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EDITORIAL NOTES*
Gins. Dumont, Supervising Inspector
of steam vessels, reports the ace denis
for the year, thirty four; livra lost, 284;
passengers carried, 475,000,000, of which
number one in 1,760,000 perished.
A recent official report says that the
mercury in South. Australia often rise3
in summer to 115 degrees in the shade,
and this has been exceeded on several
occasions. In January, 1862, it reached
*1** d egrees, and. in January, 1882, it was
180—wdyYVirty-two degrees below boil
ing—in the sun.
The army of pensioners amounting to
303,658 are classified as follows: Army
invalids, 198,648; ermy widows, minor
children, and dependent relatives, 74,374;
navy invalids, 2,468; navy widows,
minor children, and dependent relatives,
1,907; survivors of he war of 1812,
4,831; widows of those who served in
the war of 1812, 21,336.
Few peop’e reflect upon the fact that
the Indians are the richest landholders
in the United States. We have 237,066
of them, e i elusive of .he Alaska Indians,
holding 151,897,768 acres of land Some
of the tribes own 3,000 acres pBr Indian
The average is about one square mile to
each Indian, while a white man is not
al’owed to pre-empt more than 160 acres
of the public land.
Professional sword swallowers per¬
form, apparently, startling faats, but it
is a well-known fact that the back parts
of the mouth are capable of becoming,
through habit, accustomed to abnormal
contacts. By constant practice the sword
swallower accustoms his pharynx to the
contact of large objects, such as sword*,
canes and even billiard cues. This ac¬
complishment, however, is acquired only,
by gradual and painful efforts.
Gov. Crosby recommends to Congress,
the Secretary of i the Interior,
?j£ in; ;a^ittc^-aH*ng down ofi *21
Indian reservations,. now covering two
fifths of the area of Montana, to the
actual wants of the 18,600 Indians, and
throwing the lands open to settlement
He urges relief for the Black Feet,North
Blegans, Assinaboines and Grosventres,
and also that schools for the education
of Indians in agricultural pursuits bo
established.
John Griffin Carlisle was born
September 5, 1835, in Kenton county,
Ky., just across the river from Cincin¬
nati. After receiving a good academic
education he studied law with Hon.
John W. Stev nsou aud Judge Wm B.
Kinkead, and began thepracticein 1857.
He was elected to the legislature in 1859,
to the State Senate in 1866, and again
in 1869, resigning in 1871 to make the
race for lieutenant governor, and wa#
successful. In 1876 he was elected to
congress, aDd has been re-elected at each
succeeding election since. *
Tatti’s brevet husband is Signor
Nicolini. Nilssin is the widow of M.
Rozeaud. Gerstor is the widow of Dr.
Gardner, and has a baby ten months
old. Scalchi, is the Countess Lilli in
real life. Mme. Pappenheim is Mme.
Ahren. Ellen Terry is Mrs. Kelley.
Mme. Va leria bears the unromaotic
name of Mrs H R. Percy Hutchinson;
hat husband is a very matter of fact
manufacturer in the north of England
Sembrich ,is Mme Stengle in private
. life, and ia an Austrian P,.le , she is a
proficient violin p ayer, and sometimes
accompanies herself on that instrument
in opera She is twenty four years olfl.
THE Brooks comet of l8l2 is now visi¬
ble in the evening. It is in the north¬
west, and i# pursuing a path that will
soon bring it into the constellation of
cygnus in which the swan is across the
milky way. On December 13th it will
reach the maximum brightness of 1812,
and by the 14th of January will become
four times brighter. Its closest approach
to the eun will be oo January 25th, after
which it will be seen no more for seventy
ene years It has shown some remarks*
ble feature unknown in any other count.
About the 20th of September it bright¬
ened rapidly and threw out a considera¬
ble tail. The light was of unusual den¬
sity, and, at one time, became of a smoky
color. In a few diys the tail and bright*
ne«8 suddenly disappeared, Several
times since a feeble tail has been ob
_eerved to form an I fade again.
While there are cr wds of N w York
doctors who barely make a living, some
of the most successful phyeioiaua enjoy
magnificent incomes. Among the lucky
ones may be mentioned Lefris&tfrtj
who makes ft specialty of deformities.
His iueome is about $40,000 a year F;
Qalliard, the leading gynecologist.
makes a large sUm annual y. Austin
Flint, Sr., the well known author and
practitioner, makes *80,000 oAt of lungs
and livera Others run as fol owe.
Cornelius *gnew, eye and ear, 120,000."
r.ii.Thomas, diseases of women, $50,000; W;
Alfred Loomis, fev re, 1*5,0001
Hammond, nervous diseases, $35,000; J.
M, Carnoehan. sUrgery of the bone.
$25,000. Abraham Jawbi, diseases of
children, $25,000. From these figures it
will be seen that those who reach the
top of the proiession reap a rich rew rd
for their lab or*.
A few facts about the professional
tours of theatrical people are Interesting.
In this country there are now 22? theatri¬
cal companies on professional touts, em¬
bracing, say, 4,'86 members. The fol¬
lowing figures will show the expenses of
these traveling*companies i Transporta¬
tion, 11,221,000! hotel bills, »2,8,0,000!
hauling bargige, eto , $560,000 ; salaries
and incidentals, $8,400,000; total out¬
lay, $12 981,000, These companies play
on shares, receiving about 65 ;>er eent of
the nightly gross receipt*. Some of the
leading attractions make as much as
$50,000 ayear clear profit In order to
lessen th hardships of these professio al
tourists it is proposed to build special
cars for the companies in which they can
live and travel. It isbel eved that such
a car could be run for $175 a week. Un¬
der this system probably $1,200,003 in
hotel bills could be saved.
The London Lancet thinks that the
reuewed and steady occurrence of fresh
cases of cholera in Alexandria affords
new grounds for anxiety and watchful*
ness. It is true that the epidemic was
stamped out, but cholera has a tendency
to sustain itself after an outbreak la one
season by a series of scattered cases lead-*
iug to another epidemic in reported the following
season The oases* now from
Ale andria are of a modified type, but
it has beea found that these are precisely
the cases which constitute th > links be¬
tween one epidemic and another. The
laxity of sanitary administration follow¬
ing an epidemic will doubtless increase
the prediqjosing causes of cholera, aud
the authorities of Alexandria cannot be
too energetic in their endeavors 1o re¬
move these causes.
A traveler speaks of meeting a seb sol
of pompanos in Southern Florida. His
yacht ran into the school and the fishes
immediately left the water, flying like
birds over the yacht. A numbei * f
fishes have similar habits. The gar fish
has a habit of rising in the air and cours¬
ing along for a hundred feet or more.
The ordinary flying fish is well known.
One of the cuttle fishes is called the fly¬
ing squib. Tnis fish sometimes hurls
himself sixty feet in the air. In New
England aspideris frequently seen flying
in th# air. It ejects six little threads of
3iik from its body and by flapping it
mana es to keep afloat. Certain species
of monkeys and squirrels are able to fly
like biids. Recently in the Malay coun¬
try a frog has been discovered that has a
habit of flying. Its feet kre provided
with enormous webs which act as para¬
chutes.
The c immittee on ways and means is
considered by far the most important of
the committees. It frames ail tariff
legislation befo r e being presented for
the action of the house, and to it all
bills of that nature, and all bills relating
to the general financial condition of the
country, ar# referrod Its duty i*, as
indicated by the name, to look after
the “ways and means” of providing the
fund# for the supportof the government.
In other words, it assumes the position
ordinarily occupied by the husband in
the family, o providing the “where¬
withal” for the support of the family,
while the position of wife is filled by
the commiltes on appropriations, who
spend the money. To be sure, the duty
of the Utter committee is to make th se
app opriations j st as light as (hey can
consistently be when the children of
he household—the heads of the various
department#—make known their wants.
But is not that the duty of the wife as
well?___
The reckless squandering of our pub¬
lic domain excites general complaint
Last year 20.OJ0.0OU acres were dis¬
posed of The public domain a'quired
from France, Spain, Texas, Mexico,
Russia, and by cession from the States
was about 1,852,310,00) acres, costing
$322,000,000, 0? this the gov-
CARNESVILLE. .! JANUARY 5, 1884.
ernfoetit has deceived back about
$200,000,01)6. The sales hdve been 200
000,000, wh le 370,000.000 acres have
«way. Nearly all the land
remaining in thd htinde of the govern
*««»t is df little value couiparcd with
ihe territory disposed of. Under the
timber culture law and tne homestead
* ot > il > 8 claimed that n criminal neglt
gepce of administration has placed mit
lion » of acres io rte hands of land
shark#. Bona fide s ttlers are in a
minority, and vagabond squatters and
timber thieve are numerous. In Alaska
a Bettler instead of being confined to 160
acre* is allowed under various laws to
take 1,120 acre*. So even in that re¬
gion the land is being too rapidly taken
NoRfailftN men who rushed into cot¬
ton planting in the southwest directly
alter the war, lost heavily, but those
who turned their attention to the cul¬
ture and manufacture of sugar were
more successful. Three sons and heirs
of Oakes Ames are now running u«
Millundon plantatloii on the west side of
thbJiississippi, three miles above Gretna,
Louisiana. Their manager is a Maine
man, who has been directing tae estate
for many year*. This plantation em
ploys 140 hands In the sugar house and
cane fields. The machinery in all of the
heavy order. The Ames brothers eulti
vate about two square miles of land and
all the equipments of the plantation are
perfect. Among other c nveniences they
have their own tramway cars to convey
the cane from any part of the fields to
the mill. By ths use of improved ma¬
chinery these manufacturers have been
enabled iu the years ’79, ’SO, ’81, ’82, to
get a larger percentage of juice each suc¬
cessive,, oar, thus: Sixty-two and 2 lOths
pounds t * 100 pounds of cane; 64 and
9 lOths pounds to 100 pounds of cane;
67 and l-10th, *nd69 and 7 lOths This
may be an exceptional p notation, but
there is n i reason why the conditions ef
its operation » l&il d not become general
n the sugar g rojri ing a ctfiou.
Several of the leading scientists of
Europe have recently discussed the g rm
theory of contagious disease from various
standpoints. The opinion i exp-essed
that in anticipation of the assault of in
fective organisms an effort will lie made
to introduce into the body substances
which, though small in amount, slia 1 so
affect the blood and t agues as to render
them unfit for the development of the
contagions. Subsequent to the * ssault
of the parasite the experimenter will in¬
troduce substances which shall effectual¬
ly stop its multiplication. It is believed
that such substances have been f mnd,
Alkaline sulphides, introduced into the
body, are said to act powerfull y upon the
con agia of marsh fever, typhoid, mili¬
tary fever, puerperal fever and smallpox.
An Italian physician is experimenting
with arsenic as a preventive of malaria.
It is his intention to collect a large
number of animals assailable by the dis¬
order, and, after dividing them, he will
treat one group with arsenic, and leave
the other without treatment, and then
determine by inoculation experiments
whether ar enic really possesses the
power it is supposed-to possess, The re
suit of these experiments will be looked
foe with intense interest.
GESTERAL NEWS.
Texas contains three lunatic asylums
Thr average in Texas is one hanging
to thirty murders.
The Penitentiary farm in Montgom¬
ery is ordered for sale.
Fruit dry ng promises to be a leading
industry in Piedmont, Va.
Boone county, Ark , is filling up with
immigrants from Mississippi
Fourteen negroes will occupy seats
in the Mississippi Legislature.
A valuable vein of iron ore has been
discovered in Farquier county, Va.
A citizen of Micanopy, Florida is
about to set out forty acres in olives.
The Birmingham machine shops will
etn ploy six hundred able bodied men.
Arkansas has a district of eight coun¬
ties io which there is not a single saloon
At the end of the year Alabama will
have a surplus in the Treasury of $250,
000 .
The farmers of Alabama are said to
be more economical now than ever be
fore.
The Crump coifl mine, near Cnarloite
N. C , has been sold to Boston capital
ists.
Bushels of pearl buttons are being
turned out by the button factory daily
at Pea Tenn.
Nhw thoimnd pounds of Guava jelly
have been manufactured by Ca tain
Terry., df Yalaho, Fla., this season.
• Th:.bR arb i (JJO tierniaiis iii Charles¬
ton, find they are said to bxert a very
betjeficial influence upon the coramu
nity,.
'1 h j new bridge being bul t Across the
Chick 'sahaj» river, eas. of Bhubuta,
fell p^ntly, when it was nearly com
pletctl
Tiij? T range nucb larger crop of than Louisiana antici- this
year was
patbe quality of the fruit is ex
|eelient.
Tm. tinted States Fish Commi-sion
lias mule Vtlanta’ its distributing poitlt
forthe'B mtlieast, and has established rtn
agmc^Uye e. flostonnium
A F.iB’n of eiglity-fiVe
factnrers have arrived in Ildeigli, and
willpu.ceed arolina. to investigate the resouree
of Ixprvk C
Mlrsii the completion of the new at
watetlffpply tesisp veil at Charleston, S C, the
will be increased to 800,
000 jsjlons, about four times what it
snow* Ar£9'
dinner given by the Medical
Club jin Montgomery, Ala., last week,
the gujjts appeared in knee breeches,
black ilk stockings, patent-leather low
cut slips and hue les.
Mid V. M. Diggles, of New York,
has inlsi In Augusta, Ga . pr spectiJig,
wl h a vi«w to establishing a fi ',000
spindle .cotton factory, for the maim
facturi ;r ol fine fabrics.
Nom i Carolina will levy no State
tax lie t year. The Western North
Carolin Railroad company will pay in
to the ti *asury $600,000,which sum v ill
carry th State government.
T«e P. King mill of Augusta
commeilred baling goods yesterday for
the marpt. andUighty The mill lias 26,500 spin¬
dles looms, and is very com
ple'e. Tie company has a capital of
$1,000,
TitB btethplace of Admiral Raphael
,7. centtrai SejgfMs, in Washington, Ga., SeLmOtt was re
for'$2,O0O. The
family were among the founders of tae
Catholic church in that town. It is a
quaint obi chapel, which stands next to
their hffSacsteaJs.
Tub bjard of health of New York
city has been endeavoring to sue out at.
inj against the sale at auction of
“Pjf vfiey teas,” which are well known
to be adul erated. The importation of
Ping Bticy teas amounts to one bird of
all the teas that arrive in the New York
market
The cotton weighers of Galveston
county, Tex., have filed suits ag insc
merchants in the city of Galveston
claimhig damages because the merchants
had employed private parties to do their
weighi»g of cotton. The cases will be
watched with interest, as they involve
some very important points.
A MiMBER of the National Butter,
Cheese and Egg association, in session
at Cin&unati, said in the course of an
address that the annual value of the
butte coproduct of the Uniied Suites is
*302,000,Out); the che.-se pro Lie*
$36,060,00), and eggs and poultr,
amouate 1 to about the same.
As Mrs. Whiting steppsd out of her
residence in Baton Rouge one night re¬
cently, she felt something windin
aroufflttSTfe of her lower limbs. Sh
screamed and shook off the reptile,
which, when killed, was discovered to
be two feet in length, and of the spec'n-s
known as the highland moccasin, which
is very poisonous
1 H|g_Shipment of cattle from Massa¬
chusetts to Florid.', without any change
of cats, is a considerable undertaking,
but iUias been successfully done. On
Monday the first through car of cattle
passei over the Charleston and Savan¬
nah r.ilway. It was consigned to John
Bradford of Tal ahassee and contained
thirjy- ix head of fine Ayrshire and
Jersiy cattle, valued at $1,800.
The deputy commissioner of interna
tvdiue says that, the internal taxes
al (fitly collected, for the present fisca 1
veaJ are at the rate of $123,000,000 per
aiinfm. He estimates that the collec¬
tion* for the entire year will amount to
aboil $130,000,0)0. This estimate in¬
cludes between six and seven millions
to nd'?May, be collected in special taxes in April
but does not include au in
reasc which is anticipated for spirits
creed out of bond.
A Kansas miller drowned himself in
hismiilpoud because a dam he had
birJt failed to collect, water enough good
tmu the wheel. He exhibited
souse. Some men would have gone
liaise and jawed their wives and
t !*f dogs clear acroe# the room.—
riit'jim Herald.
PECK’S BAD BOY.
THE BOYS PI, AY “AV 11,11 WEST"
SHOW.
The Unit Hoyt* bn LnMrtu M Cow. nmt Hem
Pulled Aruuml In .Host I’rninlseiimis
Marnier.
(From the Milwaukee 8un.j
“You See ” said the had boy to the gro¬
cery man, “all of us boys 111 the Bill neighbor¬
hood wanted to have a Buffalo Sh”Wi
and pa gave us ; emission to uso the
back yard, and he said he would come
out and help us. Yon know that Boston
girl that was visiting at our house, with
the glasses on ? Well, she went climatois home
the next day* She says this
too wild fot" her. Yon see, we boys all
fixed up as Indians, and we laid lor some
one to come out of the house, to scalp,
the way they do *u the show. We
heard ft' rustle of female garments, and
all hid, and when the -Boston girl camo
out to pick sotne pansies in isa’s flower¬
bed, wc captured her. You never see fl
girl so astonished as shfl Was. We
yelled ‘yip-yip’ and I took hold of one
of her hands and my chum took hold of
the other, nud her bangs raised right up,
and her glasses fell off and she said ‘Oil,
yon “Wo hoWwid tilings.* lair in the hen
took her to our
house and tied her to a tin tain water
Conductor that camo down by the cor¬
ner of the barn and then we danced a
war danco aroiiud her, and yelled ‘kl
yi,’ until she persj fired. I took my
tomahawk and lifted her hair and hung
it on the chicken roost, and then I made
a speech to her in Indiau. I said:
“ ‘The pale faced maiden from the
rising sun is in the hands of Her the Apaches, brothers
and they yearn for gore,
and fathers alid uncles, the Indian agents,
have robbed the children of the forest of
their army blankets and canned lobster,
and the red man must be avenged, But
wo will not harm the pretty white
maiden, except to burn her to the stake.
Wliat has she to say ? Will she give the
red men taffy, or will she burn ?’
“Just then pa oomes out with a cis¬
tern pole, and he rescued the white
maiden, and said wo mustn't be so
rough. Then the girl said she would give
us all the taffy we wanted, and she went
in and she and ma watched nil from the
back window. Pa he watched ns rob a
coach, and he said it was first
rate. The man that collecta. the
ashes roafl tflie alloy,horsB and
wagon, lie h’ld juot ftadod1-op, auiLgot. Indians
on the wagon, when two of my
took the horse by the bits and four of
driver ns mounted of a clay the pipe wagon and and a pocket robbe^ comb, the
and a knife, but lie saved his ashes by
promising never to reveal the names of
the robbers. Pa just back laughed, hi# knife when and we
gave the ash man
things, and said he hadn’t bml so much
fun in a long time. Then we were go
ing to lasso a wild Texas steer, and ride
it, the way they did in the show, and pa
snld that was ivbere he came in bandy,
He said he could throw a lasso chum’s just like
a cow-boy. We got my pa’#
cow out of the barn, and drove her up
the alley, and pa stood there with a
clothes fine, with a big noose in and the threw end,
and he headed off the cow
the lasso. Well, you’d a died to see pa
sweep things out of the alley with liis
pants. The cow was sort of soared whon
wo drove her up the alloy, cause I guess
she thought it was time she was milked,
and when pa stepped out from behind
the barrel and thro wed the rope around
her neck, I guess she thought it was all
day with her, for she turned and galloped,
First pa followfd (he cow down the alley
sitting down, and about abushelof ashes
got up his trowsers leg, and the tomato
cans and old oyster cans flew around like
a cyclone « blowing. get Us out Injins of the
climed up on the fences to
way, and that senred the cow move, and
she snatched pa along too quick. I
yelled to pa to let go of the rope, and
just as the cow drawed him under a
wagon he let go, and the cow took the
clothes line home. Pa got up and shook
ike ashes out of his trowel 1 * legs anil
picked up a piico of hoard and
started back. You never saw a tribe ol
Indians got scared so-quiek ns we did.
As I went in the lien coop and got under
a barrel I heard pi say: (lie
•• -That tuists mi Buffalo Bill land
ness. No moro wild steer lassoing fo>
your uncle Ike.’
“■Well, no one was (o blame bul
pa. He thinks he can do every
thin g, and when he tries it and get*
tangled, lie lavs it to me. We went
out- on the street with our tom-hawks
when pa went in to brush hims reservation, ir, join
disbanded, and went to our
and piece reigns again, and the Boston
girl has gone home with an idea that* w,
are all heathens out west.”
Planting Fituir T’rkfh. — Sufficient
has beeu said ou autumn planting hi for¬
mer months. How long it may the be con¬
tinued will fh-penfl soil upon good condition season.
Win rover .lie is in
treis may still be planted, but by no
means should they he set if the ground
is partly frozen aud unfit to come in con¬
tact with the roots. In such condition
ot the soil it will lie better to hocl-iu tjje
trees until spring.
A Chicago man wanted a divorce be¬
cause lli* wife persisted’ laughed in singing him.
hymns. The Court just his had at
nnd he would have lost case not
his lawyer summoned the wife to the
witness stand aud started her singing.
At the cud of the fifth verse the Court
threw up the spronge and the divorce
wne granted.
VOL. XI. NO. 51.
IF.
If yon year lips
Would keep from slips,
Flro things observe with care;
Of whom yon speak,
To whom you speak,
And how, and when, and where.
It you your earn
Would who from jeers,
These things keep meekly hid;
Myself snd I.
And mine and my,
And how I do or did.
—Uhrigtian Ailvocnt*.
WIT AM) WISDOM.
Our content is our best having.
Keep potatoes in a oool, dark, place.
Apple# keep best on shelves.
Lemon-juice will usually remove mil¬
dew; place the fabric in the sun.
A handsome woman pleases the eye,
but a good woman charms the heart.
Btay not until you are told of oppor¬
tunities t-o do good; inquire after them.
Love without i steem cannot reach far,
nor rise very high; it is au angel with
but one Whig.
“Yks,” said the merchant, “I’m .iu a
great hurry. I've got to go and wait au
hour in a barber’s shop.”
A Liti’le Rook man found a cake ol
soap and for days carried it us a curi¬
osity, as nobody could tell what it w;is.
“It's a weigh l have,” remarked’ the
butcher as he Id his hand rest on tlio
sorties while weighing the meat.
He whose first emotion, on the vjew
of au excellent production, is to under¬
value it, will never have one of his own
to show.
“The dog has queer taste in matters
of dress; lie weark his pants in his
mouth.” YeB, and the man’s pants, too,
sometimes.
It is said that a hot shovel held over
furniture removes white spots.- It will
also remove young gentlemen callers
when they stay tot* lute. ■ '
Nothing is so great an instance of ill
manuers as flattery. If you, flatter all
the company, you please nouo. affront If you
flatter only one or two, you the
rest.
When you ask the old gentleman how
his daughter is coining on, and lie iras¬
cibly snaps back at and you. let * • \Y ,nll enough
, )uv adVice well
(jl
p lt - OFA Nw sww-mig peopKwTeb w a VuluiAdlry sra.
g err i ug ^ ,L they do dmLvjd Wrong,
upo HO £ gobd to 'he
co|ul but for proiam.y
tU ‘f » “° e ™
Gent— Ah, Mrs. „ B., R ...
Old um you m
keep a diary ilunng your visit to
the country ? Mrs. B., indignantly--
"No, sir, 1 did., t. The family bought
uiilk from the neighbors. , -
At the roadmaster’s olfico a fow days
since a report of material used was re
ceived wi’h this indorsement: “Charge
to Mrs. Lane’s account.” Investigation
roved that miscellaneous account was
tended.
Pat was quite right when he said tint
it is a great blessing that night.‘never
urnes on in the middle of tlio day to in
^rfere ‘‘1tli an honest man’# work, but
always when the day’s work is over and
tellow is all tired out.
Howells and Mark Twain are to com
Wne wrjte n book on American
humor- Wo Hindi get out of the busi
ritfht away, while we are yet safe,
American humor won’t f tand much more
writing about. —Lowell Citizen.
m i,a«»"
'looted a M,ul,son avenue mhi o his
wife. I8 > r ‘ I’ mmf who ^
tones. “For instance, . the »
aiways h^d some money to ins
wife for fal clothes She won.
It must be admitted-ami tlio foot is
greatly to our credit—-that Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge is being lionized al
most as much in this country as the
English prize lighters ami pedestrians Her
who preceded liim.— NorxUtmim,
ahl.
A Little Coal Mink.— Dick Luke is
the owner of a whole coal mine in
Michigan, and yet lie is not much of a
capitalist, for it is a very small prop*
e rty. He personally works thJrbnly tfio ttin
nel, into wliiflh he craw Is in morn
isg, to get put au average of a ton of
coal before night, %
Not Superstitious,' Bui Afraid
I stood at the corner of LaSalle and
WaslifugtoTi streets the other day, with says
a Chicago correspondent, talking the accident a
Board of Trade man about
which laid up Mr. Vanderbilt lor a few
days. “It reminds of Mr. Blank,” ho
me
said, naming one of Chicago s heaviest
speculators—a millionaire. “Do you
know why he will never trust himself
behind a cam of horses, except ou a
knew lie bad that peculiarity, ’
“Never
I replied.- “Yes,” be * continued, “and ho J R pas¬
sionately fond “f liovses, too. He used
to own some of the flues) siocit In Chi¬
cago, and drove a h am that would beat
Charlie Schwartz’s. He wsh Ea#t for a
rest a couple of roars ago, and knocking
around tho-country ruth a party of
friends came herons a gypsy camp. Just
fur a lark th y all had their fortunes
told, find nf er’ilie'gypsy had scanned
the lines in ho hand, alio told him that
he wa* 'Jest hied to die by aeonlout—by if a
mn«W* teai"j He would, bo angry
vnu eji 1< d 1dm RuperstitioUH,' but he
iieveiiholes« sol-1 his horses ns in eoon a#
lie oaioe home, tthd hasn’t l>eo* a bar
riago Mime."