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ALBANY WF,EKI.Y HERALD: SATURDAY, JULY 8, '1893.
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SOME AMERICAN "DOTS.”
bub Burnt That American Brides
Bwo Taken Oat of the Country.
lor in Jftya who
fights peculiar '
no American contributions of
J coin to tho noble social
of Great Britain. He begins
by stating that the Craven-Bradley-
Martin marriage exports £200,000 of
United States cash for the English
•dowry fund. He adds the following
matrimonial financial facts as Yankee
"dots” that have settled abroad:
“Miss Eva Julia Bryant Mackay,
daughter of Mr. and Mrs. John Mac-
lcay of San OFranciBco, princess of
Galatio Colonna and Stigliano, £1,-
000,000. Mrs. Frederick Stevens
married Maurice, marquis de Talley-
rand-Perigord, duke de Dino in 1887,
£600,000. Miss Matilde Davis mar
ried the Duke of San Croce de Magli-
one in 1866, £600,000. Miss Medora
Marie Hoffman, daughter of the
banker, married Antonie de Manca-
Smat do Vallombrosa de Mores and
Monte-Maggiore in 1882, £1,000,000.
Miss Anita Theresa Murphy married
Sir Charles Wolseley, £400,000. Miss
Elizabeth Livingston married Wil
liam Cavendish-Bentinck, M. P., in
1886, £800.000. Lady Arthur Butler,
who was Miss Ellen Stager of Chica
go, £200,000. Mme. de Barrios, who
married the Marquis de Hoda, had
three or four times that amount.
The widow of George Lorillard, now
the Countess Casa de Agreda, took
£200,000 to Europe with her. Mrs.
Charles Livermore, who married
Baron de Seillere, over £200,000.
“Miss Huntington's (now Princess
Hatzfeldt) dot was £200,000. Miss
Minnie Stevens, daughter of Mrs.
Paran Stevens, who married Captain
Arthur Paget, nearly £200,000. Miss
Edith Fish, who married Sir Stafford
Nortocoto, a good Bized dowry. Lady
Vernon took £200,000 to England. Is
abella von Linden,.wife of Count von
Linden, about £200,000. Mrs. Ham-
mersley, married to the late Duke of
Marlborough, took with her the year
ly interest on £1,400,000. Miss Cecil
ia Riggs, who married Henry How
ard, £100,000.
“Lady Harcourt, daughter of J. L.
Motley, the historian, brought'her
husband £50,000. Besides these, Miss
Jennie Jerome, who married Lord
Randolph Churchill in 1874; Miss
Consuela Yznagadel Valle, who mar
ried Viscount Mandeville, afterward
Duke of Manchester, and her sister,
Miss Natica Yznaga del Valle, who
married Lord Lister-Kaye, had good
sized dowries."
A Tlccr Fight In J.iTn.
An English traveler
law one of the tiger fl;
to tho island thus describes the
strange sport: The tiger is set down
in a trap in the center of the allon-
allon, or great square, and is sur
rounded by a triple or quadruple line
of spearmen about a hundred yards
away from him.
When all is ready, a Javanese ad
vances at a very slow pace, to the
sound of soft music, and sets fire to
the trap, at the same time opening
the door at the back part of the cage,
which, by the way, is too narrow for
the tiger to turn in.
As the fire begins to singe his
whiskers he gradually backs out.
The man, as soon as he has opened
the door, begins walking toward the
crowd at a slow pace, and the Blower
he is the more applause does he gain.
The tiger meanwhile, having backed
out of his burning prison, is rather
astonished at finding himself sur
rounded by hundreds of people, each
pointing a spear at him.
If he is a bold tigor, he canters
round the circle, almost touching the
spears. Finding no opening, then
he returns to the center, fixes his
eye on one .spot and with a loud roar
dashes straight at it.
He is received on the spears, and
though he crushes many, as if they
were mere reeds, in half a minute ho
falls dead, pierced by a hundred
weapons.
In somo instances, however, the
roar and charge are too much for
the Javanese, and they give way.
The sport then becomes rather dan
gerous to spectators.
A Cat Story*
A. G. Boggs & Col, the First street
grocers, are the proud possessors of
a large black cat that is not alto
gether unknown to the habitues of
that store and answers to the name of
Tom. During Monday ovening one
of the clerks in the store had occa
sion to cut a roll of butter with some
twine, and unbeknown to the clerk a
small portion of butter still attached
to tho twine fell to the floor. When
the store was opened Tuesday morn
ing, Tom was found to be a very sick
cat, and the clerk began to make an
investigation as to tho cause.
On opening the cat’s mouth he dis
covered a piece of string protruding
from the feline’s throat, and the re
membrance of butter and twine at
once flashed through tho young
man’s mind. Grasping hold of the
end of the string, the clerk com
menced to pull, and kept on pulling,
while Tom stood on his hind legs and
willingly followed in any direction
his master moved. There must bo
an end to everything, and finally the
end of that string was reached, when
it was found that Tom’B stomach hod
been relieved of a full half ball of
twine. At the end of the operation
Tom made a clever bow, as if to say
“Thank you. That’s the first time I
thought anybody had ‘strings on
me.’ "—Napa Journal.
Indignant Clerics.
The wild outburst of indignation at
tho inquest into tho deaths of the vic
tims who perished in Ford’s theater at
Washington was only a natural result of
the tragedy and what led up to it. The
survivors had for years been kept quiet
by official discipline. Secretary La-
mont’s letter read at the inquiry cut
away the last pent up fury of those
whose bread and butter had depended
upon the daily rist of life, for it clearly
stated that none should suffer on ac
count of any evidence given. A crowd
of department clerks clamoring for the
lynching of their head at an official in
quiry was a new experience of Washing
ton and one which is hardly likely to oc
cur again if the Ford's theater disaster
has any result at all.—New York Even
ing Sun.
Surpllced Women In Choir..
The bishop of New Jersey has forbid
den the women of his church choirs to
wear vestments. The vestments are
worn by several women choirs in New
York city—notably St. Bartholomew's
and St. George's. The long black cassocks
and white cotters are rather impressive,
while the wearing, of the little cap is of
course in accordance with the ancient
tradition that women must not appear
with uncovered heads in the churches.
The strictly correct covering, however,
is the band about the forehead, to which
' is fastened a long black veil to be thrown
back over the head.—Philadelphia Press.
THEIR OWN LAWYERS.
Tho Most Valuable of Metal.,
Gold and silver are no longer the
precious metals of the world. An
ounce of silver is worth about 88
cents, an ounce of gold as a rulo $20.
Palladium, which was discovered in
1803 by Wollaston, is a metal of a
steel gray color and fibrous struc
ture and is paid for nt the rate of $28
per ounce. Osmium, a brittle metal
usually found with platinum, costs
$35 per ounce and iridium $40. Ru
thenium, which is very hard and
brittle, brings $82 per ounce, and ni
obium, also called columbium, first
found in New London, Conn., a
very rare metal, discovered in an ore
or oxide, is rated at $100 per ounce.
Yttrium, discovered by Woehler in
1828, is a metal of a grayish black
color with a perfectly metallic luster,
which is very rare. It is paid for at
the rate of $120 per ounce, while
lithium, the lightest of all metals,
brings $150 per ounce.
Glucinum or beryllium, as it is
also called, appeal's in tho form of a
grayish black powder, made very
lustrous by burnishing. It has a
market value of $185 per ounce.
Barium metal, which was discovered
in 1808, is worth $200 per ounce, and
dydimium, discovered in 1846, and
very rare indeod, brings $215 per
ounce.—St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
The Blnturonc*
A live specimen of biuturong may
be seen in a small cage in one of those
odorous houses in the London zoo
where few people like to stay long.
We treated our biturongs to larger
houses to dwell in and gave them
much more liberty, for they were
turned out every day for a run in
the gardens, weather permitting,
and they delighted in climbing up
into trees and hanging from a brancji
by their pi-ehensile tail. Tho bitu-
rong. is about the size of a fox, but
its long, shaggy, pepper and salt
coat makes it look larger. It would
make an excellent pet for a lady in
England. But it is not to bo com
pared in beauty with tho catbear or
panda, known to science as ASlrus
fifteens. —Longman's Magazine.
Snalto. file Telepfionlnff.
Just what charms a telephone can
have for a snake is not very clear,
but that there is somo attraction is
proved by the experience of Mr. Cal-
lanan, a telephone operator at Bris
tol, Pa. The office of the company
is situated near a vacant lot where
garter and water snakes abound,
and Mr. Callanan has noticed that
they seem to take a great interest in
the sending of messages. It is not
uncommon when he is talking over
the phone for two or three snakes
to crawl in from the lot, raise their
heads above the doorstep and listen
intently to the one sided conversa
tion.—Philadelphia Ledger.
Byhoolrlrt. Draw Op Their
Own Wills,
There is never any telling what
half a dozen boardihg school girls
may take it into 'their pretty heads
to do. Their teacheia have been sur
prised so often that they are gener
ally prepared for the most startling
developments, but one of them in St.
Louis was rather more amazed than
usual the other evening when she
found “the young ladies” solemnly
engaged in making their wills. At
tached to these documents wore ex
plicit instructions for tho conduct of
their respective funerals. The girls
were quite in earnest about the mat
ter. They were all pretty well pro
vided with this world's goods, and
they had disposed of everything
down to the smallest item.
Miss B : , the teacher, who is
young and the object of a vast
amount of schoolgirl devotion, was
decidedly curious to know what ideas
these sweet young things have about
funerals and kindred subjects. After
much urging one of the girls consent
ed to reveal what she had written.
She first disposed of tho bulk of her
property, giving one-third to her
older sister and two-thirds to her
younger, because, as she said, tho
older one had a husband to take care
of her. In case the younger one mar
ried, however, she was to promptly
even up. Some minor legacies fol
lowed, among them being sundry
gifts to her teachers and schoolmates.
Give Miss B ," so ran the doc
ument, “my diamond cross, my um
brella with the Dresden handle and
my watch. Have a new mainspring
put in it first. Give Miss G (an
other teacher) my books. I haven’t
very many now, but I’m going to get
Dickens in 82 volumes on my next
birthday.”
After the will followed the instruc
tions for the funeral, and these were
original and imperative.
I want to wear a blue dress of
some sort, and I want my feet cov
ered up, but I do not want one of
those little tufted Comforters spread
over my face. There'll be about 16
of them sent in. Don't cross my
hands and put a flower in them. I’m
sure I don’t know just what I want
done with my hands. I never know
myself where to put them unless I
have a jacket with pockets or a muff,
and I suppose I ought not to wear
those. I positively insist on not be
ing placed on publio exhibition. If
any measly undertaker gets up and
says in a mournful- tone that those
who wish to view the remains may
pass up this aisle and out at the right,
I shall haunt him as surely os my
name is Lillian .
"Another thing, I don’t want a lot
of relatives crammed into the first
carriages and having a lovely free
ride, with their faces so beaming
that everybody will think some
stingy old codger is in the hearse,
warn you thut if these relatives are
not put back toward the rear of the
procession I shall get out and walk,
And I want the children left at home.
They can have a ride some other
time. I know I don’t want them
eating cookies and hanging out of
the third' carriage windows. And I
want the grave lined with flowers.
Furthermore, as there isn’t any law
requiring a minister to throw dirt on
my coffin, I decline to. have that on
the programme. Last, but not least,
see that my grave is kept green.”—
St. Louis Post-Dispatch.
A Lost Railway Ticket.
A lady traveling from tho city to
Brixton by the midnight train lost
her ticket. When she arrived at her
station, the collector demanded the
fare or her name and address. She
gave tlip latter. Still the official took
her to the police station, where she
was detained until 3 o’clock in the
morning. Tho lady sued tho com
pany in the queen’s bench for false
imprisonment and was awarded £30
damages.—London Tit-Bits.
Receiver Comer evidently feels
that a great weight has been lifted
1 from some where, and there has bepn
as far as he is concerned.
1 AJpbominent merchant was heard
to remark,to-day that times were get
ting better.
English In Harvard University.
In his book entitled "Our Eng
lish” Professor A. S. Hill says, “Ev
ery year Harvard sends out men-
some of them high scholars—whose
manuscripts would disgrace a boy of
12.” -This reads somewhat like
strange confession, since its writer
is in charge of tlie teaching of Eng
lish at Harvm-d. —Exchange.
It is a good thing to rpmember that
the Herald turns out the best class
of job work of any office in this sec
tion of the Btate.
Two Strang. Ailment..
Aphasia, or the loss of memory or
comprehension of speech, is a queer
complaint. A man who had forgot
ten his sister’s name always referred
to her as "that other woman.” A
person apparently otherwise in per
fect health will substitute the name
of one article for another totally dif
ferent in the most ludicrous way. .
Amusia is a form of aphasia which
prevents the patient from remember
ing music. One amusiac, uncon
scious of the oddity, sang the "Mar
seillaise” throughout to the syllables
“tan, tan, tan.” On theother hand,
another aphnsiac, also a Frenchman,
could speak but a single word, but
could sing tho ' 'Marseillaise" correct
ly.—New York Recorder.
. A Ca.o of '"Hoodooing."
A young writing master from Den
ison commenced a writing class at
Hawk Eye schoolhouse. A crowd of
boys of the neighborhood procured a
spool of thread, and unwinding what
they needed attached one end to a
nail under the eaves of the roof.
Then, getting sufficient distanco.from
tho house to avoid detection, one be
gan rubbing the string vigorously
with apiece of rosin. A stampede
ensued among the scholars. The
young professor drew his pistol and
fired three shots through the roof
and ran from the house. The hoys
were arrested for "mischievous mis
chief” and the teacher for carrying a
pistol.—Galveston News.
Not to Illame.
Strnnger—What! You want me
to pay you $2 for such a short dis
tance V
Now York Cabby—Is it my fault
tho distance is so short?—Texas Sift
ings.
The Chicago Tribmie devotes nearly
a column of its space to an argument
to prove that “gold has not grown
dearer.” It may not have grown any
dearer, but there can be ro doubt of
the fact that its having become visibly
scarcer in this part of the moral vine
yard of late.
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EXPENSIVE SMARTNESS.
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Th. Braw.r Knew m Thing dr Two About
Hop., HtfiMUhaFarni.r.
'It once coot mo just $1,000 besides
the price of throe bottles of cham
pagne to learn that a Vermont farmer
was smarter than I was,” said the old
fellow with a well fed air aa be light
ed a fresh cigar.
The speaker had been a brewer in
his earlier days, but he had retired
after he had put by a comfortable
sum, and at the age of 72 lie was still
enjoying life.
"One season," he continued, “hops
were scarce, and all the brewers were
keeping a Bhnrp lookout for any good
ones which were put bn the market.
Our agents in Boston telegraphed to
me that a man down in Vermonthad
100 boles of just the kind that I want
ed, and I started immediately to buy
them.
“Now, if I do soyit myself, I do not
take a back Seat from any one when
it comes to judging the quality of
hops. Well, I arrived nt tho place
where the owner of these hops lived,
and I inspected what ho had foreale.
They were the best hops that I had
seen that season. The price whiclk
he asked for them—60 cents a pound
—was reasonable for hope of that
quality. In fact, it was a little less
than the market price. Not to let
the old fellow see that I was too anx
ious to get them, I began to try and
beat him down a little on the price.
"The thought struck me that per
haps I might beat him down more if
I could induce him to go te town and
get him a little ‘mellow’ over a bottle
of ( Champogne. The town was not
far away, and I suggested that ho go
back with me, as my time was limit
ed, and if wo struck a bargain on the
way I would pay him tho cosh for
the hops before leaving bim.
“He consented, and to town wo
went. Wo stopped at the hotel. I
ordered a bottle of champagne and
some good cigars. Wo drank tho
wine and smoked the. cigars. I kept
his glass full, and he did not seem at
all bashful about taking nil that I
gave to him. He began to warm up,
and I thought I was going to save
the price of three or four cases of
wine At least. I suggested that he
ought to let me have those hops for
about 66 cents n pound. Ideclare he
raised the price instead of loworing
it and said he thought they were
worth 61 cents.
"I laughed, hut it was no go, and
ho insisted on Cl centR as the price.
'I ordered another bottle of wine.
Again he drank all I gave to him,
and I poured nearly all of it in his
glass. When this bottle was finished,
the price of hops had gone up to 62
cents a pound. Things were getting
interesting. Tho wine had flushed
the lace of the old fellow, but he,
would not come down a quarter of a
cent.
“In desperation I tried another bot
tle of wine and more cigars. The
sparkling fluid went down his throat
like water down a rathole. Ho be
came more and more talkative, and
gained courage once more.
“ ‘Well,’ I said, ‘we’d better close
the bargain on your first offer of CO
cents.'
“ ‘Well, I think them hops are
worth ’bout CB cents,’ ho replied.
"I argued and threatened not to
take them at all, hut it was no use.
Ho was sharp enough to detect the
fact that I wanted thoso hops and
wanted them badly. He would not
budge a hit, and -I had to pay 65 cents
for them. That additional 5 cents
on a pound made a difference of $10
on every hale and $1,000 on the huh-
dred bales, besidosmy winouud ciga”
bill of nearly $20.”—New York Trib
une.
A Clever Lawyer's Reply.
Twenty years ago Chief Justice
Fuller was practicing before Judge
McArthur in Chicago. In his speech
before tho judge he pleaded his cli
ent’s ignorance of the law in extenu
ation of an offense he had commit
ted. Tho judge said, “Every man is
presumed to know the law, Mr. Ful
ler.”
“I am aware of that, your honor,”
responded Mr. Fuller. “Every shoe
maker, tailor, mechanic and illiter
ate laborer is presumed to know the
law. Yes, every man is presumed to
know it, except judges of the su
preme court, and we have a court of
appeals to correct their mistakes.”—
New York Advertiser.
Th. rep. and Uh> Tone Capruh...-
I do not wish to leavo the Vatican
without relqfJng An anecdote ofA
pootic and touching character, which
possesses also the merit of showing
the great veneration in which the
person of the holy fathe* is held by
devput Catl$)lics.
Aware of the foot that a perfect
trafflo in the garments of his prede
cessor was carried on some years
ago, the present pope rarely yields
!o solicitations of this nature. Never-
.holess ho is not immovable when he
is morally certain that there is no
arriere pensee of a speculative char
acter iu the request.
Not knowing to whom she should
apply and being determined nt all
hazards to get something belonging
to the pope, a young lady had re
course to an ingenious and bold piece
of strategy. With her own pious
hands she made a white skull cap
precisely similar to the one that is
worn by Leo XIH. At ono of the re
cent pilgrimages she appeared be
fore his holiness, and holding out
her handiwork boldly asked the
good old gentleman to swup caps.
At first the pope looked astonished,
but soon his face became lighted
with a kindly, paternal smile, Whilo
the 9ap remained in the outstretched
and trembling little white hand.
The pope's smile gave her courage,
and yielding to the imptilBe of her
ardent piety Hhe pulled off the holy
father's cap and presented him with
the one she had made.
Leo XIH laughed,, swapped cape
with her and gave her his blessing.
—Rome Cor. Figaro.
SPRING
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CLOTH INi
We have received opr Urge and
Full Lint
of Spring Clothing, which con
tains extra sizes,
Long and Slim. Alao full line of Boy9’
and Youths Clothing. Pelt and
OF LATEST STYLES.
Fine Shoes of best quality,
some line of
NECKWEAI
Fine line of Gents' Furnishing
Wo are offering all- the above
goods at rema^obly low figures
will pay you well,to call and
them. Conte around and look,i
naraei
and
you buy or not
“Royal Oak Day.”
May 20 is celebrated in many
parts of Great Britain as “Royal Oak
day,” it being tho anniversary of the
restoration of Charles Stuart to the
throne in England ns Charles II.
The celebration is not what it former
ly was, having died out entirely in
many of tho southern counties of
England. The day was formerly
commemorated not only as the day
of “restoration," but on account of
the marvelous escape of Charles,
who, after the battle of Worcester,
climbed into an oak tree and hid from
his pursuers among its branches.
On “Royal Oak” those who celebrate
wear sprigs of oak in their hats and
UBe the leaves for various decora
tions.—St. Louis Republic.
It is every man’s privilege now to
not only give expression to his views
oh the financial condition of the coun
try, but to advise Congress what to do
when it meets In extrifSesslon,
There is a Urge amount of building
going on in Albany just now, with
' ‘ great"
prospects of a great deal more.
Gnrloiltlti of Glassmaking.
The art of glass manufacture goes
back into antiquity to a time “when
the mind of man runneth not to the
contrary 1 ," yet we cannot penetrate
the mists which hang over toe infan
cy of what haB for ages been a useful
industry. Its original discovery is al
leged, on the authority of several rep
utable writers, to have been the re
sult of an accident in whioh some
nitrum (supposed by some to have
been salt) was fused with sand. The
date of this event is not even approx
imately given, but is said to have
taken place on the banks of the Bo
lus, in Palestine, where some mari
ners had landed and were cooking
their meals, using blocks of nitrum
to hold their pots in position.
Sir Gardner Wilkinson gives a cut
of apiece of Egyptian sculpture work
which represents two glass blow
ers plying their art in a manner
which strikes one as being surpris
ingly like that practiced at toe pres
ent time. Sir Gardner informs us
that this sculpture was exeouted
about 8,500 years ago during the
reign of Beni HaSsan. Theban paint
ings and sculptures, Which are known
to date back to the time of tho exodus,
1400 B. G\, show glass drinking ves
sels of delicate patterns and fine
workmanship, in some instances ri
valing similar vessels of modern
mako.—St. Louis Republic.
88, BROAD STREET.
T. N. I00LF0LK,
Gonornl Agent of BottthWMt Georgia
for the
OF MARYLAND.
BONDS
Blade for Stato, County and Federal <
Cashiers. Treasurers, Tax Collectors i
oeivors, Guardians and Administrators, \
road and Express officers, at lowest rates.
H-ii-Urn.
8. B Bhown, Ed. L. Wight, A. P. c
President. Vico-Prea.
OF ALBANY, GA.
Opened business April 17, ’9
PAID UP CAPITAL,
Strung!. CnlncitlniK,*..
Not so long since a stowaway was
found dead under .the main hatch
of ono of the National line of steam
ers. He had concealed himself be-,
fore the steamer loft Liverpool und
died of suffocutipn. Curiously enough
in his pocket vyus found a novel e«>
titled !‘Doomed on the Deep." An
other,sing i.iar. coincidence happened
in America. , A pleasure party were
overturned, find drowi;p<l on tho Hud-
sop liver. JuBt before the accident
they had boon "singing “Lost In tile
Wreck." More recently a person was
charged with abstracting u book from
one of Messrs. Smith's bookstalls,
and when arrested two vohimes wore
found in his possession, .one of which
was entitled "Found Out."—Boston
Traveller. ,
to
Cash deposits subjeot
drafts: Exchange bougnt and 1
current rates; money loaned c
proved time papers,-"Correspond
solicited.
Richard Uobba.
. W. 5
Hobbs & Tucker,
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
Buy and sell Exchange, give
attention to Collections, and 1
same on day of payment a
rates;'receive deposits subject
checks, Cm 1 lend money on 1
time papers. Correspondence 1
Economy In Munfaliml Control.
An inquiry directed' to 28 small
cities from Maine to Texas,'haying
their olectric street lamps provided
and maintained by private corpora
tions, shows tbnt tlie average annual
cost per lamp to the cities is $106.01.
A similar inquiry directed to 23 small
cities that own and run, their own
electric street lamps shows that the
average annual cost per lamp to those
cities is $63.04. In the latter case sev
eral of the cities obtain considerable
income from lamps supplied to pri
vate persons.—New York Sun.
SISK ISICBAIICI.
We represent a good line of
ance Companies and write
surance on all property?
COMMERCIAL
ALBANY.
Paid Up Capital, $ic
He’ll Get It. Finally.
Totling—You needn’t worry about
that debt of Flicker's. He’ll pay it
when be dies.
Dimling—I don’t see how.
Totling—Well, toe poet says, "He
who dies pays all debts."—Truth.
There will be many orphans
crying for bread before the Central
T. M. Carter,
President
T. M.
railroad ever declares another divi
dend. It ia no longer the pride of the
South, but rather the pride of the law
yers. : ,
his
President Cleveland issued
proclamation for an extra session of
Congress and left Washington imme
diately for Buzzard’s Bay, on Friday
ovening. It is presumed that he will
go a fishing while at his summer home
on the bay, and, now that he has called
that extra session, even though the
call has been too long deferred, the
Herald forgives all and wishes bim
look when he oasts his line.
—It Is a remarkable fact that the
man who gives the longest line of talk
is shortest in his accounts.
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