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THE MONROE
VOL XXMX
HAD A TRAfilC EM)IXG
ATTEMPT OF NAPOLEON TO
ERECT AN EMPIRE.
Thr 8 lalc( nn<l M'-xlro’* In'llnn
HU Scheme—Execu¬
tion of SGx milUn an l Gen*. Mlrirooii
iiml Aicjla — Carlotta Now a Maniac.
K ul nf in Ktip'ri*.
Rt r arge tire the ways of fate. We
reach for the r se and grasp a thorn:
/ x-ts. :* we exchange tin*
w ttingly the sub
stance for the
mi MOW.
II id Maximilian,
, Archduke of Aus¬
tria. qui.-hed never hi lights rclin
\' tt -r
to the Ha C. sbu “> g
g t h r o n e—n c v O r
r crossed the seas to
his new empire of
J M »• I (I. ill MAXIMILIAN 'iCXiCO- he WOUld
have escaped the tragic end iha be¬
fell bin) no tin* plains ol Quereta'o,
would stand today i ext in succes¬
sion to the proud Au-tri n Km pi re,
and Lis wife, the beautiful but un¬
fortunate Carlotta. would not now
be spending her days hopelessly in¬
sane in the rojal castle ol Bouchuout,
near Brii-sels.
Brightly shone that (lay in 1^64
when Maximilian and Cirlott*. after
paying farewell visits to the French,
B *lg an and English courts and alter
receiving the Intel benediction, left
their beautiful palace of Miramar on
the blue Adr a tic and sailed for the
an- lent empire of the Montezumas
Three yea s later Mexico had flung
them from her—the one demented,
the other dead one to s()(-ri(l her
days endle sly raving over past sp eu
dors, the ashes of the other to be
home to the imperial vault of Vienna,
there to mingle with the remains of
a long line of ancedois.
l ounliii; mi Empire In Mox t-o.
It w is the pro c t of the third Na¬
poleon of I ranee to found an empire
In Mexico that would le feudatory to
France and the occasion came when
Juarez, the President of Mexico, and
a full-blooded Indian, repudiated the
debt which that country owed to
France, England and Spain. The
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Tills PA L AUK Ol Ml I! AMAH.
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iu\a , and | imUtaiy . lorces were to he
sent to .Mexico to seize the pirts of
untiy on the Gulf coast and apply
the revenue to the payment of the
foie 1 :^, debts ,,f Mexi o. No teiri
in L lu
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. m . !il * Hi toilow
’ 11 ' an( . •
mg year a convention was hold be
tw. n tin* representatives of the in
Mexho.
1 lu n In doigns of Y ranee wore lain
v 1r Witm r ir \;
war then i.i.ed between the 1-icncli
lorces and tio-eof Juarez and tie
latter was forced to retire to the
nort hern prov nccs.
Napoleon 1 11 . had well selected his
tim,. 'Phe ri.it,si - * w , s 11 , m
iMih-.fi.. 1 1 ^ 0 ,1 m Th.) relicdio.i, ‘
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tinai'le , , i° ('\tcnd any ai.i except ni(tr
al to Mexico, and that moral aid had
at the time litt’e influence. Avail
mg himself of his opportunity, Na
polo n offered the throne of nV Mevien
to Maximilian tier nf'thl grand-duke J. \u
triaand hrn* c nr 1 .* -nni 1 rt 1: n *
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mg sou'ieign or Austria-Hungary.
1 ho latter asked that the people of
Mixico express themselves on the
subject, and t hrough the elliciey of
French havonets a faKe vote ""nted vv is ....
cured and is.u’ Maximilian a V
Ai.ril in Vli.-...,‘ ho w, > " , ,l . 7 , nis
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‘ twt-i.'.. ..f lrdniar and lUt ® r l ia ui
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Tar.wiii \^s,ts t> several European
courts, and revolving the bless ng of
the pope, he an 1 his wife, Carlotta,
set sail 'children* for Nl.'xeo Nlav* wTth *’n “1 ike
two inhV .Mfirhte t n 1
,.v " writo< n i
. v \ UI ,
, w ‘/T, tr > ‘ Eiximilian and ^ t ar- ’*
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i atta laid d , wn the rules of etiquette
lor their hou^elio d: ereate l new or
nurs; invented designs for de ura
I,oils and medals: chose the miifo ra
for the imp ri il bodvemr tVvl-U 1 mul s, ri
ou-lv pondero l alt tt-e I imir | 1 x
•!.. hmb, i ' 1 s f. •! ^ <>U1S .
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yt\- o iros-the water. .
.
Hiitlij- I'itteii to little.
mi.rv;!,!,?, e cn 1«lpp „ DDed e d ^ •
. unr. A ortauu r. a poet, Ids mind
fi cd w ith the tiaoiti ns of the most
form-ridden court
u Europe, accus- f
toured to deil onlv 4, \
wilh thoroughly ri ml d Sj
t o J.“ i ^
do „ umen % c a m . 1 - , .
iU!ue>, oiaximiLan /\. /A
was perhaps t h e >7 \
worst practical > p" N *—<_
ruler that could ■ '
bave been select d l UEsiBENT juarez.
for Mexico. He was not only unable
to see tbimrs clearlv himself, but
equaHy incap » ble of surround ing him
self w.th clear-s ghud advisers. The
c untrv needed a hard, shrewd, prac
tical soldior-ru.er; a ru.in of s mole
tastes and clos • economy. Maximil
lau was a traiitioaal priu e: uot
witstaadlng the emptiness of his
coffers, he surrounded lilmselt with
•V-uubprlaios. mar-dials of the court
.
QC *4 O J * k n -4 % Ha he N 4Ml| —a K (X <rV o o w n w h— i 03 X: X oo
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c ^ uorr,cs * otc -*anl with such
and the corresponding
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JSfSrt , , £ , m.Htneed ^” , 086 "* . hU
* M-iU'Tli- • while : -■•auinilian, M 'i i mil ion c„. sup
ported u.v trench bayonets, was curl
<» ly .' oking over his new domain.
I “J res rlent Juarez in the mountain
Miderness of Chihuahua, surrounded
I ) V a small band of penniless foil-w
I era, listened w.th Indian stoicism to
tlv; ecno ol the noise in the capital,
l!is coffers were empty, his cabinet
hirl vani-bed, his aitnywas melting
awav, and the civilize I world scoff el
at his presumption. His only com
panion was Lerdo de Tejada, his
hill, or the BKixs.
Pro*eut a tje.ra,,ci of t •• <pot where
Maximiihii perished. ]
, faithful .... secretary f state, and strong
<
in the know.edge of their right, these
iwo silent watchers waited with
(logged patience for f/ie dawn of their
day. the day of independence, the
day that was to break upon the land
turee years later.”
Arnmlc m Intnrfersnee.
With the ending of the civil war
in the United Stut s a new complex¬
ion was given to affairs in Mexico.
The l nited States Government had
persistently refu ed to recognize
Maximilian and had intimated time
and again to Napoleon that it would
be desirable to name a time for the
withdrawal of the French troop..
While we were engaged in war among
ourselves Napoleon paid little atten¬
tion to our repiesentation-, but when
the civil war ended and when besides
our State Department insinuated the
probability of an armed interference
Napoleon was all attention, and
irom the autumn of 18:16 to Febru¬
ary, 1867, the Fren h troops evac¬
uated Mexico.
While the French and American
Gove nments were engaged in a
d p omatic war over the withdrawal
of the French troops Carlotta offered
to goto Kuiope apd plead the cause
of Maximilian before Napoleon and
the Pope. But her efforts were una¬
vailing. Napoleon turned a deaf ear
to her entreaty that the French
troops be suffered to remain until
Maximilian was firmly established,
arid her reception at the N atican was
hardly less cordial. During the
Papal interview her reason suddenly
left her, and she has since been an
imbecile in the royal palace of
Bouchuout, -«ci Belgium, over which
A - .»w.. <n V fi/iVl y j£i rx.,
re gns.
Ilcvitli of Maximilian.
The withdrawal of the French
Loops inspired . , the followersof ,, Jaurez
wilh renewed hope, and they speed
M«LXtml ian headed an arm} and
threw himself into Queretaio, which j
was soon be degod by the Jaurists. I
The place surrendered to Gen. Eseo- 1
hedo, and Minunon Maximilian and his eon- j !
er.Ws, Mejia and J endez,
r,° , 0 j 1 ' ,rls< ' D " s ' «•»««"«
I 1 IO,ll Ptl.v ,n, shot, and a mil iai} trial
"as given the others. .hey were
found guilty and sent n ed to death,
June 19, 1867, on the Ccrro de las
Campas—Hill of the Bells—the three
prisoners were placed side by side In
front of a firing squad of-Indian sol
( the V erS eonter, - M;lx . bvtween im,lian was Me m assigned and Mira- to
moil, but he declined the post of
honor and stood at the extreme left
of the group.
A single volley bu st over the plain,
the 1 three 1 V \\ !V men 1 fell 1C in " death and DC with
toem fell the empire • which , • xt Napoleon .
attempted to erect in Mexico.
Six months later the Novara, the
same vessel that brought Maximilian
and Carlotta to Mexico, bore away his
„ mains to the imperial vault in Vi
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v No,Us <•** , * ,,mie oJ r w " omen w uters. . 4
It is a c: nous fat that nea-ly all
women who become distinguished in
literature under a nom de plume have
done so under n. mes that were either
ma eulino or had no sex suggestion.
nobody could tell whether or not.
Currer Bell was a man or woman. n
fact, the e is reason to tel eve that
Charlotte Drome on the tit e page
w uld have hand capped ‘\;ane Eyre.’
George sand, too wvn an audience
that would ha e bee.i impossible to
Aurore Dudev nt, as did George Eliot
one th ,t would have whistled Marian
Evans quite down time he wind. Coming is
i carer our own there John
stran.e Winter—who is in private life
Mr,-. Siannard a d John Oliver
H, bbs, the tensat-ion of at least a
.'radio. n week, TheninAmeruu who i. really Mrs. is Octave terrv
Thanet, known to her friends as Miss
Alice Freoh.randChar.es Egbert
Craddock, whom all the worlu has
heard of though on y ab. ut half would
recognize her as Miss Murfree.
— M 7 —:-— Loam ;
uh K a! Wo y from Japan, .
\y 0 Americans are pretty apt to
t’ inx that we are not a e* to learn
much from foreign© s, especially such
foreigner as the Japane-e. Gut the?e
people ioul4 teacn us some,.ling about
of l.vihj. Teeir c uatry
the . of Montana
contains an area
Which ? up port - 4 .OOJ.OJO people in
^ m , arative c . this mfort . 1 e koning the
whole area of country as twenty
four lime-that of Japan ought to
be able to support b >U,oOJ.0J >. Neces
sarii.v the Japanese live almost wholly
ou v eg, tables, sime their cmntiy is
^ot b ig en ugh to rodu e much meat
W 0 should te ant t) turn up our noses
st a v a ian‘diet b t it is certain ie
lhe . a pane=e are the mo t comforts
] e i u the world, as we.l as the
kindest and mest polite. ,
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C vanc ? f r Old Maids.
Theit are lew spin ters in the Can
cas ao sett eaients la south Africa,
as ih 6 men outnumber the women 10
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FAIR LILLIAN’S BIRTHPLACE.
. xxut ~7~7* £Z £?%£ " . „ C °"“ .
hora to Mr. uni Mrs. Carles E Leon
ar . . a t tbeir home on Fosrih avenue. Dec.
*. i a bright b-.by girl, weighing 034
po “" ds
This, the first press notice the ac
knowledge! queen of comic opera,
Lillian Russell, ever received, ap
pea red on Dec. 7, 1861, and was
penned bv her own father, the editor
of the Clinton flowa) Weekly lie,aid.
The hou-e in which the interesting
event occurred was si a it. ci in the
rear of the office building of H. B.
Horton, located on Fourth avemie,
between , first and Secbn 1 streets,
and faced east on the alley running
north and south between Third and
fourth avenues. At that time this
bouse was situated almost in the
; c ® nter uf Hie business district, across
li' s t,I T et ' ! r ' ll ? tli0 l' ,wa .E’entrul
I Hotel.then , the , largest hotel , in Iowa,
and one of the finest west of Chicago,
; A >.t. Louis 1 ost-uisjiateh corre
sponclent 1 n Uinto i has photographed
the house, which, it wul best en, was
.exceedingly primitive. 1 he main
wuis “sjuatty,” scarcely a
8lor y and a half in height, and cov
ered a ground space of Dx _’5 feet,
j The front door opened directly imo
i the room used as a parlor, There
were three other rooms on the ground
floor, occupied as sitting room, bed
room and kitchen and dining-rootn
combined. The main portion of the
house has been moved and now con¬
stitutes an addition to the building
occupied by a bottling company; anl
the old walls, which were the first to
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lillian Russell’s birthplace.
hear the voice of the now great
singer, resound with the hissing
noises of machines used in boitliug
the effervescent pop.
Shortly after Lillian’s birth the
Leonard family removed from their
abode on the alley to 408 Seventh
^ZVrA 0 apti-t Chinch, diat f y and at th that t re i time ir 0f
one ol the finest residences in the
t iwn. Here the remainder of their
days in Clinton were spent. V !
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What Lincoln Sail Wh-n H I
Of t ,r the UresideTcy.
W. W. Danenhow-er the father of
Lieut. Danenhower, of arctic fame,
who died the other day, up to the
ten to him by Lincoln on the day of !
his fll . st inauguration, March 4, 1861.
Danenhower, who was a close friend
cornin' Lira oln and^ had admitian called to see 'had him rhar
“?useS him^The^ FresVenl e hcar^S Iren
of it. io-p to or his m:,Dy cares, took
time to pen a note of apology, telling
his friend not to think he was “put
ting on airs” becau-e he was “in t e
white House” ’ and askimf him
ca n a£ra j n an d he would see that bp
was admitted. Danenhower, accord
iSS iug to fl.lt the Philadelphia l nnoiSS fSSfe Record was 7h! |
to to
decision of the National Convention i
Committee of C’onferenep tn recnm
Mention^ raen d Lincoln Lincoln’s^^look' to i he N itiunal surnrS’i Con
! p es °d ' w^ Wd; 5 ,^ genuine er l ul " e ' He He laimhed laughed a a !
dee P inward • ripple, and, dropping
his hands and removing his legs from
a table before wh cli he was saving' seated
he arose and paced the room
“\vi.v Danenhower thD show* h..w
nol Kd tical Darties are d^eneratinr whin
,1 I can remember wntn we we
thought no one was tit lor the Bresi
dency but Harry Clay. Now you are
seriously considering me for the posi
tion. It is absurd.”
T1 ux w n n tnsiomer.
GO to a grocery or dry b or no
tion store anywhere in Engl ind to
make some purchases and inquire the
price. You will receive a polite an
swer, and then, if you hapten to have
credit creait at ac the tne particular particular store store and and you vou
a °. ,a c e aitule you covet j
charged, you w ill , , be p litely told that:
ihe article, whatever it is, whether a ;
half p >un 1 of sug r or tea, will be
tuppence or thrippence more for
“booking.” The first named price is
the cash pri-e ‘ -ince the nresumntion
kv , )v . th ItLVi . u „ V 7
asked the transaction is , to be a ca-h
transaction, anu whit is true in
England is for the most part true on
the continent of Europe. If books
must be kept merchants and shop
kceters emertain a pettht-oiv that
reo.de for wh„m the ‘books
ate kept shou d be ma le to pay the
cost of the same. Merchants of the
the city can tell of repeatedly receiv
ing bills from German houses and al
ways find ng eveD the c> st of postage
the bill civirvr-d Lrow in tbe account
ThrodKtout the em n Dtlv •
equitable . > ■> pian obtains . of . encourag.
^g a cash i usinesa by giv.ng theca h
customer an advantage over the one
who lays his bi Is but- once in a
month or < nee in >ix months, or some
t ines not at all. HereinfreeAmer
i C a in retail estab ishmeots both cash
customers and ^ debt custom* rs *- are
P aced ou nearly the same footing, .
only that the ca h customer pays a
trifle more for his necessities than be
ougnt to in order to make, up the
losses arising fiom bad accounts. —
Kansas City Grocer,
Understand Your A^r 'eiaents.
Many of the disputes which arise
between buyer and seller are due to
} the fa^t that In making a rontract
I ! tlie terms are not clearly understood.
*» “ «•■»“* “•« ' « «» •»*■«
‘ i ° dsellltJ ^ ot d " ft !S necessary
1 hat ail points re ative to the trails
action shcu cLbe definitely stated,
Some houses stale distinctly on their
hill heads the terms on which sases
are made, so that the buyer js com
j.el ed to recognize the terras.
There are ftfpy other contracts
which come up In the course of busi
ne-s which need a clearer understan i
jog is than the ac^pf ttatfboth buying goods. It
| important parties shou’d
ihorousrhlv g understand ^ the the transac
tion. r l here are publications devoted
to contracts in wnich form-are g veu.
j but many of these legal forms seem
j better devoted to obscuring than
j clearing up matters. neat* In all transac
tions it is ary to come to a
j point and have that point clearly un
derstood. Long arguments are not
necessary, and the whole tendency of
modern trade -ts to put thing-on a
b.sis of brevity^ writte* Jt is advisabe to
make a memorandum of
a g eements, for it will alwavs le in
; evidence and sa’^-sminv future d.s
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The Ru-salfn Thistle.
Strenuous efforts have been made
in Congress by -W, mbers from the
Dakota region to get an itnmen e ap¬
propriation to am in eradicating the
liU-sian 'thistle*. Blood curdling
yarns have been told of the frightful
damage it is doing all over the
Northwest, and from the hair-lifting
narratives of the Dakota Congress¬
men, the average citi en might easily
assume that the Prussian thistle is in¬
finitely multitudinous, and dread it
accordingly. Pei hap-, however, we
may be able to l -iry our conviction
that it is, uoderyhe hope that it is
not. if we take i*i>teof what Mr. J. b.
Wilson, of Baijer, South Dakota,
says on the subject. Mr. Wilson,
wiitingtoan Eastern journal, said:
“I have had eight years’ experience
with the Russlaa/thistle, and can say
that on my farm^t has not caused as
much damage a-, the common bull
thistle, al-o a native of this region.
With due respect for the opiniou of
legislators who are endeavoring to
secure additional aid. in suppressing
1 his pest, I thinkjKi it appropriations
for that purpose are entirely un.
necessary. ”
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Ill-Mannered English Dowagers.
A writer in an English newspa erhas
uttereo a wail concerning the clegener
j Sff inmannt7“?n%at °!. the a » e ’ a^gUerril ew Yorkfcun,
C al ed in Great Brurm th 3 upper cir
j c he es makes to prove it. \mkk Ijiaif ircoi ne says is true He
out a. LZ__- case.
oi pojao dot: -
m ‘ ° 3 L i ST.’*
If any foot-b-fi An l scramble. E
«otS t W. na t hfc^ Call “tne r cab
insolence anci their trieks and devi
t V. gct t ^. e b tter ofrtfiP nT) mher -
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offended him seriously. The entij
notices the recent str.ngent rules at
H*® that vne.n’s they arawing-rot-ms, and says
milder, in his we.e opinion, necessary. w.ud check Nothing
toe
ZTeZYtne S remonfafint llvelj* ifeal garden!
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Then there is the ill-mannered chatter
with which occupants of stalls and
boxes at the theaters interrupt the
performance. This censor of public
manners nnd ; that the m .st hopeless
h » h ™ ioe o£ the rising
* ei * eivltlon '
A Vast Ruined City.
A . party + of scientists , . have recently
® X P ored ihe ruin, of the great, eiiy oi
Adcoi 5 «rAngor, situated in what are
nOW ^ healmf ’^ inaccessible forests of
( y ambo la, Tne e ruins were d.scov
ered. only a short t me ago, eom
pa-ratively, though rumors have of tue exist* been
ence of such a place long
current in the country. The ruin* as
described would indicate that Ancor
mu t have bean one ofthe largest
? ti<?8 in the la f eest :
q e mples, , palaees and edifice of va,t
fi e -na fine state of preservation lie
scattered over a wade territ ry, inter
mingled with mounds and masses ot
crumbling stonj and brick, large
forest trees are gr .wing ts°of unon the de
bria and in the c u paLce and
temple. Lit le is known of the history of
Ancor, tho. gn it is stated that it could
send forth a m llioj i r more fighting
men. The portions of the wabs still
standing are cyclopean. How-it should
have falk into such comi lete desue
tude it is _____^__ difficult to conjecture,
I-irst Ame ran „ Bo s i . » Japan,
The first American boys who visited
Japan wete set ashore with great cer
e F° y near the city of Aeduo, or To*
hio, on Thursday, July 14, i 58. They
wo e the uulfot ’ m ( ,' f the Euited States
navy, and every gilt button u an buckle
They *»> pO.shed earned till between it shone them like gold.
a la go
square en e o. e of scarlet cloth, con
ta ning two beautiml round boxes
made of gold, each b x tact sed in a
Erger b x or ro e wood, with locks,
binges, and mount ngs a l ac e of
Japau beautifully written on vellum
and no; f lde g but bound in pare si'k
ve.vet. To e ch letter the gieat seal
o' the United S ateswas att cbed with
ro ds of into -woven go d and silk,with
Dendent boy”, -;oid tassels. The names of
these ere netHutrnOthe writer.
tut i would not be surprising if some
vo Ame ,-ican should w ite to the
Vcuag beys.”—Harper People. -My father Young was one of
these s People,
R' re Catch iu Main 0 .
An exceedingly rare animal, a
black-faced, black-eared caribou, was
recently shot at Andover, Me. Th s
caribou was also unu ually laige,
Wlt u i -' 1 Kinchin* branchine, hnm- horns,
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But It Should Be.
In the States of Indiana. Iowa,
Kansas. Mississippi, Tenner-see and
Vermont, and In the Territory of
New Mexico. Washington’s holiday birth
day is not a legal
ADVERTISER.
PECULIAR PORTRAITS.
DO YOU WANTTObEE YOURSELF
AS OTHERS SEE YOU ?
An invention Said to Qe ofGreat Use
in Photographing Criminals, and in
Various Other Ways--Description
ofthe Invention.
On _ stands , small, ,
Sixr.i avenue a
unpretentious photographer’s show
ease, around which, at almost any
hour of the day, quire a little knot of
people aro gathered. The pictures
which attract such interest are ex
quisltely clear and soft in finish, and
represent in nearly every instance a
group of five or more persons, the
central figure of which shows merely
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AN EXCELLENT PLANT FOR STUDYING DRESS.
a back view. This instance of ex¬
treme modesty or unaccountable in¬
difference on the part of the woman
—the portraits are mostly ofthe fair
sex—puzzles one considerably until
the following written notice is ob¬
served :
FHOTOM ULTIGRAPHS.
6 EE YOURSELF AS OTHERS SEE YOU.
This awakens one to the fact that
the pictures are not of a group of
different people, but one person from
five different points of view—full
face, three-quarters, right and left
profile and back.
It is a well-known fact that the
two sides of the human face are never
exaetly alike, and you will be greatly
surprised at the extent of the differ
ence as brought definitely before you
by these “multigraphs.” A young
S By rrcd by a nose
HbHic Hwutlineof tip and a wav
cheek and
pan with a large, full
med about the mouth,
IPPaBK^axniully and strikingly turned handsome throat and
ear, a side
face. A tall,slender woman, the back
of whose trim-waisted and exquisite¬
ly gowned figure and well-poised
head, with its massive coils of hair,
was irresistibly attractive, had a
sharp, thin-lipped, absolutely insig¬
nificant full face, while her profile
was overweighted by the huge size of
her chignon.
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fIVE GOOD PORTRAITS TAKEN INSTANTANEOUSLY.
It must not be assumed, however,
that the “photomultigraphs” serve
only to show up defects. Somewhat
unkind to a homely woman, they
serve equally to emphsize the good
points of a pretty one, and reveal to
the beholder many new and hitherto
undiscovered charms.
On a visit to the studio, the pro
prietor and patentee of the multi
graph was exceedingly courteous, but
not very communicative. It was not
until a second visit was made that he
consented to an examination of his
interesting and ingenious invention,
The writer had pictured to himself
A Flyi ng Ma chine.
A correspondent of the London
M orld gives an interesting account of
turincr 8 It esf•lblUbmenf following at Bixlev erSact } n
Kent . is an
“Some idea of its actual dimensions
may be gathered on mentioning that
when readv to start it measures from
stem to stern 140 feet, and laterally
110 feet, and its single mast is forty
fppi hicrh while its weight 'explains i« 7 OOt)
pounds” Mr. Maxim in
familiar language that his flying ma
chine is constructed on the same
principles as those determining the
flight of a kite and a bird. A boy
fastens a string to his kite so that
when lie runs he brings it against the
wind. At a certain angle the kite as¬
cends. With a bird, the weight of
the body is many times heavier tha i
the volume of air it displaces, but
this is overcome by the great median -
leal power exerted by the muscles cf
the wings, the outstretching of which
forms aeroplanes, assisting in sup*
porting the body of the bird and op*
eratrng in an ascensromu diructfon
an arrangement of four or more
separate mirrors, or a stand like a
cheval glass with four di
visions instead of three. The real
multigraph, clever however, is much more
in its compactness and sim
plicit%\
At the first glance the apparatus
resembles in shape an old-fashioned
clothes-horse, with two folds lined
on Hie inside with mirrors that are
about 3x4.1 feet in the apparatus for
bust pictures, and 7 x 5 feet in the
larger one for full length portraits
The frames are solidly built and
mounted on strong rollers. The
glass used must be of the heaviest
French beveled plate, as the reflee
tion requires it to be absolutely true
as the faintest flaw in the mirror
would be reproduced in the
When in uso the folds of the multi¬
graph are opened so as to form a nar¬
row V. Across the top of the frame
is a long iron rod, by means of which
the size of the angle can be regu¬
lated.
The sitter is placed directly in the
opening, with his or her back to the
camera. By narrowing the opening
or reducing the angle, as many as
twelve reflections can bo produced,
* n,! ’ to obtain a clear photograph of
ordinary size not more than five
reflections are desirable,
The results obtained by this system
reflective photography are really
exquisite. The pictures taken from
mirrored reflection are singularly
clear and have all the delicate soft
ne S s of ivory type,
f There is not space lure to permit
Hie enumeration of one-half the
uses for which tjve new invention is
models, the and fyr tile pflftJiff Vfrfii-i '•»
ment. will in photography of criminals,
it in time prove almost invalua
ble.
That the photomultigraph will ever
attain popularity as a souvenir
wherewith to present one’s friends
is rather doubtful. But there are, no
doubt, a great many individuals,
both in society and out of it, who
appreciate the privilege of seeing
themselves as others see them. The
great mondaine may seriously study
the effect of her new coiffure from
point of view before displaying
it in public. The reigning beauty
can guage the exact effect of r pro
file as seen through an admirer’s
glasses across the opera house. The
pretty debutante can arrange her
“ u fly hair so as to make the best
effect with latest thing in hats.
To members of the theatrical pro
fession, especially in studying the
j make-up for a new part, the multi
j graph should prove a great aid. A
pretty actress learns from the ap
plause of her audience the effect pro
duced by her acting, but a new sen
sation is in store for her to see for
herself just how she looks from all
sides of the house.
‘-The propellers of Mr. Maxim’s
^ B d d elerted rt ™ £ and
~i^Mrd4 bvthe boy pinions, the
while his extensive aeroplanes repre
*nt the piano of the Ei.o, .. also the
Pinnated In ese principles area of the being bird universally s wings.
admitted, after the exhaustive ex
penments in which scientists hav*
engaged, it remained for Mr. Maxim
to design a motor, the power of which
was proportionately far in excess of
*ts weight; and this he has perfected,
ascending the deck you cannot
^rn\re the many inventions
which facilitate the working of the
machinery, which is of the lightest
construction,
“The expenses of the preliminary
experiments, with those attending
the building and fitting up of the
machine, have been no less than $50,
COO, so that you are not surprised to
learn that a watchman, armed to ths
teeth, sleeps nightly in the canopied
bed, with one eye and both ears open,
Mr. Maxim is pleased with tbe be
baviur of Iris irew machine.”
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niE STREETS 0? CANTON.
piotuiit:«!qtje sitht** tn the
BUSY CHINESE CITS'.
Thronged With People — Narrow
Thoroughfares — Funerals Have
the Right of Way—A Busy Scene.
“1 LORENCE O’DRISCOLL, a
I f=? member of the English House
of Commons, 1ms a timely ar¬
il* tide, “In the Streets of Can¬
ton,” in the Century, A second
paper will describe life on the river.
Of the street scenes in Canton, Mr.
O’Driscoll writes •
Little if any sunlight struck dowu
into these ways. Their narrowness
would have prevented the intrusion of
any but vertical beams, or those slant¬
ing parallel with the street, and, to
guard against even these, a shade
loving people Jpi i hung matting over¬
head. This gave the city the aspect
of a huge straggling bazaar sheltered
beneath a great ragged roof.
The thorougfaros in the older por¬
tions of the city vary from about four
to six or seven feet in width. In the
newer quarters there aro frequently
ten and even fifteen feet of space be¬
tween the houses ou each side.
These narrow ways were thronged
with tens of thousands of peopvle;
looking along them it seemed almost
asifono could walk upon men’s heads,
so close were they. High and low,
rich and pioor, all rubbed shoulders.
Coolies, carried, on each eml of a six
foot stick, water, firewood, and bur¬
dens of various sorts ; when au excep¬
tionally heavy load was to bo carried,
some four coolies bore it, slung ou the
middle of a bamboo, two at each end
of the pole. Peddlers carried their
wares m baskets slung at each end of
a stick,or in flat trays hung like an old
fashioned pair of scales, with the pole
or beam on their shoulders. Carriers
thus bore creels of fruit, fish, and all
sorts of esculents; live rats, cats, aud
dogs in wicker baskets; fat pigs in
wicker cylinders, sometimes with their
legs hanging out; and boxes, bales,
and trays of toys. Through the throng
exalted Chiuamen, fan in baud, m
silken gowns, and with queues pen¬
dent far down the back, made their
slow way in dignity, There were
plenty of women and childron also in
the crowd, some of the women hob¬
bling painfully along ou their
tortured and distorted foet,
which, from the tight binding,
were so shrunken and diseased that
their shin bones had become fleshloss
skeleton supports covered with a
wrinkled parchment skin, and their
limbs seemed to H^iLtle better than
gnarled and kno Occa
sionallv aen iu_
oi f te8 TF i l ^tfonetl Inttice-F ) 1T7 1 ;(<>vg{-sr
drawn,~br a rnair A'no
wares or sweets for sale, and carried
in one hand a little flat metal plate
and a string with a small weight tied
to one finger. With each twitch of
his Anger a clear, musical note rang
sharply in the air. Ping! ping ! ping !
sounded his little gong, heralding his
approach from a long way off. Who
knows? Perhaps from this primitive
but artistic appliance has in the
ponrse of ages been evolved our muf¬
fin-bell—profit music in the ears of
those setting forth in quest of five
o’clock teas. Anon our progress was
checked by a funeral procession, which
struggled past 11 s amid a blare of dis¬
cordant trumpets, beating of gongs,
and screeching of stringed instru¬
ments, the mourners bearing aloft pa¬
per and tinsel dolls, bright streamers
or little trays of food and sticks of in¬
cense.
The coolies, who had their queues
knotted up, tvore, for the most part,
a bat shaped like a flat lump shade
about two feet across. A little cup¬
shaped wicker basket fixed under¬
neath it held this covering over their
heads, and it served more as a sun and
rain shade for the body than an actual
head covering. Clerks, merchants and
well-to-do people carried their queues
loose, and were either bareheaded or
covered with a black satin or very
fine black wicker skull cap with a
coral button ou the top.
Every one seemed busy; no one
seemed unhappy ; each individual was
polite, and prepared to make way for
another. To keep to the right was ihe
ru i e of the road, a rale strictly ai
hered to, without which all progress
^uid have been impossible. As I
looked along the crowded way, I
couldseealwaystwolouglinesof peo
pie in single tile, passing one another,
ftn( j keeping close to their respective streets'
right sides. In places the so
narrowed in that passers-by rubbe l
ahoulders. Every one stood aside for
the passage of a luneral or a priestly
procession, after which the aeknowi
edged order of precedence was first a
the lowest class labors, staggering person be
neath * load-then any
carrying a load, and lastly those who
were nnenennoered by burden, A
ioot ’ °f a wealt ^. mer -
chant with a richly , emoroi lered .
gown, moved aside to allow the coolie
wood earner to pass alone nninter
rupted. Ihere were no policemen ut
corners to regulate tramc; old estab
mutual lished^custom, obligation, based took on the a place policy of of
u
man in blue,
The City H >r.<e Dropped Dead.
A dealer iu horses recently took to
Clyde, N. Y., a lot of horses that had
been in use on a New York street
railroad. D. H. Cady purchased one.
He was driving it home when a traction
engine, which horses native to Clyde do
not notice any more tfian they would
a sheep, met them iu the roa !. The
city horse stopped, looked wildly at
the strange thing for a moment, gave
a shudder aud foil dead in it- tracks.
—Chicago Herald. »