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THE SAW!)! ST OPEK .
Xlic CircRN mid i* (»*w \olni* Abutif li f St.< '
Ml ill <»» <• IBps
ifveteian eitfai tltai State New i\gk the
State was the “original” for
‘SibIflriSlHIijtfi ■■■■
pyeatesf uumbcrof c.rcns men.
in New , } , "h^tchAynnI»uy.i><H'. York at flic Old Bov.ay »u, appealed A nip,!!
th< ..tre.
and was of the 41 *.u»U»oui*j*Ui« I.ncoa
about clown. r
So.S g . i the trl
tfhwes infrooic . Aift an
,
,
stylo ot circiin^ii inti.ij' ndo EiigTand and
made a big Htir m London by I*.
Some of the circus downs oldliklng were really
cdbBbted wen win. took »n to
more talent than education, and more
shift I wi_£iyi , rf
Among rae former clowtiH of toe oMnii
lime won Not Austin, Bill Worrell,
father land,tSSKerBiw ot iho W(j i r*«'d usir'nts; 4o« Jieut
Arthur Nelson Dr. James Thayer, F.
_h|Uct AN Wi^ietf imd’Dln Wfbpeafflf lhci:.* t$t% pt t|k :H$ JuJi p*rliaj;« Uuk
llwe wills roputnifatn be#, oblwly oyrol
«ia<(
tating Walk-11.
Oid , UtfaitC is utfl l#tiid|. I Old
8<-tb wwrnwy* f<"W
home, anil the first thing be did with bis
itUatffAMMtW much of riHuild the original the timber Old place,: and
using ns could.' Ol-i Beth liard twotwin
iron us he
« ? I AephMm tlib who nliow'bfeinesH, i w4r*i s womit‘H#jcr and ithke, ofteii
TOtlibl'
mistaken tins ope for tiui otlier. Iiadn’t
Ibifkfy, flic jairtticr of Jtaromn.
the slightest idea of entering the tjiow
IniMiiiess tiJl.hs Dmnii-ctient tell in love witu Aiii-s ,th« d^irneij pi'et
ti,-st. Kl rl in a
vttflU^tfttTTPr tvtwnrr'tffmft tfftm. ^JTtT^iy
marryingthc Hdy, b.<-.imo a partner <J
Ituiy the tn-tlwr in Sfe, m Jnd biisinrH titan g@t n ^y rrota , A“*J3* I'Clig ^
| •'biggest «h»atry showman Clerk i» iSjibtlfv but oue in toTeiul the United t-w
The flat circus in this country started
nor advance hj. out. The first circus tent
was put up in New York city, at the
corner of the Bowery and Grand street,
tOUWf *f IW'"#Ttt iTnH winwt WTTn Tm Jtlf inf*
mensc amount of enttiu 4i i«w>ni,
over one-fifth the at tne. cAnfs tv-int
in vogue to-day. yfcior ^ qpeA'Jffs ffreat «aavlui« fipt
Wiaa ft Itoq
wlifcfi looks so pmcftffy Iiorriblu to the
OUiliuuuu, of puuuig his hood ui thuiion'a
mouth, lie hikes, ummapeoted by the
nydlfltieo, a iireuftution'Wlfifth Rtmtars it
ftgafijjkt fils comfort tlw* hou/t to ljatufal hurt ^m^ntt He as holds well
an nun.
the lion’s tongue so tlint if h“ t»iwl to
hurt him lie would certainly hurt r^m liirn- 'a
I sclf/^ R ^puUh thc^cdi^ tn^n^tht
the bcaat were to try to bite him ho would
have to bite liis owu tlush. ownlpomfort, /The lion
seeing this and valuing his
naturally prefer* leaving the man tmiiurt
to hurting himself.
i fr Tp- , -
I Be Doctor*# HcMnirft.
ft ThIo’oI Real l.tfV llown In Trim.
M IVmwknmi, any* a newspaper cor¬
respondent, writing from Texas, wo met
1 , * • gentleman who watt Id make a good
stiidy for ft novel. It was a doctor, who
iisftdlo liyo at Linfrolu, 111., and whoso
j Itahtlfcr Pulaski, la'tow lie Is Iltei]>(#tteft6tur of the moat at original Mount
one
and entertaining ehiiiacteia l ever mot,
and is engaged in ndthip the lending
•Mftfr'WSwa one day to an*
huge landowner, and a
man of considerable d, wealth, eucrgelic do
and imhlh'-Hpirifi but lias a w:fy <u
ing things that does Rot always plRasc
tho.n.vtives. lint the doctor is htajself gcnemUy
f ftafl*to tike r%r# of in
peace Sna or in war, Notlong ago he was
row wifi the town,, amt got tluv
worst of it. fTc lolil: l.D revenge m a
manner that was both origiiM and efleo
U\e. ilcAj't a largo quantity of white
algn-bOarila,'on black lottora which lie hsd painted to Bcnp- in
largo During v< torencea the night ho
tnro passages.
took a step-ladder and nailed them up
In FWR«ptrtiotiR ptaees alt over thetown.
On tho court-house door, on the fences,
<ai tV telegraph polos, and on the dead
walla, when morning came, the aston¬
ished eithr.iwm lieheUl such legends as
“See Romans xii., 10." “See Acts v.,
20," “See Job xv., 14,” “See TI. Corin¬
thians ix., 7," “See „Iuuiaus xii..
17 18.”
since. Men were going around tho
streets with tho Holy Word ui reform! their
bands, hunting up the passages
to, and when they reed on the sign¬
board: “Aud bow, tl, Lord, look upon
their threatenin^a, and grant unto Thy
aerVaht'to bjwak With all liOl/tRess, ’’they
. . . 5 ... „w
^
UteClftMi *ii?\.':Xr^lJ«id
thoucli 1 la* rude in mxioi. yet ami
siot hi kacwlfi^, aud w «o wall to
bear wit ‘fi me," they regarded the Mig
grwtioi) a* very appropriate and forcible.
talk of the town.
¥ t - ■
Kkwt -The London _
mom.- aewsiMMn tislin
are pitch lifflg into Miss Forbwcue
actress, bob that the ixx>r, jilted girl has
| retuuied tliat her acting to tho §tage. colorless BThc and JVnu^says !
is empty.
The Standard savs that stiffucas and
constraint spoiled lier jn-rfoemance. Btfil
ahe might have made a very respectable
wife for ^noodle such as Gar mo vie.
A Gr-OKOift ,07' cnml>ed ’ three tliglifs
man
of stairs to whip lightnrag-^tifl an i dit- r, and with camo
down on the hfs
clt . .... _. , ,_, „ ,
no*.
How ro catch a hart wild—Grab him
hy the hair.
Tita' «” «■<•«■ tenantry!»i*t-usc fiWAftAi. JwwV
T)i<- <5ar:- Wortham* to
Tlia to-it did fairy work on pe-ne »«<1
~~~MWffV - * 1 - --
b»mv. and powet fe4 a wonder, haw not
UmriaUtitf m,**-* wttarfte- now?
winter*
•• * **
xia-ir liome fires fall an bright on hiarii :|r
4
>■.• ■■■, ,
Tb< v«««fa vl k«"-p tVu- holly for »>■•< etnhw,
T»- .. -rid a >m « v m t-.r the new $e»r.
_
/ : ; ifirr. 1 i) t ribr--,i r op IIK.-1 r ' :.,el tne roiae—n( ..... ,
i> *»«fc.Uwfn i>»* ■.lit will. lovi.,K '. 1 **■!
KW.vhwvs <>m- «•*«■ f-r»ot «*■*•
thi.^sV
Whv i* »t now Hm north , wiml . , fiaos , , ns ilii^yi. , \
):y t#*rpe tt.uwci- dun iUi W 1 ■ •
Waiengthi-light of promi < from om 'iy
i n t to i m away.' yi
a «liiun*-:» not hla theirs to pass
fa, «v M .net thus .when dreams of lore and
.iartfs
r.avc smn-hine to the winter* of
ts Woie its lilies li*l Jkilen in l'aftitte's (jn»r
>*. '
% - wifli his
Or •time had bowed Ow-m heavy
hath ;
&■-£ #' ysmify, ih<- twifkmts found us.strange and
® * •* ■
,
With shadows coming when the fire WHrttS
•' i.,w,--‘ A 'D , '{ «o««9W
To t<;!J Jh« distant graves and losses only;
TW pastJhat,cannot clmngo and wiU notfco.
' 1 iff? j !
"Ala*! <1«ir fri-nds, IM* wtAtcr lsWithm . ,. us,
Usui is Use ice tlist grows ahyut, tiio heart,
With fpnu putty r-are* fwJ luiritagii vs in au»l regrets bs#y ,tjjat fart.. win us
lilifa true (
<8*k«"'k »n<t skk* rsfioicu, yen, wsuyliip ruUwr;
IT• i:,,j nnt 1; 1 Wvf4TTfi*y 1. it and tn-iuhlu^uu. Wfw^r^htb*■# •«. ,
p.anngtliiMvint.rs wliich th.y may not hoc
-----I—»———- l-f*^hs bupws.
-
J > ><ll)lin | i i^ \ \ <ro - tjN Seyn jn *
Tbcro was a sjipprysal murmur of
of Messrs. Bainbridge & Son which the
stir of a hundred sewing machines ooald
not wholly drown. Wln-re Un mi presence
sure the
if he superintendent of the room, un
defstanding this, did not Doliw attempt Wynn to and en
force Bruton silence, so pretty confidentially
Slay talked of the very groat and
in their corner room;
t w - wm o interfered, wolf no irnig as fingers
were busy tfiis as as tongues. said, Dollies
And is what 3Jay
blue ayes lioing rivftod upon tha quilt
ing on which she was at work;
“I saw her yesterday when 1 was going
out to dinner. She was just stepping
udd self* hqr carriage Her itfid ^fi*- Rhe Itidhs Hdgar old— him
lirtudihg should in. lint they
nearlyforty, t^immOnsely I rich, say; nad her dress say
she ■
was splendid. So age.” 1 suppose her money
goes against her
“Did you hear they were to be mar
riedsoon?”
“Bless me! didn’t I tell yon that?
My brother is in the stationer’s where
the the wedding-cards wedding-cards are are being ixjing printed. printed. 27th.
They are to be married on the
Mr. and Mia. Edgar Bainbridge, and the
card of the bride's mother, Mrs. William
Wilson. Twelve! Como; wo will go
for a walk."
“No, 1 am tired,” Dollie pleaded,
Aud sudden her friend pallor l<ilt of !u t, novel beetling
the the sweet young
face, »«'.■, tho menu dumb mo agony in ... the ...» groat B ..„. blue .......
eyes
to the piiu li W-M Htaol cmmwhere «*M* tUo tho cloak., clonk?
*hawls imd h»te«f
there, cram long m a corner hidden
cntirv.y by a huge waterpnwf, she tried
Bauibridgc / WMt lmd nn it an ii^t?. tn tin long .>h*ti|d Year liu .dgar hat
tried bv evoro mnscnl.no device to win
hcr iove.
She lmli not been ...... 11 . 1 m. id v, heart
and cepsepmee uuly acquitted her.
fHic hml given her love, pure, true and
( m thfui, te> the son delicately of her employer; but
ht> hrt(1 s „ U gi,t it, aud p'njst
untiv * befuru Uo knew that it-was given
him.
TVsjrcuug girl, now for a liv
fog,M*t **“‘R daintily father |re«l having and tlior- been
ninthly educated, salary her sufficient give
a mail drawing a to
his only child every advantage. But
when lie died, his wife in a few months
following him, Dollie had chosen a life of
tlv f s ,.
And - yet m the social . galm-riags .. g* ui
these relative* and the fnouda of sum
mer days, Dollie was still a welcome
guest. Uncle sub
It was at her Lawrences
nrban villa she had been mtr.xlueiM
to JEdgar lUinbndge. After her^arip tl* she
.n't'i frequently, and in h
w ‘ th b ;. r ® wee *» * >w ?? l * f m T
^marked , attenfaon from hm.
, l!er W,th greatest ^ charms frankness the that^JBTTJ young girl haf
wiis r.wvmV-s £%tellrkll
B'Ahe had made her heart bound
wi ra WisLuhor sudden, grateful joy by telling h«»
4 hvwe , he ‘
feax or anuoWe n<| by l#u hor to
giving expeemg
her to the remarks of her eompantons. found
After this, however, she often
!r|»i waiting tor her teddi at htae w*no *poM ^hd
twtlirtr fn>u 8i» os ft nt,
always so respectful and oonrtooHS tfrat
she was glad of his projection in her
long walk. • <
had but trifled with bar after ali
Poor Litiie Dollie, on me king among
tbe shawls and Hooks, felt as if all site
shine was gone from her fife forever, is
:
fraffcawt- ^i4w * A ft r Ci ^
« wnrtwd
i n23 s0 nn mhf.d br tbo sudden blow
t i on over the sudden flood of over-work
^
0 <>m •ftvel ti$ mil-fight. A i 14 foUU if
rii#iOTfflks ffrTlirSBaw^:, says we
Bnt these must be ready to deliver
>,
foSSl tnl o j vpfcir whir whir!
!>*»« and basted, worked with
meebatafcal nrecisioh Urtirng the
in voices and maehtera her*cava fw-liag lir-^
. tSi< , beating ,1 1nL4
4H«tUic r/ ithe ti.ron.iot pain n uui^r wewy wear/ntau, head
out npciiking no wo-d oi repmmg, ex
insiag her pailnl .aoc by tho plea v.
nUtsa Jo .p-pd home tnrough thTilh'ealo a an/zliug
r .^’
> the .fassed counting-house down the staneaso her
she sawm re
cent Jover, busy over some account
%utnorlh#lieay^mWS 1 *L f f _■! iud heard
• mkw
that morning she would have felt sure
that this sudden spasm of industry was
; q . £nrwi«h an excuse fer escorting her
home at the unusually late hour.
But, if ho, Dollie felt it was but an
ia(J<V»l insult to Lis dishonorable con
a nfl tfche Untried*! «h| f hop&ig he
had not heard her step.
She had gone some few streets from
the shop, when, fiftasitig a church, she
slioped upon a treaclidrous piece of ice
RB }| twisted her anlde. /
The Stlslden pain made her faint for a
m ,,ai(>nt and she sat down upon the
stonework supporting the railings to re
oover herself.' Beside her, not a stone’s
thr6y |[ a dark, j,Tick narrow wall alleyway bf
^ a ^ 0Jlf/ 10 the
churclivanl, and the girl’s Wart sank
* chili of she heard
with tt terror as a
man’s voice ill the alley say
“l>Wi»’t v«i hear >t stepi Bill?”
“A woman. ,She’s turned off somo
^twer U ° mUl ° ^ ^ th ’'
■a H * t “* flM * k
Ton are surohe . , s taklngthe . diamonds ,.
uome! 1 !,.
‘ Bare as death. ... I T was at - s when ,
he pave the order. 'Send them to my
shop at J o clock, say* ae, -and I will
take them home with me And
ho gave the address of Bumbndge A
Bon.
'But are you sure he will pass hero
“Of oonr.se be will. He liven in the
noki?street. He’ll come,”
“Suppose ho sh,ows fight?” _
“You hold him, and I’ll soon stop
fight.” Dollie’s elear
Every word fell on ears
and district in the silence of the night.
Thejf . would nobody rob warned him, thjse him. dreadful '
men, if
would spring out upon kirn as he’p'7*«(*p
an( ] strike him down before he knew
there He was danger. alone, unprepared.
must not come
p t .|se lover, false friend as she felt he
was, slh> could not,,go on her way and
lepve him to death.
When she stood up the pain of her
ankle juikle was waa almost id anaaduratile; but she
clung to the railing and so linyped along
one street, The others seemed inter
tninable.
Often she crawled through the slush
of tbe streets; often on «he foot hopped
painfully along, till the shop waa
reached at lust, and the light in the
oonuting-honse still burned.
» The fWo dnQI for th( , , ror king-gir!s
was still unfastened, and Dollie entered
I there, reaching the countiug-liouse soak
in vet< whito nm ] trembling, to con
j faont < . both Edgar Bainbridge and his
ut u , r
Unheeding their exclamations of dis
may y aud surprise, she told her story
white hni a steiulv voioe .
“Waiting for me?” cried fhlgarBaiu- °
r
liowgbt diamonds at-’sto
| j ny i.i 9 ” asked bis father.
wLli porur® tofllw Jglson, with afr, I
to preaent' them, Ah, look your per- that
mission, on Thursday. at
poor girl 1”
For, overcome by pain, Doiiie fatigue and
i mental torture, poor had stag
I gerad toward tho door and fainted upon
1 the floor.
! j and a in hasty few call minutes summoned the porter’s tfn| porter wifi
a
j j appeared, rubbing her eyes, but full a
womanly resources for the comfort o'
i j tlie girt. 1 < Dr» I
A garments, cab was procured, furnished aud elotbeLk
.hearted dry and, escorted by the hv |th«
|pfi|, D|llie woman, wasilrivenhoftiti ' f
TJie If „ t m <yrifag Dollie walking obliged provea tc
p e impossible, and was t<
call upon, her landlady for assistance tc
dress, wondering at herself a Jittiel fa
j caring But before to get up. sitting in tire
noon, tttBur,
her lame ankle upon 1 a cushion, she kv*.
snprised by IViabridge two gaittemmi «alle»4-»<
o|her ttmn aadsoa in pc six
--, n d n lady who introduced hexsel m
Miss Wilson.
„ w , ., . ^
von do?” asked DJHe.
terlvstratlgem.” o n)tnm i the rolibera -by a mas
said the old gentlem,
wjt “Edpo- ^ sauntered ; M past Ul, the alley* hf
a revo wr ,„ his
while I. with throe policeman, V pt
room! and entered ttieafley softly beta it
the villains. Taken by surprise,
retreat cut off, they were easily :a*
Maaoners. You understand, we cot
not arrest theta ntsfea thev actually at
tanked Edgar. As it is, however, there
spJirr** was a very pretty little tussle More we
“NIy foot! ’ Doiiie mumnred, “I
sprained rest my ankle it that last I night. It was to
stop to sat down on the
c hiirch wall. ”
lmarmg th’? "Qrsin^a P.^'^j
’« which y. J iiJ>isc «a U> -W uaje ’
at 1 T have come toseo u yon wilrbe my
uti
poor Edgar there double the happiest of men by
«wt.i.g at a w«W««.
Dohm* eyea slowly dilating the
***>“ 1 / spoke, were open to U#ur
^-“ssst to Thursday ?”
* :i * P»
A musical laugh answered her.
t:m£ Calling tho gentlemen where at the they snaps lisul
‘ from the window,
«®*«f *f rf 8 tbw little scene, Mu*
Alison looked- up St then#.
“Convince this young lady. Edgar,” vt
she said, “that yonr affection for mo
•*'? of a dutiful son, and that I
8 j iS1 n have a motherly affection for her
'p <ew i se ^hen f become bridge the senior”" wife of voux
EJgar Bain
,, j i -mk!..
sn#B n « ( said'
What Edgar may iiollie be imagined;
, “wilson^ . . ^ ; s that „dthTla drove homo
• • misoii, a a as mu, yy y’s
guest wedding-cards, until the following Thursday, distributed,. w hen
her too, were
anb tbe bridal party consisted of two
bridegrooms and two fair, blushing
brides. "
SALARIES OF PUBLIC MEN.
l ude Nnan nn<l Hi* Army of A***i*tfint*—
Wimt They Have t« JLive On.
The Admiral of the United States
Navy has a salary of §13,000 a year, offi¬
whether at sea or on shore. Ot her
cers have less when on shore. Vice
admirals at sea get §9,000 a year, rear
admirals §6,000. commodores §5,000,
commanders §3.500, lieutenants, senior
grade and.cad'dtf’&50. $2 480 ensigns §1,200 to §1,400,
creases‘in ®£b" |m»t off officers m the arm” in
have been in proportion the tof^o General hum Slien- they
service.
dan for the first five years of service will
get «13,500 a year; a lieutenant-general
gets $1,1,000 a year, mwr* a major-general M&Oh’
cuioml *
s.t«“.T. *ti4 , ,'i. S5 :" 0 '* tittves “““ a
HeuaSoaa Represen get S8 a
(1av the Speakerof the Hbmo and
President pro tem. of the Senate $16 per
^ J j n ^ g rs ^ Congress the pay was
efi a day Jor mpm |>crs of both Houses,
au a i n two years of John Adam’s term
fts President Senators received t>7 and
R epresentat i veR per (j^m. In 1815 it
was changed to $L,500 per annum for
members of both Houses, and in 1817 to
$8 per day.
The Clerk of the House and the Sec
re/ary of the Senate each get $5,(MO a
as do the stenographers Comptrollers in Con¬ the
the two Of
Treasury, a number of Surveyors of,
Customs and the Commanders of the navy,
Pension agents get §4,000 a year, the
Xlivfl Servioe Qommiasioners Sfc.500. the
two Assistant Attomey-GeneiJ(s §5.000,
eight Justices of the Supreme Court
§10,000, nine Judges of Circuit tTnited Courts
§6,000 and fifty-three Judges of
States District Courts from §3,500 to
§4,500.
Besides the mission to St. Petersburg
the only other American Ministers who
get §17,500 a Berlin. year are those at Paris,
London and Our embassadors
to Spain, Austria, Mexico, Italy, Brazil
and Japan get §12,000 a year. Those to
Chili, Pern, Uragnav, Nicaragua Gautemala, Costa
Rica, Honduras, and Salvador
get §10,000, and those to Portugal,
Belgium, Sweden Rayti, and Norway, Den¬
mark, Turkey, Greece and sev¬
eral South American countries get
§7,500, The Consuls General to Lon¬
don, Paris, Havana and Rio Janeiro get
§6,000 a year, and there are 175 Consuls
who receive from §1,000 to §5,000 a
year.
Kurr.cl Smith’s Hospitality,
There was a party of four or five ®f
us from Cheneyvillo, La., to look over a
f«gnr plantation, sad we had dismounted
by the roadside to drink at a spring and
rest a hit under the shade, when along
came a native on a mule. As lie drew
bp anil looked us over we saw that he
was armed with shot-gun, revolver and
knife, and the eyes under his old hat
had a bad expression.
“I reckon you gents haint bound over
to Kurnel Smith’s place ?” he said as he
surveyed us. that,”
“Reckon we just are answered
our spokesman, ?"
* 'How soon
i I Right away.” do
“buy, GhoJ-id, will ye me a favor?'
“Treekon.”
“Sot here tnr about, half an hour, and
thefl don’t hurry. The Kurnel and I
have had a little fureo, and I’m going to
git the drop on him. Reckon you don’t
care to mix fa?”
“Reckon not, and if these gents is
agreed we’ll give you time.”
Wo didn’t raise any particular objec¬
tion, and the wayfarer passed ioII<|wed on at a
gallop. By ami by we at a
slow pace, but made no discovery until
we reached Smith's place. The “Kur
nel" was at the «F-te with a rifle leaning
against the fence, and as he came out
and shook hands our around guide asked;
“Been any ftirse here, Kurnel?”
“Nothin’ to speak of, thartk ye.”
“Didn't see a fellow on a rsewl come
this way?”
“Weil, somebody did come along an’
fill that ’ere gate poet full o’ buck-shot,
an’ I sent a ballet through his ole hat to
teach him not to be ao keerleas; but git
off yer bosses xs T come in—dome right
an’ make yenoslvt* to hum. ’ ■—Detroit
Free Freos,
Tub Chinese of New York city have
prcveil that they have some bowels of
compassion for Their suffering country
men. In answer calling to for an anpeal from the
Hd country, aid tor the victims
of great floods near Cantos, §45,000 was
r iscl there in a few dav 3 . Several
Chinese merchants snV'serftaal $2,000
eu | Ii
Till: FIRST ICE-PAUCE. *
—-
by the Faiprw Annn JvnndlT.Bi o:
the Neva, ITCii
This x:zs cut Into large blocks,
wtth rale and compass, and
carved with all the retrain architectural
nilU*M t «re te. No eemeut was used.
Each block when re ady was raised to iis
destiined place by cranes and pulleys, the
and just before it was let down upon
block which was to support it, water
was poured between the two; the njqier
Block Vas immediately lowered, ■■■■I and as
the water froze almost instantly, ih that
intensely odd climate, the two blocks
became literallr.oue. in fact, the v,-hole
building appeared to be, and effect really it was,
single mass of ice The prn
dneed must have been infinitely more
ecJiy beautifui than if it lisd been of the most
marble—its transparency and
Mi tint giving it rather the appear
anOe of a precious stone.
In dlraonsions, the structure was fifty
six feet long, eighteen aid feet wide, twenty
one feet high, with walls three feet
in thickness. At each corner of the pal
,»ce was a pyramid of the same height
as.tbo.root, of course built pf ice, and
around the whole was a low palisade length of
the same material. The actual
of the front view, including the pyra¬
mids, waa one hundred and fourteen
feet.
Tbs palace was built in the usual style
0 f Russian architecture. The fmaJr,
was plain, being merely divided into
compartments by pilasters. There was
^ window in each .division, which was
painted in imitation of green marble.
The window-panes were-formed of slabs
of ice, as transparent and smooth as
sheets of plate-glass. At night, when
the palace was lighted, the windows
were curtained by canvassed screens, on
which grotesque figures were painted.
Owing to the transparency of the whole
material, the general effect of tire illumi¬
nation must have been Sue, file whole
palace seemingly being filled with
a delicate pearly light. The central divis¬
ion but prpjycted, in and appeared window-, to be a door, and
was, fact, a largo
was illuminated like the others. Sur¬
mounting the facade of the building
was, an ornamental. balustrade, and at
each end of tlie sloping roof was a huge
ch'imney. The entrance was at the rear.
At each side of the door stood ice imi¬
tations of orange-trcee, in leaf and flow¬
er, with fee-birds icfiotas)'or perched on the
brandies. St. TV April.
I AN ACTOR RAGCED.
An Amusing Story,of n Barn Storming Com¬
pany Out W«u.
“Speaking of traps rominds me of a
Attic iiicidjuit Unit happened a fewyears
-r«go in a little Michigan town. Miss
Blanche de Bar and a moderately tart
company were hunting fickle fortune in
towns more or less not on the map.
They struck one place that hhd an en¬
tirely new hall, atid opened it with a per¬
formance of The Hidden Hand, When
their carpenter came to out' the trap in
the stage for ‘Black* Dan’—-or whatever
his name is—to ffill into when Capitola
presses her foot on the spring in the
floor, ho was astonished to seq that he
had ‘cut right tUrough intfc tne btpre be¬
low, which belonged to ths owner of the
hall! The owner, a jolly, good-natured, and find
ready sort of a chap, came up,
ing that the trap was necessary for the
play, said : ‘All right, you go ahead and
cut it. I’ll fix it np some way so that it
will he all right for to-night.’ He and
the carpenter did fix it np, in some way
best known to themselves, while the rest
of the company wont away until time
for the performance. In the evening
tho carpenter told them : ‘Look out for
those boards over the trap under the
carpet, and don’t kick them away, or yon
wili leave the trap open. When the
time comes I’ll take ’em away, and all
“Black Dan” will have to do will be to
step forward on the space, a»d the car¬
pet will give way with him.’ Capitola As he said,
so it was done. W r hen put her
foot cm the imaginary spring, and
‘Black Dan’ took a step toward her
threateningly he dropped ont of sight
quicker than a flash. There was a mo¬
ment’s silence, and then up from that
trap camo a volley of half-smothered
howls, ejaculations of profane amaze¬ ?’
ment, and wild yells of ‘Where am I
that were not in the play. They rang
down tho curtain and investigated. The
ingenious landlord and carpenter had
nailed securely in the trap by its mouth
a huge wool sack, about fourteen feet
lor,^. When dropped the actor went through the of
trap he clear to the bottom
it, and there he was swinging like a
pendulum in the darkness, half suffo¬
cated, and frightened almost to death.”
Depending Too Much on a Dog.
in Rooney owns the ugliest yellow dog
Austin, His friends often joked him
about sfliould the brute, and suggested choke that him he
drown him or to
death with butter. But Rooney would
wink and say, “Niver you moind; that’s
the saygaciousest pup in Texas. ”
After many a wild debate at a ward
followed meeting, by Rooney his had staggered homo hi3
faithful dog. It was
custom to cautiously open the door and
send his yellow dog in as an advance
guard. II ’the pup came back hurriedly,
accompanied by a howl, and a poker or
a saucepan. Rc-oney retreated and slept
in the wood-shed. * On account of these
services Rooney became much attached
to his dog.
The but poet has said, “There’s nothing
true Heaven.” One night last animated week
Rooney came home after an
discussion with some of his countrymen
as to the expediency of using dynamite
“to intimidate the toyrants.” Be ap¬
proached the doe» ranfiowsly, listened at
the keyhole, and then whispered, as he
opened The the door, “In wid yez.” his
legs dog thrust his tail between of
and sneaked in. A dead silence
several minutes followed. Then Rooney
Miloqnived. thinkin’,” “It’s entered! a’slape she is, I’m
and he
^ c5t morning when he mei his friend
Mnlcahy, “Man the latter said : off
alive. Rooney, did yon fail
scaffold. Ye look all broke up. How
^ Ton get that face, anyhow ?”
“I got it,” said Rooney, sod'y. “I
g°- :t . MMcahy, me frind, by puttin’ me
oopindenee in the saggacionsness av a
ihrty yader dog.”— Texas Siftings.
map BY Till WAY.
TiiE German Admiralty coasjdefences, now thinks
that it miist alter its inas¬
much as Krupp’s improved monster guns
are found plates. tp penetrate.eagily thestrodg.
est armor
Tun Citizen ,.of lilion, N. Y., printed
its edition by electricity, using an elec¬
tric motor, deriving the current from
ten-light dynamo fifteen rods away. It
j 3 the first "newspaper in the country thus
printed,
A PiiOVtunxCE roan slapped a stran¬
ger's face for staring at his wife in a street
car, and he was beginning stopped to feel and himself little
a hero, when the ear a
girl helped the impudent fellow off. He
-was stone blind.
Eight hundred vagrants, a score of
them men whose ages ranged from 90 to
99 years, were arrested in a single week
toward the close of last month in Paris.
Many of them asserted that they had not
slept on a bed for thirty years.
SrucE the commencement of work on
the canal, the population of Aspinwall,
Panama, has siiadcnlv increased from
1,500 or 2,000 to 8,000 into or 10,000, and
building lias extended the swamps,
where there are no streets graded.
Hox. Caebot.i, E. Smith, of the Syra¬
cuse Journal , will deliver the annual ad¬
dress before the New York Press Asso
. elation at its convention in Piattsburg,
in June. George E. Stevens (Wade
WippD), of Yonkers, will deliver the
poein.
Peesident Taylor of the, Mormon
church says: “When they come West to
wipe out polygamy they will find 100,
000 muskets pointing eastward.” In that
case, says the Philadelphia Call, they
had better take along 100,001) muskets
pointing westward.
Three thousand food inspections in
Glasgow last year resulted in the destruc¬
tion of 10,000 pounds of fish, 3,000
pounds of pork, 600 pounds of beef, and
other considerable quantities of food.
Among the better class of houses, 263
drains have been inspected, and only
seven of them found to be in good order.
The Treasury Department J. H. is in receipt Sec¬
of a telegram of the from Treasury Cattle ganders, Commis¬
sion,’stating retary that he has information that
the cattle disease prevailing in Kansas
was carried there in clothing by two
Scotchmen, direct from an infected herd
in Scotland.
Liverpool is the greatest shipping
port of the world, its annual tonnage
being 2,647,372 2,380.688 tons. London Glasgow is the
next port with tons.’
ranks third with a tonnage of 1,432,354.
New York comes fourth on the list of
shipping ports of the world with a ton¬
nage of 1,153,676.
Oxe of the latest cheats is tobacco
paper. The stuff is snch an exact imita¬
tion of the natural tobacco leaf and is so
well flavored that it takes a magnifying Cigars
glass to detect the deception.
made of this tobacco paper have a good
flavor, burn well and hold their white
ash firmly.
Here is a statement, in round figures,
of the Irish population 7,500,000; of Irish the in earth: Eng
Irish at home, Scotland,
land, 2.500,000; Irish in
2,000,000; Irish in Canada. 2 , 000 , 000 ;
Irish in Anstraliaff 1,000,000; ; Irisff in
America. 12.500.0(f): Irish elsewhere, e
5,000,000—a total of 32,500,000.
In Sayreville, Pa., there is a horse
which hauls thirty-five small cart loads
of clay and one of coal dust every day.
He lias 11cdriver, is as regular as clock
work, and > ever fails to go exactly the
.light number of times. If too big a
load is p*t on the cart, he rears and
plunges until a part of it has been re
moved,
At domino parties in Boston, the la¬
dies, but not the gentlemen, wear masks.
At one entertainment a young gentle¬
man was flirting desperately with a
domino, when to his astonishment the
voice behind the mask said. “Why, fright¬
Bobby, where did you learn such
ful things ?” The domino proved to be
his mother.
TriE engagement is announced of Sirs.
Frank Leslie t# the Marquis deLeuville,
a gentleman who has spent much of his
time for the past three years in New York
city. The duel between the Marquis
and Count Almansegg, in Belgium, in
which the latter was wounded, was be
cause of remarks that the latter had made
concerning an American lady.
Not the Right Leg,
“I leaf my poy Shake in der shtoro
while I come down town,” be began as
ha halted a patrolman, in “and looks pooty
qneek a man vhalks and all
aronndt and says:
“ ‘Poy, I has godt some badt news for
yotf.’ ‘How dot ?’ asks Shake.
“ V6s
it t Yell, your fadder falls down on der
shtreet und preaks his leg, und I vhas
here to get a dollar to pay for a hack to
bring him borne.’
it t No!’
“ ‘Dot vhas so.’
‘ Ylreel, dot makes my poy Shake feel
like a load of hay falls on him, but lie
doan’ go quite grazy. He, tinks it all
oafer and asks:
“ ‘So my fadder proke bis leg?’
“ ‘Yes.’
it l Ykich leg vhas it?’
tit Der left leg.’ t
“ ‘Are you sure ?’
f(l Of course; I help to carry him into
der city haJJ. ’
“Den my poy Shake he laughs all
cater, sjrust so—, und chuckles down in
his pools like dis—; nnd den he plows
bo!ice Thistle mit all his might, nnd dot
sch win filer runs avay.”
“So Jake doubted his story,’eh ?’
“Of course.” • “
“Why r
“Veil yon look here a few times.”
He reached down and pulled up the
left pant leg, and the officer aaw a, neat
handy wooden limb.
“Yon don’t fool my poy Shake on
wooden Jew. And don t you forget tom V
chuckled the rfd man as he waved hie
hand for a street-car to take him aboard.
—Detroit Free Press.
Robert Bonder’s fast horses indude
Marietta. 2:16*; Maud Macy, 2:16j;
Mavbird. 2:21; Wolsey, 2:21}; and Cca
vov, 22224.