Every time there is a railway disas
ter now the passengers are expected to
get what comfort they can out of the
fact that it did not occur in a tunnel.
But eight States do not now require
examination by a State Board of those
who wish to practice medicine. Tbey
are Arkansas, Colorado, Kentucky,
Michigan, Nebraska, Nevada, South
Dakota and Tennessee.
The savings of wage earners in the
United States, if the deposits in sav
ings banks are any indication at all,
evidence thrift and prosperity. The
banks of this class in New York City
alone have resources on hand of 5500,-
000,000.
The contract of the Argentine Re
public with Italian shipbuilders for
two armored ships of war of 8500 tous
each Is another proof of the intimate
relations of the Republic with Italy.
This intimacy is chiefly due to the large
Italian population of Argentina.
The Buffalo Commercial says that
when a political rumor begins "It is
stuted upon the highest authority by
one who enjoys the confidence," etc.,
that rumor can be set down at once as
a deliberate invention based on no au
thority. One who ought to "enjoy
confidence" will not betray It; if he
does he is a traitor and a sneak, is not
entitled to, and probably does not have,
anybody's confidence.
American exportation of trotting
horses during the last ten years
has been especially notable. There
Is scarcely a country in Europe which
has failed to appreciate the superior
qualities of the American-bred trotter.
Germany, France, Russia and Austria
all have been large buyers of Anieri- |
can thoroughbreds, and, in many in
stances, American trainers have been
selected to superintend the stables of
these foreign purchasers.
The English sparrow, which lias
made so many enemies in the Eastern
and Central States, has invaded the
Rocky Mountain region. For some time
past, T. D. A. Cockrell reports, it has
been known in the northeastern sec
tion of New Mexico, at Raton and Las
Vegas, and It seems to be gradually
spreading westward and southward,
having recently been noticed, for the
first time, at Albuquerque.
The universal plaint is concisely
voiced by the London Evening Stand
ard. "American influences," it says,
"appear just now to pcrvudo the whole
of Europe. If American horses do not
carry all before them yet, American
riding, American training, American
horse dentistry, and, shall we add,
American 'doping,' seem to have ever-
Increasing vogue, not only in this coun
try, but in France, Germany, Austria,
Russia and wherever else there is an
opportunity on the Continent."
Unique conditions prevail in the State
Normal School of Georgia, where are
gathered more than (100 pupils, whose
ages range from seventeen to sixty
years. Year before last more than
forty of the students were over forty,
and a half dozen over fifty years old.
Widows come bringing their children;
the Confederate soldier hobbles in on
crutches; there are old bachelors and
grandmothers, heart-hungry for knowl
edge. Tuition i 3 free, but the tale ol
living expenses covers many a trag
edy. A paralyzed man has plowed with
one hand year after year that his young
Bister might attend the school, and she
works with pathetic desperation to be
come in turn his supporter. Persons
inclined to grumble because certain
educational plums have not fallen their
way may well draw a parallel of con
ditions.
Every little while a discussion arises
as to the time of life when a man ought
to retire from active participation in
affairs. The public is asked to con
sider whether there is not a certain
limit of years when a man no louger
ought to preach, when a rich man
ought to begin to give away his money,
when a farmer ought to lmud over his
fields and granaries to his sons and
daughters, when an editor ought to
stop writing anything but reminis
cences which he is pretty sure nobody
will read. Out in Minnesota the other
day a logging party, returning from
Its winter camp, was found to consist
of one contractor, aged seventy-eight;
another contractor, aged sixty-five; one
helper, aged seventy-nine; one horse,
agei twenty-three, and another horse,
aged twenty-one. They built their own
camp, cut their own roads, and piled
upon the frozen lake 10(1,000 feet of
pine timber. Further than these bare
details the chronicle is silent, but there
is enough to show that in the logging
camps of Minnesota the question of the
age of retirement is still under debate,
Or has been indefinitely postponed.
Judge Blackenltam's Heroic Moment
BY JAMES NOEL JOHNSON.
(Copyright, 1902, by Dally Story Pub. C
I have been spending a bit of the
torrid season with my friend Judge
Thomas Marshall Blackenham of Ty
gart Creek, Kentucky.
After dinner to-day the Judge led the
way to the broad veranda. The Judge
ponderously seated himself in a shriek
ing rustic r.ocking-chair, threw his
fat right leg across the left, pushed
backward and rested a chunky fist
(that held the handle of a palm leaf)
on the center of his protuberant girth.
Soon through the heated silence
came the imperious voice of Mrs.
Blackenham:
"Do all that over again, my lady! I
saw you souse a plate in the water,
turn it over a time or two. give it a
slap and a swipe with the drying rag
and dismiss it. Do it all over again."
"That's tough on Llilie, hot as it is,
but there is no help for it," spoke the
Judge in smiling sympathy; "her
mother would never abate one jot or
tittle of her stringent housewifery ex
actions."
"What a wonderfully lucky man you
are, Judge," I said, with the frank
freedom of Intimacy. "In your wife
the beautiful and practical have met in
harmonious union. How could you,
with your careless habits, ever win a
woman of such punctilious precise
nesß?"
The Judge rolled his sunset face over
toward me. He affected indignation.
"What do you mean, suh? While prob
ably I am no prize beauty now, I was
the Lochinvar of this state. I was the
glass of gallantry, the beau ideal, the
tossing blossom of Kentucky chilvalry,
suh! 'Twas her was a lucky woman,
suh; yes, suh, though at one time, suh,
she didn't have the propah apprecia
tion of it, probably."
"She was the reverse of practical,
too, when she was young, suh. She
had gone to school at Lexington a few
terms, and when she returned her lit
tle brown head fairly swarmed with
romantic ideas. A dishrag in her
white hands then would have seemed
defilement. Though rich in all the al
luring grace of manner and physical
attributes of perfect femininity, she
seemed to possess no inclination for
the sterner sex. We young fellows in
the community who aspired to hold
lies. ,on a level with hers were great
ly nonplused at her frigid bearing. We
couldn't believe she was a born man
hater. Her glowing lips, her pink
mantled cheeks, her sparkling blue
eyes, her form filling all the rules of
perfect symmetry, her step flight as if
she trod an unpalpable substance, all
conspired to resent such a charge.
But she gave scant attention to us, I
tell you.
"Tom Baker bought a span of fine
bay horses and a buggy to macth.
Every day he would dash by her house,
his grand steeds smiting the hard road
with rapid, ringing hoofs, his buggy
wheels richly humming, the black top
catching and throwing sunlight at
every motion. 'Twas all vanity and
Vexation. She scarcely gave his showy
equipage a glance, or if she did deign
a look it was to wonder why a young
man of his lean means should incur so
much expense to advertise himself a
fool. He soon sold his rig at half
price and left for Frankfort, where he
is now a popular saloonkeeper.
"Milt Turner bought a suit of clothes
on a credit—worth seventy-five dol
lars. The next Sunday when he
thought she was badly in need of his
company home, she told him her pa
was all the company she required. 110
is now a restaurant keeper in Chicago.
"John De Laney, knowing her to be
a church member, thought the short
cut to her heart was the ministerial
path. Accordingly he went to Cincin
nati, and for six months gorged lii 3
mind on theology. He rpturned with
a smooth face, an affectedly meek, but
withal, superior clerical smile, a long
tailed, black coat and a nicely gotten
up parson voice. He made an appoint
ment to preach, but lo! though the
house was jammed by a curious
throng, the only one he would have
"What do you wear, suh?"
given a cuss to exhort, was promi
nently absent. He is now a highly
esteemed gambler of New York.
"Jim Stevens, more practical than
the rest, pooled his little stock of
money with all he could borrow, and
set up a store. Alas! 'twas a bootless
venture, for Flossie Blake not only
never entered the store, but indig
nantly sent back a dress pattern
bought there by her father (and which
Stevens had selected) with the dispir
iting message that there was no ne
gress in the family who could ap
propriately wear it."
"During this ridiculous contest of
would-be lovers, I, Judge Blackenham,
to be, maintained a judicious silence.
But I was actively using the faculties
that subsequently put the judicial robe
on my shoulders. I was analyzing the
situation—drawing intelligent deduc
tions from the failures of others. I
made noiseless, but exhaustive inquir
ies into the habits and secret tastes of
this anomalous beauty. I finally learn
ed she was an unquenchable reader of
heroic literature. I went to town and
secretly learned from the woman who
kept the book store, the titles of all
those high-spiced novels mat consti
tuted her daily mental and emotional
feed, and I bought them. Day and
night I would lie cn my couch and
read novels. Dark, handsome chaps
rushed through the pages, scattering
heroic deeds at every turn and cor
ner.
"I now had the key that I was sure
would unlock the door of her hidiffer
"There, now!" she exclaimed, knit
ting her brow, "No more romance
for me!"
ence. T would be a novel hero, and
wouldn't be long about it.
"I had a cousin living in Kansas
City, and thither I went on a two
months' visit.
"While there I contrived, on paper,
to become a hero of the first water. I
went to a job printer with a piece of
newspaper, blank on one side.
"I next day mailed a clipping to the
local paper of my home county. I
didn't forget to inclose a crisp ten
dollar bill, and a request that the edi
tor should publish the clipping and
say nothing about how he had come
by It. Heroes must he modest, you
know. He was a personal friend of
mine, and I knew I could trust him.
Well, the next issue of the East Ken
tucky Deadshot had the following ar
ticle, topped with fireworks headlines:
DARING DEED
Of That Gallant Knight of Modern Chiv
alry.
THOS. MARSH ADD BLACKENHAM.
A Lewis County Youth Becomes the
Hero of the Hour In Kansas
City. Mo.
[From the Kansas City Journal.l
Kentucky, the homo of modern chiv
alry, has another gem to wear In her
bristling crown of pride and glory In the
person of Thos. Marshall Blackenham
of Lewis County.
Last evening, while Mrs. Ella Edwards,
a wealthy and beautiful young widow of
Southworth street, was going home from
a call she was set upon by three masked
robbers. At the place where the mis
creants came upon her there is a long
distance between the street lamps, ana
is a most favorable locality for the per
petration of villainous deeds. Mrs. Ed
wards was within a block of her home
and never anticipated any l'oul play, as
she was used to traversing that part of
the street In the early evening. All at
once, when about midway between the
lamps, the three men sprang out and
seized her. One threw a cloak over her
head, but not before she had uttered a
piercing scream. Instantly, as if he had
risen from the earth, the bold Kentuck
lan sprang like a lion among them. Right
and left ne landed with his Herculean
lists. There was a terrible struggle as
the three footpads were powerful men.
Undaunted by their resistance the Ken
tuckian fought them single-handed, never
yielding an inch. Two fell as though
smitten by s'cilge hammers. The third
turned In an endeavor to escape, but
came to a sudden halt with a bullet in
his left leg. The noise of the shot
brought policemen to the spot. All three
of the assailants were arrested. One of
them is "Cribber" Darnley. a veteran
footpad, who has served several terms,
and is regarded as a dangerous man to
tackle. Another of the beautiful trio Is
"Cross-eyed" Bronson. wanted badly in
New York and Philadelphia for safu
cracking. lie has murdered several offi
cers who have attempted to arrest him.
Tho third Is "Bully" Adams, who last
year cleared out an entire sheriff's posse
trying to capture him.
The lady lost nothing except her con
sciousness. Her pocketbook, containing
three hundred dollars, her gold watch
and diamond necklace were jolted from
the hands of the robbers when Col.
Blackenham's mighty lists landed. Col.
Blackenham. like all heroes, is an ex
ceedingly modest man. and acts as if he
were not aware ho had done anything
out of the ordinary. In the meantime,
his deed is the theme of universal praHe.
Col. Blackenham refused to accept the
gold watch tho grateful lady besought
him to take, but. later on—who knows?
Tho old, old story, possibly.
"Well, suh. I staid away lons enough
to let that story sink into the heart of
tho beautiful Flossie, and prepare for
rr,e a haven of welcome and favor.
"When I returned I demeaned my
seli as becomes a modest hero, unas
suming, but with a quiet dignity that
bespeaks the importance of tho man
on whom it sits.
"When I met Flossie at church there
was no ice on her, no suh. She bow
ed to me, smiled, trembled a little
while her eyes emitted sparks that
flew upward from a very warm heart..
She took a proffered arm and leaned
on It with that air of delicious depend
ence so grateful to the heart of the
true hero.
"After we hart been married about
two weeks I told her about my ruse.
She gazed at me a long time, her ex
pression a compound of mirth, aston
ishment and mock contempt.
"Finally, she made a motion as if
throwing something away.
"'There, now!' she exclaimed, knit
ting her brow. 'No more romance
reading for me. As for you, Mr.
Blackenham, I want you to study law
Your genius must tiave scope. As
for me, to the science of plain, prac
tical housekeeping, I hereby dedicate
my days.'"
CERTAINLY DESERVED THE CHECK.
College I'rovost Catches Philadelphia
Broker In His Own Trap.
The University of Pennsylvania has
not a large endowment, and that it
finds the means to pay its current ex
penses and put up new buildings is
due in great measure to its provost,
Charles C. Harrison. His little black
subscription book is well known in
many a down-town oflice —too well
known, a prominent broker told him
not long ago. Mr. Harrison was plead
ing persistently with him for a sub
scription, but in vain. Finally the
broker said:
"See here, Mr. Harrison, 1 will give
you something on one condition."
"Very well, Mr. T ," said the
provost, "name It."
"The condition is that you promise
never come into my oflice again until
1 ask you to do so."
"Certainly, Mr. T , I agree to
that," said the provost promptly, and
walked out smiling with a check for
SI,OOO.
A month or so later the broker
heard a knock at his door. "Come in,"
he called, and in walked Mr. Harri
son. He had his black book under his
arm.
"Good morning. Mr. T ,* he said;
"I want you to help me with a little
university matter I am "
"Look here, Mr. Harrison," the brok
er continued, "when 1 gave that last
thousand dollars wasn't it on the ex
press condition that you wouldn't
come into my oflice again until I in
vited you?"
"Why, yes," returned the provost, "1
believe that was the understanding.
But didn't you say 'Come in' just now
when I knocked?"
They say the check this time was
for five thousand. — Philadelphia
Times.
WAS NOT WORKING WITHOUT PAY.
How On® Boy Declined to Blow
and Make a Bottle.
Thinking to please the visitors who
come to look round his works, a cer
tain glass manufacturer allows them
all to try their skill at bottle-making,
an experiment which the majority of
them are very eager to undertake. It
is only necessary to blow through a
specially prepared pipe, and a bottle
or glass in its smooth state can be
produced by a mere child.
Some hundreds of school board boys
were in the works the other day, and
only one youngster refused to put his
mouth to the blow-pipe. He stood
there with his hands in his pockets,
watching the others With a comical
air of contempt.
"It's a rare fine dodge," he remarked
to his bosom companion, as they left
the works together, "but the old rascal
didn't take me in by it."
"Why didn't you have a go at the
pipe?" queried the other, i 3 astonish
ment.
"I wasn't such a fool," was the
scornful rejoinder. "Don't you see his
little game? You chaps have been
cracking your cheeks and wasting
your breath all the afternoon, and
you've blown as many bottles as a
man can turn out in a week. Talk
about saving labor! Why, he'll make
his fortune in a year if he goes on
like this."
Tut Up a (cooii "Bluff.".
The Rev. Alexander Allison, Jr.,
pastor of the Southwestern Presbyte
rian church, in a recent sermon on the
subject of "Lying," illustrated his text
with numerous stories, and one of
these showed how, even in church, a
man's false pride sometimes leads
him to prevarication. A young man
took his best girl to church and, when
the time for "collection" came round,
rather ostentatiously displayed a s•">
gold piece. Presuming upon the en
gagement to marry that had been
made by her, the young lady placed
a restraining .land upon the arm of
her fiance. "Why, don't be so extra
vagant, George," she exclaimed.
"Oh, that's nothing, I always give
$5 when I go to a strange church."
Just then the deacon came with tne
plate, and George dropped a coin.
Everything seemed favorable, and the
young man beamed with a sense of
generosity. Then the minister made
the announcements for the week, and
concluded with the wholly unexpected
announcement of the day's collection.
"The collection to-day," said he,
"was $3.75."
George hadn't much to say all the
way to his fiancee's home.
Immense Sarcophagus.
The most remarkable specimen of
Punic art which has ever come to
light was discovered recently at Car
thago by P. Deiattre, a well-known
archaeologist, which is fashioned of
white marble and beautifully orna
mented with engravings. That it
served at one time as the tomb of
some Carthaginian ruler all obtain
able evidence tends to show.
M. Heron de Villefosse gave a
graphic account of this discovery at
the last meeting of the French
Academy of Inscriptions and Belles-
I.etters and maintained that it was by
far the most notable specimen of an
cient Carthaginian art which has yet
been found.
It was while excavating In the
Punic necropolis near the hill of Saint
Monica that P. Delatre came across
this royal tomb. As to its future des
tination various rumors are afloat, but
it is most likely that it will be remov
ed to some French museum.
Curies of the Sea
Peculiar Forms of Life tliat Are Found in Abundant Quantities lr\
the Bay of Naples.
One of the most curious forms of
Ife hauled up by the nets of the Naples
Sshermen are "sea cucumbers"—slug
shaped bodies about the size and shape
of the vegetables of that name, of a
pulpy flesh covered with a leathery
skin and small calcareous scales of
carbonate of lime. They belong to the
saniQ family as the starfish and sea
urchins, and feed on small crabs and
other floating animal life that they
can capture. They have no teeth, but
the walls of their alimentary canals
secrete strong juices that kill and dis
solve the fibers of the animals which
have been caught with their sucker
feet and brought to their mouths.
They suck in the sand and mud and
digest the nourishing particles while
those which are of no use to them are
rejected. Sea cucumbers are very com
mon in the Bay of Naples, and are
often found more than a foot long. One
variety, known as the "cucumari plan
ci," has a tail. When the animal is
alive the tentacles of the tail are soft
and pliable and adhere to the rock,
but with death they harden like the
arms of starfish and the spines of sea
urchins, with which we are more fa
miliar.
The Bay of Naples abounds in medu
sae, or jelly fish, as we call them,often
growing as large as two feet in diam
eter and weighing fifty and sixty
pounds. Some of them shine at night
with a greenish light and are known
as "noctiluca" (night lanterns) by the
natives. The jelly fish sometimes
make migrations in great groups,
sometimes so large and so thick as to
impede the navigation of vessels, like
the floating plants i:i the Saragossa
sea of the tropics. These shoals of
medusae, as they are called, may be
so dense that a piece of timber plunged
in among them will be held upright
as if stuck in mud, and ordinary row
boats cannot force their way through
them. Their migrations have never
been explained. They are irregular
and occur at no particular season of
the year and under no particular in
fluences. They are net affected by heat
or cold and the currents of the ocean
do not seem to control them. When
the head chief or leader of a jelly fish
colony takes a notion to move, he is
sues his orders, which are communi
rated somehow from one to another,
and, at the time appointed, the entire
colony begins to move. It travels
very slowly, compared with other fish,
but makes several miles a day.
The "octopus vulgaris"—the devil
fish of the ancients—is very common
in the Bay of Naples. Examples are
hauled up in the nets every day. It
Is the guerrilla c£ fishes. It hides itself
In ambush in the crevices of the rocks
and waits for its prey, and often piles
up stones into a heap, behind which
it conceals itself until It can pounce
upon unwary and innocent fishes that
pass by. The octopus also has the
power of changing its color and pro
ducing ell sorts of warts and wrinkles
upon its otherwise smooth skin, so as
to deceive its neighbors. These traits
of character are r.ot commendable.
The body of the octopus looks like
ft round bag and contains its vital or
gans. At one end it has a head like
that of a toad, with two large inquiring
eyes, and branching out from various
parts of the body are eight arms united
nt their base by a * eb similar to that
in the foot of a duck. Each arm has
two rows of suckers. Hidden by the
arms, and in the middle of the body
is the mouth, furnished with a pair of
powerful jaws and a membraneous
flap which alternately opens and shuts.
The arms are used for swimming,
crawling, climbing and for catching
and holding the prey. It cat 3 crabs',
fish and other animate objects which
are caught by its suckers, carried to
the mouth by means of the arms and
are quickly killed and digested by a
nW:- < ' o:l
CCTOf*OS VULC **'o /TEST
poisonous fluid secretc-d in the salivary
glands.
A near relation of the octopus is the
sepia or cuttlefish, vhich has arms
much shorter than those of the octo
pus, but they do business very much in
the same way. The chief characteris
tic of the cuttlefish are its ability to
hide itself and to change its color at
will, and in the transparent water of
the bay of Naples the wonderful play
of tints in the living animal is very
much admired. This change in color
is due to large cells in the skin which
nre filled with fluids. As the cells con
tract or expand the colors of the fluids
change and grow lighter or darker
like the blush upon the cheek of a
maiden, and give the animal an opal-
escent tint. Sometimes it looks liko
a floating opal.
Another characteristic is a sac filled
with a black fluid known as sepia,
which can be discharged instantly into' '
tho water. A small quantity will ere- v
ate a black cloud sufficient to envelop
the animal and allow it to escape from
its pursuer. This ink is extracted,
dried and sold to artists. It is the
sepia with which pictures are painted.
The cuttlefish is quite an article of
commerce in Naples, for. In addition
to the sepia, the backbone is used for
polishing wood, as a tooth powder and
for sharpening the bills of canary
birds.
Both tho cuttlefish and the octopus
'' r//f* j/v -ucu/iae/f * ,
grow to a largo size and many horri
fying legends are told of them.
NOT FIRST ON THE MOUNTAIN TOP
Üblqnitmi. Advertising Man Had Not
Neglected the Opportunity.
Some years ago, when the North
western State of Washington was not
so thickly populated as it is now, a
young lieutenant on the revenue cut
ter Rush, then stationed in Puget
Sound, had an experience which he
sometimes relates now, although it is
at his own expense.
"I was told," he said, "that the
neighboring snow capped mountain,
Mount Rainer, had never been climbed
by any white man, or, at least, that
none had ever reached its top. I was
younger then than I am now, so I de
termined to gain the honor of planting
the first American Hag on Rainer's
top. Several seamen volunteerd to ac
company me, and after spending some
days in making our preparations we r
set out. Three days of weary march
ing and climbing brought us to the
top. With a hurrah we rushed up on
a large cliff, the highest point, and
then prepared to put up our pole. Sud
denly my attention was attracted to an
old staff stuck into a crack. Near its
top was nailed a small card, on which
in plain type, was printed: 'James
Ruggles, agent for Thompson's Elixir
for that Tired Feeling.' "
Safe Protected by Contents.
After standing for a dozen years by
the side of a mammoth elm tree near
the Henry Fenner ledge property on
Cranston street, Providence, R. 1., a
grim, rusty old safe is about to be re
moved. Tho owner, L. R. Titus, has
disposed of it to a resident of the
neighborhood, who intends to tamper ,
with it and eventually take it away. X
There is a little story about the an- '
cient safe. It contains dynamite, just
how much is not known, but Mr. Titus
thinks not more than three or four
pounds. It was used for several years
to store the high explosive used ID
blasting the rock, and when the Titus
interests discontinued the stone quar
rying business at the Henry Fenner
ledge tne safe contained several sticks
The lock became unmanageable seven
or eight years ago and has refused to
do service since. Hence the vault re
mained tightly closed, a rather omi'
nous spectacle, Btanding as it has in the
cpen and known to harbor within the
rusty iron walls a quantity of dyna
mite. For obvious reasons tho owner
did not blow the door off.
The new proprietor of the souvenir
of the old Fenner ledge days will com
mence operations by removing a sec
tion of the door by drilling and taking .
away tho dangerous explosives. A . 'j
Old American Hollies.
In early American glassware the his
tory of our national art progress has
been written. Choice and precious
indeed are tho crude blue-green and
brown amber bottles made early in the
nineteenth century—the portrait bot
tles hearing busts of Washington,
Fraiklin, I.afayette, He Witt Clinton,
Zachary Taylor, Kossuth, and Jenny
Lind. Local decorative subjects on
many lines of idea were treated by the
first American bottle makers; anil the
most exquisite Venetian bottle cannot
outrank in value, to a patriotic Amer
ican collector, the primitive old flasks
ornamented with Indian, Masonic em
blems. cannon and steamships or such
outdoor themes as the seasons, birds,
fruits, trees, sheaves of wheat, the
fisherman, deer, the gunner and his
hounds, and the first bicycle. The o )
earliest American railway, with a car Jtol 11 J
drawn by a horse, is historically eel- 'j
obrated on a glass flash, c.s well as the
bold Pike's Peak pilgrim, with his
stall r.nd bundle. —The Century.
Name. Told Tun Much,
One inconsiderate lather, Interested
in affairs of state, named ids children,
who chanced to be all girls, after the
various presidents in whom he was
interested at the time of the infant's
birth. During their childhood the
girls rejoiced in the names of Lincoln,
Johnson and Grant for middle names.
They always wrote their names out In
full, taking great pride in them a.i
their father had dona. Gradually, as
they grew older, they wrote only the
initials, and at the present time not
one of the daughters in that family
has any middle name at all. ;
Puttl'H First C'oneort.
"I Paid Adelina Patti a pound of
candy for singing at licr first concert."
says Hermann Gran, the oldest oper
atic manager in America. "Little Miss
Patti was at that time 7 years of age
and her concert was held in Wiilard'a
hall, Washington, b. C."