ACTION OF CONGRESS. SENATOR TURPIE SPEAKS AGAINST THE NICARAGUA CANAL BILL. Field Tin y For Old Soldiers In the House. Congressman Stone's l'lan For Interna tional Coins—Tlio Conferees Agree Upon the fim nig rati on ltill. WASHINGTON, .Tan. 20.—The session of the senate was without incident. Mr. Tur pioof Indiana spoke against the Nicaragua canal bill. The reading of the legislative appropriation bill was completed with the exception of sections making provision for the congressional library, which were pass ed over temporarily in the absence of sen ators interested in the subjc t. The old soldiers had a Hold day in the house. Under a special order tlio whole day was devoted to the consideration of private pension bills. Of the 900 on the calendar, 52 were disposed of during the flvo hours' session. Among those favor ably at tid upon were bills to grant pen sions t) Major General Julius 11. Stahel at the rate of f 100 per month, the widow of Major General Krastus B. Tyler at 175, Hannah 11. Kodgers, the daughter of a Revolutionary soldier, at sl2, and the wid ow of the late General Matthew M. Trum bull of lowa at SIOO per month. Mr. Charles W. Stone of Pennsylvania, for l ho committee on coinage, reported to the house a resolution requesting the pres ident to invite expressions of opinion from other governments as to the desirability and feasibility of the adoption of interna tional coins to bo current in all the coun tries adopting them and to be especially adapted to imoice purposes. Tlie Fait Week In Congress. WASHINGTON, Jan. 14. —1n the senate yesterday most of the time was taken up with a discussion of the Mills resolution for the recognition of Cuban Independence. In executive session tlio senate refused to ratify certain provisions in arbitration treaties between this country and the Orange Free State and the Argentino Re public submitted by Secretary of Stato Ol- In the house the bill to make imitations of butter si.J>jcet to state laws was dis missed without taking final action. A bill was passed to transfer final jurisdic tion of criminal cases (not capital) from the United States supreme court to the cir cuit courts of appeals. WASHINGTON, Jan. 15.—1n the senate the measure known as the froo homestead bill was passed by a vote of 35 to 11. A resolution was adopted calling for an in quiry by the judiciary committee as to sta tus of the Union and Central Pocifio rail road properties. In the houso the Grout bill, the purpose of which is to subject oleomargarine and other imitation dairy products to the laws ot t ho states into which they are transport" etl was passed by a vote of 123 to 93. WASHINGTON, Jan. 10.—Tho senate was I not in session yesterday. In the free home- j stead bill, which came back to tho houso witii senate amendments, was referred to tho committee on public lands. A number of minor bills on the calendar, including several private pensions, were passed. Mr. Spencer of Massachusetts introduced a bill authorizing this government to make a tender to Spain of a sum not exceeding $200,000,000 for the purohuso of the Island of Cuba. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.—in tho United States r.enato Mr. Peflfer presented peti tions in favor of making congress tho final judge of tho constitutionality of its own nets. Mr. Chandler introduced a hill to provide for representation at an interna tional monetary conference. The army up proprlation bill was passed. Tho Nicaragua canal bill was taken up. and Mr. Morgan ■poke in advocacy of its passage. In exec utive session tho nomination of Secretary Francis was confirmed. In the house the American Bar associa tion's bill, amending tho patent law, was passed. Soveral minor bills were also pussel. I'ian Fr New York's Defense. WASHINGTON, .Tan. 20. —An interesting plan for inei easing tho strength of the fortifications in New York harbor is pro- ! posed by Represent*, tivo Fisher of Brook- j lyn. The project is for the reclamation of ! Homer shoals, a shoal of about 33 acres, a ! few miles north of Sandy Hook and 14 ' miles south of Foils Hamilton and Wads worth. Iho shoals are only about six feet under water, aud Mr. Fisher would have ere ted upon them three revolving turrets, each of whirh could bo armed with two heavy pirns. This sort of harbor work has been used I v Franco at several points on her coast and is approvod by military men. ; Mr. Fisher fays that tho turrets could ho inanrcd by fewer men than arc required for tho crew or' a monitor. The guns would command the main ship channel and God neys channel, while the turrets, because of their small size and height, would fur nish a very poor target for vessels. Mr. Fisher will introduce a bill authorizing tho president to appoint a board of three engineer officers of the army to report up on the practicability of the plan and to make estimates of its cost. Immigration Bill Agreed To. W A Fin NO TON, Jan. 20.—'J ho conferees of the two houses on the Immigration bill have reached an agreement. Many of the provisions of both the senate and tho house bills woro retained, but they were modified s-> as to make it a Aery different bill from that which passed either houso. The Lcdgo educational qualification was accepted, lur its application was limited to persons bet woon 13 and 30 years of age. I The Corliss amendment adopted by tho house ai.il rejected by the senate was re stored, but in a very much modified form, j As originally agreed to, tho amendment made it unlawful to employ any alien in tho United States. As changed, the pro hibition is less stringent and is made to npply only to the employment of aliens who habitually come and go—"birds of Francis Confirmed. WASHINGTON, Jan. 19.— Secretary Fran cis' nomination has been confirmed by the senate in executive session. No opposition to confirmation was made, and no vote was taken. Senator Vest, stated that he could add nothing to what ho had already ■aid and that he hod no object in further delaying action upon the nomination. He add "1 that ho had not made objection to confirmation in the beginning on any per sonal ground or because ho entertained any but tlio kindest personal feelings to ward Mr. Frauds, but that he had takon his position in opposition to confirmation pimply as a matter of duty to tho Dem ocratic party, which Mr. Francis, while profesdng to be a member of that party, opposed in the late election. ' Woleott Visits Rothschild. LONDON, Jen. 18. —United States Sena tor K'.Fvurd O. Woleott is the guest of Bar oii Kffthsohlld at his txiuntejp scat, Trhig . j THE SHIP AND THE SONG. . j The ship was launched at midnight. Without a parting cheer; I But, bringing wealth from lands afar. Through seas where calms or tempests are, I While doomed barks miss tho lighthouse star. . i Shb sails for inaay a year. The song was wrought In silence, i Through starless night of pain. I To darkened hornet the words are light, I And faint souls feel the master's : ight; ( While poet on fame's sunlit height May slug a song in vain. —George T. Packard. I MADAM'S FRIEND. "Yea, but when, Dick—when?" anx- I iously inquired Madame Uirardin. i looking up at her friend beseechingly, i as he was preparing to depart. 1 "You must leave that to 111 c," replied i Diek Ilalstou. "You must trust me im plicitly. We will seize the first favor able opportunity, of course. More than that I cannot tell you now. We must conceive some pretext for removing your husband beforehand, until when, my visits to you must he an inviolable secret, or our plotting will revert to our own destruction. Aud now 1 will he going—in ease monsieur turns up unexpectedly." "You will come again tomorrow Dick? Do!" she pleaded. "1 feel so nervous aud apprehensive when you are gone until you return. You will v come, Dick?" j "Wisdom advises 'No,' hut 1 will. Good-bye, Winnie!" J Madame was reclining, looking pale and dejected. She sprang to her feet as her husband entered. "Victor! Is it you, dear! How early you have come home today!" Monsieur looked fixedly at iter while he wove Ills own Interpretation around her remark, then he said: I "Yes; I am earlier than you ex j peeted." j The constraint in ills manner and an inferential something in his voice pricked tier sensibility to danger. "What is the matter?" she inquired. ; "Is anything wrong, Victor?" "Nothing," ho replied, abruptly. "Nothing that I know of." Then he sat down and perused a pa- j per, to give his wife an opportunity to I explain, but she remained silent, with her fears and misgivings and her long ing for tlio morrow aud Dick llalston's protecting presence. Monsieur Girardin was a jeweler, with a shop in the Hue de la Puix aud j a luxurious second floor apartment in the Rue du Faubourg St. Ilonorc, the other side of the Madeline, close by the English embassy and the English church, for Monsieur was a Protestant and his wife an English woman who had brought him a considerable for tune. His business, ever a failure he- [ fore his marriage, took n prosperous turn immediately his wife's money as : fisted him in opening tlio shop in the! Rue de la Paix, aud had flourished ever since. Now, monsieur had glided into the habits of clockwork regularity, leav- 1 ing for business immediately after! breakfast, taking his luneli nt n neigh- 1 boring caff, and returning home at four in the afternoon for a rend, a gos sip. a little shopping or an Idle stroll with his wife along the boulevards he- i fore dinuer. Whatever had prompted hint on that particular day to break through his established routine was quite obliterated from his mind the following day, when lie sought for a pretext to do likewise, and he left Ids shop two hours earlier than was his custom with an excuse that drove the blush of shame to his cheeks, lie was going to play the spy upon tile one wo man he ever luved, aud whom lie had honored aud trusted before ail others.! j As he reached his house In the Rue du Faubourg St. Honore the hlusli of shame was suddenly overwhelmed by a flush of anger when he saw a mau Issue from the house, spring lightly into a waiting cab and drive away at full speed. | It wits inudnme's English friend. One day a messenger knocked at madante's door, handed in a note from Diek Hulston and departed. Madame tore open the message and read the message; then in haste she sat down aud wrote upon a blank telegraph form which she had in readiness for this emergency; | "Meet me tomorrow at Motz. Best j to travel separately. WINNIE." j She directed it to Diek Ilalstou, and walking to the window glanced up and down the street. Satisfied with her Inspection, she descended the stairs to the street door, aud waved her hand to ! attract the attention of a man whom she had observed from the window. The man answered her signal with alacrity. "Will you take tills to the telegraph ; office for me?" she asked. "It is very j important anil urgent." I She gave him some coins, and told him to pocket t lie excess for his trou- \ ble. 'I lieu she returned to her apart ments and begun to pack a small bag with the necessaries for a short Jour j uey. The man, having glanced at the writing, walked briskly down the street, but Instead of entering tho to!-' ! egraph office fie continued ids course | along the Ruo St. Honore, though the Flaoe Vendome into the Rue de la Faix, and turned Into a jeweler's shop. Monsieur Girardin was in his pri vate office alone, and the man present ed him with the telegraph form with-1 out comment. Monsieur recognized his ! wife's handwriting, and his brow j clouded ominously; hut, having rend ! the dispatch, lie directed the man tu send il from the nearest telegraph of flee without delay. He made arrangements to be absent a few days; then he left the store and walked quickly to his bank, where ho drew n substantial sum of money In convenient form, At a Paris terminus modarne, from a corner of one compartment, furtively watched a man enter the other. There was less risk of discovery leaving Pa ris thus than together, and when the train glided out of the station the sweet breath of relief fanned mad nine's face, but it was only transitory. Danger would lurk until the frontier was safely crossed, and the language and the costume changed from French to German. The train crawled into Metz just as darkness settled down in earnest. The station was indifferently illuminated, and as she alighted she visually swept the platform. The smile that she had summoned vanished, and her heart gave a downward throb of bitter dis appointment. Where was he? Nad he changed liis mind and alighted at an Intermediate station? A voice spoke over her shoulder. "Surely your English friend has not l !ayed you false?" Minis .10 turned quickly arid con fronted—lier husband. If either exhibited embarrassment. It was certainly not uiadaine. Monsieur Girardin in the course of the journey from Paris had drawn several mental pictures of this meeting, hut the ac tual differed from them all. She stood before him with eyes filled with love that sober love exhibited at a crisis before the passionate outburst. "I have known Dick Ilalstou frori childhood." she replied, "and lie never broke faith with anybody. But we cannot talk here." She led the way to the stufTy bu: haif-desorted waiting-room. "Where is he, then?" satirically in quired Monsieur. "You made an ap pointment to meet him here." "He is in Paris," she replied. "Then lie turned coward before your departure.'" "How blind you are, Victor! Can not you guess what Diek is going to do in Paris during our absence?" "Solving conundrums is not my forte." "Diek is a London detective. lie is in Paris on professional business. Can not you guess now?" "Again I must say no!" "Victor!" the name broke from her like a cry. "Won't you confide in me? Dick aud I have conspired to save you. I do not believe you are guilty of—of what they would have arrested you for, but for Dick's timely warning and scheming. I know there is some ex planation; that you are not what— what they say. Won't you contide in me? We are safe now, dear. Dick says they will not follow you over the frontier, and—" She stopped. The amazement in his face puzzled her. "\t inuie," he said, "what do you mean. I fail to understand your aliu sions." "I mean—l mean the coining. Oh, you must know! Won't you confide in me now?" "On my honor, Winnie, your words are riddles to me." He spoke emphatically, truly. Then she explained to him liow the Loudon police had suspected that Eng lish counterfeit coins were being lm ported from Paris; how they had gained the co-operation of the French police, who had tracked the coiners to Mon sieur Girardiu's jewelry shop, aud how Diek Hulston had been sent to Paris to superintend their arrest. To all of which Monsieur Girardin lis tened with stupefaction. Then he cm plialienlly denied all knowledge of the affair, and vowed that the Paris de tectives had made egregious asses of themselves. "They are to make a raid on your shop to-morrow," added Winnie. "That is why we lured you here to day, taking advantage of the jealousy you had displayed at Dick's visits and my silence. And Diek felt certain that the man you had employed to watch his comings and goings would take my telegram straight to you." Monsieur Girardin had begun to knit his brows. lie consulted a time table, and returning to mndnnie remarked with a troubled voice that fortunately there was a night express to Paris, and he would be able to reach iiis shop 111 the ltue do la Paix before tin raid was begun. "Some time ago I let an electrically lighted basement room to two men purporting to be small working gold smiths," lie said, " and I suspect thai the coining apparatus will he found there. I was never quite satisfied with my subterranean tenants, but * never suspected until now—" They returned to Paris by the night express, and found Monsieur Girav din's laic suspicions established truths. I'lclc Ilalstou was sincerely apologeFe for his mistake, but Monsieur Girardin would scarcely listen to him. "You and Winnie have certainly made a mistake on a foundation hard ly flattering to me, but I have made a perfect fool of myself. I ask your par don, monsieur." Chewing Gum and Wrinkle., Girls, If you want your faces wrin kled before you reach a hale old age. keep right on chewing gum. It Is impossible that sueli a gro tesque and unnatural exercise of the facial muscles as Is required by I ids champing of the jaws for hours nt n time should not only throw the mouth out of shape, but must sooner or later bring on wrinkles. The first to appear are little flue fin s just below the temples. Then a deep ugly line begins to take up permanent residence about the corner of the mouth, nud next lu the cheeks. The plumpest cheek that ever bore a rose will soon wrinkle under the force of this ugly gum-chewing habit. "This is a great country." "Yes, with a great language. I heard one man say to another that the onp way to make him dry was to soar him."—Cincinnati Enquirer. Two actresses were speaking (lie other (lay of the report of Fay Temple ton's marriage. "I know she is really married," said one, "because some friends of mine In London received a piece of her wedding cake. They say she 'ins settled down into a common place married woman already. She is not going in act any more, and well. Fay has dropped an asbestos curtain over her entire past." Miss Louise Beaudct, the dainty French singer Inserted an advertise ment in the Herald before Christmas Inviting twenty-flvo homeless or friend less women to dine with her on the holiday. She had no trouble In lining her dining room, Kcau FAKCUON. THEATRICAL GOSSIP. WHAT IS MOST TALKET ABC UT ON THE RIALTO. Mr. Itecrhnlim Tree'a Suconis gvongitli -MM. Jack lllnodgood UOCN from >o clety to the Something New in the Dramatic Dine. The latest society woman to adopt the theatrical profession Is Mrs. Jack Bloodgood. whom financial reverses have moved to try her success on the stage. Mrs. Bloodgood is a very pret ty woman, ller tigure is slight and beautiful. Her hair Is blond and her ej*es blue. She dresses well and was at one time rather conspicuous in so ciety. Her maiden name was Steph ens, and she is a granddaughter of the well-known novelist. Mrs. Anna Stephana. Iler mother was a Miss Sutton, and she is a niece of Mrs. Lloyd Aspiuwail and Mrs. Ely God dnrd. A\ hen very- young she eloped with William Ilavemeyer, but the two w ere divorced after a few years. Then she married John Iv. Bloodgood, Jr.. the eldest sou of the late broker of that name. Mrs. Bloodgood has many ad vantages in her favor and it is believed that she will succeed. She is about twenty-seven years old and has some influential friends in tlie theatrical pro fession who would be able to facilitate her progress as an actress. W ; Many stories are told of Kichard Manslleld perhaps the brainiest of Am erican actors. The latest is that on a specially cold uiglit recently he .sum moned an usher and said: "My boy, I want you to go out and order <IOO hot Scotches." The lad looked dazed. "Six hundred hot Scotches!" "its, GOO hot Scotches! Can't ,voi hear? I want the water carriers b distribute them among the audience in stead of ice water. It's a cold night and " "Yes, sir." gasped lhe usher, "but we haven't Rot ten beds." "Ten beds! What the deuce has ten beds got to do with 000 hot Scotches?" "It s the Itaines law, sir," stammered the usher, and then, seeing that the ac tor looked taken back, he added adroit ly: "And then, you know, Mr. Mans field, there are so many temperance people in your audience. We might of fend them—some of tliein, sir." "Ah!" mused Mr. Mansfield. "I hadn't thought of that. Never mind. 1 revoke lhe order." The familiar diamond advertisement has a new variation, furnished by Miss Merrl Osborne, who has been playing at the Casino. Miss Osborne published an advertisement requesting the un known person who had left package for her to call at Casino ami claim the property immediately. The story was that a young man had left a package j with $5,000 worth of diamonds for j Miss Osborne, and that the gift was j sternly declined. Mr. Beerbohm Tree, whose first ven ture in America this season was not a success, is w inning golden opinions by his portrayal of Svengali. Of course his make-up is admirable, and it is all the more striking by the lengtli of his lean figure. His swift, noiseless, cat-like movements, his watchful eyes and ghastly face, the incessant rest lessness of gesture, and (he curiously skillful admixture of fawning and ar- J rogatice in his manner,*constitute an Individuality that impresses itself on the memory. The egotism, meanness, 1 cynical selfishness, and Innate bra- j tnlity of the man, illustrated by his j treatment of Oeoko, are expressed, not only fully but vividly; but in all his vieioitsiiess and degradation, anil here in consists the special excellence of the performance, there is the constant intimation of the artistic sense, the love of music for its own sake as well as for its rewards, which is the crea ture's one redeeming grace. The per sonality is in itself more or loss fantas tic, and it is perhaps on this very ac count that in it Mr. Tree comes nearer to the establishment of a perfect il lusion than ever before in Ids theatri cal work here. Beyond question the impersonation is a remarkable achieve- j menl. not because of any unexpected manifestations of dramatic power, but because of its clearness of conception, fine finish in execution, and admirable consistency. PERFUMED BUTTER. The New Indulgence of the Royal Family and the Rich Set in London. Forftuned butter 011 the dinner table is the fad of royalty and of the very rich in London. The dairies where this butter is made are as odorous as a florist's shop or the laboratory of a perfumer. On all sides there are flow ers and jars of leaves, pressed and loose. At first glance it might be supposed that the butter receives its subtle odor by working it with some sort of es -1 sence. But this is not the case. In the first place the butter is made in small pats like those in ordinary use. Each pat is wrapped in a bit of fine muslin and placed 011 a bed of rove i leaves specially prepared in an earth cm jar. On top another layer of the I'ri shard del cute rose leaves is placed before tbe jar is fi.led with a solid j chunk of ice. Then the Jar is placed I in a refrigerator and allowed to re main there for ten hours, when the pats are ready for the customer, j This is all there is to it, but, simple as the idea is, it has made for its dis eoverer a fortune, and he is now per ! niitted to announce that he is "by | royal appointment" purveyor to Iler Majesty the Queen and the royal fam ily.—New York Journal. BEARS ON THE TRACK. The Trouble They Make on the Kall.oad In Pine Creek Canon. Pine Creek Canon is so narrow and the rocks on either side are so straight and high that in some places the sun cannot shine in the ravine until noon, and in two hours it is gone. The day in Pine Creek Canon is practically but two hours long. At Tiadaghton, in midsummer, they have four hours of sunshine. The canon is fifteen miles long. The railroad track Is constantly under patrol that distance. A veteran among the track walkers of the canon is Pat Callahan. Falling rocks, drunk en lumbermen, and bears, he says, keep him and the rest busy. "And I have more trouble with the bears than the other things," Pat says. "I've come face to face with bears walking along the track many and many a time. They seem to be stuck 011 wandering into the canon from the three adjoining benr-liunting counties, and inspecting the railroad track. None of 'em ever seemed to want to tackle me, but tlioy always give me a good deal of trouble in getting them to leave the rail. I've had to flag trains more than once, and call the train men to help me rid the track of obstructing bears."—New York Sun. Football Player* Saved the Homes. Conductor Stevens of the Moscow run has an even better opinion of foot ball players now than he had before, says the Colfax Gazette. His in creased good opinion was brought about peculiarly. Thanksgiving day 1 lie evening train to Pullman had on 'Onrd Ihe college football team, and when the train was forced to stop by fading three horses fast in a trestle Captain McCroskey came out just as the trainmen were preparing to hitch chains to the horses to pull them out, •expecting, of course, In clearing the track, to kill the horses. But the foot ball hero called for a stay of proceed ings, and called out his chrysanthe mum-locked eleven, showed them the horses, said 4-1144, or something like that; four men took hold of a horse, seven other men took hold of the four, there was a straining of muscles, and one horse was set on on his legs by the side of (lie track, and trotted off unin jured. The other two animals were rescued, and the train went on Its way passengers and trainmen repoiclng. A Twelve-Font Turtle. A startling reminiscence of a time when this country was inhabited chiefly by reptiles has just been un earthed. It is in the shape of a turtle twelve feet long, whose forearms measured twenty feet across when outstretched, and who was generally built in pro portion. There is no creature alive to day as large as this, for a well grown elephant is not more than nine feet high at the shoulder. The skeleton of this monster was found recently near the South Fork of the Cheyenne Itiver, about thirty-five miles southeast of the Black Hills.— New York Journal. Ho Came for tlio Tliiiil Chicken. Harry had Just begun to go to school, and was very proud of what lie had learned. One day he thought he would show Ids father how much he know, and asked him at dinner, "Papa, how many chickens are there on that dish?" "Two, my boy," said papa. "1 thought you knew how to count?" "You're wrong," said Harry, "there are three. That's one, that's two, and two and one make three." "Very well," said his father; "your mother may have one for her dinner, I'll take the other, and you cau have the third." He ami Them AH. Here Is a true story of a certain earl, now living, who is a miser, and hoards bank-notes. Being at ills bank er's one day. he happened to take out his pocket-book, in which was a ten thousai d pound Bank of England note. "Why, my lord." said the astonished banker, "are you aware that there are only two oilier sueli notes in circula tion?" "I ought to be," was the quiet reply, "for I have got them boili framed and glased at home." lie AViu Well Informed. An Irish schoolmaster recently In formed Ids pupils that the feminine gender should be applied to all ships and vessels afloat, except mail steam ers and men-of-war. When Is an actor's eye like a luclfer match?—When it lights upoD a box. j NEWS OF THE WEEK. Thursilay, Jan. 14, | Two of the guests of the Queen's ho tel in Wallaceburg, Ont., Mere burned to death during the construction of that building by fire. Llliuokalani, ex-queen of Hau-aii, has returned to Boston from her trip to Niagara falls, and is living quietly In Brookline. She appears to be greatly I pleased M'ith this country, j The Rev. Dr. John Cuthbert Hal! of : Brooklyn was nominated for president of the Union Theological seminary In ! New York to succeed the Rev. Dr. Thomas S. Hastings, who resigned on | account of ill health. | General Daniel E. Sickles, William E. Rogers and the Rev. Father Ducey i commended the course of the admin istration in relation to Cuba in speech es at the meeting of the Nineteenth [ Cc itury club in New York. Friday, Jan, 18. • | To cause his wife remorse, George H. I Lacey, at Trenton, took laudanum, in haled gas and cut his throat with a razor and is sorry he still lives. Captain Philo W. McGifiln, the hero of the Chinese-Japanese naval battle of the Yalu river, where he command ed the Chinese battleship the Chen Yu en, is Insane in the Postgraduate hos pital In New York. Four federal prisoners made a dar ing and perilous attempt to escape from Ludlow Street Jail, New York, sawing M'indow bars, jumping courts and somehow gaining access to a neighboring tenement house. One of them Mas recaptured there, suspected of being a thief, but the others suc ceeded in getting away. The magnificent gift of J. Pierpont Morgan of $1,000,000 to the Lying In hospital in New York was the source of great gratification to the managers, tvho had been planning for over a year a larger building and Increased sphere of usefulness, which this unex pected donation will enable them to secure many years sooner than was an ticipated. SiiAlril .y, Jan. 10. Uncle Ebby Chichester, M'ho for 40 years had lived as a hermit in a hut overlooking the Great South bay, died in Amityville, N. Y. News was received in this country of the death of Albert S. Willis, the Unit ed States minister to Hawaii. He died at Honolulu on Jan. 8, the cause being pneumonia. It Mas said in Ohio that possibly Gov ernor Bushnell may be elected to the United States senate to fill the vacancy that xvill be caused by Sherman's en tering the cabinet. It Mas said at Washington that Sen ator Quay's opposition would keep Charles Emory Smith out of the cabi net. It was also reported that a port folio had been offered to Representa tive Harmer of Pennsylvania. Thomas C. Piatt received many let ters and telegrams congratulating him on his nomination for United Stales senator from New York. Mr. Choate Eakl he Mas content with the action of the Republican caucus. Monday, Jan. 18. Mario Morello was accused of steal ing $6,000 worth of jewelry from Mrs. Goodwin Boyd in the Jefferson Market police court, Netv York. Albert Meyer, M ho was charged with attempting to burn a tenement on East One Hundred and Thirteenth street, New York, pleaded guilty. A cave lias been found near Redbuil. Ills., in which there is a large stream stocked M'ith eyeless fish. There also is a large lake in the cave. Vincenzo Caputo, a private banker In New York, was arrested on complaint of his cousin, Luigi Caputo, charged M'ith misappropriating money deposit ed M'ith htm. W. S. Moore, the theatrical agent who gave the information that precip itated Captain Chapman's raid upon the Seeley dinner, at Sherry's, in New York, died suddenly of pneumonia. Colonel Andre Hernandez, an insur gent officer, has u-ritten a letter to a friend in this country stating that Ma coo is surely dead and that he aided in burying him, secretly, in a spot safe from the Spaniards. Tui-ailuy, Jan. 10. The Earl of Kimberly was chosen loader of the Liberal party for the house of lords. Seven persons have been killed by as phyxiation in Boston during the last 48 hours. The trial of Edward J. Ivory as an Irish dynamite conspirator began in the Old Bailey in London. The Countess de Castellano, formerly Anna Gould of New York, became the mother of a son at her home in Paris. The bubonic plague, which is ravag ing the city of Bombay, is growing worse daily; 2,592 deaths have been re ported. The Minnesota Savings bank of St. Paul suspended owing to inability to obtain sufficient ready money to meet withdrawals. Two nutional banks failed in ICen tueky—the German of Louisville and the first of Newport—owing, it is al leged, to poor management. Mrs. Delia Hoffman of West Hobo ken, N. J., was murdered in her bed. She had been hacked three times on the skull with an ax. The ax was found lying across her breast. Richard Hoff man, her son, and John Engelbreelit, a boarder, discovered the murder. They have been arested on suspicion, hut deny all knowledge of the murder. Wednesday, Jan. ao. Ex-Sheriff .T. Warren Mend of Cayuga county lias boon appointed by Governor Black of Now York warden of Auburn prison to succeed Warden Stout on Feb. 1. Tlio court of appeals of the stale of New York decided tho Fnycrweuther will case, involving 48,000,000, in favor of tho col leges ignored by tho residuary legatees, and which sued for tho recognition pro vided by the will. A resolution was introduced in the Ne braska legislature directing Senator Thurs ton to vote l'or froe silver. It reminds tho senator of his former attachment to tho silver cause and of his pledge given when lie was elected to obey the instructions of the legislature of his state. Tito Atlas line steamship Alvona, leav ing the port of Now York, was run into by the incoming British Queen and so Injured that sho was run on to the bar, whero site lies, part of Iter dock under wa ter. No persons woro lost or Injured, but doubt is expressed of the saving of tho sunken vessel. A misunderstanding of signals is supposed to have caused the 00l- TO JIXGFJUFS TOP. ■ THE ASCENT WILL BE EASY WHEN [ THE RAILWAY IS DONE. An Engineering Jlnwl Which Will En ( abln Etvßrlo C'arn In Climb tin? FHIUOU. 1 Sniss >1 on ii Ia i n I'l'njili- May KUti AH Ulont 14,000 Feet Above Hie Hen. Thomas Cotnmerford Martin, flit? wi'll-knowii electrical authority, Uur , ins; Lis recent trip abroad, made a spe . clal journey to Switzerland for the i purpose of Inspecting some of the elec | 'Tie railways in the Alps, and lias brought back some hitherto unpub* ■ llelied data concerning the now road to the summit of the Juugfrau. lie J says concerning it: j "The building of the new electric J road to the top of the Juugfrau will lie, 1 think, one of the greatest eugin | coring feats of the century. 1 have j witnessed the beginning of the work, j and have been over most of the route j to lu traversed by tiie electric ears, and I must confess to a feeling of awe j when brought face to face with the diilicultics to be overcome. One gels but a poor idea from tiie published ac counts that have reached this coun- I try. 'Think of cutting through the cen i ter of some of Hie highest mountains j in the world, and constructing a street j car route up tin altitude nearly 14.000 J feet above sea level! This new elee j trie road will revolutionize Alpine j travel. Invalids can lie placed aboard j tin? cars, and in an hour and forty min j utcs be set up ou a mountain peak, which no one but an experienced mountain climber lias attained. Even the Alpine clubs approve of it. In the future we may climb tbe mountain and descend on the ears, or vice versa, or if a climbing party be overtaken by a severe storm the members can find safety anil civilization via the nearest station. Alpine casualties will de crease. 1 ite difference in levels between the terminal stations of the road will be 7,000 feet. Tiie length of the road will lie 11' kilometres, or 7C. miles. The fare l'or the round trip will lie SO. or its equivalent in francs, with the pro portionate reduction for passengers go ing only part of the way. At least 10 kilometres of the road length will be in tunnels, with openings at frequent intervals, front which the tourist may obtain momentary views of the sur rounding scenery. The maximum speed of tin? ears on grades above 15 per cent will be five utiles an liour; on lesser grades it will be slightly in creased. I lie motive power for oprrating the road u ill be obtained from (lie gla ciers themselves. 'The waterfalls and st eams will lip harnessed, and made ic ope: ute litri incs, wiii hin their tun will be transmitted along the length of the road. The ears will lie lighted and licateil by electricity. The last is most necessary, as it is estimated Hint the temperature of the tunnels will range from two to ten degrees centi grade below zero as the summit is ap [iivachcil. The great difference in temperature of the air al the opposite ends of the tunnel, it is believed, will be ample to s" up a circulation of air sufficient for ventilating purposes. In fact, it is feared the currents may he >o strong as to make it necessary to close the portals in order to control them properly and to avoid the en trance of warm, moist air from below, which will cause the deposit of moist ure on the inside of the tunnel, and coat it with hoar frost. "The first section of the road will lis ready for traffic l>y next August. 'The whole line will lie completed in five years. The rack rail type of road will be employed. The track gauge will lie one metre, and a minimum curve of 100 metres will In? adopted. A maxi mum grade of L's per cent will lie t: ami!, ami all down grades Mill lie avoided whenever possible. 'The honv ''Nt down grade (Id per cent) M ill be iMeou the Monchjock and the Jung i raujock. Hut these considerations of engineering detail will not affect the tourist. Even the scientist must bo impressed with the aesthetic side of lite ease. To travel to such au niti tude In a street car; to be conveyed Into tin; clouds by means of the v'erv force which emanates from them, anil to stand Mltli the Alpine world at your leet. Mill give you tin impressive idea of what modern engineers can do." nollv Gi ami l-niitlea. Hetty ftrecti doesn't like to hoar po litics spoken of since her son Eddie failed to carry Texas. Sin. dislikes it as much as sin? deti sis assessments on unprofitable enterprises. Stephen Yan- Tassi l, a Democrat, and Frank M iiuck, a Republican, both know this now. They became embroiled in a heated argument on a train for Mount \ ernon yesterday. Their voices were so loud that they attracted much at tention. Finally Mrs. Green went to iliem and said in a tone that filled Hie "(lent! mm, will you pardon me for saying Hint the elp'tlon is ovt r? There is a time for nil things. I'oliti -s lias had its. Will you not 5,.,p talking poli tics until you reach home? i am not deaf and you make me nervous."— New York Press. A Druwback. A writer in the short-lived New York Taller once said to Whistler: "It must lie dcligidful being an American in London, and always getting the bet ter of people." "But," returned he, with melancholy, "it takes them such a long time to find it out." A Com .u, mis,.. "Tony, mo husbau', bnyn a I-talinn, wanted to give the baby a I-talian name; but oi, nv eourr.se, bnyn Oirsh, wanted tun to have a name with a Mac in it, so we seililcil the inather bui eal lin' urn Macaroni."
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