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This century's dawn Is dark for the j
law breakers who gull the public with
their fake fights.
An endowed theatre for the produc- |
tiou of old dramatic masterpieces is
talk( (I of in London.
The State of Oregon has issued war j
rants for over SIOO,OOO within a year
past for bounties for predatory wild r
animals killed within its limits. The ;
bounty is paid on scalps of coyotes,
wildcats, mountain lions, panthers, j
cougars, gray wolves and timber i
wolves.
According to a New Haven paper if j
half the trolley roads proposed for \
Connecticut should be built, "pasture I
laml would go up with a bound." I
There is so much pasture land in the j
State that if it should all go up with a ;
bound it would make the biggest earth- j
quake on record.
A ward of the sultan was hazed at
a Philadelphia medical college, and
says lie is disgraced in his own eyes j
Jand in the eyes of his countrymen, be- i
cause they cut off his mustache. It is ;
strange that a Turk should think so
much of cutting off a mustache and so '
little of cutting off somebody's head. !
But, of course, the head always be- j
longed, to the other man.
After careful and patient investiga- 1
tlon, the Historical Committee of the I
Society of California Pioneers has :
learned that January 24, 1848, was the j
exact date of the discovery of gold in
California by James W. Marshall. The j
gold was first found in the rocky bed
of the tallrace of the Sutter sawmill at '
Coloma, on the south fork of the j
American River. Marshall himself ,
made three or four differing state- |
ments of the date. The committee was 1
unanimous in its decision.
. The Board of Education of Chicago |
has approved plans for parental school j
buildings to be located ou the fifty- |
acre tract of land owned by the city j
near Bowmauvllle, Ton acres will be I
given to play grounds and thirty to
gardening and light farming. The ex- j
periment has been successfully tried ,
in Massachusetts and other States, and I
it is believed that such a school, work
ing in connection with the juvenile
court, will save to good citizenship
eighty per cent, of the hoys and girls
who have been sent in previous years '
to some sort of penal institution.
The New York Sun rules that we
may continue to call the frock coat :i
Prince Albert if we choose to do -so,
for the good and sufficient reason that
this garment was not named after Al
bert Edward, but after his father,
Prince Albert, who died forty years
ago. When Lord Raglan died the gar
ment named after him retained bis
name. So also of the Cardigan, the
Havelock, the Spencer and the Talma.
There are still Wellington boots and
Blucher boots. The curious thing
about the Prince Albert coat is that
the term is never used in England. It
is simply n frock coat over there.
Here is a heartrending tale. A year
ago a demoiselle in Paris won first
prize in a much heralded beauty con
test. A dressmaker, scenting adver
tisement, paid the lady thirty thousand
francs a year to wear his costumes ex
clusively. A rival dressmaker with
envy in his heart offered her another
salary on condition that she should cir
culate the statement that, while she
wore the gowns of the first, it was
only for the sake o" the salary, and
down deep in her soul she preferred
the gowns of the second. She suc
cumb to tlie temptation and now there
is a lawsuit on and she bids fair to
get neither payment. This is a hard
world!
France has 14 submarine boats built
or completing, and eight more project
ed.
MufcA. A.liiftAftAAA.A*AA.*A j...
J THE EVOLUTION OF A "STEADY." J
M
BEGINNING OF AN AFFAIR OF SENTIHENT.
2 ►
BY H. ,1. O-ll IOCINS.
A March wind rattled the skeleton
branches of the trees in New York's
Central Park, and an April sun bright
ened the unshaded lawns beneath them,
so that the air was at once warm and
cold. A couple walking down the mall
remarked this phenomenon. He lik
ened the weather to a mixed drink,
and she encouraged him with a pretty
show of teeth.
"Blowin' itself," he said of the wind
that tugged at her Sunday skirt, toss
ing the feathers in her hat and blow
ing wisps of her disordered hair about
her face.
She put them back with: "It'll blow
me to bits."
"Come an' see the circus," he sug
gested, meaning the menagerie. "The
monkey house —we'll be In out of the
wind there."
"All right," she agreed. "They're
cunnin', ain't they?—the monkeys."
"Sure," he nodded. "Are yeh cold?"
looking at her with more admiration
than solicitude. It was plain that he
spoke only as an excuse for that lo6lt.
"Cold?" she laughed. "Are you?
Put on yer coat, w'y don't yeh? Aw,
do."
The coat hung on his arm. He pro
tested that he was not cold; he had
only thought that she might be so.
"Aw, put it on," she urged.
Now, no man of any spirit will put
on his overcoat in such a case. That
would be to acknowledge either that he
had not sense enough to know when lie
was cold, or wisdom enough to put on
the coat, knowing it.
"Say," he said, "w'at's the use of me
puttin' on the coat w en 1 don't want
It?"
"Yeh might put it on w'en I ask yeh,"
she pouted.
"Aw, say," he appealed to her.
"Well," she defended herself, "yeh
never do w'at I ask yeh."
The defense was iatne, inasmuch as
they had met only three times as yet,
and she had never a3lced him to do
anything for her before. However, he
saw that this affair promised trouble,
and "Gee!" ho said, "I ain't goin' teh
scrap about it," thrusting an arm into
a sleeve of his coat.
She turned to him, all smiles. "Yeh
needn't put it on, if yeh don't want
it," she said.
"Sure, I don't want it," he said. "I
tol' yeh that."
She took the coat from him, and
folded it over his arm. "Silly," she
laughed, squeezing his hand.
He grinned at once. "All right, all
right," he said. "As long's you're
happy."
She took his arm with an air of own
ership, and they turned down the path
toward the menagerie. On ordinary
days she was a factory girl and he a
bricklayer, but this was a spring Sun
day afternoon, and they were a pair
for the poets. Several hundred other
couples on the crowded walk were in
the same happy condition, but planets
revolving in common space could not
be at further cry from one another.
Each pair was the centre of its own
solar system, with the other worlds
circling about in outer darkness.
Therefore, these two went arm in
arm with Coney Island frankness, as
if they were the sole inhabitants of a
new Garden of Eden. They were just
on the pleasant verge of an intimacy
which each, unknown to the other,
very much desired. Ho turned greedily
to her, and she to him, to hear the
lightest word. They impeded the mid
stream of promenaders while he turned
up the collar of her jacket. When he
guided her around a corner, helped her
up a step, or passed her through the
crowd before him he reached a protect
ive arm about her waist and let it re
main long after these slight excuses
for its presence there had passed. He
wore his hat jauntily on one side of
his head, and ho tried to be witty be
yond telling.
"We'll getta peanutty fer de monk,"
he said, swinging her around to a ven
dor of nuts and candies. "How mucha?
Fiva centa? Sure," and paid out the
coin like a man of money. He put the
bag of peanuts in the coat pocket that
was nearest her, and invited her to
help herself—which she did. Neces
sarily, his hand met hers sometimes in
the pocket, and held it there until the
difficulties of making a passage
through the crowd parted them again.
He chaffed her delicately because she
ate so many nuts. "Here." he said,
"yeh'll make yerself sielc. You ain't
the monkey I got them fer."
She smiled gayly, winking a happy
eye at him as she broke a shell be
tween her small white teeth. It is cer
tain that he looked longingly at the
Ups that parted to show those teeth.
"Are yeh tryin' tch make a monkey
of me?" she asked.
This overwhelmingly witty retort,
coming -o unexpectedly, jolted him
into a loud laugh. He choked and
coughed. She giggled. They stood for
a moment, helnless with laughter, and
even after they had sobered sufficient
ly to walk trrret" ■ i* again, he replied
to her inward convulsions with deep
chuckles of the throat.
He was proud of her. Ordinarily,
the lady in these affairs does nothing
but giggle and again giggle, giggling In
sipid admiration of the camel who sets
a "heavy footed wit capering for her
amusement. Here was a girl who
smiled and answered hack. He thought
upon it deeply, chuckling over it and
saying nothing. She understood that
he approved of lie.' retort and she could
not help but try the point of it in mem
ory again and giggle.
She put her hand in his pocket and
he trapped it, smiling down on her
with a new feeling of sympathy. She
answered his look with its fellow,
pleased with the compliment of his
laughter.
They went down the walk so, to the
tiger's cage, where a crowd had gath
ered to watch the small boys in the
front row who were teasing the big
brute with sticks and nutshells. The
couple elbowed away into the press
of people and were crushed together in
it. He had an excuse for putting an
arm around her.
"There's Tammany fer yeh," he said
of the tiger. "Hello. Dick."
"He'll get out." she was afraid.
"Not on yer life," he reassured her.
The tiger beat the floor of the cage
with its tail, opened its pink jaws and
yawned a melancholy roar. She pre
tended to he mightily frightened,
caught at his free hand and was imme
diately wrapped more tightly in his
protecting arm.
"Say," lie chuckled, "yeh're not
scared, are yeh?"
"Well, w'y don't they leave the poor
thing alone?" she said. "It might
break those little bars."
He made no answer, having his arms
and mind full of other things. She felt
quiet, too, and they stood gazing,
speechlessly contented, at nothing at
all. The boys poked sticks between
the bars, and the tiger roared dismal
ly; but these two did not heed it. They
were in a stupid daze of happiness, the
usual condition of Central Park lovers,
who will sit, so, on a bench for hours
together without speaking. A police
man finally stirred on the stagnant
stream of sightseers again with his
"Keep movin', there; keep movin',
now," and they were elbowed out of
their stupor.
"He keeps movin'," he said, resent
fully.
She busied herself with a peanut,
doubtful whether she had not given
him too much encouragement, whether
he had not been simply amusing him
self with her.
They drifted down to the cage where
the eagles and the buzzards were shut
up together. There had been trouble
among the birds, and they were sulk
ing in all corners of the cage.
"ook as if they'd been three years
married," she said.
He regarded her doubtfully. He
would have liked to reply to her sar
casm, but marriage was an awful sub
ject to discuss in such circumstances.
He held his breath at thought of it.
and fell back on the peanuts. She not
ed his silence.
When they came to the ostriches he
said "Rubber neck," and they both
laughed .as heartily as if the ostriches
had not heard that came remark from
every wit who had passed that day.
"Gee," he said of the rhinoceros,
"I'm glad I ain't got an upper lip like :
that to shave/' and che was hysterical
again.
He grew bolder, and when she called
to the deer with a hissing noise of the
lips, he said: "Yeh're scared to do
that toll me."
This sounded too flippant. She
turned on him quickly. "But you ain't
a deer," she said snappishiiy.
He was flatly crestfallen. She blew
hot and cold in a breath. Why did
she speak to him like that? He had
been only joking.
He followed her in a sulk. She
watched him from the corner of an
eye. going over the evidence she had
accumulated in the process of emotion
al vivisection which she had been prac
tising 011 him. It amounted to this:
That he would put on his overcoat to
please her, even when he did not need
it; that he looked at her with a full
eye of admiration; that he avoided a
cheap discussion of marriage; that she
should change him from the highest
of good spirits to the lowest of bad,
without a word.
This promised something serious.
She slipped her hand into his pocket
for n nut again. He did not follow it.
"Yeh're mad," she said.
"No, I ain't" he contradicted sullen
ly.
"Yes, yeh are." she repeated with
great cheerfulness. "An' 1 wouldn't be
so silly if I was you."
"But yeh're not me," he retorted.
"Yes, yeh are," she said irrelevantly.
"Who is? * * * What?" he
frowned.
"What I said yeh wasn't," she said
slyly, biting a peanut.
That bewildered him. "Eh?" he que
ried. puzzling over it.
"Would yeh rather be one of them?"
! she asked, taking his arm again, and
nodding at the bears.
"A bear?" he smiled. "W'at'd I
want teh be a bear for?"
"I dunno," she said, "v/'t did yeh
want teh be a boar fer?"
He grinned. "I wasn't, was 1?" he
said, rather proud of it.
"Yep," she nodded. "Come on, now,
'an' give peanuts to th' other bear."
He went jauntily up to Bruin, and
fed peanuts to it in the most daring
manner. He put a hand almost within
reach of its claws, and even ventured
lay a nut fearlessly on the hack of
the huge paw that was thrust through
! the bars to him. ghe drew back 011 his
! arm. "Don't, don't," she whispered,
! "he'll scratch veh. Aw, Jim. don't."
I "That's all right," he said bravely,
j picking out another nut.
: She drew him away. "Now, yeh
! mustn't," she sr M. "Come 01., aa' sit
I dowr. here.
j lie was withdrawn from his foolhar
diness with reluctance. "That was
all right," he said. "1 wouldn't let hira
get me."
"Sit down," she said. "I'm tired,"
seating herself on a public bench. i
He was all anxiety in a moment.
"Here," he said, putting his arm
i around her shoulders, "lean hack now."
She laid her head on his arm. and
looked up at him with a comfortable
smile. "Don't yell want ter put on yer .
coat?" sho asked.
"Not except yer want me ter," he
said.
She reached out for his other hand
at this whole-souled surrender. And
they sat there, hand in hand, his arm
about her neck, his free hand lovingly
lingering her car, looking unutterable ,
tenderness at close range into each
others' faces. A number of the pass
ers-by turned to stare at them, but
they did not mind it. She had tacitly
accepted him as her "steady," and he
knew it. The world might go hang.—
New York Commercial Advertiser. I
CARRIER PIGEONS IM WAR.
Successful Experiment* with tlio Bird* by
the French Anny and Nary.
The French army has interested it
self of late in the question of using 1
carrier or homing pigeons on recon
noissance duty with very satisfactory
results. In the experiments the pig
eons assigned to the patrols arc car
ried in baskets on the backs of the cav
alrymen, as the infantryman carries
his knapsack. Inside the basket are :
tubes made of wickerwork lined with ,
horse hair paddings, in which tlic pig- i
eons are placed. It was found that
without the tubes a long trot would
render tho birds unfit for service, and
when the tubes were made of tin the
back of the bird was seriously chafed. 1
The tube makes the bird hold his wings j
and feet close to his body. Of course, !
after long confinement in this cramped
position he gets very stiff, to avoid
which a bag of light open-mesh mate
rial Is carried along in tho basket in '
which the bird is placed at night, and (
whenever the column halts or rests. :
The bag is also used when giving the 1
animals food and drink. In this way
they may be kept in good condition for
at least a week.
The pigeons used in thin work are
taken from any available army station 1
and placed before the ride in the port- ;
abla pigeon houses or in a special i
wagon skilfully arranged to prevent i
the birds from experiencing any shocks ;
or concussions on the road. The birds !
arc trained to return to their own port- j
able houses, even though the latter
may have changed location since they
left it.
The messages sent by the patrols are j
tied to one of the tail feathers. Twelve
men are detailed in the army each year ;
to learn the methods for training car- j
rier pigeons In all their details.
During the last fleet maneuvers on '
the west coast of France 114 pigeons
were let loose from the Iphigenie at j
7.30 a. m. and by 9 a. m. all but two 1
had arrived at their home station in !
Renncs, and these twe arrived later, j
Sixty-four pigeons were released on j
the cruiser Bruix and all arrived safely j
at their destination. The thunder of j
the guns did not .affect the pigeons in j
the least, showing that they can be 1
used in the midst of an action.
QUAINT AND CURIOUS.
The largest horned beetle can carry
315 times his own weight. One has
been known to walk away with a 2 1-4-
pound weight.
A machine that washes and dries
8000 dishes an hour has been invented,
and it is guaranteed that plates, cups,
saucers and other dishes come out of
the wash without a scratch.
The canal boat Industry of middle
England seems to have been relegated
to the women. Nearly 30,000 of them
spend their lifetime in driving the !
teams that haul the boats and in steer
ing the boats themselves.
While a large oak was being sawed
into lumber at L. C. Beem's mill, at
1 Rlchwood, 0., the other day, the cir
cular saw struck an obstruction in the
log which completely wrecked the saw
and endangered the lives of the work
men. The log was chopped apart, and
almost in its heart was found the steel
head of an ax, which must have been
broken off there at least 30 years ago,
as indicated by that number of con
centric rings surrounding it as a cen
tre.
A well known scientific professor of
Oxford used to stimulate his pupils
to collect biological anecdotes for him;
but he gave it up ever after tho day
when one hold undergraduate ventured
to assert, "Sir, I know a man whose
sister has a tame jellyfish, which she !
| lias taught to sit up and beg." A j
| friend of the Inquirer, who has a rep
utation for liberality, asserts that jel- j
j lyfishes "who have learned to sit up |
! and beg" are not uncommon.
The amount of light that can be ob
-1 tained from fire flies is not generally
| known. These insects have two bright
j rpot3 on their thorax and also brilliant
wings on the abdomen, and give light
| sufficient to enable one to read at a
j little distance. Two or three placed
I in the centre of a room will shed a
| soft light all over it. They are very
| common in Havana, Brazil, Guiana,
! Venezuela and Mexico. In those coun
j t.rie3 at night tho natives affix the
, iittle creatures to their shoes, and thus
i obtain light to sec the ron I and frigh
ten away tue snakes. ?•'. 'can women
| Use them as jewels. They tie them in
little gauze bags and put them in their
j hair or on their clothing. They keep
| t.hem in wire cages and feed them on I
; scraps of sugar cane.
OUR BUDGET OF HUMOI
LAUGHTER.PROVOKIMC FOR
LOVERS OF FUN. 1
All In 111.. Programme — Willi n Movnldo
COMPLEXION DYNAMIC Knowled C ■ _
(tutor MI. CJNU. The Wrong Man
Aroused— Mis Only Hope IN Lire. Lie. [
U[: J , ''V )vro'onyc(l and great, i
I .10 1.1, M„r nit i magi,, you'll find.
| Hh u toil are bubeted by fate,
1 lnuiiC3 soiii;- iuuvk: *o never rcind.
—Washington Star.
WJHi a. Movable Complexion,
lie—"A fortune teller raid I was
going to marry a I.loud;'."
She—"Well. I can lie n blonde any '
time I want to be."—Chicago I: cord."
Dynamic Knowledge.
"\Yhat do you kt- iv about drillln
wells?" nuked the foreman of the sans' i
"Why. I know t lip lr,mines:, rrcun the
ground up," said the nervy applicant !
for work.—lndlnuu'iolis Sun.
I
Out of His Class.
■ Sciioo!ma'.mi--"Coir.e, now. Ilarold. '
I spell chickens."
j Harold—"Piemm, ma'am. I'm not old i
; enough to spell chickens, but you eat !
! try uie on eggs."—Leslie's Weekly.
Ulic Wrong: Wan Aroused,
i "Why is this called an owl ear?" ! 1
asked one of tho belated passengers. j
"Hoot, monl" sleepily responded Jho i
passenger known as Sandy McGregor, j
| "How do I know?"— Chicago Tribune. \
Hi* 01113 Hope hi "Life.
i He—"My uncle Is a strange man." j
j She—"Why so?" I '
He—"lie says the only thing lie's '
got to live for is the hope that he'll I
have a large funeral."—YoukorsStatcs
mnn.
Gnn<l Subject* Mftlifi C'lorl Talker*.
j McCarthy—"Old Bivwn dec'arcs you |
arc the most entertaining talker in the i
! club. What do you usually talk about ;
in his company ?"
I McCommick—"Old Erown."—llarlcm j !
Life.
Not Fatal.
Willie—"l think I could die lisleu- !
lug to Miss Trlllcr sing."
j C.v Nick—"Oh. you may fei! like dy- j ,
ill;.', hilt you'll pell through: I've been j
through it often."—C.lumbus (Ohio) j '
Slate Journal.
i Propov Fnoiir.ti ami (juile EnglMi.
Wickler—"P. ,)y weather, isn't it ?" !
• Stickler—"Why will you Insist upon j '
1 using those idiot It exp • • sions? i Cow 1
i can the weather bp beastly?" ! 1
! Wickler—"Well, ii's raining cats and !
dogs."—Philad ipbia Press. j t
lr aml llx. ! j
• "Do you think that genius is moved ;
to exert itself by inspiration?"
j "Sometimes," answered the very so- ! '
j riotts young man. "But oftener by the j .
| expiration of the period for which rent I
1 has been paid."—Washington Star. i
A Gentle IllnJ. i '
Mr. Nicefellow—"What do you think
!is the proper ago for girls to marry?" j '
I Miss Lena—"Oh, about nineteen." ! '
| Mr. Nicefellow—"lndeed! And liow
| old are you?" !
Miss Lena—"Oh, about nineteen."— ' i
j Town Topics.
Not Juat a* He Meant. I
I "I've promised to go in to supper j
with some else, Mr. Blnuque, but I'll
! introduce ynu to a very handsome and
clever girl."
"But I don't want a handsome and
clever girl: I want you."—American
Agriculturist.
The Merry Glyptorton.
"What period do you belong to?" '
said the professor to the prehistoric
monster.
"No period," answered tho beast
merrily. "People who observe me use j
nothing but exclamation points."—
Washington Star.
Pleased to Itelease Him.
| Ilurdiipppe—"Can you spare me .
I about ten minutes of your time?"
Gotrox—"Don" you know that lime 1
is money?"
Harduppe—"Then let me have ?10, j
and you may keep the ten minutes."—
Philadelphia Itccord.
Sweet Things.
"What sweet dears they are," said
Blanche to Mildred, referring to a
squad of West Point cadets.
"No doubt they have ail qualified at
mess hall by eating a gallon of molas
ses," added Mildred, who had boon
reading the proceedings of the hazing
investigation.—Detroit Free Tress.
Ritfii* ninl Superstitions.
"I must confess I'm rather supersti
tious."
"Well, I'm not. I wouldn't be that
way."
"You wouldn't, eh?"
"No, it's a sure sign that you're
] going to have bad luck when you bc-
I gin to get superstitious." Philadel
phia Press.
A Mother*. Method..
"You see," said the mother, "Tommy
is so uncomplaining and yielding that
1 always give him the tlrsl choice of
everything."
"As a lesson to Johnny?" asked the
caller.
"No. It gives Johnny a chance to
take it away l'rom hint. Then both
are satisfied."—lndianapolis Press.
Interest* at Stake.
"I don't see what business you have
criticising the way the proprietor runs
tills business," said one errand boy.
"You only get .ft a week and bo's got
thousands at stake."
"That's the point," answered the
other. "When a man's got thousands
at stake he can generally put by a
bank account and l'eel safe. But when
your working for 'four per,' you're
doing It because you need the money
regular."—Washington Star.
TWO LOUISIANA PEDLERS-
Botii Suffered from Prejudice mid Ilotl*
Iti-c.ime Very Woaliliy.
The careers of two rcmz.'lcabl? ped
lcrs are recalled by the dee:.don of the
police Jury of West Baton Roug . 1.a.,
to divert the Poydras fund from its
original purpose of providing trous
seau and dowers for marriageable
young girls, and to a; pi. it to the
higher education of girls. Thus - pul
lers were Juiien Poydras, who insti
tuted the fund, and Leon G.idofcaux.
who died some months ago th 1 ri'. hast
man in Louisiana and ; • babl" he
largest sugar planter in ti. • wo:
Both cam ' from France. Po; '.as
being a French Proteeiuat, tied''.mux
a French Jew. Both suffe-ed :n
the n ejudiee that existed again: : . fi
lers. Their prejudice cost Poydras a
bride and left him a bachelor, to be- <
queath his entire fortune to young
girls and children, it brought God
chaax an insult which lmnevor forgave
and ITU mory of which is preserved in
the name of his plantation, "Sou
venir."
Poydras reached Louisiana while the
colony was still under Spanish control.
He had the misfortune to fail in love
with the daughter cf a rich planter.
The match wa3 declared to be impos
sible because he could not comply
with the French system cf dowry,
which required the husband to pro
vide p. marriage portion; and also be
cause of the more serious objection
presented by his calling, and so the
girl married another suitor.
Poydras never forgot her. He pros
pored and became one of the wealth
iest men in Louisiana. When Louis
iana became a part of the United
States Poydras was sent, as first dele
gate from what was then the Terri
tory of Orleans, now the state of Louis
iana.
Although the wealthiest man in the
state, ho lived in the simplest manner.
When Louis Philippe came a3 a refu
gee to Louisiana Poydras entertained
him magnificently and even provided
the future liing of the French with
money, but bis own room was as hare
and dc titut of luxury as a frontiers
man's cabin. He refused to yield "ven
when death approached and died
standing rather than take to his bed.
His will showed that his first ! °ve
was still dormant in hismind.alth sigh
over SO years. His fortune wa3 divi
ded into two parts. One was devoted
to providing dowers and trousseau for
young girls, so that none of them
should be prevented from marrying
her sweetheart because of lack of
money. The other half was devoted
to the establishment of an orphan asy
lum in New Orleans. Children of his
awn being denied him by his misfor
tune in love, Poydras was one of the
most devoted friends of the young.
Soon after Poydras passed awayGod
chaux arrived in New Orleans from
France. As a peoiar he had many
rebuffs to face. In one place he was
roughly handled, and the dogs set on
him. He Dover forgot or forgave that
indignity When he became rich he
secured possession of the plantation,
where it occurred and changed to
"Souvenir" the name its Creole owner'
had bestowed upon it—New York Sun.
Cnrloiin Incident* of a War.
The closing stage of the Russo-Tur
kish campaign of 1877-78 was marked
by the following curious incidents in
the shape of an extraordinary
though natural phenomenon. During
the weeks that intervened between
tho signing of the treaty of San Sto
fano and tho mooting of the Berlin
congress, the Russian troops were en
camped in front of Constantinople,
which they anticipated entering in
triumph immediately. One day, how
ever, looking in the direction of the
Black sea, there appeared in the sky
a marvellous "fata morgana," coun
terfeiting fortifications. What were
they? Certainly not those which the
Turks had hastily raised to protect the
capital. The mystery was solved by
an officer who knew the place well,
pronouncing the mirage to reflect the
still ruined remains of the fortifioa- I
tions of Sebastopol; and ns the3e |
were about 380 miles distant the ex
traordinary nature of the refraction
may be imagined. The phenomenon,
however, was received by the super
stitions Russian soldiers as ar. evil
portent, for Sebastopol reminded offi
cers and men of British hostility, and
it was known to all that British
statesmen were now doing their ut
most to over-ride the provisions to
San Stcfano, in order to prevent a Rus
sian occupation of Constantinople.
Neither was the presentiment of com- '
Ing disappointment falsified, for as the
mirage faded from tho sky a dull
booming noise was heard to seaward. 'I
ft was the guns of the British fleet !
saluting the forts in tho Dardanelles,
and proving that the words of the fa
mous Jir.go song, "Russians shall not
have Constantinople," were no empty
beast.
I><mlh I'eforo Freedom.
Some strange scenes, says our
Naples correspondent, took place in
Italian prisons when tho late amnesty
was proclaimed. At Portoferraio one
man burst into tears when ho was told
that he was free. He had been in the
prison 22 years. In order to remain,
he declared that he was guilty of two
serious crimes for v/hleh he had never
been tried. Nevertheless, his chains
ware removed, and ho was Ecnt out.
Then be threatened to throw himself
Into the sea, saying he would never be
>9 comfortable again as in tho prison.
i>. Eclasna a man, when told lie could
go, threw himselr out of a three-story
window, crying: "I cannot outlive
this!" —London Daily News.
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