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The Covington Star.
J. W, ANDERSON, Editor and Propretor.
Grass and Roses.
I looked where the roses were blowing;
They stood among grasses and reeds;
I said, “Where such beauties are
Why suffer these paltry weeds?”
Weeping the poor things faltered,
“We have ueither beauty nor bloom,
We are but grass in the roses’ garden—
fiut our Master gives lls this room.
"the slaves of a generous Master,
Borne from a world above,
We came to this place in Ills wisdom—
We stay to this hour from His love,
"He Lire feet! IIis humblest dreaturesj
We havg Served ilim mily mid long;
He gave no grace to diir features—
•> wfe have iieithbr coldr nor song—
"tet lie who lias made the rosed
Placed us on the self same sod*
He knows our reason for being—
WL are grass Ihttie garjdu of God.”
—Me*. Janies Freeman Clafke.
A CAPE HCI1N INCIDENT.
fit W. CLARK RCSSELL.
On a December frioniing ; iti the year
,
1883', a mail steamer; homeward boitud
from a New Zealand port, Was ap¬
proaching the meridian of the Horn,
but on a parallel more southerly than
it is now the custom of steamships to
take in rounding that stormy, ice-girt,
- **■ «■ **m-.*B mm i w fcp y .giu - -
headlands.
December in those distant regions is
midsummer, and the weather of that
morning was us fair and still as a
breezeless April day in this country;
but the swell of the vast track of ocean
ran ceaselessly, reminiscent respira¬
tions of a gian 033 whose conflict with
the heavens is eternal, and whose
breaking-pau es are very few and far
between indeed. Over this long,
dark blue, westerly swell the long
tilelal fabric went sweeping in long,
floating, launching Curtsies, whitening
the water astern of her with a mile of
lniik-whilo Wake, The frosty sUn,
tvhose beams in that sea have some¬
thing of the silvery brilliance of the
Electric light, flashed a score of con
stellalions out of the gilt ami glass
and brass about the steamer’s boWs and
passengers Were pacing the long hur¬
ricane platform. Ear away on the
starboard beam, poised, star-like,
Upon the keen blue rim of the ocean,
was an iceberg—a dash of crystalline
light against the airy sky that out
there, low down, wore the delicate hue
of the opal. Otherwise the ocean
swept naked to its confines, a plain of
rich, deep blue, with the heave of
the swell shouldering the morning
glory under the sun as it ran, and
making that part of the deep magnif¬
icent with flowing liglP.
The chief officer was on the bridge;
the first breakfast-bell bad ‘rung, and
the captain, smart as a naval oili er,
in buttons and lace trimmings, qui.ted
the chart-room and joined the mate to
take a look around before going be¬
low. The skipper was a man of eagle
sight, and instantly on directing his
eyes over the ship’s bows lie ex¬
claimed:
“What is that black object yonder?”
The chief mate peered, and the cap¬
tain leveled a telescope.
“A ship’s boat,” said he, “and seem¬
ingly full of people.”
The boat, when sighted, was some
three or four miles distant, and the
speed of the steamer was about thir¬
teen knots. In a few minutes the
alarm in the engine-room rang its re¬
verberatory warning, sending a little
thrill of wonder throughout the ship,
so rarely i< that telegraph handled on
the high seas.
“1 connt eight men, sir,” cried tho
chief mate, with a binocular glass at
his eye.
Again the engine-room alarm rang
out; the pulsing that for days l ad
been ceaselessly thrttbbing through the
long fabric, languished, and in a few
minutes, to another summons of the
metal tongue below, ceased, and the
great steamer floated along to her own
impetus, slowly, and yet m re slowly,
till the boat was within the toss of a
biscuit off the bow, with the passe;;
gors crowding to the side to look, and
sailors and waiters and steerage folk
biacke-’ing the rail forward.
The occupants of the boat consisted
r>f eight wild, liairv, veritable scare¬
crows of nisn, dressed in divers
fashions—Scotch caps, yellow sou -
westers, set-boots, toil-worn monkey
jackets, and the like.
“Boat ahoy!” bailed the captain, as
she slow!) washed alongside. “What
is wrong with vou?”
A fellow, standing up in the stern
sheets, cried back.
-For God’s sake, sir, take ns
aboard! Our water’s almost given
out. and there’s nothing left to eat.”
“Look out for the end of a line,”
hawtod r the oVet captain. “Are vou stroug
aboard without help’ ’
enough to get au „
AtopewJthrown, tl Tallows and swinging one after and
came
ecrambling „p tba dan,,
side of the steamer, The
crowded round and gazed at them
curiosity and pity. Their
eyes seemed to And famine
expressed in the leathern
that stared back through mats of
“We must let your boat go,” said
the captain.
“Can’t help it, sir, thankful enough
to bo here, I reckon,” answered the
fellow who had called from tho stern
sheets, anil who acted as
“Anything belonging to you to come
out after?”
“Nothing. Let her go, sir. If
sailors’ sea-blessings bmi freight a
draft ghe airi’t going (o’ float long.
The boat was sent adrift, the engine
hell hmg 6-.it, once more the great
mail steamer was thrashing over the
long, tali heave of the Capo Horn
swell.
“How came you into (his mess?”
inquired the captain.
The man who had before spoken
gave answer:
“ IlVre ali that’s left of the crew of
the Boston bark “George Washing¬
ton.” She was a whaler, a hundred
and forty days out. It were four days
ago. I was the first to smell fire some
Hn"*n »4-n»r, -a - r»l ( vnlr tLa m J /I*14O,
- r
watch.”'
“It wanted ten minutes to six bells,”
exclaimed a man, and a general, em¬
phatic, hairy nod followed the inter¬
ruption.
“I was the' first to smell fire,” con¬
tinued the other, “call it what hour ye
like. I gave the alarm, and all hands
turned to with hoses and buckets. But
there was a deal of oil in the hold, and
the ship’s planks was thick with grease
besides, and that gave us no chance.
By ten o'clock in the morning the
flames had bursted through and was
shooting up mast-high, and then we
calculated it was time to look to the
boats.”
The others stood listening with hard,
stolid, leathery faces, generally gazing
With steadfast eyes at the speaker, but
someti mes glancing askance at theeap
stood round.
“There wns an itgly sea running,”
the man went on, “and the wheel
being desarted, the ship had fallen off
and ran in the trough, and the lower¬
ing of the stern boat-!, whalemen
though they was who had the handling
of ’em, cost our company of twenty
eight souls the loss of all hands saving
them as stand afore ye.”
“A bad job! a measly, cruel, bad
job!” here broke in a long-jawed man
whose brow and eyes were almost con¬
cealed by a quantity of coarse red
liair.
“Well, . ciglit men got away in
the boat,” proceeded the spokesman,
“bringing along with us nothin’ but a
small bag of bread and about six gal¬
lons of fresh water. We're Wen a
washing about 6iuco Tuesday, and
now, the Lord be praised, here we
be with a chance of getting
something to cat, and what’s more
pleasurable stid to our feelings, the
opportunity of comfortably taming
in.”
A murmer of pity rang among the
passengers, several of whom were
ladies, and there was more than one
somewhat loud whisper to the effect
that the captain ought really to send
the poor creatures forward at once to
get some breakfast, instead of holding
them, starving and dry with thirst, in
talk. The eagle-eyed skipper, how
ever asked several questions before
,
dismissing them.
“Since by their own confession the
tire gave them plenty of time to escape
from the bark, bow was it they left
her so ill-provisioned as they repre
seated ?”
This was most satisfactorily account¬
ed for. Other inquiries of a like na
lure were responded to with alacrity
and intelligence.
Every sentence that one or nil
other of them let fall was corrobor
ate( \ by the rest, Their tale of suffer
j,,^ indeed, in the open boat was al¬
most harrowing; and tho captain with
|], c first note of sympathy lh.it lii^
voice had taken, ordered them to go
forward, adding, that after a good hot
meal had been served them they might
turn in and sleep for the rest of the
day wherever they could make a bed.
At the breakfast in ‘he saloon no
thing was talked about but the whaler
,j m t had been consumed by fire, the
dreadful drowning of some two-tliirds
of her crew, and the miraculous de
lireranee of the survivor, from the in
expressible perils and ko.ro.-, of an
j open boat of in the the sohtudeof thew.de the sto.mi- woiId
est part ocean
j j over. A benevolent gentleman pro
posed a subscription. Before the iunch
I con-bell was rung a sum ot tn t.
pounds bad been collecicd. Theincident
^ R breaW iu , hc monotony; and when
the eight men re-appeared on deck d nr
ing the afternoon they were promptly
; app.oachad by .to P»..o»g.ra, wbp
COVINGTO N'. GEORGIA, TU ESDAY, JUNE 1890.
obliged them to recite again and yet
■grain their mellFicJlQly story of mar*
time disaster,
On the morning of tho third day,
following (he date of this rescue, a
ship was sighted almost directly in a
lino with the vessel’s course. As she
was neared she was seen to be rigged
with stump, or Cape Horn top-gallant
msists; she was also under vo.ry easy
canvas which gave her a short-handed
look in that quiet sea. Great wooden
davits overhung her sides, from-which
dangled n number of boats. She pre¬
sented a very grimy, worn aspect, and
had manifestly kept the sea for some
months. It was observed by the chief
officer, standing on tho bridge of the
steamer, that (he eight rescued nieii,
who were looking at (ho sail ahead
along with some of the crew arid
steerage passengers, exhibited several
symptoms of uneasiness and
even ot figitatlori: Suddenly the
stripes and stars, with the stars invert¬
ed, were run aloft to the peak-end—A
signal of distress! The engines were
“slowed,” and the steamer’s head put
so as to pass the vessel within easy
hailing distance. A man aboard the
bark stood in the m'nzen rigging.
!us aixiMwa,- ahovl”, He xo&fed through
nose. ...... —
“Hallo!”
“I have lost a boat and eight of my
men. Have you seen anything of
her ?”
The captain, who -had gained the
bridge, lifted his hand.
“Bark ihoy!” lie cried; “what bark
is that?”
“The ‘George -Washington,’ whaler,
of Boston, a hundred-and-cighty-four
days out.”
The captain of the steamer con¬
trolled a sour grin.
‘ How came you to lose your boat
and tlie men?”
“They stole her one middle watch
and sneaked away from the ship.”
The captain of the steamer uttered
a laugh.
“ We have your men safe here.” he
not burnt down to the water's edge,
and that the rest of vour crew lo,k
„ rl .k «<-«„„
drowned men. Send a boat and you
shall have vour sailors.”
Twenty minutes later tho eight
whalemen were being conveyed
their bark of . their ...
to in one
own boats, most of them
grinning as they looked up at the line
of heads which decorated the steam¬
er’s sides; aul, indeed, there xvas
some excuse for the smiles, for among
them they were carrying away the
thirty pounds which had been sub¬
scribed for them.’ It would be inter¬
esting to krrew what their skipper said
when lie learned that they had lost a
fine boat for him; but ocean mail liners
have to keep time, and the steamer
could not wait to send a representative
on board the whaler to report the
many elegancies of sea-dialect which
we may reasonably assume embellished
her skipper's rhetoric.—New York
Independent.
Coffcc as a Disinfectant.
An old colored man living in a dis¬
trict where the disease often prevailed
once told the writer that one of the
best preventive measures against yel¬
low fever was infusion of coffee.
Some years ago lie passed through an
epidemic of that g rave malady under
the worst possible conditions, For at
least a month he occupied the quarters
of a large number of sufferers, pass¬
ing night and day among them, eating
and sleeping in their midst.
Recalling tho homely advice given
him lie faithfully tried coffee as an an
liseptic and drank freely of a very
strong infusion live or six times a day,
and continued the practice all the time
He was for-
tuuate enough to escape contagion,
but never attached much importance
to the use of (he coffee, Considering
the results of recent developments, it
would seem that the old negto was
right in attributing antiseptic proper¬
ties to it.
A series of experiments conducted
by a German professor has proved that
they are quito marked. Several differ¬
ent forms of intestinal bacteria were
experimented upon, and their develop¬
ment and growth were found in all
cases to be interfered with by the ad
dition of a small quantity of coffee in¬
fusion to nutrient gelatine. In pure
infpsion the bacteria were rapidly de¬
stroyed.
The question as to what constituents
exercise the antiseptic effect cannot yet
be fully determined, Tbc caffeine is
certainly active in only a slight degree;
the tannin to a somewhat greater ex¬
tent: but. presumably, of greatest jm
portance are tLe substances that are
developed by roasting. It is interest
i„g to note that a cup of coffee leftin
a room tor a week or more, remains
aim... b» miermoagtohma.
A DOLLAR BILL
PROCESSES IN THE MAKING OF
PAPER MONEY.
Engraving the Plates—Printing ami
Numbering Notes—Precautions
Against Counterfeiting End.
in the Pulp Kettle,
What volumes otNhjstory one of Uncle
Sam’s greenbacks cotfid relate if it only
bad the power of speech I
U hethev their life be long or short, in
the interval that elapses from the moment
tnat they are tlimedWilt fresh, crisp and
bright from the Government presses,
until they straggle back so dirty and
mutilated that even their denominations
are scarcely decipherable, they have
passed through hundreds, perhaps thou¬
sands of hands j figure;,l thumbed in innumerable
transactions; been by million¬
aires and hod-carriers—in ;i word, have
played an active part-in busy human life.
There is much of interest, however, td
be told about them before they are sent
out on their career of Usefulness.
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MACEBATOR ($570,000 ON THE TABLE).
Take the work in the engraving divi¬
sion of the Government- Bureau of En¬
graving and Printing, for instance, as
this is where the manufacture of paper
money begins. No one engraver ever cuts
the entire plate from which a bank note
is printed. For instance; one man en
graves the portrait, another does the let¬
tering of the inscription; a third the
counters that Indicate- the denomination
of the note; another a Section of the or¬
namental border, for this is never en¬
graved in full; still another is engaged
on the seat, and finally the work of alt
must be carefully scrutinized and the fin¬
ishing touches ^ added before the plate can
bfl y nt t0 he p ^ otci ‘‘ -------
the more perfect the plate is in every
part,the more difficult it is for gone or any
..
weeks to fin j sh up a portrait, background, and after
that he must put in the
which consists of a ciose network of the
finest spider web lines, made by a ruling
machine with a diamoud point,
d
m m a m
M ■vs.
Ml
HAND PRINTING PRESS.
This may be seen on the dollar certifi¬
cate bearing the head of Martha Wash
ington. On thc same bill it will be ob
served that the counter on the right hand
side, the Centre piece dollar,” containing the
words “Oue silver end the
counters and border mound the centre
piece on the back, are composed of pe¬
culiarly curved lines.
These machines arc very expensive,
and are very complicated in their con¬
struction. They work slowly, but with
great exactness,"and it is impossible the lines for a
counterfeiter to reproduce ex
actly. of thc plate engraved
All thc rest is
hand. After the plate for a
series of notes is completed it number is taken
the transfer press, where any
reproductions can be made, which is
dered necessary in order to print
notes in large quantities.
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numbering machine.
Thi« however, is by no means a
ple operation. The different dies which
make up the complete plate must first be
transferred to a cvlmdncat steel rob
separately. They must then be laid
down, or “assembled” upon a single
steel plate or bed-piece. Upon this bed
piece the various parts of the note ap¬
pears in intaglio, from which the im¬
pression is transferred to steel rolls of
proper width, which is usually sufficient
to contain four notes. The plates are
lettered from A. to D., and thii is an¬
other check upon counterfeiting as the
numbers must correspond to these letters.
The last operation to which the piates
ar< subjected before they go to the print
ing room is the hardening process. This
is done in various ways by an application
of heat and chemicals. The plates arc
then cleaned, waxed and laid away till
they are needed by the printer.
The paper used by the Treasury De¬
partment for its bills and notes is manu
factored by a private concern, and upon
its delivery is counted twice and packed
away in sections of from four to forty
sheets after it has been damped.
Several different kind of presses are
used in the printing division. The old
laahioned hand - jrfate press and steam
presses of the latest and most improved
provided patterns are employed. Each press is
with a register, which records
automatically every impression that is
made.
Each impression calls for a sheet of
paper; so that all the clerk who makes
his examination at the end of the day
has to do is to see whether the number of
printed sheets returned correspond with
the number of the register. This must
also correspond with the record in the
wetting-room.
These precautions were necessary to
prevent dishonesty, for otherwise it might
be easy for rt printer to smuggle in a
blank sheet of paper and /ill it with im¬
pressions of $100 notes, and rio one would
be the wiser.
The numbering division is the last
through which the printed sheets
to pass. Here the blue numbers
letters are stamped upon the notes,
accordance with a system which has
devised in- order to make it easier
experts to U«i»et spurious j).ot»«
is now a
variety Of bank notes, Treasury notes,
Silver certificates, bonds, revenue and
postage stamps are will printed at the Govern¬
ment Bureau, it at Once bo seen ot
how vast a magnitude the work of this
Department is.
It keeps hundreds of persons Con¬
stantly employed, from artists and skilled
mechanics down to the girls who sort
over and counts the sheets of paper. In
1862 the Superintendent of the Bureau of
Engraving and Printing had only'on0
male and four female assistants. Tlio
Department now employs more than one
thousand persons.
The face value of the securities printed
by the Bureau from July, 1869, to July,
1888, aggregated $13,108,606,634, and
the amount previously produced would
probably bring the total up to $20,000,
000 , 000 .
When bank notes have outlived their
period of usefulness they are redeemed
by the various sub-treasuries of the Gov
■»rn IIU.111 then ajiil dumped atml Into 1 -p Iff it.kill cyTinaers 1— li
»re vug
large as locomotive boilers, which are
railed numerators. Lime and soda ash is
then added and the cylinders put in mo¬
tion. When the mass has been reduced
to a pulp it is drawn off in semi-liquid
form, and pumped into the paper room,
where it is manufactured into thick sheets
of paper. Some of it is cast into vari¬
ous forms, including little statuettes,
which are sold by the Washington sta¬
tioners and fancy-store keepers to visitors
ns mementos of the National Capital.—
New York Press.
1TEWSY GLEANINGS,
California imports all its oysters.
Balt manufacturers are combining.
Canada is considering penny postage.
The English Derby was won by Sainfoin,
Horse-flesh is sold at 132 shqps in Paris.
Mount Etna is in a violent state of activ
tty
CaoP prospects in Europe continue favor¬
able,
Connecticut fruit this year will bo plen¬
tiful.
The apple tree worm has begun opera¬
tions.
Winter wheat in tha West is in poor con¬
dition.
There are 16,009 flour mills in the United
States.
This year is destined to be a great one in
mining.
A tv A TER famine is threatened in New
York city.
The planting of cotton was late, except in
(he Carolinas.
The thefts of valuable dogs in England are
on the increase.
New York pays $130,003 a month to keep
her streets clean.
A small green bug is attacking the rye
fields in Pennsylvania,
A irRKsit Nihilist plot against tile Czar ha3
been discovered in Paris.
Complaints are made ot extensive Cattle
stealing ih South Dakota.
The internal revenue is carrying into the
Treasury $1,500,000 a month.
In Chicago on a recent Sunday tho police
gathered in 20o lost children.
A $10,000,000 cracker trust has been
formed in Minneapolis, Minn.
The United States manufactured 70.000,*
300 pairs of suspenders last year.
The Indian training school at Carlisle,
Penn., has now enrolled 733 scholars.
OREGON expects an addition of 150,000 to
its population this year by emigration.
A ftoYAL order prescribes knee breeches
and bhckle shoes for the German court.
The bank deposits of Kansas are now $2,-
500,000 more than they were a year ago.
The Watkins's tower. 1350 feet high, will
be erected at Wiliesden, a London suburb.
In some of the mountain passes of Wash¬
ington the snow is still seventy-five fo3t
deep.
Chief Tohee has signed over to the Gov¬
ernment 233,418 acres of Indian
lands.
Fort Worth, Texas, will erect a of fireproof
spring palace to take the place the one
burned.
It is said that Lard Salisbury will hand
over all the Lake Nyanza country, Africa, to
Germany.
The demand for St. Bernards is increasing
in Euro >pe. Offers . of $3003 for dogs have
been re: fused.
Winter wheat fields have been plowel up of
in various positions ot Illinois because
frost and cold rains.
Under the new contract for stamped wifi en
velopes the United States Government
save $335,000 in the next four years.
The Tombs. New York city, is crowded
with 400 prisoners, where the accoinmoda
are intended for only about 300.
An attempt is to be ma le to keep out of
the country Mormon immigrants, oa tha
ground that they are contract laborers.
Buffalo Bill has capture! the city of
Dresden, Germanv, with his Wiiff West
Show. The first performance was held on
a Sunday, and there was an immense crowd
in attendance. The enthusiasm was anl great, his
particularly when Colonel Cody rifie-shootm
cow boys did their nansational
on horseback.
VOL. XVI. NO, 30.
THE NATIONAL GAME.
Nicholson- now captains Toledo.
The game is “booming” in Hawaii.
The Boston Leaguers want Dunlap.
The attendance is improving all around.
The Buffalo intield is doing great stick
Work,
The double umpire system is an assured
success.
This has been a remarkable season for dis¬
abled players.
i he Hnwaiians, ot the Sandwich /stands,
want a pitcher.
Fogektt lias left the Philadelphia Brother¬
hood team again.
I HE Players' l.engue leads the country in
home runs and loug hits.
Kerins lias succeeded McCarthy as cap
tain ot the St. Louis Broivus.
Extra inning games abound in the
American Association this season.
t luo, Bierbaues, has Holding of the Brooklyn Brotherhood
a average of .935.
Jok Mulvey is at present playing the best
game m the Brotherhood at third base.
Home runs are being made with remarka
b.e frequency by the Players’ League batters.
il hB th< ? thini basem an of tb«
y “ Brotherhood .i tea,n ' Is a clever ball
player
Boston lias more left-1,anded pitchers than
Danny Kasterrrook, make Glasscock, Bassett and
a stonewall infield for the New
1 ork ivJiguers,
lx is said that Second Baseman Dunlap lias
an annual income of $5000 from his real
estate investments.
**•»'
There is more baseball than the public can
stand, the anil the gate-money is not near as bi¬
as magnates expected. °
Giles has already Dlaye.l four different
positions tor Cleveland’s Flayers’ League
team. He is still a utility m tn.
Pete Browning, of the Cleveland Brother¬
hood team, is putting up a game unequaled
by any left heider in the Players’ League.
Thirty-eight players of the Brotherhood
have an average of .300 and over, and seven¬
teen of the National League have a similar
record.
_ Urines, of Cincinnati; Rusie, of New
York, ami Hutchinson, of the Chicagos, are
League. the pitching honors in the National
PROMINENT PEOPLE.
Secretary Blaine is growing bald.
Bismarck is well versed in English litera¬
ture.
Jur.i.v Ward Howe, the authoress, is sev¬
enty-one.
The Vanderbilts are noted for their tem¬
perance.
General Brine, the English Channel bal¬
loonist, is dead.
Sir Frederick Leighton is sixty, and ha
painted 130 pictures. GreeyefL V v
King George, of a grandfathei
at forty-four years old.
A illiam Black was paid $6500 for tin
serial right to his last novel.
The Duke and Duchess of Connaught vis "
ited Niagara Falls recently.
General Armistead Long, the ex-Con
federate, is now quite blind.
Roger Q. Mills, of Tens, has been- in
Congress continually since 1873.
Count Herbert Bismarck is reported en¬
gaged to Lady Dudley’s eldest daughter.
Edwin Booth, the tragedian, is said by his
fr.endsto be the laziest man in the world.
Busan B. Anthony is now stumping
South Dakota in the interests of equal suf¬
frage.
General Booth, Commander-in-Chief of
the Salvation army, has openel a bank in
London.
Lady Anne Blunt, the granddaughter of
Lord Byron, lwes in Egypt, and wears the
Arab dress.
Sam Small, the Georgia evangelist, has
lege accepted the Presidency of a Methodist col¬
at Ogden, Gtah.
Henry M. Stanley will come to America
in the autumn. He proposes to lectur&iajsflsJ
Magazine, 0 nifeAiiD^^vfsoN-'GiLDER, and Miss Katherine of the Century
Boston, Clark, of
are to be married early next month.
Cyrus V. Field, the man of cables and
elevated roads, and once the owner of the
New York Muil and Express, is insured for
$359,000.
Senator W olcott, of Colorado, earns
$50,000 a year as attorney for railroads in
his State outside of his salary of $5000 a y-ear
as Senator.
Tsu Kwo Yin, the new Chinese Minister
has at Washington, and is a stout man of fiftv and
a wife one son. He was head of a
college at Pekin.
Mrs. Sarah M. Renton, who died in Port
Blakely, wealthiest Washington, recently, was tho
woman in the ne.v State. She
left a fortune of $3,000,000.
The Emperor William has declined to per¬
mit the city of Berlin to erect a monument
to his father, becauso it is his duty to do it
himself, and lie will do so.
Prince Charles, of Norway and Sweden,
was drawn for jury duty recently, but the
court promptly excused him, on account of
his family connection?, it is said.
Pierre Lorillard, of the graatNew Jer¬
sey tobacco firm and one of the leadiug pro¬
moters of the turf, carries a $350,000 policy.
His brother Louis holds $100,000.
....., Miss Fl oren c e Righting ale, .the famous
“CHRI3” Magee, the Pittsburg million¬
aire politician, has donated $10,000 to b«
used for the erection of a home for boot¬
blacks and messenger boys in that city.
Robert C. Church, a colored in man. Memphis, occu¬
pies oue of the finest residences
Tenn. He is worth a quarter of a million
dollar.?, from which ho derives a largo in¬
come,
“M. Quad,” Detroit the humorist and sketch
writer of the Free Frees, is paid
1135 a week for his work. He weighs 130
pounds, is very eccentric, and is a perlec*
child in all business matters.
Senator Hearst’s Washington houst
contains seventy rooms. So far $1711,000 ha*
been spent iu furnishing it, and this is said
to bo only a beginning. Thirty years ago
the Henator occupied au attic room in a Mis¬
souri farmhouse, where ho was working for
his board.
THE LAB0E WORLD.
The iron trade is booming'.
The strike agitation is practically over.
The demand for building labor is very
irgent.
The French Government has limited a la
boring man’s day to tea hours.
A $50,000 furniture factory is to be movec
from Ohio and located at Gadsden, Ala.
AN exhibition of the trades ami Industrie,
of" northwest Germany has opened at Bre
men.
The National Bakers’Union has over 100
local unions with a membership of nearly
30,009.
The Now York Central Railroad ha,
twenty-six women employed as station
agents.
All of the block coal fields of Ohio nno
Indiana, with a few exceptions, are working
full time.
One of the most powerful and best Society governed of
unions in Rngdaud is the London
Compositors.
The United States Rolling Stock Company
at Decatur, Ala., has just booked orders for
11,000 fruit cars.
Seventeen hundred carpenters non-union are ot
strike iu Cincinnati, many men
having joined it.
The introduction of steam yachts on the
canals of Venice has thrown many gondo¬
liers out of employment.
The sawmills of the South are crowded
with work; all the hardwood mills will bs
The Emperor of Germanv has extend promised labor
^ accede to the mercantile petitions to classes,
protection to the
An - investigation of the wages of farm
labor has been made by the Government, and
it is reported that the monthly rate o. wage,
has uot declined.
^ g the action of employers
N j ' Scotia, over of Labor. The
discharging Knights not beioug to em
ployers say their men must any
organization, material handlers that
the building say
the ^^Laborami organization is rapidly taprovmg^nce
tha membership is increas
illi; nt eV ery meeting,
d that the action of the Rochester
(S Y .) convention in eliminating the ant*
trike clause from the coiistitution of tne
Order of Railway Conductors is likely dism
tegrate that organization . has
The Austrian Military Department
perfected arrangements by wmeu, m all
uture changes in the various garrisons of
Austria, the largest forces will be stationed
in t he factory districts. This step is taken in
eonse^vuaacs of the recent labor i lots.
' attain Anson doesn’t allow any of his
players to loitor aoout. Ho hurries them oa
and o.l the field and keep them constantly on
Harry H right and Deacon White are
now the only active connecting links betweeu
the baseball of the past and the baseball of
the present.
ot Cooney, Boston, will of Chicago, and Herman Lon?,
be great rivals for shortstop
honors in the League this season. Both are
playing a great game.
, , E. Y , *?- IME;s ’ Tii '”^0 at- BrotherhqqJ Park
O’Rourke, of the Jfew York Player^
team, has, made but two errors iu
thirty games. He has bail sixty-four put
outs and eleven assists.
Captain Kelly’s work behind the bat so
far this sjasju nas never been excelled in
this country. The Boston Brotherhood star
Is sure death to base-runners.
IpE itcrbrook, of the New York League
Ciuo, keeps up his present batting form ha ’
may repeat his brilliant achievement of 1881,
when he led the Ameriaan Association bat¬
ter?.
A Kansas paper 3avs that the Germans in
many parts of tho West hava learned to
speak and read English solely for tho reason
that it is the only language iu which in¬
telligible reports of baseball games at.
printed,
Danny Richardson, of the Now York
Players’ team, says: "it takes Brotherhood
players to field the kind of balls that are
being u-ed in that organization. They are so
live.y that they almost tear tho hands off the
players.”
AVhilk baseball is undergoing a sort of
purging ;n America, the great game is evi¬
dently taking strong root in England, There
is no douot of its popularity among the ama>
teurs who have taken it up ttnd tho profes¬
sional league has started iu with excellent
prospects.
Memorial Day figures e;>ea!i for them
ie:vesi Total attendance at ail Brotherhood
games, 39,080; League, a*, I tin. i„ 1 siij'J tile
total attendance at all League games on Me¬
morial Day was 41,497. Tne leagues attendance in 1899 at
Hi) game.- of the four leading
Was 119,464, lli),891, and in 1889 the number was
Dunlap did uot sign with New York, not
Vritkstau dug reports to that effect nud his
appearan e with the New York Club one day.
"Dunuy” wanted more money than the New
Yorx Club was inclined to pay and also
wanted a two years’ contract. This was re¬
fused, He only played in one game to help
Ewing out,
A pitched is about the only player on a
team Twelvey nowadays who does not wear a glove. but
ears ago nobody wore a glove pair
the catcher, and he was content with a
of ladies’ kid gloves. Now the average back¬
stop wears hand protectors that are larger
than those worn by pugilists in contests that
$re allow ed by Jaw.
Jtob Roy’s Sword,
On one of the tables in the library ot
It is n sworii bearing the maiks of time,
ns tvll it may, for it is more than two
centuries oitl. None but a strong man
could v u Id it. Its original read owner of him was is a
Ktmiv/ "for man if what we question
true, the battered sword in
is none other than the clavmore of Kob
Boy MacGregor, whose lame has bee
perpetuated for all time by the genius of
jicolt. Highlanders
The wars of the were con
eluded blade^onipcan loa" iigo. but looking at this
great almost imagine that
those tierce feud? and battles which bcott
hus so giuphically depicted were but
things of yesterday. Bob Koy ? High- blade
was not drawn in the fights of the
landers ' alone, a ’ for it was swung right
sturdily in many of t hc battles over the
border between the tn Cavaliers and the
Covenanters. . about five feet
The famous Claymore is pounds, and
Ion- weighs some fifteen
has a broad, two edged blade of the
finest tempered stool. It has a basket
hilt of strongly wrought brass, so fash¬
the could be used with
one hand or both. This was at one
covered with leather, which has been
worn a wav bv time and hard use There
i- a wee. piece left, however, on which the
“ Rob Bov." with thc exception of
namt . „tiU bo The
the first letter, m: t ’' seen.
blade, though much nicked, is as strong
as it ever was. property of John Mac¬
The relic is the
Gregor. Esq., of Brooklyn, and was ex¬
hibited at tbc PhiladelphiaCentenmaUn of Mr. >lac*
It is by t\ie courtesy
Gregor that it is exhibited by the Long
Island Society,
English sav keep
Unite i States Navv the difficulty with is to then
engine-room meciaaics; waereas, efforts of the
navv, the most persevering re¬
cruiting party, specially organized to obtain
mechanics for the engineer’s force, have en¬
tirely tailed.
Over 310 applications for the eight vacant
positions o£ female deputy tactory inspectors Inspector
have been received by Facterv
Connolly, at Albany, N. V. Most o. taam
bucxed up by influential indorsers.
are of the applicants are
Nearly one-quarter The Inspector is m
married women. how to make the appoint,
quandary as to
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