to the land with some provisions
and other valuables, including a shovel
The shovel niay seem to be a novel tool
for shipwrecked seamen to carry through
the surf, but Don Gregorio knew what
he was doing. : :
X is a desert region very
much certain parts of the United
States. One may travel hundreds of
place for any man |
bos
3 Ig
£ corn’'—the
able
water, and yet with a shovel water
a-plenty may be had by him who knows
where to dig. Don Gregorio, having
landed his provisions, put a man at
work digging in the sand not very far
from the surf in search of water. Wheth-
er he found water or not tradition does
not tell The story tellers all forget
about the water as they relate how,
when the digger had gotten down about
three fpet, he began to throw out a lay-
er of black sand such as no one of the
crew had seen before—a black sand that
was dotted all over with little and big
dull yellow particles. That was such an
odd Jeoking sand that Don Gregorio and |
the digger and. all hauds had to take a |
proper look at it. Ard when they bad |
taken this look, they almost went crazy
‘with excitemen®, becanse those yellow!
particles were pure gold.
‘My first view of a Caps Horn mine
camp was obtained on the east coast of |
Tierra del Fuego. I had passage on an |
Argentime naval transport that was
bound on a voyage with supplies for the |
officials and troops at various stations |
which the Argentine government has |
established in recent years throughout
the region. To promote the development
of its territories the government carries
prospectors and their outfits at very
moderate charges, considering the kind |
of navigation. Accordingly this trans-
port had on board four men and about |
three tons of provisions and other sup- |
plies to be landed at El Paramo, the first |
mine camp established on the east coast |
of Tierra del Fuego.
Of the richness of the diggings in the |
early days it may be said that the mine |
was discovered in September, 1886, by |
one Popper. - Popper had to return to |
Buenos Ayres and organize a company |
| to work the deposit as well as perfect |
his title to the claims according to Ar- |
gentine law and then ship a steam |
pumping plant with sloices and material
for the camp to the locality. This all
| eircumstances, but when one must face extremely hazardous.
miles withous seeing a. drop of sweet | Bpain
| The most popular and the most detested,
i
comes from veins yet:tobe found ap in the one of the men that they were theu two
mountains where the streams ries. Very | miles in the air. The men expected
likely systematic search wonld discover | when they left the north common they
the veins. -But the search would bave to | would suffer from the oold somewhat
be made under ¢ircometances that would . when they reached a beight lower than
make the fair weather prospectors of they weve when they discovered that
| Colorado and the grb stake eaters of the! the professor was ineensible, but to
Mojave desert gasp. The mountains of |
the Cape Horn region are snow topped | npon the earth.
the year round. - The cold is not soin-| They had occasion to remember it, as
‘tense as the early travelers would make | their exertions for the next hour in keep-
one believe, but there is a strength and | ing the professor in his perch made them
a twist to the pales—aspecially a twist wish they were on earth again, and also
—that is beyond description. And the! that they were not so thickly clothed.
gales come every day in summer and |. The men shouted to Professor Allen
‘every week in winter. Expeditions heave ' repeatedly, in the hope of arousing him
traversed Tierra del Fuego with horses, from his stupor. It was a hopeless ef-
but the cheapest and the most comfort- | fort, and the men for a time thought
able way, in spite of tha danger, to pris- Professor Allen might die without being
pect the region is from a well found able to render him any assistance. They
sat. Moreover, every lind exnediton held him ja place for the purpose of
must contain ensich men to keen oy a | eventually restoring him to couscious-
military guard, because of the hostility | ness and to get also the benefit of his
of the Indians, wine two weil armed | weight in keeping the balloon from go-
sober men can defend a well found boat] ing higher in the air. :
from the savages, and if skil.ful and cool| Strange to relate, the only man in the
can usually escape *he dap zer of storioe. | vicinity who appears to have noticed
But neither from boats nor from a | from the earth was Professor Walcott,
land expedition has any ene ae yet been | an seronaut, who was on a train from
able to explore the higher pr ris of the | Boston, wire ho saw the balloon.
morntaio sides Ji teed whore pothing! Mr. Sullivan and Dr. Rombongh con- |
aire provenis it tno Gopicns lavuriwaee | tinued sheir eifurts to resbove Professor
of the evergreen benches od magnclial Allen. Each could. use but one hand,
brush heads off the hardy prospector. It' and the swinging of the professor's
is hard work climb ng up rocky guléhes: body, together with their uncertain foot-
and declivities under the most favorable ' ing in the basket, made their position
their surprise the air was as mild as
fierce gales of wind and at the same| It was gas from the balloon, it is
time hew his way through a solid mass | thought, which partially suffocated Pro-
‘of brush covening the whole space to be fessor Allen. Itcame upon him gradual-
explored, the task becomes too great! ly, and thereport is that a nearly empty
even for a Yankee prospector. It never, stomach made Professor Allen an easy.
has been accomplished,.and. possibly it victim to the vapor. :
never will be accomplished ; but, as they! In his desire to make an ascension on
say very often down there, who Jmows?' time and to please the people of Lowell,
The region seems but a narrow space who have repeatedly engaged him for
one looks s&t the maps, but it's a. ascensions, he had but little appetite at
wide one, with labyrinthian chanrels the breakfast hour. The balloon in the
and hidden bays, the ports of nany a’ meantime with its freight first passed
as
| missing sloop and catboat of which pev- | over Andover and when over Hagett's
er a trace will be found to tell the tale’ pond the nen, who were watching every
| of Cisaster. It is a region whére no man ' opportunity to save their lives, were
with a wife or other person depending somewhat alarmed lest the balloon
on Lim should enter, but for the yonng might drop into the water.
and independent fallow; who cun gain! This would have made it hard work
vigor and courage in facing the riad | for obo of the men, as the other man
freaks of an antarctic gale, there is no who wae conscions conld not swim. The
place better than that beyond the strait wind changed the course of the balloon,
of Mageilan. He may not get rich—the and it passed over Bedford and toward
chances are that he'll be glad to work Lexington at a lively pace. It is not
his way north in the stoke hole of some known by the men what made the bal-
steamer—but he will have had an ex- loon descend.. They believe that Pro-
perience that will make him contexted fessor Allen in his struggles in the air
to live thereafter in the milder region may have touched the valve which al-
of Uncle Sam's domain and will, more- | lowed the gas to escape. They noticed
over, fit him to make his way there bet- the descent only when the trees and
ter than he could Lave been prepared in people came agnia in plain sight.
any other way. ‘When they saw people on she earth,
a ; 8 pa : they yelled and only wished
An Authority Talks on Cupid. | langs would give ; :
One of President Cleveland's cabinet bring the many strong
ministers was recently talki about | :
‘‘They tell us that al Spain | Boys in the fields first sa
wants is to be let alone in Cuba,’’ m‘d They called the attention
the minister, *‘that home rule will' ents to theballoon. Girls in North Lex-
come there through the processes of avo- | ington said whea the balloon
lution, and that revolution is not neces- | with its cecupants that they easily
sary. Bus I do not believe it. When : lowed its course for two miles. Aes it
anything good comes out of Spain by | descended Professor Allen began to re-
“evolution I will think the millennium | gain consciousness, but not enough to
near at hand. The Spsamiard never lenrns | be of any assistance to his companions.
anything. True, ho does pot forget much He muttered incoherently, but the only
either, and the resalt is that he is presty | intelligible words understood by his
much the same individual that he was comipanicns were not to throw out any
‘when Columbus discovered America. | ballast. ns
Cuba will have home rule when she! As the balloon approached the last
acquires it with tha sword and not' apple tfee before reaching an open field
before. ’’ — Washington Cor. Chirag] Dr. Rombough leaped to the earth.
Times-Herald. | With the assistance of men of Lexing-
” me— o———— | ton the rope was passed twice about the
Paradox Personified. trank of the apple tree.
Was there ever such a life of contrasts | Men and women piled rocks into the
as that of the late William Mahe?
' Dr. Rombough leaping to the earth.
an aristocrat by birth and a plebeian in | The weight of. the balloon caused the
his career, now on the top wave of pop- | rope to cut off the branches of the tree.
ularity, and now dsep in the under- The balloon went up in the air about
tow, onee the richest man in Virginia | 100 feet, and the strain upon the rope
and finally a bankrupt. He personified was terrible. It held, however. The peo-
a paradox. —Bostcn Herald. | ple on the earth were greatly alarmed
re ' by the struggle which was going on in
: This Is an Outrage, the basket. : :
A Chicago police court has just fined| Professor Allen reccvered conscioug-
as man $10 for sleeping in charch. Here's! naes, and getting into the basket caught
a chance for municipal revenue beyond My. Sullivan by the neck. It was a ter-
the dreams of avarice. —New Ycrk Jour- | rible sight to witness. Professor Allen's
nal. | cravat had been torn off by his compan-
| ions to aid respiration, and he had the
H the managing editors should be in- appearanco of being momentarily insane.
duced to follow the example of Govarn- | The struggle lasted but a moment, 4
or Culberson, prize fighting would in- | Professor Allen again became uncon-
dued be & Jost art. Washington Stay, | 0i00e. The Inakist wae qraws to the
: ee , earth. Mr. Sullivan landed, and Profess-
: | or Allen, with the assistance of people
who assembled, was removed from the
. buskeg, : 22
| It required some effort to restore him
te consciousness. He was told of the in-
cidents of theremmarkable trip. After se-
curing his balloon Professor Aller was
taken to the house of a Lexington resi-
". dent.— Boston Globe. :
The Heart of the Matter.
A Song. =
Into the green where ferns grow tall
An oriole, like a throb of fire,
Swept as my heart in its love's dear thrall
Bore to your soul its wild desire.
Oh, thou of pensive and calmer mind,
Bast thou no dead, dry. twigs whereon,
11 he light tnd bum, some kindling wini
Turns all to lame in love's red dawn?’
—Eugerne Field in Chicago Record,
! basket to make up the weigh lost by
quotation came into my head, ‘Eat,
drink and be merry, for tomorrow ye
die.’ : ;
““ “That’s it,’ I said to myself. ‘That's
what those place always reminded me
of. Eat in the restaurant, drink in the
saloon, be merry in the concert hall, for
tomorrow ye die and the undertakor
will be called in.’
“*Those four places told the
story. '’—Chicago Record.
whole
“The Ocean Hell” :
After making a tonr of all ‘the prin-
cipal ports in Australia the old convict
ship Success haw wrived in the Thames
and will from this time forward be on
view to the public. Sha is moored in
the East India dock, a conpls of min-
utes’ walk fiom stallion.
The Success was ona of a thet of five
vessels purchased by the Victorian gov-
‘ernment and converted info floating
prisons, which wera moored off Wil:
liamstown at the time of the gold rash
in 1851. ;
‘Bailt thronghont of teak, she is of
530 tons burden and 135 feet in length,
and it may safely be said that an in-
spection «f her arringsments for the re-
cepiion of prisoners will be a revelation
to yon visitors of the exient to which
“man’s inhumanity to man’ eonid be
carried evem ii « wipara ively fecont
tinea. A visit i : ae
thralling in Inte est as it is deeply sad-
démning, and after seeing the jong and
ghastly array of instruments contrived
by man for the degradation and torture
of his less fortunate brother one can
quite realize the appropriaténess of its
one time nickname, ‘The Ocean Hell.”
To give completeness to the show a
number of charactéristic wax figures
have been introduced where necessary,
including an authentic one of Iaspector
General John Price, the rigor of whose
irresponsible rule and subssquent mur-
der by the convicts led to the introdue-
tion of a better system of prison disci-
pline. Among ctiver curiosities oa Loard
are a group representing the crime jost
mentioned, wax connrerfeits of notori-
cus bushrangers, including the Kelly
gang, and the armor and helmet worn
by one of them. —Pall Mail Gazette.
Ti) You 3
AAR ad
' General Mahone and the Riscutt.
“1 remember,’ said a former surgson
in the Confederate army, * Uenerak Ma-
hone as he appeared before Petersbarg
in 1864 and 1865. Le was aircady fa-
mous throughout the army for his fight-
ing qualities, for his peppery temper
and for his many eccentricities. iit
_*My duty as surgeon tock me fre-
pest his headquarters, and ove.
morning I saw Mahone pacing solemnly
up and down in front of his tent, while.
& negro man sat in the doorway gorging
himself with fresh baked biscuit. I tarm-
od to an offiosr, who was looking on at
some ttle distance, and asked the mean-
ing of the strange performance at Ma-
's tant. Then came the explanation
that the megro had baked a pan of soor
heavy biscuits for hreakfast, and
by way of an object lesson, had
sas the cook down to eat all of his own
negro ate away as fast as
and Mahone kept up his patrol
performance was characteristic of
the ecomntrie But determined little man
| who hit upon this strange method of
punishment. ”’—New York Sun.
Signe In the Desert.
San Diego county, Cal, is following
the lead given by Yuma conury in plac.
ing water guideposts along the doce
trails and roads, showing the diration
and distance to the nearest watez. The o
poats are of iron =et in the ground, with
sheet iron guide boards. The remains
of no less than 176 perscns who have
yards away. Water is abundant, but to
a lone traveler in a desert waste not so
easily found. Other counties will foilow
in this good work and many lives be
saved. by thie plan, which is commended
by all. —Roeky Mountain News.
Croguet on Ricyrcles. :
Francis Wilson, the comedian, who
resides at New Rochelle, N. Y., has
created a new amusement for bieyelists,
It is croquet on a big scale, and 1t was
played recently on Mr. Wilson's lawn
by himself, his daughters and several
guests. Instead of wickets posts placed
50 feet apart are nsed. The plaver must
strike the eroquet ball while rid
The game consumed two hours.
Frances. Wilson succeeded in
the ball to goal. All the players
pert bicyclists. —New York.