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Ann Eliza Buys a Locomotive.

After iecturing at Erie, Mrs. Ann Eliza
started for Connersville, Indiana, where
she was announced to speak on the Polit-
ical Aspects of the Utah Theocracy;" but
somewhere near Cleveland her trunk apos-
tatized from the anti-Mormon faith and
went off on lark, taking A. E.'s clothing
and speech along. On reaching Muncie the
railroad connection gave way, and the atore-
said A. E. found herself at a strange depot,
trunk lost and no train going in the direc-
ton of her hungry audience down at Con-
nersville. Some women would have re-
garded the situation as embarrassing, but
to piety and pluck Mrs. Young adds a bu-
siness capability, which is quite as service
able in making lecture connections as IN
conducting alimony suits against Prophets
of the Lord in Utah /; so without any ado
Mrs. Ann Eliza went over to the railroad
shop, purchased locomotive. ten bushels
of coal and an engineer. Pulling out of
the round-house, Mrs. Young told the boy
to put in that coal. She also requested the
engineer to have care as to his reputa-
ton as a runner, and that if the locomotive
had any latent rapidity, she wanted it de-
veloped. At the station she stopped mo-
ment to telegraph line:
HTo Professor Shrader, Andres Opera
House, Connersville J.:
"Hold the fort! I'll be there in a mo-
ment.s'
Immediately thereafter that locomotive
was making good time. Mrs. Young paid
$40 for that ride of an hour. She made the
connections at Connersville, and, having
no further use for that locomotive, she
kindly made present of it to the engineer
A little past o'clock citizen j. P. Plnker-
ton introduced Mrs. Young to q fair audi
ence, stating for her that she had lost her
trunk had paid $40 to keep her engage
ment, and must appear in her travelling
dress.-Cin. Commercial.
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A Queer Phase Of Gold and Silver Work.

On the closing up of the Smith & Roger
silver plating concern in New Haven, a
few days ago, preparatory to removal to
Meriden, the floor of the plating room was
taken up, burned, and the ashes analyzed,
with the result of procuring pure silver to
the amount of 1891. This result is not SO
strange as it appear at first sight. The
precious metals are capable Of extreme
volatiization under heat, becoming mere
vapors, which may be condensed, resulting
in the production of the metal in a pure
form. But. even without heat. the parti-
cles of gold and silver are made so exceed
ingly fine, in the process of the manufac-
ture of gold and silver goods, whether solid
or plated, that no device for saving the ma
terial, abraided or thrown off in the various
manipuiations, are entirely effe stual. Even
in the government assay Offices the SCOT
deposited in the chimneys from the melt
ing of the crude materials is valuable; and
in most manufactures of articles of gold
and silver the proprietors do not allow the
workmen to retain their work clothes when
worn out, but pay them a price generally
sufficient to procure new garments-an old
tattered vest belonging to bench work
man being valued by his employers, even
when worn to rags, ut $20.-HGrJord
Comm Times.
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a HUNDRED YEARS TO COME.

The surging of human life forever onward rolls
And bears to the eternal shore its daily freight OF
souls
Though bravey sails bark to day. pale Death sits
at the PROV,
And few shall know we ever lived a hundred years
from now.
mighty human brotherhood! why fercely war and
and strive,
While Gods great world has ample space for every
erything alive?
Broad fields, uncultured and unclaimed, waiting
for the plow
OF progress..tha shall make hem bloom hundred
years frcm now.
Why should try SO earnestly in llfes short, mar
row span,
On golden stairs to climb high above our brother
man?
Why blIndly at an earthly shrine in slavish homage
bow
Our gold will rust ourselves be dust hundred
from now.
Why prize so much the worlds applause? Why
dread so much its blame?
feeting echo is its voice of censure or of fame
The praise that thrills the heart the that dyes
with shame the brow,
VIII De as long-IorSOIL0h ureiIns q hunufeu Jeais
from now.
patient hearts that meekly bear your weary load of
wrong!
earnest hearts, that bravey dare, and, striving grow
more strong!
Press on till perfect peace is you'll never dream
of how
You struggled DER fes thornv road hundred years
from now.
Grand lofty annls who live and toll that freedom,
right and truth
Alone may rule the universe, for you is endless
youth!
When mid the best with God you rest, the grateful
land shall bow,
Above your clay in reYrent love hundred years
from now.
Earth's empires rise ana fall Time! like breakers on
thy shore;
They rush upon thy rocks of doom, 60 down and are
more;
The starry wilderness of worlds that gem nights ra
diant brow
will light the skies for other eyes hundred years
from now.
Our Father to whose seepess eyes the past and fu-
ture stand
An open page like babes cling TO thy protecting
hand;
Change. sorrow. death are naaght to us If we may
safely bow
Beneath the shadow of thy throne hundred years
from now Mrs. Mary A. Ford.
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THE ARKANSAS, HOT SPRINGS.
1neir Precise Status, as Regulated at the Last
Session Of c:lssess.
From he Cincinnati Commercial.

from Inc Clncinnatl Commefclai.
A reporter for the Commercial had a
conversation with Mr.. Walsh, of Hot
Springs, who was here on his way back
from Washington, where he went to assist
in getting through the law to redeem the
Springs. Mr.. Walsh, who has been a
prominent citizen of g the Springs" for
many years, was formerly of this city.
During the administration of Mayor Hatch
he was on the police force. He is now
practieing law, and is also in the real es-
tate business. In the course of his talk
about the Springs yesterday he said:
The original adventurous three who, in
1882, settled there and laid squatter-c claim
to the lands were Hale, Gaines and Rector.
These men took in the lands Immediately
adjoining the Springs, and held possession.
Anybody coming after them, and propos
ing to settle there, had to pay them tribute
at the muzzls of the shotgun. You've
beard great deal about the troubles and
complications, and legislation and attempts
at legislation in Congress and out of Con-
gress, and in the Supreme Court of the
United States, about the Hot Springs res
ervation, that have kept back progress
there.
The act of 1871 seemed to arrive atsome
thing definite in the way of the collection
of rents by the United States. But this
new act, which became a law by President
Grants signature, in his last day in Office,
settles everything on definite and endur-
ing basis. There are 2,640 acres in the
Hot Springs reservation. This includes
the village, which has population now of
four thousand persons. There is to be an
appraisement of the property embraced in
this 2,640 acres, and every occupant must
pay his price, Us appraised, to the general
government, and thus become absolute
owner. But the Springs are to be reserved
for the use of all, subject to the manage
ment OF agorss---a.,+ officer. forever.
A con1missionAo of three pei sons Is TO uo
appointed to appraise the property claimed
now ty the owners of the buildings, who
shall have the privilege of purchase at the
assessed price. Any claimant falling to
pay the assessed price snail have the privi-
leue Of removing his improvement. The
commission shall fix the amount of land
to be purchased by each claimant, after
having properly plated the ground for
suitable arrangement of streets and alleys.
The lands appraised and not taken by
claimants shall be sold at auction, at not
less than the appraised price. The Springs
will be under the control of the dep srt-
n,ent Of the Interior, and all taxes for the
use Of water shall 60 to that department,
under tie direction Of Superintendent.
All this means a new day for the Hot
Springs Of Arkansas. Already the hotels
there are improving, and you can land at
the village BY rail, twenty three hours from
ST. Louis.
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Producing Sex at VIII.

The question of producing sex at will in
animals, seems to be pretty well settled.
It appears that science has at last, with
analytical research and scrutnizing care,
unlocked tho door of these mysteries, and
laid bare the simple me ms by which these
ends may he acconp plished. Prof. Thurry,
of Geneva, has shown how males and fe-
males may be produced in accordance with
our wishes. lIe says:
90 If you wish to produce females, give
the male at the first sign of heat if you
wish males give him at the end of the
heat.
The truth of this law has been sustained
in practice, and George Fl. Napheys, A.
NJ, NJ. d., of Philadelphia, in one of his
recent works, says on the subject, that he
has now in his possession the certificate OF
Swiss Agricultural Society, Canton de
Vaud, under date of February, 1876, which
says:
ssIn tie first place, on twenty-one sue
cessive occasions desired to have heifers.
My cows are of Schurtz breed, and my
bull, pure Durham. succeeded in all
these cases. Having bought a new Dur
ham COW, it was very important for me to
have a new bull to supersede the one had
bought at 4 great expense, without leaving
to chance the production OF male. SO
followed accordingly the prescription Of
p. ofessor Thury, and the success has proved
once mole tie truth of the law. ! have
obtained from my Durham bull six more
bulls (Sclnarts Durham cross for field work
and having chosen cows of the same color
and height ! obtain just what is required
at will Turf, Field and Farm.
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Celia Logan explains the origin of the
phrase, ssWake me when Kirby dies.
Kirby was the leading man of the old Chat
ham street theater, and, although good
actor of his type and a fayorite with the
boys, he made no especial fame until
melodrama was produced entitled . Mike
Martini in which he played the character
Of I1under6olt. It fell on him TO be shot
on the roof of a house. When lie received
his death wound he leaped from the roof to
the stage. In order TO make realistic
scene. hs concealed in his sleeve small
sponge soaked with red paint When the
shot was fred he instantly clapped tho
sponge to his forehead, and the red drops
running over his face gave the appearance
of ghastly wound and that, coupled with
his bold leap and well acted death, made
great sensation. He was nightly encored
and compelled to die over again. The
boys would often fall asleep in the early
part of the play, with a request to COM
panion to wake them up when KIRBY
died.
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Over Forty Years in the Nail.

An application has U1Un roorv0e o....-----
letter office at Baltimore, from Mr.. Palmer
Gardner, of Burlington, Wis, for a letter
matted to him in 1885. The letter con-
tanned certificate of deposit of $500; isued
by the Onondago bank, of Syracuse, N. T.,
and was sent from that place in October,
1885, by VIM. N. Gardner, to his brother
Palmer Gardner, at g Detroit, Michigan
Territory" It was not claimed at De-
troit, and was sent to the dead letter Office
and thence back TO the postmaster at Syra-
cruise. The postmaster was unable to find
the sender, and returned it to the dead
letter Office, where it has lain among the
dusty files until sent the Centennial Exhi-
brGion. Ii was sent to the Centenial Exhi-
bition, and there chanced to be seen by an
acquaintance of Mr.. Gardner, who inform
ed him of tho fact. Thus, after lapse Of
forty years, the letter reached the party
for whom ii was intended. The postage on
it ait the time it reached the Exhibition in
this city was twenty-five cents. PAslades-
phsG Inquirer.
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A Liberal oEer.

Messrs. Mackey s. Fair have come for.
ward and offered to relieve Storey county
of financial embarrassment. They proposed
at once to advance to the Commissioners
$4,000, and to pay in quarterly like
amount. Eight-elevenths of this money to
go to the general fund and three-eleyenths
to the school fund. They will charge no
interest. Ii the Con. Virginia and Cali
fornia companies win the suits the money
SO advanced is to be gift to the county.
If the mining companies loose the suits,
the money is to be credited to them as part
payment of their taxes. They also st;pu-
late that the Commissioners, $50 far as
they have power to do the same, /" shall Sc
cure to them, indemnity from the thirty
five per cent. delinquency which will at
tach to their back taxes if the tax suits
are decided against the bonanza mines
This is generous and liberal on the part of
the bonanza people, and we fully appreci-
ate the manly motives prompting the of
Co., (Nso.) Times.
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Mrs. President Hayes.

Mrs. Lucy Webb Hayes, the new mis-
tress Of the White House, was born in
Chillicothe, O., and is now about 45 years
cf age. She is q daughter of DR.. James
Webb, and granddaughter of Lieut-Col.
Cook, of the revolutionary army. In 1850
while young Hayes was visiting his mother
at his birthplace, Delaware, O., he met
Miss Webb, who was then attending the
Ohio Wesleyan University, a Methodist in
sJitution used extensively as female col
lege. At that time she was particularly
noticeable for her long, flowing black hair,
dark eyebrows, pearly white teeth, and
beautiful eyes. An introduction was given
ana ''loye at first sight" resulted in an en-
gagement of marriage. Rutherford had /.
graduated at the Law School of Harvard
University, and settled in Cincinnati in
1349, after having practieed awhile in Fre-
mont He was considered an admirable
'scateh,' as it was understood that ne was
to be the sole heir of his bachelor uncle,
Sardis Orchard, well-known banker and
merchant The marriage ceremony was
performed in 1852.
During the new Presidents long service
in the field, rising from the rank of a0pri-
vate soldier to that of major-general his
wife made frequent. trips to the scenes of
carnage, and in the camp and field and hos.
pital displayed the full measure of heroism.
When her husband received his most dam
4c1-o ko,a
Middletewli, Md, for the purpose of secnr-
ing skilled surgeon te amputate his arm,
Mrs. Hayes hastened to the town, and
nursed lnm so successfully that the shat
tered member was saved. Her presence
among the soldiers was a source of great
pleasure to them, and volume could be
readily compiled of amusing, pathetic and
distressing scenes Of army life in which she
stood, or kneeled, or wept,. the central fig
ure. Like her husband, whose physical en-
durance, moral courage and strong human
ity had been fully tested, she was ever
Great W,aat #, ,fayorite with ali who came in contact
for her to return to her home she knew
that, besides the man of her first Love, she
bore away the affections of thousands of
his companions in arms
Mrs. Hayes is lady of large domestic
tastes, unassuming, cordial and frank; OF
attractive manner and address, of hearty
sympathy and sturdy, old-time principle.
The Presidential family now consists of
General and Mrs. Hayes and three children
Webb Cook, aged nineteen Fannie, aged
eight Scott Russell, aged six. The tive
oldest Of the four sons, Richard A. and
Rutherford Platt, have been away frcm.
home attending the Cambridge Law School
and the other Cornell University. Of which
he il a Junior.--L Leslie's Newspaper.
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It is understood that the board of ensi-
neers, for making an examination as TO The
foundation of the Washington National
Monument, 10 thoroughly ascertain wheth-
81 It is sufficient TO sustain the weight Of
the complete structure, have reported In
favor of the sufficiency Of the monument,
and the appropriation Of SEQ, 600, Or so
much al remains after the examination
costs arc paid, has become available.
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MEXICAN SOLDIERS WIVES.
Marching with Their Husbands to the
Battlefield.

From "Chihu ,huan Adventures" in the New Or
leans Times.
About 8 o'clock that evening, under the
glare of full moon, the Mexican SOL
diers started. First and foremost went a
dozen pack mules, laden with the necessi-
ties of the trip, with the baggage of the
officers, quantity of ammunition, arms,
and some spare saddles with accoutre-
ments. Next came the troops, about one
| hundred in number, dressed in white with
| red stripes, cuffs and collars, and with the
high cap, long since gone out of use with
us. Behind them came the women folks
wives of the soldiers--though they had
been forbidden to come, and every soldier
had been ordered not to alight to let his
wife ride, as an attack might be expected
at any moment. When this order was
given, there was weeping and wailing and
gnashing of teeth, for the Mexican soldiers
wife follows him even to the battlefield and
has often been known to pick up the dead
husbands rifle and fight. Many petitions
have been sent to the commandants to re-
woke this order, but they have steadily re-
fused to do SO, and the consequence was
that the women determined to follow,
though it should be on foot, and follow
they did, carrying their children in their
arms. Not only did they keep up with,
but often reached the place of destination
or of camping, before the troops, and had
fires built in readiness for their coming.
Some of these journeys were forty, fifty and
fifty-five miles.
I think further description of the
Mexican soldiers wives, her character, ETC.,
will be interesting. Wives, said, but |
am sorry to say they more often occupy
that position without the sanction of the
padre than with it, but to the last they are
faithful and true, and undergo all manner
of toll and hardship for those whom they
claim as husbands. For instance, when
on our journey westward, by them it was
clearly understood that they should have
to walk the entire distance, but started out
with the firm resolve to do or
die. | well recollect that first night, how
nv heart ached for these women, one, in
particular, who not only carried her child,
a boy about three years old, slung to her
back, and a big gourd of water by her side, |
but was barefooted. made special re-
quest to Don Jesus that she might be per-
mitted to ride short distance on her hus-
bands horse. He laughingly replied j:
"sShe, with her load will tire the rest and |
out-travel the horses" which found to be |
true.
And still another moved my pity. She
was young and beautiful. The older ones
gazed on her with a smile, and as they no.
ticed my look Of sympathy, would signif-
cantly say ' Her first campaign" She was
wife of the Primero, a position equivalent
to our sergeant-major. At every camping
place where there was running water, the
women washed their own and husbands
clothing, and when the pack train under
sscor. went ahead, they kept with it and
often upon our arrival the frugal meal
would be prepared.
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TERMS Payable Invariably in advance.
NEWSPAPER DECISIONS



i shirred sleeves are again in.
| Fringes are very fashionable.
Vesuvius red is a Popular color.
Ivory satin may be worn with pale blue.
Amethyst silk may be trimmed with vel
low.
Grenadine dresses are made with high
Innings.
Byron collars are seen On many new
costumes.
Cotton fringes are not used on wash dres-
ses this year.
New embroideries have their seal1ons
made in color.
Black Spanish lace is used for trimming
black silk dresses.
Figured and plain material will be used
together in spring suits.
Buttons used on new spring costumes are
half an. inch in diameter.
What the wife Of an editor named her
two girls--Addalne and Addenda.
The Misses Evarts, of whom there are
five, are brunettes, and eschew ornaments
in dress.
Vegetable ivory and smoked pearl but
tons are mostly used OH woolen and cotton
dresses.
The upper half Of a very tight sleeve is
gathered little at the elbow, that it may
be comfortable for the wearer.
Said clever woman: 81 do not wish
anybody to do anything naughty; but if
they do, want to know all about it."
Cardinal red parasols will be worn next.
summer and it will be difficult to distin-
guish woman from meteor three blocks
away.
Summer toilettes made of bunting will
take the place of grenadine with young
ladies. Cream and black are two popular
colors.
It is the fashion among young ladies
when sending off a note to place their ini-
tials in the left hand lower corner of the
envelope.
Mrs. Custer has declined benefit and
paid all her husbands debts in full. There
is still mortgage of $500 on tho home
stead, however.
A woman who was purchasing some cups
and saucers was asked what color she would
have. Why, amt particular,'' she
said; "any cclor that won't show dirt
A carprice. of the moment with young
ladies is that of wearing long black kid
| gloves with light evening dresses; they
have the effect vi making the hand look
small.
Mr.. George Henry Lewes says that sofar
from Herbert Spencer having taught his
| wife languages, Mr.. Spencer knows very
little of any one language beside his own,
and George Eliot, before she knew him,
was acquainted with seven foreign tongues.
He also says that Mrs. Lewes never reads
newspaper articles about herself.
Wristlet parties are the latest. The Ia
dies furnish the wristlets, which are num-
bered. One of each pair, with the number,
is put in box, and is sold to the gentlemen
by committee, and corresponding wrist
let's, with the numbers, are worn by the
ladies. The fun commences when each
gentleman buys q wristlet and finds the
owner of the mate of it, to whom he is to
pay attention during the evening.