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THE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY* AUGUST21-TWELVE PAGES.
RICH HEN’S SONS.
(be Subject.
Some New YorV Records
From the New York Sun. '
'i he oldest and hugest fortune in this
cily is probably that of the Aatora. The
founder, John Jacob Astor, trammitted it
to hia ton William B. Aster, who, as we all
know, was not a dissipated young man,
but most exemplary in his conduct, and,
instead of impairing his patrimony, in
creased and consolidated it. lie left it in
turn to his two eons, the pretent John
Jacob Aator and his brother William
Astor. No one can sav that cither of
these has been ruined by his money. Nor
docB William 'Waldorf Astor. the only ton
of John Jacob, give any indication of a
spendthrift ami riotous disposition. lie
evinces, on the contrary, artistic and liter
ary tastes, at one time dallded in politics
and was recently, for a short time, United
States minister to Italy. He is married
and the father of a family, and as steady
and respectable as any citizen in the com
munity. William Astor has also one son.
John, or, as he is commonly called, “Jack”
Aston He is yet quite young, ard not
conspicuous for anything, but he is neither
vicious nor dissipated.
Another great hereditary New York for
tune is that of the Goelets. The bulk of
it is now devided between two brothers,
Bobert tioelel and Ogden Goele’, who arc
the great-grar.dtons of its founder. They
are both industtious and fiupal, as their
father, Bobert Goelet, was before tl em,
and their grandfather and great-grand
father before him. In fact, some of their
possessions come from old Thomas Buch
anan, who was a rich merchant in this
city during the war of the devolution.
Their own cousin, who although not so
rich as they are, is still rich enough to be
ruined if riches can run anybody, is El-
bridge T. Gerry, who, as everybody knows,
is as pious and exemplary as Col. Elliott
F. Shepard, and a great real more sensi
ble. Ancther, but remoter, cousin is
young Buchanan Wintbrop, who
derives his property as well
as his name from Thomas Buchanan, and
he, too, is a perfectly well-behaved citizen.
There are lots of other family connections
of the Goelets, too numerous to mention,
all rich and all steady and resptctable.
Then tlieie are tire Blunelanders, who re
cently succeeded to the estates left by Wil
liam Bhinelander, but who have leen
rich for half a century, The Masnn-Jones
tribe and their connections, of which the
late Louis C. Hamerily and his cousin,
Mr. J. Hookir Hantcrsly, are the best
known just at present, are another wealthy
set, and have nearly all kept their wealth.
The Htuyvesants, the Fishes, the Breevoort
family—one of whom is the architect,
James Ben wick—the Posts, in
cluding arother eminent archi
tect, Geo. B. Post, the Talmans, the Par-
iahef, the Schertnerhorns, and other old
New York families are all inheritors of
wealth in the third dfgree, and yet .ire as
wotiny citizens as I know of anywhere.
Mr.Elliol Zaborowski, as he calls himself,
holds i n to the estate of the Zabritkies
with tenacity, and it is increarirg instead
of diminishing in his hands. The grand
children of Francis B. Cutting live quietly
within their incomes, and so do the Itives
Bora, grandsons of the rich merchant,
George Barclay.
Of fortunes made in Wall street, and
therefore, according to popular estimation,
the most tvancscent possible, that of the
Yanderbilts suggests itself at once as hav
ing survived already to the grandsons and
likely to be transmitted successfully to
their grandsons. One son of the old Com
modore wns, indeed, a scapegrace, hut the
other, the lato William If. Vanderbilt, was
not, and hia two sons, who ltave each prob
ably $100,000,000, Bhow no ini ientinns of
being cither weak or vicious. Mr. Jay
Gould’s sons arc sober, hard working lads,
and if they succeed in getting rid of their
father’s money it will be tn slock opera
tions, and not in debau ltcry. Ogden
Jliils, tlte only son of D. O. Mills, ia of
unexceptionable character and strictly
attentive to business. One of Mr. Bel
mont’s eons is in his father’s banking
house, and will doubtless carry it on
alter hia father’s death. lie is as
steady and quiet in hia life as if he were a
clerk on$1,000 a year. Hia brother, Perry
Belmont, ia a member of Congress. The
young SeligntanB are men of the same
i ripe. Tha only thing I have against
one of tiling is that he 'publishes a newspa
per, but that will cot ruin him. Mr. .S. I).
Babcock also has a son in business, M at
trntive to it ns his father could debire.
William II. Osborn's mis, who are also
grandsons of the late Jonathan Stusgcs,
arc as fine lads as could be whited. So are
Cooper Hewitt and hia brother, the sort's of
Mayor Hewitt and the grandsons cl Peter
Cooper. Ex-Mayor Cooper, Peter Cooper’s
only aon, ia too well known to need any
pnmnillim. IMn-lim* erra nelnli S 111 run
VERY CLEVER HORSES.
NEW YORK'S FREAK MAKERS.
a very large amount of money, and, so far 1
from having squandered it, he ia rolling it professor Bartholomew and Hts Wonderful Sen Serpents, Mernmlits, Circassian Girls
over like a snowball, while he supports
himself by literary labor.. He is hai d-
tome and clever as well ns rich, and yet ia
anything but the spoiled child of fortune
he should he if the popular fall-cy about
unlimited wealth were the truth,
fn addition to thise, I may mention the
encomium. Boyal Phelps’ grandchildren,
the Carrolls, also exhibit only good traits,
and William Waiter Phelps, who inherited
u ost of John J. Phelps’ millions, is the
very reveise of a dissipated spendthrift.
1 have on another occasion spoken of
Mr. J.'Pierpont Morgan as our foremost
financier, yet he is the ton of n very rich
man. Hia eon, who has just finished his
edneation, shows, I am told, excellent bus
iness trait, and will soon enter his father’s
office. His cousin, Janus J. Goodwin, is
another rich man’s son, who is as steady
and respectable as Pierpont Morgan, and,
though he baa given up business, is neither
dissipated nor intemperate. The late
Moses Taylor, who left $50,000,000, or
thereabouts, was the son of a man rich for
the days when Moses cntcrid ujon hia
career. HU children and grandchildren
have not yet given any indications of
either moral or financial deterioration.
Pierre Lorillard ia another rich man’,
eon who has shown businers ability and
application equal to that of hi- father,and
hr* son, Pierre Lorillard, Jr, i. following
in hi. footsteps.
The sons of Mr. Jonathan Thorpe, the
millionaires of the hwanip, are likewise
decent, well-behaved men. Ad the grand
sons of AnsonG. Phelps,of whom D. Willis
Janus U one and Wai. E. Dodge another,
are, with rate exceptions, goed business
men, and daily adding to the possessions
they inherited. The sons and grandsons
of the. late Cornelius Roosevelt are
a shining illustration of well-behaved
inheritors of fortune. The late Theo
dore Boosevclt was a man of whom
the city ought to be proud. His brother
James is oi dirtinguimt ability and integ
rity, and.his brother Bobert U now United
States Minister to Holland. Charles D.
Lanier, tco, of the firm of Winslow A Co.,
has kept all his share of hu father’s estate,
and increased it. The sons of Bobert Bon
ner, the millionaire proprietor of the ledg
er and of the famou-trotting horse Dex
ter, have recently taken charge of their fa
ther's paper and are conducting it with
marked ability and success.
One of the meet striking proofs of my
eprjjK.itien UMr. AllenT. Bice,the editor
Of*—* Nort h American Itcview. On his
Ej “ side Mr. Bice is the son of one
man and on hia mother’s the grand
son ol another. From that we he inherited
Tlie Sea Serpent.
E. J. Stevenson, In August St. Nicholas.
ft ia hardly necessary to say how old is
the notion that huge monsters of the smke
sort make their home drepintbe seas, now
and then showing themselves to tsrrify
mankind. In fact, if the notion were not
so Old as to seem to find its source in fables
and mythological legends, one reason for
doubting the reality of the creature wou>d
be removed. Most of these extremely
ancient descriptions come from the North
ern lands, and the cold oceans of Scandina
via. Thus, one ancient author, Ohins
Magnus, speaks of a sea snake 200 feet
long that rose from the waves, towered
above a ship’s mast and snapped up
cattfe and men in its jaws. In the old
“Chronicle of Prodigies and Portents,” by
Conrad Wolfhart, a G> riuan of the six
teenth century, we find strange, rude pic
tures of serpentine creatures, in which we
put all due faith; there is the “Alcete,”an
animal wiih a scaly body and a head like
a wild boar, and the‘ Physeter,”a horrible
freak of the imagination, which lias a
horse’s head, the teeth of a dragon and the
blow-holes of the whale. Wolfhart nar
rates that in 151 B. C., on the roast of
Sardinia, several mighty snakes came up
from the sea and attacked vessels; but, as
his picture shows the alarmed crews dis
charging cannon at the foe some twelve
centuries before cannon were in use, there
may be other errors.
To come to later occonnts. In 1639 an
English traveler named Josaelyn, who
came over to New Frgland on a visit, was
told of a sea serjient that lay coiled on
some rocks at Cape Ann, Massachusetts.
And it should be observed how early Mas
sachusetts waters and the New England
coast became the regions linked with ap
pearances of the mysterious creature.
Some Indians who rowed near this one in
a skill were sorely frightened and warned
the Englishmen with them not to fire at it
or they would be in sore peril. Unluckily
Mr. Jostelyn was not in the boat party,
and the result is that we get this account
only by hearsay.
The next narrative of vnluA is a singu
lar description by the Rev. Hans Egcde, a
disianguished missionary to Greenland,
who records in his diary in 1734 the rising
to the surface of the sea near his parish of
a “inon-ler” so huge in size that, coming
out of the water, its head readied as high
as the mainmast. It had a long, pointed
snout and spouted like a whale. The
under part of tho body was shaped like
that of a huge serpent. This remarkable
creature seems to have been more like a
giant squid than like any animal of the
serpent kind.
’i wo records of our mysterious monster,
with plenty of details, soon follow. Joseph
Kent, seaman, btheld in Broad bay, in
May, V/51, a great serpent louger and
thicker than the mainboom of his eighty-
five-ton ship; and good Bishop Pontop-
pldnn, in hia famous “Natural History of
Norway,” tells us that the Norwegian coast
is the only Kuropesu shore visited by the
creature; and tbut a foimidable specimen,
600 feet long, with its extended back look
ing like a row of floating hogsheads was
chased by a boat’s crew of eight sailors
under a certain Captain de Ferry, but that
it escaped.
Passing by the statement of Eieazar
Crabtree, »lio declares that in 1798 he saw
tbia shy swimmer on the surface of Penob
scot Bay, we reacli a really important rec
ord dated the next year, 1779. In that
year Commodore l’n ble (aftei ward »o fa
mous as one of our naval hdmts. but then
a young midshipman) pursued with a boat
and twelve seamen, a monster—a sea ser
pent between 100 and 150 feet in length,
with a huge head. Its motion was so
rapid that it could not be overtaken. It
jvas observed at intervals for an hour. It
ia at least odd, if there was any deception,
that one year later Mr. George Little
Bighted what seemB to have beeu the same
snake, in Bound Pond, Broad Bay.
Equine Performers. | ,u,<1 ot,1 * r Curiosities to Order.
Chicago Times. August 7. J F ”jjelhriNibse J ." Ur “ ttI '
“\ou can teach a horse anything which j j t wa8 our 0 ld friend the showman—the
his bulky body makes him capable of do- only survivor of A. Ward, Earn, truthful
ing, and a hole’s capabilities are far be- as the needle to the pole—the last bit of
...— E. yond what most peaple conceive,” said S alue bagged by the interviewer on the
Mrs '.ivr sArK '■«
married the daughters of rich men. The | *”<?• Hie professor and ins twenty-five showman, with a rare eye for seeing the
sons of Josepli Park, the grocer, and the horses, which he calls the “Equine Para- curious and the unique, with a Btrong
De Forest and Lord boys; Jordan L. Mott, I do*,” appeared last evening at the Hay- fanc f r ’ witl * a cosmopolitan instinct and
the iron founder; joung Higgins, the son marktt theare . That the borie5 eillibil
more intelligence than is accredited to i He believes with the idol of the show
mere instinct, there can be no doubt. No ! world—the venerable sige of Bridgeport—
one in the audience seemed to enjoy the that the public likes to be humbugged. A
performance as much sb the horses them- j good, square, snap side show attracts him
selves, and in animated scenes, such as the as a drop of sugar attracts flies. He is
H | battle scene, they seemed fully to appre- J never so happy as when, with his shiny
of the Court of Appeals and tho other a ciate the spirit of the action. tall hat on the back of bis head, and with
I I ' The curiain rfses on a school room scene, I *"8 keen eyes dancing in the excitement of
in which the horses play the part of the hour, he is aloft on tho box of the side
scholars. The horses have been taught to ’•how in front of the circle of pictures of
carry in the same manner as a retriever, j the Circassian woman, and the fat woman
and anything from a handkerchief to a ! and the line of freaks, orating to a crowd
chnir is brought in the n outh at tho word of believers on the wonders of his show in-
of command. Nellie, a handsome line j s *de the canvas.
bay, has been taught to open a ocsk and I H he haaleiaure, he visits the resorts of
take from it first a pap r and then a hand- the shady side of life, not from a sense of
kerchief. The horse displaying the most j depravity, but for study of the curium,
intelligence in this scene is "Prince, reach- He has walked miles of railroad ties in the
ing for a handkerchiel held high in the current of hard luck, when, with his varied
«ir .mi ,*.«« •'-i.:— s- #-««. t-i-t-i-j talents, he might have liven snjoyn g ihe
deligh’s of a beautiful home in -Urine. || 0
has done everything from Richard Ilf. in
» troupe of tho barn-storming “profeih" to
turning the band organ at the feet of a
mermaid stuffed with sawdust. When lie
reporter saw him Saturday lie wes off duty,’
eyeing with critical keenness the peopI-Ju
the circus grounds.
“I’ve been to the city,” continued our
friend, as he sat on a property box and
looked at the sky. “I’ve taken in most of
tbe things in which I’m interested, and you
know what they are. Lots of them are old
chestnuts, but lots were not. You remem
ber that mermaid of mine, don’t you? Ha!
Ha! Well! that was a good one—the
cheapest and best mermaid ever shown in
thi»8tate, but it wouldn’t do to have car
ried it outside of Maine. A line of stove
pipe and a canvas skin won’t work every
where outside of the cross roads. Well,
we went up to the mermaid shop. I called
it the fake factory. It’s a good one.”
of the carpet manufacturer; Mah Ion Sard-,
recently killed at London; CharlesII. Mar
shall, recently Dock Commissioner; the
late Henry Bercb; Francis L. Griswold,
the fox hunter; George G. Havens, tbe sons
of W. B. Isharn, the leather merchant; those
of John A. C. Gray, one of whom is Judge
distinguished Episcopalian minis'er;
young Clark, the son of sewing machine
Clark, who owns the Dakota apartment
house and some millions of dollars worth
of other real estate, and dozens of others
whose names from timetotime will occur
to any one who will take the trouble to
think of the snbject, all prove the same
thing.
air and then taking it from either his hind
or fore leg to which it has been tied. He
feigns stbbornness for a time, and will un
der no circumstances obey a command,
lie stands indiflerent, and if the trainer
also apiiears indifferent the horse
attracts his attention by pulling his
coat or otherwise, and yet will not do my-
thing ordered. Finally he remembers that
tbe handkerchief m tied about his hind
leg, and he reaches round and takes it off.
In speaking of this act after the perform
ance Professor Bartholomew said: “A
horse has a mind which only needs culti
vation. It only takes perseverance, anil
ninety-five out of every hundred can be
taught tricks which are a source of .won
derment to the average person. Perhaps
only a person who loves horses will bo able
to teach. I always had that love, and I
might say I have been a horse trainer ever
since I was a hoy. When I began to train
these horses a few years ago I was so poor
that I could not buy their feed, and I was
forced to take them out at night and let
them pasture ou the streets and
vacant lots of Oakland. I
opened up this show in Chica-
S o about eight years ago with eleven
orses, and I have been > aking additions
ever since. Horses can be taught to juke
and to feign anything. Prince knows
what I mean. It took time to leach him,
hut the spirit lie shows indicates that he
understands whatiaexpeeted ofbim. In sue
cessive performances will hego through the
same act with slight variations, which lit
tle changes show that reason and not hab
it alone governs him. The street car
horse that travels one ronte day in and
day out knows the turns in the "road anil
understandt the signal ;o s-op or start.
This only shows the forec of habit, but a
horse may be trained to do anything in
the same way by going over the act
time and again. Aly horses know from
habit whether I mean them to obey the
commands I give or not. The horse first
learns the ordinary command to ‘back,’
anil )ctul one time only in the perform
ance, harsv commands or the whip will (rof
make him obey. I tench him in this way.
1 strike him with a handkerchief or whip
with one hand, ant pat him with the
other. I command him ir. a loud voice to
‘back’ and in a low voice I bid him be
quiet. He soon learns what I warn in
that particular position in the play, and
lie kuosii enough not to move until the
proper time comes. A horse has sense
enough to mimic, and when he ia taught
to rush at tue, lie throws his cars bgck and
shows his teeth as if he was really
in earnest. In training a horse you
must first be convinced that he can
reason, and then givo him a chance to
reasou out things. I crack my whip on
the stage and snap it about "the horses’
eyes, and they will not move because they
have learned that I will not hurt them.
Often during my performances I have had
childreu cry out for me not to hurt the
horses, ami I have had to explain that my
whip is only a stage whip and does nothing
hut snap. In training 1 have to use the
whip occasionally, but only when neces
sary to cure stubbornness. When I see the
burse feels hurt 1 try to Booth his feelinga,
and when he loarns an act I am teaching
him I ptaise him and pet him. I think
my hoists do their work through love for
it and for me and not because of fear of
the whip.”
Osar it a very intelligent animal, and
dances and performs at a aign given. The
autlieme ia allowed to name any given
moment so that the work ia shown not to
be mechanical. The horse was originally
to move at a command, but is now deaf
and acts only upon signs. Beauty is also
a very intelligent little animal, and bal
ances herself on a pedestial nine inches in
diameter. Various acts, aome comical,
aud others allowing the affection of tho
horse for another, are given. I’erhsiw the
moat wonderful work is that of Prince
and I’ope on a balancing board, in which
both Horses exhibit a power of reason
which commands respect for the brute
creation These feats of balancing would
be difficult for a well-grown child to per
form, and the audience list evening ex
hibited by applause hearty appreciation
for the werk. The closing scenes are mili-
umenta, or mile and index stores, between
that county and Maryl ind. They started
Tlie Stones of Minton tint! Dixou's Line.
From the Harrfcburi Telegraph.
Of the thirty-four stones all but Nos. 3,
8, 21, 23, 24 and 34 are in good condition.
No. 3 is in Warren township. The top of
it his been broken off and is now used as a
step at the residence of Mr. John Bear.
No. 8 is not in its proper place. No. 21, ___
on the farm of Peter Erhelman, a short | tsry in character, and the partic"ipant7Tn
distance southeast of Middleburg, is i the mock battle go through all ih. march
brtkets ,2 ami m:1 up m» icon- fitly yards ing manicuvres and firing'of cannon. The
from its proper plaro. No. 23 is broken . noise of the explosion does not annoy them
oil and covered up by the turnpike. A j ill the least, and in the closing act they
pile of limestone marks the place where it. seem to be worked up to a high degree,
should be, on the farm of John Wingert, Their eyes flash and they move about the
on the Marsh turnpike, running from stage rapidly, but with system.
State line into Maryland. No. 24 is en- j The performance is a revelation in many
tirely deatioyed. No. 34 is destroyed, and ! respects, and if one horse is backward in
was found ia two pieces on the farm of | performing an act expected of .him the
David Hoover, one-half mile from Blue 1 others try to push him along. One horse
Ridge Summit. Beginning with No. 3 at times seemed hardly to know what was
every fifth stone is what ia known os a expected of him, but he is a two-year-old
“crown” stone, the stones being marked | colt who has been in training for only
with diflerent coats of »rms. three weeks. The others knew what ts • . .
1 he commissioners of York county com- expected, and do ir. Occasionally the ac- existence of the only mermaid ever cap- under the schednle. The entire distance
pleted an inspection of the boundary mon- tions would be alow, but in reference to lured alive. j covered was 4(10 miles, and the actual time.
TIIE ASYLUM LIBRARY.
Librarian Dullamjr Speaks of the 'Need of
the LlbrarY and Acknowledges Donations.
Editor TELivGitA,riI: Although there is
no appropriation by the Legislature for a
library for the use of the patients at the
asylum, one lias been secured solely by the
generosity of individual contributo
though it is not yet quite a year old
a goodly number of valuable boo
magazines and proves a source of
pleasure to those who frequent the
to read. About the middle of last
a proposition was made through
papers for tlie people throughout the
try to ser.d any second-bond books
could spare the asylum. Other papers ap
proved it and added their influence—prom
inent among them being tbe Teleorapii—
and even Northern papers took it up and
urged everybody to send one or
more. In consequence contributions
came from all over the country
even from as far North as Vermont, New
Jersey, New York, and also lrom various
Southern States. Eucouraged by tlie noble
generosity of the people, letters were
written directly to many of the large pub-
lishing houses at the North and West,
quite a number of which responded liber
ally with from a dozen to nearly a hun
dred new books. Among those contribut
ing most liberally are some of Macon’s
honored citizens. Mrs. J. J. Gresham
made the firai contribution from Macon,
and a very liberal one it was, of about
fifty good, second-hand, interesting books,
and some four or five hundred copies of
the best monthly magazines published in
the United Slates. Then Miss Collie
1’earaon, of Macon, donated a fine copy of
the latest edition of Webster’s Unabridged
Dectionary. Messrs. J. W. Burke & Co.,
with characteristic generosity, contributed
about thirty-five good volumes. Then
came a handsome donation from Prof. J.
J. Brantley, D. D., of twenty-five bound
volutnns of Littell’s Living Age, and a few
days later the whole complete series of the
same (unbound), running from 1860 tip to
tlie present time, filling six good-sized
boxes. All who are acquainted with the
high literary character of that magazine
will see at once what a valuable aud de
sirable contribution it is. When we get
them bound, they will, together with those
first sent (and already bound), make some
seventy or eighty good volumns.
Another friend in Macon Bent us by mail
half dozen Standard Seaside Library nov
el^ bj popular authors, but did not send
his name. Later he wrote, informing us
that if they proved acceptable, lie wo Id
send more of like character, thus enabling
us to put in our record of contributors the
name of John Parley instead of an “un
known friend.” As a record is kept of the
names of all who contribute—if even only
one volume by mail, at well as those who
sent many—it is requested that ail who
contribute will please let their name and
address accompany all contributions. It
would no doubt surprise many to step into
the asylum library and see several thous
and good books and any number of tlie
best magazines in the land and know that
they have cost the State nothing except a
few Miiail freight bills. Indeed many of
the donations have come with freight and
express charges prepaid.
The librarian, from time to time, makes
public acknowledgements through the pa
pers ol all who have 6ent in Binco be last
published their names and contributions.
Many parties, not lacking in"go erosity,
but only cccding their attention called to
it, who read these published acknowledge
ments, are encouraged to do their part and
at once sent^ one or more books.
The librarian desires again to express
hia thanks to the Tei.koiiapii for its kind-
ly interest and tbe aid of its extended in
fluence in securing a continuance of con
tributions tn so good and charitable a
cause. Kindly, ever yours,
t W. C. Bellamy, M. D., Librarian.
Milledgeriilc, Augcst 9th.
A Solid Iron Box.car.
From Exchange.
Perhaps tlie only solid iron box-car t
the southern states to da. ia now £ 10
regularly on tha Nashville, Ch»tu„J"*
ri 'n [ .' ou , la Railr oa.l. It was bmlt if
he United States government more
twenty years ago. and, judging from ‘ hlt >
ent appearances,it will be usedtvnt.
more. This relic is construtccd u f
boiler iron, with doors of the same ^
al, and was men to transport powder
ammunition along the lfne £f roi( i
twen Nashvlfl and Vh. d ^
to tne federal troom
It afforded perfect safety 1
its contents from those terrors, tho 7
esfee bushwhacker**, who \iv
track and fired upon the occupants of«
ery train Then- builds fell harmuJI:
from Unhides ot the ironclad; 80 f”S
long vearsof strife and bloodshed thi, 0 H
Uavefling magazine would jog alongdm
ly aud serenely through the thickest?!
the fight indifferent to ail attacks tho
were made upon it. After following th?
army nil over the South and fulfilling?,!
important mu-ion, at the close of the w?
it was sold to its present owners. It
1 y -„ th ,‘' m a8 u ? ba 8G a S c car on Ih?
Shelby ville branch for about filtean rear.
Since then it has had a checkered career
running as an extra baggage on the main
me, ami as a freight car on the differed
branches, and at last it was placed on the
Labanon branch about three yearn
it runs regularly at the present time
Could this old fellow speak, what au erne*
nence he could relate 1 It is. nerharm
only relic of the kind in the country
its veteran friends say, in token of mst
services, should be bought by tho govern
ment and placed in the National Museum’
where, doubtless, it would be a very at!
traciive feature. 1
The Stioppor anil the Remnant.
Arlo Bates in Providence Journal.
Sho went into a big dry good) house the
other day to buy material for a gown. She
selected, after a good deal of fussfng a
gingham costing twelve cents a yard. “How
many yards arc there in this piece?”
‘There are eleven,” the cleik answered
after counting. “I will take ten,” she an
swered. He suggested that she should
take the whole piece, but she insisted that
lie should cut off ten yards, and this was
accordin/ly done. “That ia a remnant, I
suppose?” she said interrogatively, taking
un the odd yard as he folded tfia goods.
“Yes ma’am.” “You sell remnants cheaper
don’t you?” “Sometimes,” the clerk said
iacimicuUy. “What will you take for
this?” “Twelve cents.” “But that
was just what I paid for the piece.”
“i"es, but I haven’t.any authority to
mark goods down.” "Couldn’t yon send
the cash boy to find the man that does
mark them down, so as to see what he
would take?" the customer asked anxi
ously. “He is at dinner, just now,” said
the clerk, “and 1 don’t think he’ll tie in to
day.” “And you couldn’t mark it down
yourself aud tell him about it ?” “No,”
the clerk replied, siniliug aggravatingly,
"I couldn’t really.”
“Well,” the woman said, with a sigh, “I
am dreadful sorry I had it cut, lor I’ll have
to have that yard any way, even if I do
have to pay 12 cents for it. Ten yards
wouldn’t possibly do. But?I ain’t uatd to
paying full price for remnants.”
Mother Mvrean's Drnth.
Tarts Dispatch to tbe London Telegraph.
A once famous and even fashionable
fortune teller, “Mother Moreau,” has jn*t
died in Baris. Bhe attained the height of
notoriety in the days of the empire, when
alio was consulted not only by the cocottes,
but also by the cocodeltes, us the society
beauties of the time were calledi Her
rooms were usually thronged in the after-
noou when her fashionable customers came
to have their "fortunes” told, or rather to
consult her in their aflairs of com
mingled business and pleasure.
Mine. Moreau was a skill
ful cartomanciennc, and her masterly ma
nipulation of the cards must have enabled
her to realize a considerable income. Just
as in ordinary prosaic professional life,
Mme. Moreau bad formally taken over the
premises and practice cf an equally pro-
phetio predecessor, Mme. Lenormaud, who,
in her day, was a veritable Witch of En-
dor, and even preceded modern spiritual
ists in evoking phantoms from tne vasty
depth of th nether regions, or in enabling
customers to iiave comfortable and profita
ble talks with the ghosts of their jjrand-
motliers. The deceased cartomanciennc,
who did not profess to dabble in the
“black art” like her notorious predecessor,
and confined hcraeif strictly to the cards,
died in her 71st year.
BORE IT LIKE A HERO.
factory. It’s a good
“Go on,” was the reporter’s suggestion.
“Wejl, sir,” since I’m talking on tlie
fake, did you know that the finest artist in
the world in tho manufacture of freakB
aud curiosities is an Alaskan. It’s a fact;
I was surprised mvself, for I always sup
posed that he would be a Yankee, lie was
away when we called, but his assistant was
there. They were making Egyptian mum
mies that day—a full lice ot them for a
museum in Paris. They are made of plas
ter of paris and boiled in tobacco juice, and
they are stunners when they nre done. It
is a curious yarn how tho reporters got on
to his place. Ho occupies a place under
tbe roof and dries his curiosities on the flat
roof in the sun. The elevated railroad
pushes along over the city here and aome
travelers by the morning train saw a cu
rious sight out on one of the roofs. It
looked like a collection of dead bodies dry
ing in tlie sun, and a conglomeration of
hideous monstrosities and blood-curdling
freaks i f nature. Of course somebody in
vestigated it, and as a result the birthplace
of the freak was found.
‘I wish I could give you that Alaskan’s
name, but I can’t. It’s a stunner in length,
ami lie is an artist of as distinguished tal
ents as his name is long. He made the
man-ox that stuck the professors of anato
my cveri whore. Ho drew the skin over
the ribs so adroitly that there seemed to be
absolutely no fault in it, and it puzzled the
scientists as well aa the common people.
There are two or three other freak-makers
in the Bowery that we called on, but there
are no others that approach this fellow.
He is a jim-dandy, and no mistake. A
mermaid is nothing at all for him. lie
can draw a chicken’s skin over the skele
ton as handily as you drnw on your glove,
and no man can swear that it ia artificial.”
“Are none of these freaks genuine?”
“Mighty few that I know anything about
are very genuine. _ Moat of this man-ox,
man-horse, mermaid, sea serpent, Egyptian
mummy, royal anatomical marine museum
stuff is manufactured. Of course there are
aome freaks oi nature in the way of mon
strosities that are genuine. The India
rubber roan is a freak of nature, and I was
in to see the Centaur of a man- horse at the
dime museum in Boston as I came home.
That’s genuine if you like it. It’s a coon
with his legs twisted out of thape. Tlie
poar cuss was marked in birth and can’t
walk upright—a dead give away of a fake
that don’t excite any particular interest.
‘Australian children’are idiots. Circassian
women car be made with ease and celerity.
Bearded women can be found anywhere.
The country is full of Albinos, and, if it
we^e not, they can be manufactured to or
der at any time.”
“Do you rememher that sea serpent that
was exhibited at the Ktate Fair a year or
two ago. It was twenty or thirty feet
long, and was the queerest looking thing I
ever saw. It had big chunks of bone on
tbe side of it and had a mouth big enough
to take in a long boat Well, this Alaskan
made that. How did he n akc it? Blamed
if 1 know. He’s ahead of me on that. It
was a good job. He made a sea serpent
lately lor Dr. Dec, and I ran acro-s it at
Exeter. One of the professors at Phillips
Acadeaiv went in and looked it over. lie
said he fiad doubts about it being genuiue.
“Ha! lial Well, I don’t blame him. I
had my doubts, too, hut they were hosed
nn a different fnmirtstinTy the difference
between theory and fact! you ate. The
doctor had a mighty good lecture to go
with his museum, lie Imd one or two
mermaids, and one of them he considered
a particularly valuable specimen. He
never failed, in the course of his address,
to relate that this was positively the only
mermaid ever cplured alive. 11c said
that she seemed to mourn for her home at
tlie bottom of the sea, and to continually
utter plaintive criea and sing in a mourn-
faffihMrt-breaking key. They fed her on
evi rvthing in the lii.c of fr.nhfish, but she The train reached Edingburg IR
pined away and died, and thus ended the , 5:52 in the afternoon, eight minute*
Tnu flying BcurcnuAN OUTDONE.
Tho Greatest Railroad Race Ever Held tn
Kiii;1am1 Won by the NortliweRtern*
From tbe I'biUdelphla Timet.
Until last Monday afternoon the train
known sa the “Flying Scotchman,” run
ning between London anil Edinburgh, was
tlie f ns test railway service in the world. By
its schedule time it made the distanco be
tween these two points, four hundred mi es
apart, in the wonderfully short time of
eight hours. Now, however, the rival train
upon tlie London and Northwestern, by a
fair race, has beaten it in speed and is
justly entitled to the honor of being the
greatest traveler in Europe or America
Tlie two trains started from Fusion Sta
tion, London, at exactly 10 o’clock Mon
day morning. The Northwestern, on ac
count of its longer route, was compelled to
make, one mile an hour more than the
"Flying Scotchman,” anil was successful
in its attempt. The engine had a single
pair of driving wheels, 7 feet 6 inches in
diameter, and weighed 27 tons. It burned
24 pounds of coal per mile during the run
The tender, loaded, weighed 25 tons. Be
hind it were four coaches filled witii pas
sengers, makings weight of 80 tons in all.
The start at first was slow on account of
a steep grade, but as the run progressed
tbe speed was increased steadily. Telegraph
poles bgean to seem like fenoe posts, and
the roadside a medley of objects hard to
distinguish. The passengers knew that
they were going over sixty miles an hour,
but were not prepared for the announce
ment that the speed was seventy-two miles
an hour. Mile post after mile post was
registered in fifty seconds by the watches,
ami the fifteen miles froiu Tiiug to Bietch-
ly took exactly twelve minutes and thirty
seconds.
At Crews five minutes were spent in ex
changing the single-wheel driver for a 42-
ton engine with two pairs of driving
wheels With this a speed of from 73 to
75 miles an hour was kept up for some
time, and the run of 51 miles to Preston
was made in exactly 51 min .tea. Ai Car
lisle another change was made loan en
gine with a single pair of drivers, with
which astonishing speed was made.
this the t.oiner said: “If I find a horse
is ) willing to do anything I let him
at the Eii.quehanns, about fear miles bo- j take his own time. Horsea’
minds
The doctor had a bang-up show on the ; rx. hiding stops, was seven hours anil
outside. His pictures were very gorgeous i twenty.five minutes, an average speed of
■ — •- '—* -ir:- ! -*' 53 63 89 miles per hour. This has never
been approached h< fore for so long a run.
■ , ■ | __ minus and true to fact In front oi his mermaid
law Peach Bottom, where the boundary rometime* are slow! but they have he had a larf« patch of green grass and the
line between Pennsylvania and Maryland good memories. A milkman's honeknowB green waves curling up.
crosses the river, and traveled westward on the regular customers, and a doctor’s home “One day an old chap, with his town
foot until they reached the Adams county I the psticnls. If a horse shies at some ob- meeting bat on the crown of his head clear
line, a distanie of forty one miles. 'Hie jectonthe road he will remember the to bis ears, came up and looked at the mer-
ttones inspected are those placed tv Will-. place weeks afterward. So often one of • maid os she fluttered in canvas true to the
iam Penn’s bejrs, and Frederick Calvert. 1 my horses remembers some duty he has to ' picture ol her home beneath the wave,
list Lord Baltimore, in 1768, and most ot perform and will get aronml to it il given i “ As *’ e K" zt ‘d at her in rapt suspense and
them were found in fair condition, while a little time. Some homes are brighter I noticed that she was the only specimen
one was in us« as a step to a porch at a j than others. I can take almost any lior-- ’ over captured alive, he looked up to f
Maryland farm honae, aixty yarda from and taach him aometbing; but horsea arc ! orator nt the door and said: ‘S.iy, Miat
the line-one in the engine houae of a grist like men, they are brighter in aome dime- i What do you feed her or,?’
mill, and one had be*n shipped to Balti- tiona than in others, and I would not try I “There may have bwn truth »s well aa
The fastest continuous record in England
hitherto was that of the spec al train
which took the Prince oi Wales from Liv
erpool to London, 200 mites, in three hours
and fifty-niDe minutes, an average slightly
o»»r fifty-seven miles.
London, August is._A dispatch from
to the ,aJr,: ‘‘There are 3,000 reinforred
more. It ie expected that the commission-! to teach some homes tricks that otherr i
ersof Adams county will also soon make fotm easily. Only uae good judgment, kind
au inspection of tbe atone* on Ad&ma»treatment *o4 p.r^reraBcc sn.* a hoiu' ^
County's part of the iina. ; will become loving and obedient.” 1 have
reply ol the doctor aa lie
I down snq -sin: 'My d sr «ir, w«
er entirely an an Irrs, Wh« ha- to
auiicthing very lieeb.’"
Thibetans in thejalnpa pus. The British
force, 1.800 strong, with four mountain gnus,
is mirching to attack them.’’
London, August 13^-The .Siemens Steel
Works, at Landore, n» ir Swansea, hsve
beon suddenly closed, and thousands of
men have been thiown out of work.
A Little Hoy HulTers for Hours \Tltlm Mul
let In Ills Ahilnmcn.
A dispatch from Evansville, Ohio, ssysr
Cressie, the uvea-year-old ion of Austin
Ci ombs, took a revolver from iiis father’s
desk yesterday while alone in the house,
and, while playiDg with it,accidentally dis
charged it, the ball taking effect in au ab
domen. On his mother’s return she ques
tioned the boy, who admitted having dis
charged the revolver, saying nothing of
the injury to himself. Having been for
bidden to touch the revolver, he was
chastised, standing the puninhmeot
without a whimper. Shortly after
ward lie slipped away to a room upstairs
and changed his clothes, the ones he wore
being clotted with blood from the pistol
wound. Toward noon he began to feel
sick, snd going to a side room isy down
upon the floor. Upon being calleil sbortly
afterward to get aome wood he repliid that
he uouid not, and that he was sick. Hu
mother going to him noticed for the first
time that his clothes were saturated with
blood. After an examination she surmised
the truth, and upon close questioning the
boy admitted that he had shot himself.
This was not until some three hours after
the accident though, and the boy at last
reports was sinking.
MHaHnlppt Quarantines.
Jackson, August 14.—The Mississippi
State Beard of Health has decided to es'ab -
liah quarantine stations at the Mlssi's'l'P
Bute line on the following railroads: Louis
ville end Nashville, Alabama Great 8on'n
ern, Mobile and.Ohio, East Tennessee, Vrr
ginia and Georgia, anil Georgia Pacific.
London, August 14.—The mill owners »*
Blackburn having refused to grant the Ilf
per cent, advance in wage* demanded by the
carders, 2.0GO employes have gone out on a
strike. TTre strUere declare that they have
the power to force a general strike of cotton
mill hands within a fortnight.
Ikoeaudi of Man Idle.
London, August 14.—The steel works a
bandore, near Swansea, by their shut di wn
have throw* thousands of men out Of rwt.
They are not on ned by Siemens Hros.. hut
belong to a company and the Siemens are
merely stockholder*.
Hlfniutkiip Bulletin.
N*W York, Anoint 13.—Arrival,
Arriv- 1 W.-.-rs., ' " r -
for Ur»*mep . < it? of Chi' Rir*. N«*w York