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THE NATIONAL CAPITOL.. « CO.U •» !-*•* •80.000 • Year to Keep “ Bi< BnlldlD|C i n Rep*!,.. ft costs SBO,OOO a year to maintain Un de Sum’s 114,000,000 building on Capitol hill That is the amount congress allows 6 ’ vca r for mecbnnlca and laborers, for *' hes and. hardware and lumber, for tiima and grate bars and " n the otber ’UP plie* necessary to keep the capitol In re- improvements congress has appro unfrd an average of $25,000 a year in the Ln ream and ranch of that has rL, gpent in the last 12 months, Flfty jX thousand dollars has been used to Mustform the senate’s system of ventila tion and 145,000 to introduce electrio light in the building and grounds. For the current year other changes are planned. There is always something unfinished about the capitol. A few years ago the in ofct noticeable incompleteness was Tn the terrace on the west front of the building. That is completed now. But the painter’s ugly scaffold hanging in the rotunda draws attention to the still unfinished Brumidi frieze, and in the basement of the senate wing the abrupt termination of the brilliant tropical wall decoration is a constant source of surprise. Chance is responsible for the incom pleteness of the wall paintings. They were begun many years ago by an artist of rare merit. He grew tired of the work or he died —no one about the capitol can say ac curately which. At all events he disap peared from the seene and the walls of the senate wing rema! beautiful in some spots and bare in otb a. The beautiful spots have been clean I and renewed re cently by W. H. Duoksteln. Mr. Duck steln has added also to the cleanliness of what is known to the irreverent as the chamber of horrors by cleaning the mar ble statues there. The delay in completing the frieze is not a matter of chance. It is due to a dispute in the committee on library over the im portance of certain events in national his tory. This frieze, begun by Brumidi, an Italian artist, in 1878, was only partly done at the time of his death in 1882. The hanging scaffold on which Brumidi did his test work remained in place a lofig time until another Italian, Costagglni, was employed to carry out Brumldl’s de signs. What is represented by the annual ap propriation of $30,000 and in the last year by the special appropriations of $55,000 and $45,000 is not all that it takes to run the capitol and grounds. Care of the grounds costs $12,000 a year, steam heat ing and machinery for the senate $4,600, the lighting of the building and grounds and of the botanic gardens opposite $86,- 792 and the operation of the engine house and stables $2,000. - - But for the building itself the cost of maintenance Is SBO,OOO a year, or, includ ing the improvements, $55,000. Some business men figure repairs and improve ments at 10 per cent es the value of the building*, and the actual cost of the capitol to date has been sl4,ooo,ooo.—Chicago Tribune. Bobertf Fulton’s Torpedoes. Before he turned his attention to navi gation by steam Robert Fulton invented a marine torpedo which he endeavored to dispose of to the United States govern ment. Succeeding In Interesting James Madison, then secretary of state, in the matter, he obtalned a small appropriation from the government for the purpose of conducting some public experiments. In the summer of 1806 he invited the high dignitaries and a number of prominent citizens of New York to Governor’s island to see the torpedoes and machinery With which his experiments were to be made. While he war lecturing on his blank tor pedoes,’which were large, empty copper cylinders, Ms numerous auditors crowded around him. After awhile he turned to a copper case of the same description which was placed under the gateway of old Cas tle William and to which was attached a clockwork lock. Drawing out a peg, Fulton set the clock in motion, and then he said in solemn tones to his attentive audience: “Gentle men, this is a charged torpedo, with which, precisely in its present state, I mean to blow up a vessel. It contains 170 pounds of gunpowder, and if I were to suffer the clockwork to run 15 minutes I have no doubt that it would blow this fortification to atoms.” The circle of humanity which had closed around the Inventor began to spread out and grow thinner, and before five of the 15 minutes had passed there were but two or three persons remaining under the gate way. Some, indeed, lost no time in get ting at the greatest possible distance from the torpedo, and they dld not again appear on the ground until they were assured that the engine of destruction was safely lodged in the magazine whence it had been taken. —Sacramento Beoord Union. Glad He Was Not Like These. “I haven’t any sympathy for the peo ple who are always complaining and whin ing,” remarked the man with the troubled frown upon his forehead. “In fact, I be lieve that the men and women who are al ways fancying themselves 111 used and grumbling at other people ought to be confined just as much as if they bad hy drophobia or got drunk; but there are some troubles a man really can’t help mentioning. “Now, for Instance,” ho continued fret fully, “I don’t suppose any man In Chi cago has more real worries than I have. My wife tells me every night that she’s tired of hearing me talk of them, and the other mqn in the office begin to tell funny stories just as soon as I come around out of sheer aggravation, I believe. My chil dren run out of the room whenever X get ready for a nice, long, confidential chat with one of them, and even the dog howls when I get ready to talk, I’m nearly al ways so sad. But do I go round telling people what a martyr to fate and other people I am? Well, I guess not, my friend. I haven’t a particle of use for a chrohic complalner.’’—Chicago Times-Herald. Grewsome Blrtbqpy Celebration. M. de Paris, otherwise Dei bier, the pub lic executioner of France, has just cele brated his seventieth birthday in a grew some fashion by executing at Bastia, in Corsica, the murderer Fazzini. The scaf foldings of the guillotines remain in the prisons throughout France where execu tions may take place, but the knife is never, out of M. Del bier# possession. He carries 't in a long leather satchel, not unlike ®n elongated dress suit ease. When be •eaves Paris with his grim instrument of justice, a small army of newspaper men usually accompany him in the hope that •omething may happen. His trip to Cor- 1 nca was hardly noticed, howevet, on Re count of the Dreyfus excitement. DmbJer probably killed more men teher living person. Fazzini broughThW tetord up to 506.—San Franciteo Argq- DINAH-SALIFOU. The Ludicrous Adventures of a Negro King In Gay Paris. Dinah-Salifou, formerly king of the Naloue, died a few days ago in the Mili tary hospital of St. Louis, in Senegal. It may be remembered that only two sov ereigns visited the French universal exhi bition of 1889. Dinah-Salifou was one, and the shah of Persia, thy luxurious Nasr-ed-din, was the otber. They met one day at the exhibition. The shah looked at his black cousin from head to foot and then turned away in contemptuous silence, much to the surprise of the poor negro monarch, who felt inclined to call him out. The shah, however, compensated for the affront by presenting him with a mag nificent saber, which Dinah-Salifou im mediately suspended to his belt. It was the happiest day of bis life, as Joseph Prud’homme would have said. But, alas, his happiness did not last* long! There be Ing some doubt as to the authenticity of the African potentate, no reception was prepared for his arrival, and he had to lodge in a small furnished apartment. Every day our negro king, accompanied by his queen, a corpulent lady dressed in savage fashion, went out in an open cab to visit the sights of Parte. Behind the royal couple came their suit, which was composed of half a dozen natives, all at tired in what may be described as rags and tatters, add grinning like so many gorillas. His majesty knew nothing of the French language beyond a phrase which he had learned, and which he em ployed on all occasions, from grave to gay, from lively to severe. “Suis tree content” (I am very contented) was the universal phrase in question. One evening Dinah- Salifou, together with his wife and at- went tn the theater of the Porte St Martin. The king was dressed in a long robe very much like a dressing gown, a hat which resembled a wideawake, With a tall crown, red babouches, and by his side the saber which the shah had given him. The queen wore a white drbss, with a necklace made of colored beads, and a small hat of red and yellow velvet. As regards their suit, they put on for the oasion caftans of various colors, greasy and patched up. One of the dignitaries had on a pair of red. trousers which evidently be longed at one time to some French soldier. Another was the treasurer of the king dom, who was considered to boa dlstin guished personage. His African majesty was a tall, well built man, as black as ebony. The queen was also tall and not without a certain grace. But she was not to black as her royal husband. The manager of the thea ter did honor to his royal guests by plac ing them in one of the prominent boxes, from which they were able to see the whole audience. “Suis tees content,” said the king, showing hist tongue and indicating thereby that he was thirsty. Beer was brought to them, and as they drank it the orchestra struck up a “bamboula,” which delighted them beyond’measure. .The per formance passed off airright, save that the queen fell asleep and set to shoring 90 loudly that she had to be removed to a back seat. The king preserved a more dignified attitude. Upright and immobile, with his right hand on his saber, he fol lowed the representation. Now and then he looked at the audience, and a few cries of “Vive Dinah!” were raised, whereon he bowed gracefully and exclaimed, “Suis tres content!” The news soon spread that Dinah-Salifou and his suit were inside, and in a few minutes the theater was be sieged by a large crowd curious to see them. When the dark monarch appeared at the door, he was greeted with all sorts of cries, to which he responded by clap ping his hands. It was some time before the royal ooupleand their attendants could be pushed into cabs, but, alas, such was the crowd that it was impossible to move on. The police were powerless to dear the way, and renewed cries ot “Vive Dinah! Vive lee morioauds!" echoed on all sides. Dinah-Salifou seemed at first to be agree ably surprised and shook the bands of all near him, exclaiming“Suistres content!” but on seeing the crowd jump on his cab and take other liberties with himself and wife be began to feel uneasy. Suddenly he rose in great wrath and glaring fero ciously at the crowd around him cried out louder than ever, “Suis tres content!’’ which, of course, only increased the mer riment of the spectators. His fury grow ing gren ter, he wanted to draw his saber andcha-gethe crowd, but unfortunately the weapon was intended for show only and had no blade. But for that some dls aster might have occurred. His misfortunes, however, did not end here. A little ragamuffin, more audacious than the rest, seized hold of his majesty’# crown and made off with it. The king Was about to descend from his carriage and pursue the urchin, but his queen kept him back by the tail of his caftan. The disorder was now complete. A strong force of police, however, soon arrived, and the crown was restored to its owner. The crowd then made way for the royal vehicle, and Dinah, who had recovered from his indignation, saluted them. The latter again shouted “Vive Sallfou!” while the black monarch responded with cries of “Suis tres content!” and so ended the royal adventure. —Paris Letter in London Globe. Funds Locked Up In Chancery. The receipts and transfers into the su preme court of judicature (England) dur ing the year ended Feb. 29, 1896, were £15,888,257 Is. Id. This sum, added to the balance in hand on March 1, 1895, makes a grand total of £76,768,417 Bs. sd. After payments out of court to successful claimants and others amounting to £17,- 085,648 14s. lOd. there remained in hand in cash and securities on Feb. 29, 1896, the large balance of £59,732,768 Bs. 7d., exclusive of a large item under the head of “Foreign Currencies.” The proportion of this balance which may be classed as “un claimed” is not stated, but no less than £2,827,822 18s. sd. has been appropriated in the absence of claimants to various ob jects. The consolidated fund is liable in respect of this appropriation in the event of legitimate heirs at any time substan tiating their claims. The number of suit ors’ accounts is 49,924, of which some 5,000 relate to funds unclaimed between 1720 and 1877 The funds in the supreme court of judi cature (Ireland) bn Sept 80, 1896, were £5,881,213 4s. Bd. In the chancery divi sion there la a large sum of unclaimed money, but the exact amount is not stated. More than £250,000, part of such un claimed funds, has been appropriated to ward the cost of building the law courts and law library in Dublin.—Chambers’ Journal. His Loquadeus Wife. Van Wither—How cheap things ore get ting to be. I see you can buy a talking machine now for $lO. Miner —Yes. But I got one for nothing. It was a wedding present from my wife’s parents.—Cincinnati Commer cial Tribune. GLORIES OF VENICE. Among Them That of Dreaming the Dee* Away In a Gondola. If Rome Id these day la too warm for comfort, if Florence is an oven perfectly un bearable, there is one spot in Italy which is ns near perfection as one can hope to find in this world. Venice, Venfee tbs golden, is in the height of its glory in these warm, summer days, when one can float about all day and half through the night in a poetic but at the tame time admirably comfortable gondola, when the sun deepens the tints of sky and water and gilds the fairylike palaces, when the man dolin and guitar tinkle until dawn under the window of some fair inamorata, when the Lido is a long strip of gold laved by the refreshing sea, and the harshest sound to bo heard is the human voice—when, in fact, life in Venice ia the apotheosis of the doloe far niente. . However, if one be energetic there are other ways of amusing oneself in the Queen City of the Adriatic than by lotus eating. The cases, cbantants and other wise, are in full swing, the theaters are open, the social world still lingers, the usual attractions to sightseers are open, and there is the International Art exhibi tion, which quite merits more than one visit. Take, for example, the Japanese exhibits, those delicious landscapes with a blending of colors all their own; fascinat ing, tender little women, and gems of bronzes in which the Japanese have reach ed such perfection, reproducing animals and flowers With ths most scrupulous ex actness. There areexamples of ’ Japanese art of the en< of the eighteenth And be ginning of" the nineteenth century, espe cially of the well known artists, Hokosal and Otamaro. In utter contrast are the British painters represented, and especially the Scotch group, while the Russians, and under some aspects the Austrians, have distinguished themselves. Connoisseurs in Italy, who until lately clung to old prejudices, have been obliged to cast them aside and acknowledge the pre-eminence of these schools. In April there were 86,- 000 visitors tq.ti&gxblbition, about 2,800 a day, and from all sources, sales of cata logues, etc.,'s22,220 have been gathered in dbring that month. The municipality of Venice has bought 88 pictures in oils, three statues and one water color for a sum of $20,000. So far the Italian gov ernment has made no purchases, much to the indignation of the Venetians.—Pall Mall Gazette. The African Cook. The Accras, who are employed right down the whole west coast of Africa, thanks to the valuable education given by the Basel mission, as cooks, carpenters and coopers, cannot resist fishing, let their other avocations be what they may. A friend of mine the other day had a new Accra cook. The man cooked well, and my friend vaunted himself, and was con tent for the first week. At the beginning of the second week the cooking was still good, but somehow or another there was just a suspicion of a smell of fish about the house. The next day the suspicion merged into certainty. The third day the smell was Insupportable and the atmosphere un* fit to support human life, but obviously healthy for flies; The cook was summoned and asked by her Britannic majesty’s representative where the smell came from. He said he could not smell It and he did not know. Fourth day, thorough Investigation of the premises revealed_tho fact that in the backyard there was a large olotheshorse which had been sent out by my friend’s wife so that he could have his clothes aired. This was literally converted into a screen by strings of fish in the process of drying—l. e., decomposing in the sun. The affair was eliminated from the do mestic circle and oast into the ocean by seasoned natives, and awful torture in this world and the next promised to the oook if he should ever again embark in the fish trade. The smell gradually faded from the house, but the poor oook, bereft of his beloved pursuit, burst out all over in bolls and took to religious mania and drink and so had to be sent back to Accra, where I hope he lives happily, surrounded by his beloved objects.—Miss Kingsley In Na tional Review. Netting the Natives. Here is a good yarn explaining how Whalen get native crews: 6 When a whaler is fitted out from home, she takes her officers, boatswains and a few foremast hands and steers for the western islands (Azores). Arrived there, a boat is lowered and a box of new boots pub in it The crew pull ashore into some convenient little bay surrounded by woods, and, landing, they open the box of boots and stand them all along in a row. Then one man begins at one end of the row and pulls all the boots on and off again one after the other. They then board thefr boats and pull off around the point out ot sight, and the. natives, who have been Watching them from the woods, coms down and try jnHsm op, When thp offi cer in charge ot the bbat thinks tfidy bate had time enough to be fitted, he oofiaeS back, and the poor *Geqs, being unable to run with the boots on, afe easily captured and carried off Whaling. I know this to be a fact, far the wlmtars told me 6f |t themeelves.”—"On *thnyoeas,” by Fred erick Benton William* Foul Breath and How to Treat IL Foul breath comes from several causes —viz, digestive bad teeth anu certain forms of catarrh. If foul diges tion, it comes from the stomach, and in that case the stomach should be washed out or otherwise sweetened and a mild diet adopted until the stomach clears it self. It from the teeth, it usually comes from a cavity in which food lodges and decomposes. This Is deleterious to health, aside from being disagreeable, and should be remedied by consulting a good dentist. If from catarrh, it is generally the atropio kind, in which there is usually a good deal of dryness to the throat. The secre tions become morbid and cling to the mu cous membrane, decomposing and form ing a crust, usualin In the posterior nares, or vault, of the pharynx. This is a very troublesome form of catarrh and should lead to a consultation with a specialist. A spray of peroxide of hydrogen mixed with water, equal portions, will destroy all odors. An application of oarbolised vase line has also been found to be of great service.—Home Doctor. Golden Silence. On one occasion Mr. J. M. Barrie found himself sitting at dinner beside a literary celebrity with whom be was welj acquaint ed. After the conventional salutation, Mr. Barrie turned to hie companion and asked: - ■ “Do you feel like talking?” "No, I do not,” was the prompt reply. “No more do I,” answered Barrie. And it la told of the twain that neither ex changed a word with the otber during the whole program of the "dinner. * * ENGLISH LAWYERS. The Small Vess That Are Received hy th* London Barrister*. A barrister’s fees are small, and they are always paid In advance, and the sum is recorded under the title of the brief. A friend who has a large practice showed me his feebook yesterday. The largest item was 88 guineas, which ia less than S2OO- The average was about SSO. Fees are regulated by the benchers of the inn according to the service per formed, and no contingent fees are al lowed. A barrister may accept a case for nothing or return the fee in cases of charity, but ho cannot without violat ing his oath, directly or indirectly, ac cept any greater compensation for a legal service than is allowed in the regular schedule fixed by the benchers of hie inn. If he does co, he is debarred from practice. It is a common custom in America for a lawyer to undertake a suit for the recovery of damages or a claim of any kind with a contract that he shall re ceive a certain percentage of the amount of money recovered. In England such an act would be considered disreputa ble, and any barrister found guilty would be expelled from his inn. The fees are regulated by the amount of time and labor required, and not by the amount of money involved. A barrister may receive a fee of $250 in a case in volving only SSOO, and he may receive a fee of $25 in a case involving $1,000,- 000. All legal business originates with so licitors. They bring to the barrister’s office a case all prepared after certain forms and written in manuscript. The British courts do not permit typewrit ing. The solicitor requests the barrister to undertake the case, and the fee is marked plainly upon the brief. If the barrister does not care to undertake the labor for the amount of money allowed or for any other reason, he advises the solicitor to go elsewhere. If he accepts the responsibility, the solicitor leaves the amount of the fee in coin with the brief, so that the barrister has his pay in advance. This is the almost invaria ble custom. The only exceptions are in cases of close friendship between the solicitors and barristers and where there is a large amount of litigation in which both are involved. Then it is customary for the barrister to make up his bill at the end of the month or the end of the quarter, but the fee in each case must nevertheless be written upon the brief and recorded in the books of the court. It is customary, also, for the solicitor to leave a fee for the barrister’s clerk at the same time, which must be a cer tain percentage of that paid to the bar rister. When you dine at a hotel or a restaurant in England, it is customary to tip the waiter an amount equal to 5 per cent of your bill for the same rea son. The waiter receives no compensa tion from his employer, nor does the banister’s clerk. His pay comes entire ly from the clients, and if his princi pal has no clients Ip gets no pay.' On the other hand, if his principal has a very large and profitable practice his fees are enormous. They say that the clerk of Six Charles Russell lives in a handsome villa down in the suburbs, is dxiveh to and from his office in a brough-* am and hires a box at the opera for the season.—Chicago Record. No More of It For Him. He entered the shop of a fashionable bootmaker, a look of determination on his face. It was such a look as one sees on the face of a man who is firmly re solved to carry out, at all hazards, a de cision which will change the whole course of his life. “H’m!” he began as the assistant stepped forward and politely questioned him as to his requirements in feet beautifiers. “I want a pair of shoes for my wife, Mrs. Brown.” “Yes, sir, certainly,” said the young man briskly. “Same style and size as last week!” • ’Same style. Size, fives—wide fives, ” replied Brown decidedly. “But—er—excuse me. Mrs. Brown only takes—that is, she usually has BX>” exclaimed the assistant, who knew the lady well. “Are you married, young man?” queried Brown sternly, the look of de termination deepening on his careworn features. “Er—not yet, sir,” answered the shopman, blushing. “I thought not,” returned Brown. “I ami lam not going to suffer half an hour’s purgatory every morning, watching a woman trying to squeeze a bushel of feet into a peck of boots. I’ve stood it long enough, and I’ni going to take her a pair that will fit.”—Pear son’s Weekly. Making Thing* Clear. .An old Peebles worthy and an Eng lish lady were one day recently occu pants of a railway carriage in an Edin burgh bound train. The train had been waiting long at a certain station, and there was no appearance of its starting, when the worthy remarked, "They’re a gey taiglesome lot here.” “I beg your pardon,” said the lady. “I’m sayin they’re an awfu’ daidlin squad here, ” said the old fellow. “I really beg- your pardon, sir,” she rejoined. “I’m remarkin they’re a vera dreich lot here the nlcht,” the old gentleman further ventured. “Realty, I must again beg your par don,” said the lady, with marked em barrassment; “but I do not comprehend you. “I was just trying to say the train waa late,” he finally blurted. “Indeed, sir, it is very late,” agreed the lady. And the conversation collapsed.— Dundee News. 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