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Fred Grants Marriage.

The report that Fred. Grant is to marry
the daughter of a "Chicago millionaire"
must be accepted with several grains of
allowance. III. Ell. Honore, the Crgsus in
question, has been brought so conspicuous
ly into the focus of the worlds observation
by the honor thrust upon him that q few
words in regard to his private history may
be permitted. He came to Chicago from
Louisville and engaged in the real estate
business, which affords, or has afforded
during the fabulous expansion of the city
of the lakes, occupation for nearly half its
population. He is related to the Wards Of
Louisville, a rather remarkable family, one
Of whom shot an unoffending school teach
er and, though cleared by Jury, was
ostracized by society, and compelled to live
an exile from his native State until his
death, which occurred at the South some
time during the war of the Rebellion. Sallie
Ward, his sister, was the belle of Louisville
a quarter of century ago. She married a
sonof Abbott Lawrence of Boston, and was
shortly afterwards divorced by special act
of the Legislature of kentucky, the papers
of the whole country ringing with the
scandal. Mr.. Honore is the brother-in-law
of Potter Palmer, another "Chicago mil
lonaire," whose show of public spirit has
la1u tHe Guy oI MS adoptlon undef greater
obligations than it will ever be able to re-
pay. If the prospective father-in-law of
the son of President were the legitimate
proprietor of his own estates, he might,
perhaps, be worth a half million dollars.
But, like most Chicago capitalists, his
property is mortgaged from several feet
below the surface to the shiniest points of
its loftiest lightning rods, and as real estate
is inactive in that region, there seems to be
no prospect that the membranes will soon
be lifted. 1t is not necessary to show that
Mr. Honore is Midas to prove prove that
the fiancee is lovely, or that Fred. is moro
fortunate than he deserves.
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New York City Sold for $24


Twenty-four dollars purchased the whole
city and county of New York in 1926. In
1888 tobacco was produced to considerable
extent on New York Island. In 1862 the
first public school was established: streets
first paved in 1860; in 1867 there were 10
streets and 384 houses. In I'LL a slave
mart was established in Wall street. In
1889 three pence foot was given for land
on the west side of Broadway, near the
Battery. The first stage route between
New York and Boston was established in
1889; time IA days from city to city. In
1888 law was passed to preserve the fish
in the Fresh Water Pond (the Kolck), now
Center street and neighborhood. In 1887
a market house was built in Broadway, OPP
posite Crown, now Liberty street: the city
at the time contained | ,4f6 houses. In 1745
the first coach {Lady Murray's), was driven
iii New York. When the British evacuated
the city, Nov. %, 1888, the buildings did
not extend beyond Murray street. In 1901,
Broadway was ordered TO be continued
through Thomas Randall's land, near
Eighth street, to meet the Bowcry, and the
hills leveled and carted into Fresh Water
Pond, which was then the northern limits
Of Broadway, and much beyond the settled
parts of the city. Previous to this extension
Of Broadway, to the Rowery was the only
entrance to the city, through groves of
cedar, to the Bulls Head, now the Bowery
Theater The old Potter's Field is now
the Washington Parade Ground.
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THE GOLD Hill CRACK WIDENING.-The
chasm in the ground, short distance. east
of town, keeps on widening. On the east
ern slope of Fort Homestead hill, where,
when first discovered last spring, it was
only an inch in width, it is now four inches
wide. On the west side of the next hill to
the eastward it is over two feet in width.
The crack, it will be remembered, commen-
ces at Fort Homestead and extends unir-
terruptedly in u southeasterly direction for
a distance Of about q quarter of a mile.
The ground is now cracked open even in
the bottom of the ravine. That the chasm
is no ordinary landslide may be inferred
from the fact that along Fort Homestead
hill the ground close to the crack on the
west side is the lowest. On the next hill
east the ground on the west side has drop
ped about three feet.-News.
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A MILL1oN-DoLLAR MORTGAGE. The
San Francisco Bulletin of the 18th inst has
this item: The largest mortgage ever placed
ON record in this city was recorded to-day.
1t is executed by William Sharon and w.
G. Ralston, in favor of the Hibernia Savings
and Loan Society, as security for 81, ,O00, 900,
at Z per cent. per annum for three years.
The property mortgaged is known as the
Palace Hotel property, having frontage of
275 feet on Market street, by depth Of 334
feet. The document is drawn upon one Of
the usual blanks of the bank, with an inter-
Image that the mortgagors agree to pay
mortgages proportion of any solvent
debt tax. The clause providing that the
buildings must be kept insured by the
nortgagors for security of the mortgages is
erased.
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SYMMETRY. THE following proportions
are those usually given in works on statu-
ary and painting, and are generally known,
but will bear repetition: The whole human
figure should be six times the length of tho
feet. Whether the form be slender or
plump, the rule holds good; and deviation
from i, is 4 departure from the highest
all their statues by this rule. The face,
from the highest point of forehead where
the hair begins, to the chin is one-tenth &c
the whole stature The hand, from the
wrist to the little finger is the same. From
the top of the chest to the highest part of
the forehead is the seventh. If the facc.
from the roots Of the hair to the chin. BIZ
divided into three equal parts, the first
division determines the place where tfs
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EXPLAINED IT TO HEK.-Ye Yesterday morn
ing says the Detroit free Press an old LADY,;
who lives in the West part of this county.
was selling some butter to grocer on
Michigan avenue, and some one mentioned
something about the Beecher scandal.
"What is that thing, anyhow? asked the
old lady. It's bin in the papers but my
eyes are poor, and haven't felt like read
ing" $ Well it's just this replied the
grocer, as he scraped out the crock; .yorl
see, Beeeher hired Mrs. T'ilton to knit him
twelve pairs of,socks, and when she got 'em
done he tried to pass counterfeit bill OH
her." " Is that sor exclaimed the aged
dame; s Well, don't blame the papers i
single bit for showing him up--he's worse'n
a vagaround!'
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PACE IMPLORA.

Better it were to sit still by the sea,
Loving somebody and satisfied
Better it were to grow babes on the knee
To anchor you down for all your days
Than wander and wander i'll all these ways,
Land forgotten and love denied.
Better sit still whore born, say ,-,rzE
We'd one sweet woman and love her well, .5-
Laugh with your neghbors, and live in their way,
Be it never SO simple. The hambler the home,
The nobler indeed, to bear your part,
Love and be loved with all your heart.
Drink sweet waters and dream in spell,
Share your delights and divide your tears;
Love and be loved in the old east way,
Ere men knew madness and came to roam
From the west to the east and the whole world wide
When they lived where their fathers had lived and
died
Lived so loved for thousand years.
Better it were for the world, say
Better, indeed for mans good
That he shoud sit down where he was born,
Be it land of sands or of oil and corn,
Valley of poppies or beak northand,
White sea border or great black wood,
Or bleak white winter or bland sweet May,
Or city of smoke or plain of the sun
Than wander the world as have done,
Breaking the heart into bits of clay.
And leaving it scattered on every hand.
VENICE, 1874
--Joaquin HITLER, in 0Uegland for October.
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Notes on Advertising.

To cure dull times apply an advertise
ment to The afflicted part.
Asign-board cam + tell everything. Ittakes
an advertisement to do that.
All who advertise do not get rich, but
precious few get rich without it.
The world il full Of advertising, vet every
one wants to- see what is new
The worlds memory is short. It will
forget if you do not jog it itfrequently.
Early to bed and early to rise will all be
in vain Ii you don ADVERTISE
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FOREHEAD AGAINST FoREHEAD.--The
following is from the Lafayette Courier of
September 9th: Two race horses entered
f,r mile dash, one ridden by white
;ncl,ey and the other by a colored boy, col
lided lit full speed in 'front.' of the Judges
stand at Fort Wayne yesterday. They
were exercising preparatory to tie start,
and ridden at full speed, and collided as
above stated, striking sqnarely forehead to
forehead. One horse was Drained outright
ard fell dead inllis tracks. The other was
seriously injured. The two boys were
thrown forward high in the air. and were
taken up apparently lifeless. The colored
bs,y had revived at nine o'clock last night,
but the other rider was IN i connat tose state
and not likely to recover. The owner of.
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EVE-ANGELIcAL CORNER.

a oeic's oeile shores In three languages.
Your bonnet is to be worn nearer your
nose, this winter, my dear--Boston Globe
In the We PGrtsieane it is held that all
women are equal before the sun. love and
death. ''''N'
Appearances are often deceiving. Many
pale, thin young lady will eat more corned
peet than carpenter.
When lovely Susan stooped TO follv
o, AND found that Bessie would betray,
one shrleked a Shrek, and syyore bv aov
mat she could whip her any day.
Detroit Press
Miss Bristow, daughter of the Secretary.
is said to be maintaining Kentucky's REM.
tatlon for beautiful women. She is only
sixteen.
A young lady wants to know WHY she
shall pay eight dollars for pair Of silk
hose, when she must keep them out of sight
all the time.
An actress in California, a Miss Kinlin.
lately married professional named Wood,
and her stage name is now hyphenated into
Kinlin- Wood
Hair Manure " was what young lady
asked for at one of our drug stores the
other day. 1t subsequently transpired that
she wanted 60 Remover
When young lady has to stay at home
from party on account of sty on her eye,
it is useless to tell her that Providence
doeth all things for the best.
A Long Branch beauty was recently
weighed in her promenade costume. and
turned the scales at 165 pounds. In her
bathing dress she weighed 105 pounds.
Il tell you what" said Troy widower,
as he spit out of the window, 1t seems
awful when l think Sarys down in the
ground instead of being around fixing to
dry apples.
AS she rolled up her sleeves and looked
hard at a big basket of tomatoes She - re-
marked: There's getup, pay up, bang up,
go up, step up and climb mp, but here goes
for catsup."
elbow much for this print?" 'sNine
cents, num-" 'Nineteen cents ? T'lI rive
you eighteen "Nine cents, mum: Won
misunderstood me-" sob, nine cents! I'll
give you eight"
Queen Victoria is said to clean toward
broadness in religion" We don't know
anything about that, but she certainly
measures not less than forty-eight inches
around the waist. .-,ts>
very happy matrimonial match at Des
Moines has been broken off because the
young man bought twelve boxes of pills at
auction and sent half of them to his intended
as a sort of birthday present.
A Detroit young woman tried to be aris
tocratic, and did not look at the money that
she gave to the horse-car conductor, but he
meekly gave her back the lozenge on which
was written, "I'1l never cease to love thee.,'
and said that he was an orphan with five
little brothers to support, and must be
excused.
Chignon is dead. The great deity of the
feminine toilet is no more Paris has given
it up for the sake of economy. It was very
costly. Every year there was taken into Paris
10000 TBS of human hair in .'raw" OF
unworked state-worth $3.50, 900, and to be
made into chignons. Now all that money
can be spent in some other nonsense.
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The Man Who Would Speak.


The Washington Capital declares that ex-
Governor Dennison really likes to talk. As
anillustration of this the story is told that on
the night the Neil House, Columbus, was
burned, Governor Dennison, not believing
the hotel to be ON fire, mounted the balcony
to address the crowd. 1t was an immense
concourse, for the alarm was given at con-
venient hour, Immediately after snpper, and
it was too tempting for William to resist, so
he sang ont in that clear clarion voice of his:
s'My fellow citizens, the confagration is
not here, it is elsewhere. But 1t has been
suggested to me by friends that, in view of
your promiscuous, unexpected, and, may
say, startling assemblage ON the occasion,
it would be well while the confagration,
wherever it may develop its lurid torch, is
manifesting ITSELF to discuss few of the
momentous issues now dividing the people
of this ensanguined land"
Before William could reach the side is
sues the fire scorched his coat-tails, and he
was knocked over by a trunk.
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The atlantic Aonthlg for October is rich in poetry
| II contains, among Others $ Ramon, spirited poem
| by Bret Harte in his very best vein. The scene i
| laid at Ell Refugio Mine, Northern Mexico.
Drunk and senseless in his place,
Prone and sprawling on his face,
More like Brute than any man
Alive or dead,--
BY his great pump out of gear,
Lay the peon engineer,
Waking only just to hear, - s
Overhead,
Angry tones that called his name.
Oaths and cries of bitter blame
Woket to hear all this, and waking turned and fed!
"To the man who'll bring to me-
Cried Intendant Harry Lee,-
Harry Lee the English foreman of the mine
''Bring the sot alive or cad,
Twill give to him." he said,
''Fifteen hundred pesos down,
Just to set the rascals crown
Undcrncmcath this heel of mine:
Since but death
Deserves the man whose deed,
Be it vice or want of heed,
Stops the pumps that gives us breath
Stops the pumps that sucks the death
From the poisoned lower levels of the mine!"
No one answered. for a cry
From the shaft rose up on high
And shufflng, scramblng, tumbllng from below,
Came the miners each the boder
Mounting on the weakers shoulder,
Graphing, cnging TO their hold or
Letting go,
As the weaker gasped and fell
From the ladder to the we'll .a...-
To the poisoned pit of hell
Down below!
"To the man who sets them free,
Cried the foreman Harry Lee,
Harry Lee, the English foreman of the mine,-
Brings them out and sets them free,
will give that man" said he,
"Twice that sum, who with rope
Face to face with Death shall cope,
Let him come who dares to hope"
g Hold your peace" some one replied,
Standing BY. the foremans side;
''There has one already goue who'er he be-"
Then they held their breath with awe,
Pulling on the rope, and saw t
Painting figures reappear, ..-.s .Hyr
On the black rope swinging clear,
Fastened by some skillful hand below;
Till score the level gained,
And but one alone remained
He the hero and the last, r s.
He whose skillfnl hand made fast
The long line that brought them back to hope and
cheer!
Haggercd, gasping, down dropped he
At the feet of Harry Lee - .
Harry Lee the English foreman of the mine;
81 have GOMEZ he gasped, 8 to claim
Both rewards. Senor my name
Is Ramon!
I'm the drunken engineer ss
I'm the coward, Senorn-Here sr H.. ..ssn
He fell over, by that sign .... . --
Dead as stone!
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Singular Phenomenon in England.

The Creeping" of the rails ON railroad
tracks has been noticed by the Scientific
AnericaB in a recent article, and an expla-
nation called for. The following remarks,
based on the suggestions of a scientific
friend, will, we believe, cover the ground
and afford a reasonable answer to the inqui-
ry put forth by the journal above men,
toned.
1t appears that in north and south lines
the creeping is southwark, and in east and
west lines, westward. In the first-mention-
ed case the cause would seem to be attribu-
table to centrifugal force. On all llrevolving
bodies the loose particle of matter have a
tendency to fly off. The earth revolyes on
it's axis about 1000 miles an hour, giving
at the equator a centrifugal force equal to
1 290th of the attraction of gravitation.
This force decreases toward the poles,
where it is nothing. Through this agency
the earth itself has been changed from a
spherical form, its diameter at the equator
being about twenty six miles greater than
it's polar diameter. Railroads, then, run
ming north and south, having their repose
disturbed by the constant jar of passing
trains, and having nothing to obstruct
their linear movements, are acted upon by
this force, which tends to draw them to-
ward the point of its strongest action, SO
they creep toward the equator.
In the case of the westward creeping of
rails, friction is the cause. Obedient to
the law of inertia, all inert matter has a
tendency to continue in any given state in
which it is placed. IF set in motion its in
ertia compels it to move on until stopped
by some external agency, such as friction,
direct contact, gravity, etc. # at rest, it
must remain so forever, unless acted upon
by some force intrinsic to itself. So rail-
roads, disturbed in their repose on the bo-
som of the ever moving earth, are retarded
by the friction of the cars, while the earth,
rolls eastward 1 1000 miles an hour. The
action, of course is but slight, yet like the
silent workings of the eternal forces of
nature, it requires only time to make itself
felt appreciably.
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THE CHARMS OF MUsIc.-A Miss Kilpat-
rick, who lives near the Delaware and
Lackawanna Depot, IS performer ON that
noblest of instruments, the ACCORDION. She
plays it every night till the hour when
grayeyards yawn and ghosts go prancing
around. The neighbors at first thought it
was corps of musical cats, and hurled
imprecations, old boots and bottles furious
ly toward the place whence came the sounds,
but there was no intermission, or rather
there was no rest. At last some one made
the discovery that Miss Fitzpatrick was the
author of the execrable noises. She was
invited to desist, which invitation she
scorned, as any person would in this free
and glorious country. And now the cruel
monsters have filed complaints before the
Recorder, and there is wailing in the house
of Kilpatrick. .-Paterson Guardian.
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CHARLEY ROSS WITH HI
MOTHER.
The Story of the kidnapping all Hum
bug-A Family History.
Corresponding of the Z


Correspondence of the Reading Eagle.
GERMANTOWN, September IA. - The
Ross case, like all things transient, is grad
ually disappearing from the public mind;
but before we give it final goodbye, al
low me to offer You theory which thus far
7 have not seen presented. | am neigh
Dor of Christian K. Ross, and we neighbors
have our thoughts and opinions on the sub
iect of the child's disappearance, which |
think should be presented to the world.
About ten years age, when Christian Ross
was making his mark, and when his bust
ness was in the most prosperous condition,
he married Western lady of a good fami-
lv and very wealthy. He had two children
Of the marriage, Walter Ross and Charles
Brewster Ross For long time this was
one of the happest families in all Philadel-
phia. but few years ago Ross began to
lead the life of debauchee; he sought
other company than that of his wife's, his
business began to decrease and he became
4 bankrupt. To refined and delicate
woman like his wife, this was a crushing
blow. and she fled from the man, leaving
the children in his care, and sought the
nrotection of her friends. To my knowl-
edge no divorce ever took place between
the parties, and q short time after the flight
of tile wife, another woman took her place
in the family, who still occupies it.
The following is the theory OF those who
know the family, who are acquainted with
Ross personally.
Some months before the kidnapping. Mr..
Ross received letters from his first and only
wife. asking and demanding the children.
Tt will be recollected that even up to this
time he had refused to show any of the
letters he received, and it will also be borne
in mind that the attempt was made to steal
both the children. 1t was not until three
days after the kidnapping that the fact was
made public, and at that time the child was
safely in the hands of its mother or its
friends in the West. We think Mr.. Ross
knows now. and always did know. where
his child is, but refrained from making il
public for many reasons. As regards the
advertisements, the biackmailing note. ETC.,
we think they are all forgeries, written eli
tber by Ross himselfor his friends, intended
to divert attention from the facts
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LAM ENTRIES.
IICI'EI4S.
McBURNEY HOUSE.

McBURN EY HOUSE
TANING LEASED AND r f U Il N 5 IL Il ID
l throughout the above
Wew and Elegant Brick Hotel
Building have Reopened the same and shall endeav-
or to make it
The hest Fublle Fzcusc on the West Side
Every effort will be made for the Comfort
and Satisfaction of Guests.
The Tables will be supplied with the best the market
affords and the Rooms are new, clean, well
ventilated and furnished.
ALL STAGES SvoP AT THIS HOTEL FOR OR WITH
PASSENGERS.
MEALS. 90 CTS LODGING 80 CTS
DAY BOARD per week, SLo0
BOARD AND ROOM, $1,000
share of patronage is respectfully solicited.
Mrs. LAURA ]. SCOTT.
DEER LODGE, Montlna. 225-
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Mark Twain in a New Role.


Mark Twain's play "The Gilded Age +"
was produced at the Park Theater, New
York few evenings ago. Mark was called
ont and delivered characteristic address
of which the following was the conclusion z:
| hope you will overlook the faults in
this play, because | have never written a
play before; and if / am treated right
maybe won't offend again. | wanted to
have some fine situations and spectacular
effects in this piece, but | was interfered
with. | wanted to have a volcano in a
state of eruption, with fire and smoke and
earthquakes, and a great tossing river Of
blood-red lava flowing down the mountain
side, and have the hero of this piece come
booming down that red-hot river in cast
iron canoe; but the manager wouldn't hear
of it, and said there wasn't any volcano in
Missouri-as if am responsible for Mis-
souri's poverty. And then he said that by
the laws of nature the hero would burn up:
his cast-iron canoe would not protect him.
every WELL. | said, ''put him in a patent
fire-proof safe and let him slide-all the
more thrilling-and paint on it, sThis safe
is from Herring's establishment, same as
You would on piano, and you can pay the
whole expense of the volcano just on the
advertisement" But the manager object
ed; though he said heaps Of pretty things
among others that | was an ass-and so I
had to let the volcano go.