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THE NEW SPANISH
The Duke d’Arcos Comes from One of the Oldest Families
of Europe, But Ilis Wife Is An American.
Don Jose Brunetti y Gayoso, Duke
d’Arcos, the newly appointed minister
from Spain, is a howling Iberian swell.
His ancesters were famous people a
century before Columbus was born; in
fact, the family is one of the most an¬
cient in Europe. In the National Mu¬
seum one may see a geographical
globe, made in Germany about the year
1453, which, for obvious reasons, has
no America on it at all, but only a
blank of blue ocean instead. All the
provinces and principal towns of Spain,
however, are carefully delineated on
this interesting sphere, which Is of
large size, and one of the cities shown
is Cadiz, which, by the way, was given
by royal grant to a forebear of Don
Jose’s, “for his good and loyal services
In the war against the Moors.”
Thus It will be seen that the new
Spanish minister, who is expected to
arrive in Washington next week, is a
personage provided by birthright with
a background of hoary antiquity. The
oldest American families are mere
mushrooms compared with his ancient
line, and the supplementary titles he
enjoys are so numerous that he is able
to take only a few of them with him
■when he goes out In society. For ex¬
ample, he is Marquis of Zahara, as well
as Marquis of Cadiz, and incidentally is
obliged to uphold the dignity of Count
of Coasarez.
In the course of so many centuries
Don Jose was obliged to accumulate
quite a large number of ancestors, and
to one of these, in 1469, the town of
Arcos was given by the then king of
Spain. Those were the good old times
when monarchs were accustomed to
give away a town or two whenever they
felt in a good humor toward anybody.
It was much as if President McKinley,
if he were an unlimited potentate,
should make a present of Trenton, N.
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J., or Chester, Pa., with the inhabitants
thereunto appertaining, to Senator
Billy Mason or Representative Hender¬
son. This was a very jolly old custom
Indeed, and pity ’tis that it should have
fallen into desuetude. Anyway, the
facts quoted explain how the family
title of the Duke d’Arcos originated.
With Cadiz for a city property and
Arcos for a country place, the family of
the new Spanish minister felt itself
pretty adequately provided for terri¬
torially, but, unfortunately, there came
a time, in 1493—one-year after the dis-
covery of America—when their most
Catholic majesties, Ferdinand and Isa¬
bella, decided that they required the
seaport of Cadiz in their business.
This business was the trade with the
East Indies, which part of the world
had then newly loomed up, not merely
in a geographical but also in a com¬
mercial sense, There was no resisting
the royal demand, and so the then
Duke d’Arcos gave up the title deeds
to the property, receiving in exchange
a brand-new collection of titles and
other equivalents. at
Few ancient families are without
least one wicked ancestor, and to this
yule the noble line of Arcos is no excep-
tion. It is recorded in history that in
1646 Don Rodrigue Pons de Leon, Duke
d’Arcos, was sent by the king of Spain
to govern Naples as viceroy. This was
exceedingly rough on Naples, as is
proved by his record while acting in
that administrative capacity. How-
ever, it may not have been so much
his fault as that of his government,
which at that time needed money very
badly to carry on wars with France and
Portugal. He was instructed to grind
out of the people every peseta they
could be persuaded to give up. and
these orders he carried out to the let¬
ter. His agents did their duty pitiless¬
ly, and the duke closed his ears to the
complaints of the unhappy victims of
his exactions, In one case certain un-
fortunates had the impudence to de¬
clare that they had not money enough
to buy a bed, and the tax collector re¬
plied, “Why, then, do you not sell your
wives and daughters?”
This course of procedure finally pro¬
voked a rebellion in 1647, which quick¬
ly assumed most formidable propor¬
tions. The uprising was headed by a
fisherman named Manzaniello, and was
so far successful that the viceroy was
finally compelled to yield and to grant
all the demands of the revolutionists,
Including equal rights for the people
and the nobility and the abolition of
the excessive taxes. Unhappily, Man-
zanlello, elated by his success, lost his
head—as it turned out, in more senses
than one. A reaction, cleverly en¬
gineered by the duke, set in, and the
upshot of it was that the fisherman’s
head was cut off and carried to the
viceregal palace, amid the applause of
the very populace of which not long be¬
fore he had been the idol.
Quite naturally, their family being
so famous, wealthy and conspicuous,
the men of the d’Arcos name have been
prominent in public life, generation af¬
ter generation. Thus it came about
that Don Jose Brunetti, while as yet
lacking the ducal title, entered the
diplomatic service of his government.
He was appointed “diplomatic super¬
numerary” in the foreign office at Ma¬
drid in 1862 and two years later was
sent as attache to the Spanish legation
at Vienna. After filling various other
minor diplomatic posts in Europe he
was made first secretary of the Spanish
legation at Washington in 1816. Since
then he has been minister resident at
Caracas and Montevideo, minister plen¬
ipotentiary to Chili, and minister plen¬
ipotentiary to Mexico, holding this last
office from 1894 until recently. His ap¬
pointment to Washington, of course, is
a promotion.
It so happened at the time when
Count Brunetti, as he was known, be¬
came first secretary of the Spanish le¬
gation at Washington twenty-three
years ago, a very beautiful and charm¬
ing girl had been newly introduced to
the society of the eapital. Her name
was Virginia Woodbury Lowery, and
she was the only daughter of Archibald
Lowery, a conspicuous Washingtonian,
who enjoyed through inheritance the
possession of large means. Miss Low¬
ery’s mother was herself a daughter of
one of New Hampshire’s most famous
men, Levi Woodbury, who was a mem-
ber of Jackson’s cabinet and, at the
time of his death, a justice of the Su¬
preme Court. Thus, her social position
was the highest possible, and, from
Brunetti’s point of view, she was emi¬
nently eligible as a wife.
SOME QUEER BOOKMARKS.
Librarian Could Stock a Museum with
These Curious Articles.
To some people anything is good
enough for a bookmark, says the New
York Telegraph. In a good many in¬
stances they forget to remove them
when they have finished reading the
book. That is the reason why so many
odd things find their way to the pub¬
lic libraries. A librarian was talking
about this thing the other day. He
said: “I could stock a museum with
the queer things I have found in our
books. These articles include all kinds
of bills, grocery bills, gas bills and the
like; hair pins, fancy and plain and of
all metals, and hair ornaments of every
design and material; love letters ga¬
lore, some of which make one blush
reading; locks of hair, bits of lace,dress
samples and watch chain charms; pen-
and-ink, pencil, crayon and water-
color sketches; postal orders and post¬
age stamps; and I have also a dried
human ear, which I found in a book on
surgery, borrowed by a medical stu¬
dent probably, as I hear they carry all
sorts of uncanny things about with
them. Photographs, too, figure large¬
ly in my collection. I once found an
insurance policy in a book, but it was
quickly claimed. It is purely the re¬
sult of absent-mindedness. A person
deeply engrossed in a book and sud¬
denly called away from it would
dreamingly put his hand out and take
the first thing he saw to use as a book
mark, then go away and forget all
about it. The time allowed for bor¬
rowing the book might expire on that
or the following day and probably a
member of the family might casually
pick the volume up and return it to
the library without thinking of exam¬
ining the interior. The receiving clerk
at the library counter is supposed to
turn over the pages of returned bonks
in the presence of the borrower, but
whether this is always done largely
depends upon the humor of the assist¬
ant. In a crush returned volumes are
laid aside for future examination. The
artful advertiser cannot let even li¬
brary books alone. Somebody is an
agent for a certain patent medicine.
He takes out half a dozen books to
anybody else’s one, not that they are
MINISTER.
ever read, but simply for the purpose
of inserting a circular. I have at last
succeeded In stopping him.”
THE MYSTERY OF DREAMS.
A Case in Which the Coincidences Were
Remarkable.
On an occasion during the civil war
I dreamed that I was standing beside a
road when there came marching along
It a strong column of prisoners with
guards at Intervals on the flanks. I
asked one of these guards who the
prisoners were and where they had
been captured. He Informed me that
they had been taken in an engagement
with the enemy on the day before, and
that there were nineteen hundred of
them. I then asked some bystander
what day of the month it was and was
told that it was such a day of a cer¬
tain month, some six weeks later than
the date of the dream. The whole
dream was extremely distinct and it
made a strong impression on me. I
related it to a number of my comrades
within the next few days, and then
thought of It no more. Six weeks later,
on the morning of the very day that
had been mentioned in the dream as
the date when the column of prisoners
had passed before me, I was on picket
two miles distant from the point where
I seemed to be when I saw them. It
was soon after breakfast, and I was
standing by the side of the road at the
fire, talking to the officer of the pick¬
et, when an aide to the commanding
general came riding down the road. He
had been a schoolfellow of our officer’s
at West Point and reined up when he
recognized his friend. He told us that
he had good news, that there had been
a sharp engagement with the enemy
the day before and that our people had
captured nineteen hundred prisoners
who had just passed the headquarters
that morning on their way to the rear.
—New York Post.
Longevity in Animals.
•ffie elephant sometimes undoubtedly
attains the age of 150 years. As a
basis for this opinion we have the
famous Bheemsuttee, owned by his
highness the Maharajah of Mysore.
This elephant was captured in 1805,
when about 3 years old. In 1876 she
was in excellent health and showed no
evidence of great age. The natives of
some of the Indian tribes believe that
an elephant never dies, for the reason
that they have never found a dead one.
The Singhalese believe that the ele¬
phant has a certain place—a deep val¬
ley which no man has ever seen—-to
which they retreat when about to die.
The whale is undoubtedly a long-lived
aniipal, and is accredited with a cen¬
tury of life. A quiet, uneventful life,
without great exertion, is conducive to
longevity, which perhaps explains why
the turtle attains sueh great age. In
1821 there died a tortoise whioh had
lived in the Bishop’s gardens at Peter¬
borough for over a century, and from
the records and account of it, kept
from time to time, it was estimated to
have attained the ripe old age of 223
years. In 1625 a friend presented
Archbishop Laud with a tortoise which
he placed in the grounds of Lambeth
Palace, where it lived until 1753, or
128 years, dying then, not from old
age, but on account of the neglect of
the gardener. An interesting case of
longevity was seen in a turtle brought
from the Seychelles in 1766 by the
Chevalier Marion du Fresne. He de¬
livered it to the authorities of the
Mauritius, who kept it until 1853, when
Sir Charles Colville, then governor of
the island, sent it to the London Zoo¬
logical Gardens. This gave the tor¬
toise a known age of 67 years, and as
it was fully grown when first brought
to Mauritius it may easily have been
a centenarian. Fish are known to at¬
tain great age, and instances of fishes
living twenty and thirty years are not
uncommon. It is supposed that some
of the golden carp in the parks about
Paris are over 100 years old, and a pike
in an English pond had a silver tag to
the effect that it was 90 years old.
Latest from Cuba.
The Spanish police reporter for the
Cuba Times gathered the following in¬
teresting items the other day: Fine—•
The inspector of the Fifth precinct of
police general, Calixto Enarmorado,
put a fine on the lady Sona Terrado,
living at Campanario No, 12, for
emptying her slops into the street on a
gentleman’s head. Detailed—Finding
the gentleman Don Lorenzo Carbonell
inebriate and making a noise he was
arrested. A Mule—In Marina street
there was found a mule running loose
without knowing his owner. He was
sent (the mule) to the Fosos, subject to
the disposition of the second lieutenant
of the Alcalde. ,
All He Could Promise.
“Now, Tom,” she pleaded prettily,
“promise me one thing. Promise me
that when you leave the club tonight
you won’t go anywhere else, but will
come straight home.” “I’ll come as
straight as I can, my dear,” Tom
answered, thoughtfully. — Somerville
Journal.
Five Hundred Dance in a Cask.
The largest cask in the world is the
Blatner cask of Nuremberg, Germany.
It is 106 feet in diameter and fifty-one
feet deep, and its completion a few
years ago was celebrated by a ball, at
which over 500 persons were on the
floor of the cask.
The tax on coffee amounts in France
to about 14 cents a pound, while in
Kngland it is only 3 cents a pound.
BATTLE WITH A TUNA
THE SWAMPED AND
WRECKED THE BOAT.
Was Finally Captured—One of the Men
Swam a Long Distance to a Launch,
Keeping Up a Constant Fight with the
Fish.
One of the most remarkable experi¬
ences ever recorded In fishing annals
took place near Avalon, Catalina is¬
land, Cal., recently, almost resulting
in the drowning of three men. C. F.
Holder, president of the Tuna club, and
T. M. Townsend of Philadelphia, with
“Jim” Gardner as boatman, started for
Long Point, towed by the launch Min¬
nehaha. Off White’s Landing they
struck a large school of tunas, darting
in every direction. Townsend had thii
first strike, but failed to hook his fish.
A second later Holder had a strike and
in a moment the boat was rushing
astern after the fish. After a hard
struggle the fish was brought to gaff.
Holder passed the tip of his rod for¬
ward and Gardner hooked the fish
with the gaff and proceeded to haul
it in.
Just as it was landed the fish gave a
convulsive leap and capsized the boat.
The fishermen were about a mile from
shore and the launch was some dis¬
tance away, having kept off to avoid
the line when the fish was playing.
Holder, seeing that the boat would
not hold them all, struck out for the
launch, which he finally reached, great¬
ly exhausted. The other two men
were having a serious time, as the fish
rolled the boat over several times, and
the wire ladder of Holder’s line was
wound around Townsend’s legs. Gard¬
ner also started to swim to the launch,
leaving Townsend alone with the
boat, which was now turned bottom up,
allowing the latter to climb on the
ke«l. Gardner was still holding on to
Holder’s fish and performed a most
remarkable feat of courage. Some¬
times he was on top of the fish and
sometimes the fish was on top of him.
Three times the game creature made
desperate plunges and carried Gardner
under water. Finally Gardner reached
the launch exhausted. He did not re-
lease his grasp on the fish until Holder
and Mrs. Gardner drew it in. When
the fishermen were rescued the water
for an acre around looked as though
there had been a wreck. Oars,clothes,
rudders, gaffs, hats and other debris
floated about. Gardner was badly cut
and scraped by his fight with the fish,
THE CRADLE OF COEDUCATION.
Some of tlie Prim Rules That Governed
the Early Girl Graduate.
It is now about sixty-five years since
for the first time in the history of our
country young ladies studied the high-
er branches in the same classroom
with young men and publicly received
the degree of Bachelor of Arts from
Oberlin college, the cradle of co-educa-
tion. In the year 1841 “three women
graduated and were the first young
women to receive a degree in arts,”
and in 1844 two women applied for ad-
mission to the theological seminary,
were admitted and finished the course,
althoiigh they did not receive a de-
gree. One coveted privilege these
young ladies were not permitted to
enjoy—that of reading their essays on
commencement day. The professor of
rhetoric was their proxy. Such an
ardent woman’s rights advocate as
Lucy Stone had to suffer under this
humiliating discrimination, but not
without vigorous protest. Her essay
was not read by the professor of rhet¬
oric for the simple reason that It was
never written. In 1859 that barrier was
broken down by the pent-up energies
of many generations of irate female
students, who here as everywhere ob¬
tained their rights if they wanted them.
The living" of the young ladies must
have been very plain, for they paid
only 75 cents a week for board, and
they paid that by work at the rate of
3 cents an hour. I find nowhere a
record of class parties, and not a trace
of a class picture, and I know that
there existed no such frivolous thing
as a chocolate drop. There were four
women to enter the first regular fresh¬
man class. Though the frivolities of
modern college life were not per¬
mitted, love could not be kept out, and
Mary F. Kellogg, one of the four, aft¬
erward became the wife of ex-Presi-
dent Fairchild. The mother of Dr.
Barrows, the recently elected presi¬
dent, was also one of those pioneers of
coeducation, and she certainly did noi
dream that at a crisis in the history oi
her alma mater she would give her
beloved son to be the leader of that
noble institution. — Woman’s Home
Companion.
A Farting; Shot.
“Perhaps it is best after all,” re¬
marked the rejected suitor as he lin¬
gered in the hall. “A man of 25 would
soon tire of a wife who hovered
round the 32 mark.” “Why, Mr. Ar-
dent,” said the woman in the case,
“how very ungallant of you to insin¬
uate that I am 32.” "Well, perhaps
you are not,” he replied, “but it cer¬
tainly struck me that you were some¬
where near the freezing point.”
Credit Where It Is Hue.
“I am afraid that our new son-in-
law’s aristocratic traditions will make
it difficult for him to hold his own in
financial affairs.” “I kind of felt that
way,” replied her husband, “but donit
let’s be hasty in judging him. I must
say he talked right up like a business
man when it came to fixing a dowry."
—Washington Star.
SUSAN B. ANTHONY.
THE CLOSING CENTURY’S MOST
REMARKABLE WOMAN.
I*he Story of Her Life 11a* Keoent.Iy
Keen Told In Book Form—Elnora M.
Bobeoek'a Tribute to the Leader of
’Woman's Bights Movement.
One of the most valuable and Inter¬
esting historical works which has
made Its appearance of late tells of the
life and works of Susan B. Anthony.
This work is far more than the recital
of one woman's experience, even
though that woman be the most Inter¬
esting personality of the century. It
is a history of the great evolution of
the status of woman,in which Miss An¬
thony has been the central figure. It
pictures the struggle of women to ob¬
tain the right to speak in public, first
in behalf of the slave, then in the in¬
terest of temperance and next for her
own freedom, for laws to secure her¬
self the control of her property, her
wages, her person and her children.
Then follows the long-continued battle
for equal educational advantages and
equal industrial opportunities; and
last and longest of all, for the citizen’s
right to the franchise.
When Miss Anthony began her
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work, woman was a chattel in the eye
' of the law; shut out from all advan-
tages of higher education and oppor-
tunities in the industrial world; an ut-
ter dependent on man; occupying a
subordinate position in the church; re-
strained to the narrowest limits along
social lines; an absolute nonentity in
politics. Today, American women are
envied by those of all other nations,
and stand comparatively free individu¬
als, with the exception of political dis¬
abilities.
1 During the fifty years which have
, wrought this revolution, Miss Anthony
j is the one woman in all the world who
has given every day of her time, every
dollar of her money, every power of
her being, to secure this result. She
was impelled to this work by no per-
sonal grievance, but solely through a
deep sense of the injustice which, on
; every side, she saw perpetrated against
her sex, and which she determined to
combat. Never for one short hour has
the cause of woman been forgotten or
put aside for any other object. Never
a single tie has been formed, either of
affection or business, which would in-
terfere with this supreme purpose,
Never a speech has been given, a trip
taken, a visit made, a letter written,
in all this half century, that has not
been done directly in the interest of
this one object. There has been no
thought of personal comfort, advance-
, ment or glory; the self-abnegation, the
self-sacrifice, have been absolute—they
have been unparalleled,
Future generations will read the
MAJOR J. B. MARCHAND.
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Maj. J. B. Marehand, who has just
been decorated with the cross of the
Legion of Honor at Jiboutel, on the
East African coast, where he lately ar¬
rived, is an officer of the French ma¬
rine infantry. Marehand made his ap-
pearance on the horizon of European
influence in Africa in January, 1896,
when he went with a splendidly
equipped expedition, the purpose of
which was the occupation of Upper
Egypt and the uattion of the French
colony on the Gulf of Aden with the
French possessions on the Congo river,
pages of this book through tears, and
will wonder what manner of people
those were who not only permitted
this woman to labor for humanity for
fifty years, almost unaided, but also
compelled her to beg or earn the money
with which to carry on her work. From
being the most ridiculed and merciless¬
ly persecuted woman, Miss Anthony
has become the most honored and re¬
spected woman in the nation. No on®
can read this book, no matter what
may be their opinion in regard to the
reforms advocated by her, without be¬
ing deeply impressed with the noble
courage and sublime faith it has re¬
quired to stand by a principle amid
the discouragements and ridicule she
has been obliged to overoome.
ELNORA M. BABCOCK.
AN ENGLISH INDUSTRY.
Recovery of MiNslles That Are Fired in
Naval Artillery Practice.
Mr. Seppings Wright has come across
many curious trades and peculiar
methods of earning a living in his wan¬
derings through all corners of the
globe, hut the business of shotting he
discovered at home, for it is daily pur¬
sued under the eyes of thousands ot
holiday folks and landsmen generally,
who neither know nor care what the
longshoremen are about in their fish¬
ing boats a few miles from land. But
these busy workers are engaged upon
the business of “shotting,” and the na¬
ture of that peculiar occupation we
will now describe. All royal navy men
training for rank of seaman-gunner
have to undertake a more or less
lengthy term of regular practice in fir¬
ing, and for these men during their pe¬
riod of training some two or three of
the old pattern gunboats are set aside.
These vessels are connected with every
dockyard, and, while obsolete for bat¬
tle purposes, make excellent training
ships. They are, of course, fitted with
approved modern weapons, and daily
during the season they carry squads of
embryo gunners to the seaward rages
that lie outside the Spithead forts. The
bearings of these practice grounds de¬
pend on the particular conjunction of
certain objects ashore, and the targets
are generally placed in shoals where a
fair range can be commanded free oi
traffic. After a busy and noisy period
so much solid metal has been blazed
away into the sea, and it is this Metal
that the shotters set forth to recover
when the gunboats have done their
task and return to the dockyard. The
ranges and the area in which the canon
bails must probably lie submerged are,
of course, well known to the search¬
es. Armed with experience and a long,
iron-shot pon,, they sail over the
ranges and probe the shallow bottom
carefully. Familiarity with their task
renders them skilful, and an expert
knows in an instant when his pole
touches the hidden projectile beneath.
The shell found, a pair of huge tongs
is lowered into the sea, and it is
gripped and carefully lifted aboard.
The price of the metal shells is slight,
and rarely exceeds one penny one-hali
a pound, but the brass studs on the
shot possess considerable more value,
and these are usually cut out intact.
Both studs and the main iron of the
recovered shells are sold to the royal
navy, and the prices offered appear suf¬
ficient to set many men at steady work
on the. task of recovering them.—Lon¬
don Balck and White.
Should Take Precautions.
Old Lady—That parrot I bought of
you uses dreadful language. Bird
Dealer—Ah, mum, you should be werry
careful what you see afore it; it’s as¬
tonishing how quick them birds picks
up anytbink.—Tit-Bits.
It wee not until the daring and in-
genious officer arrived at Fashoda and
strung up his republic’s flag that Eng¬
land became alarmed. Fashoda is dan¬
gerously near to Khartoum, and all
that part of Africa is politically pre¬
empted by Great Britain. Then, too,
English claimed a moral right to
the Soudan, because of Gordon’s death
and the massacre of his army by the
fanatical mahdists. The story ol
Marchand’s withdrawal from Fashoda,
the diplomatic complications and the
backdown of the Paris government is
recent and familiar history.