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The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1878-07-09
EUROPEAN CORRESPONDENCE,
Interesting Letter From mr.
Samuel Laughlin.

fARl5, June IL, 1910.
Reaching London in the evening, after
dinner 1 strolled along towards Parlia-
ment House, and Us entered West.
minister Hall, and walking up and down
ia stone floor, my thoughts going back to
the early days when Kings and Queens
we're crowned beneath its arches and
Lords and ladies bowed attendance to the
powers that were, I approached the
entrance, where Englands peers and
commopers were spending the night in
debate upon the bill to supply the India
troops Transferred to the anticipated field
Of war. But there was no entrance with.
out written pass-from member. As
the American Minister was the only one
who could get such passes land only for
two,) upon weeks notice, l had no de.
sire to 20 to that trouble, but few social
words with an intimstion Of my desire to
one Of the innumsrable guards and police,
which abound with display Of Crown
was sufficient to elicit promise, that II l
would be alta certain point close by, to
morrow night, he might be able to get
me three members tickets, but for gentle
men. So at that time I was there and so
we're the tickets, duly signed,
1oAyE HIM THE 8 oRowss.
and was duly ushered into the strangers
gallery. A small contracted place, hold.
Ing perhaps an hundred persons which
| In one sense may be considered liberal
space since for the 624 members OF the
House there are but APO seats, the balance
having TO stand or stay away, the latter oil
which 1 think they do, for there were not
over 200 in the seats. 1t seems 10 me,
with all the space in this great building,
some provision should be made for ad-
hitting respectable number OF auditors.
That provided for the ladies Is more like
a good size chicken coop than any thing
else, and near the roof Of the building.
Extending across the hall are ten small
openings each IS inches by SO inches, and
with a grating over each one, through
these spaces ladies are permitted TO look
down and hear what they can. / am
sure public opinion with US, would soon
change such an arrangement. This even.
Ing he principal members Of the Cabinet
we're present 10 answer interrogatories
which had been propounded by members
At the previous session: The official. sit
apon the right hand Of the Speaker, fac.
Ing the opposition Immediately opposite
on the left. The questions are replied to
In as brief manner "a possible, and are
not subject to any debate at that time.
The question seemed TO be Of considerable
importance involving the point "a to
where the pay Of troops and war material
came from, and II there was not an i'm
proper appropriation Of moneys in the
Treasury. Upon answering the officials
retire, and the House goes into what we
would term committee Of the whole. The
gentleman from Ireland (the OConner
Don) had introduced resolution that
what was termed 1.-THE Irish University
Bill was failure" 1t ELECTED
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WARN DEBATE

in which the old story Of Catholic wrongs
in Education matters was gone over, the
same as involved in our common, schools.
The position assumed by Eve or six
Irish gentlemen and threatiugly announc.
ed, was that the time had come when II
Catholic schools could not be built up
and encouraged that they could and
would pull down others TO their own
level. II was startling proposition and
bid fair to be very fierce debate when
the Chancellor announced the sinking oil
the German steamer, and In few mo-
ments after, the death Of member In
the Library room adjoining. The motion
TO adjourn was not allowed to be put
until q direct promise was given TO re-
sume the subject at the next session
It seems out Of place for
deliberative body like this to eel
with their hats on-and lacks in oui
ideas Of poli,eness. Why II is doHe nc
one can truly Tell. The members have
no decks and use their hats as snbati-
tute. was present also at q session o.
the Lords-When they were engaged II
q very petty debate and on petty ques
ton. There rooms are more commodi
Gus and rich in furniture although thu
crimson morocco is rather glaring.
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On the outer edge Of this central por.
tico il a large basin. The water falls
from this height Of thirty feet in the
rear Of which Is an open arch, with rock
work exposed, forming, ere Il reaches
The level space below eleven beautiful
cascades. At the level Ia an oblong basin
Of 200 feet to receive the water. At each
corner Of the basin are four immense
bronze figures-a wild steer, head erect;
a horse With fore feet raised and name
flying In The wind, In the asi Of running
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&lsabeRvilt Observation-Disclosures BsIlairs q
ID NJ; bridgeport So p M arrives at 9ita.
SenVLlle Glb p N leaves 6teuban lie NJ $40 q.
Bridgeport $40 g. m GrriTei ct BellEtie u
os5 4 N. z
TI.keS and Baegese Cheeks 10 all ptndpaI
points In The East and West can Be proeufrd a ~
unlon 1ieIN Ofhee, Met ure AouSe, WhealinA
and at Ticket ofass In BRIDGEPORT 80 :
myss General Passenger and TicEst Arent.
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siOuz City (Ia.) nal.-The Grant and
Wilson ticketmeets with favor on every
hand.
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when the motion waS made TO adjourn
for Derby-thAtit was no longer the day
Il formerly WAs-that they would sooner
see plague sweep over the land thar
have this day, which was demoraliIipg
the people In high places as we'll as low
which was loading some Of the fnest
estates Of the realm with debt. OF 800
members present, 120 voted against the
adjournment. Due regard for my pocket
book induced me TO take seat in the
stand at q cost Of 8 shillings, next to the
Grand Stand. As there was NOT so much
Of the rough element. Seated adjoining
me were the heightened betting classes.
In the royal boxes were the PENCE and
Princess Of Wales, Duchess Of Teck, Prin.
cess Christine, Duchess OF Cambridge,
Crown Prince Of Germany, and Prince
Napoleon, and many lesser lights, enjoy.
ing the sight.
YOUNG NAPOLEON
Stood most Of the time by himself, wear.
Ing light colored oyereoat, and seem.
ingIy quite gloomy. The Princess Of
Wales, quite fleshy and fair but not pref
ty. Every thing with wheels on in Lon.
don seemed TO Be- here, and all vacant
spaces were filled with people to eat and
drink. As looked down from my high
seat, on the lunches spr cad, they seemed
to be the most inviting part Of the races,
and like many Of our home friends when
they 20 fishing, bread was the smallest
part Of the feast, for champagne, ale
and beer flowed most abundanly. ! never
cav 90 many side shows together Of every
kind and character, and all OF the lowest
grades. A rain came on al starting time
and such sight Of umbrellas: they seemed
In number Is the stars. The whole scene
was rich and rare one, and enjoyable in
the extreme "a q novelty, and would time
admit could give you many laughable
and ridiculous incidents connected with
the occasion, but forbear.
To the traveller no city presents . more
inviting place for tarrying than London.
So much Of interest Of every kind, mu.
steal, literary, scientific, entertainment
for mind and body. Her museums, gal.
Iertes, labratories, churches-her COM
merce, shipping, manufactures, are SO
numerous, 80 varied that months are
insufficient to merely glance at them,
and as 80 recently I had visited them
did not larry this time bnt 3 week, and
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The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
PEEPS AT THE PLANETS:

Neptune, the most remote of the planets
in the solar system, is about 2,70o, ,000, ,Ooo
from the sun.
1t is supposed that Mercury has noun
tains higher than our Hinalayas, and vol
canoes in state of activity.
Out of all the myriad lights in the heav-
ems, the Earth is only visible to the Moon,
Mars, Mercury and Venus
The Earth is 746 times smaller than
Saturn, and its mean distance from us is
over 81, 900, 900 miles.
Uranus can never see us at all, as it is
1853, ,000,00 miles from the sun.
The temperature in Mercury is supposed
to be seven times hotter than our torrid
zone; therefore, if it is inhabited it must
be by people very differently constituted
from ourselves.
1t is believed that Venus has an atmos-
phere much like ours, and mountain peaks
five or six times higher than Teneriffe,
their sides bright with flowers, and birds
of brilliant plumage.
The Moon never leaves our globe; there
fore it is called our satellite. Though to
us it appears larger than the stars, it is
really smaller than any of them, but much
nearer to us.
Astronomers have calculated that the
mountains and extinct volcanoes in the
Moon are higher than any on our earth.
If there were any one on the Moon to see
it, the earth would appear to them mag
nifcent ball. The planets and sun
would move behind it in brilliant sue
cession.
Our globe appears to Mars as the morn
ing and evening star.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19

dent laughter-loving people in the world.
They have no winter to ''lay by" for-even
the proverbial rainy day" needs nothing
here So they, dance and sing and deck
themselves with garlands all the day long.
Men of the class which, if they were
Americans, would think it dapdyish Or silly
to wear button-hole boquet, go here with
great garlands of the loveliest flowers and
green leaves hanging in festoons around
the neck and shoulders, down the body,
around the head, around the hat, every
where. 1t is strange to see these hard
working fellows-herdsmen hackmen and
draymen-adorned with the most exquisite
combination of flowers and leaves. They
live life of perpetual joyousness. They
are always laughing, singing, playing jews
harps, making floral wreaths, or something
of the sort. They have not wealth-noth-
ing that would satisfy an American. Yet
they are thoroughly happy and light
hearted. With them, contentment is
wealth.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
--s$-De -$s--
A RACE WI III ID IA AEs

One of the most remarkable trips On
record has recently made on the Atchison,
Topeka and Santa Fe Railre ad, from Kan
sas City to the Rocky Mountains. A rich
gentleman named W. S. Dunn arrived in
this city from the east, early one morning,
on his way to visit his sick wife at Manitou
Springs, Col. On his arrival here he re-
ceived telegram stating that his wife was
at the point of death, and that she could
not live many hours. The husband, who
was a middle-aged man, evidently mer-
chant, seemed to be much affected by the
news, and at once made inquiries for a
special train. He offered large sum of
money for special engine to run to Pue-
bio ahead of the regular train, but could
not obtain one here. lie took possession
of the telegraph wires between here and
Topeka, the head quarters of the road, and
offered $3.50 for a special locomotive to run
at special speed across the plains. His
offer was accepted, and at 8 o'clock in the
afternoon the devoted husband started from
Topeka on his break-neek errand of love
and duty. Away went the locomotive and
car, with its solitary but sorowing pas.
senger, over the prairies of Kaw valley,
down into the valley of the Neosho at
Emporia, then off again over the high
divide between the Neosho and the Arkan-
SOS valley, which was reached before night
had closed in. Then, after taking water,
the impatient husband and his tireless
iron horse started up the great Arkansas
valley to the base of the Rocky Noun
tains.
He reached Pueblo, Col, at y o'clock the
next morning, and then, only waiting for a
locomotive ON the Denver and Rio Grande
(narrow gauge) to be got ready, started ur
to Manitou, distance of fifty miles He
reached Manitou. at the base OF Pixies
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same prospective donation was set apart
and pledged as a colored school fund.
The proposition row before Congress for
the distribution of the proceeds of the
sale of public lands has this proviso, that
such distribution will only be made
among States wherein there is no dis
elimination against any class of citizens
in school facilities. This recent action
of the Legislature Of Kentucky not only
involves breach of faith, but the dan
ger of losing all benefit from the proposed
distribution. The modern legislator is
not always statesman. He is sometimes
a knave, and occasionally fool In pro-
ducing Clay, and a Breckenridge, and
a Crittenden, Kentucky has apparently
exhausted itself for these many years.
The blue grass theory is failure. Let
the next Legislature be brought under
the influence of blue glass
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19

One of the Middlesex magistrates in Eng,
land has just declined an offer of $4, 500 for
his collection of foreign postage stamps,
but, on the other hand, an extensive collec-
ton of seventeen thousand varieties was
sold in London recently for 81, 900, which is
believed to be the highest price that such a
collection has ever brought in England.
In France, however, the mania has reached
higher pitch, for there an exceptionally
complete collection was sold privately for
$4,000.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
A FEMALE HEIeNIEF.

We hear quite frequently of male her
mits but female hermits are more rare.
Femininity is generally but another name
for sociability, and no lively, talkative wo-
man cares to deprive herself of the oppor-
tunity of mingling with the society of her
kind. But away ont in Nevada there ex-
lists a veritable she-hermit, an eccentric
woman who has kept a goat and sheep
ranch for the past ten or twelve years.
She lives alone in small cabin, with her
goats, sheep and fowls for her only COM
panions, invariably avoiding all intercourse
with white people as long as she can.
When her stock of the necessaries of life is
exhausted, she visits the nearest towns to
sell few dozens of eggs and chickens, with
the product of which she replenishes her
store. She is quite sociable to the Indians
that wander in that direction, and treats
them kindly always, especially when they
are ill. At such tiraes she prepares from
mountain plants, with whose properties she
is we'll acquainted, beverages that the
Piutes believe to be oil potential in restor-
ing them to health. Her nearest white
neighbor lives probably fifteen miles away,
but she not only does not regard her isola-
ton, but she rather likes it. 1t is said that
she once moved in good society, and that
matrimonial infelicities drove her to this
wild lifB
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A SAD S'EOR Y.

A Partisan couple had been married three
months, and were very happy. One even
ing they were invited to a wedding, and while
at supper with the bridal pair and the we'd
his father-in-law over money matters
They returned to their home about mid
night. The lady bitterly reproached her
husband for having quarreled with her
father, and the husband replied in pas
sion, eff you prefer your parents to me,
you had better go and live with them at
once" on which she expressed her inten-
ton to start for her fathers house. She
opened the door, and as she was in even-
ing dress, he placed his overcoat on her
shoulders to prevent her catching cold. On
the following morning he sent change of
clothing to his wife; but on the servant ar
irving at the house of the parents, it was
discovered that nothing had been seen there
of the young wife. Monsieur was immedi-
ately filed with alarm. ALI her friends
were visited, but in vain; no trace of her
could be found. At length they resolved
to 60 to the morgue, and on entering that
sinister looking bulldog the remorseful
husband saw the body of his beautiful
young wife lying exposed on one of the
marble slabs. She had been picked up by
one of the dredging barges on the Seine.
The poor creature was only twenty two
years of age.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
LEONCE DE HENNIER.

Victor Hugos recently published "His-
tory of a Crime" mentions Leonce de Men
nier commanding battalion of the French
army who, during Louis Napoleon's coup
d. etat of 1851, was in charge of the guard
defending the palace of the Assembly.
Rather than be an accomplice of Napoleon's
rascality, he broke his sword before Espi-
nasse, his Colonel, and threw the frag-
ments at his feet. Mennier died in Paris
OF the age of "A.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
FAIR DEALINGS WITn FowL DEpREpAroRs.

FAIR DEALINGS WITH Fowl DEPREDAToRs.
Those who are troubled with neighbors
who keep fowls should follow the example
of Yankee who was very much annoyed
at the havoc his next-door neighbor's poul-
try committed in his garden. lie put some
old hats and hay under his steps and in the
stable, and when the fowls came to scratch
they remained to lay. He has had all the
fresh eggs he wanted last summer, and has
even sold some dollars worth to the owner
of the hens.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
A PECULIAR FASHION.

Many years ago, the village of Shelford,
near Nottingham, England, was distin-
guished by very peculiar fashion in dress
affected by most of the men. This con-
sisted in the wearing of coats with red vel
vet colors and for long time no explana-
ton of it was forthcoming. Eventually,
however, the mystery was solved through
the vicar of the parish 1t appeared that
the village tailor was also the sexton, and
that the velvet with which he adorned his
customers coats had been appropriated by
him without license from the burial vaults
of the Earls of Chesterfield, to which he
had access by virtue of his Office. The
vicar communicated to the Earl discovery
which had filed him with horror, but that
nobleman not merely forgave the offense,
but actually commended the tradesman for
making good use of that which he and
his ancestors had consigned to corruption
and decay. Probably the Earl who ap-
proved the tailor's action was the famous
'letters lord, who was the first prominent
man in England to give blow to under
takerdom. "Sated with the pompous
follies of this world of which. l have had
an uncommon share, desire no funeral
honors," wrote the man who had been
stigmatized "a high priest of the worlds
vanities;" and he proceeds to limit the
expenses to be incurred at his obsequies
to $500. -
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19
A MER RY RAGE.

The native Hawaiians live frugal and in
expensively. They eat poi, taro, bananas,
melons, and SO ON, and nothing of flesh
kind, except fish or game. The fish they
,at raw, perhaps as rule, though they
iometimes cook them. The poi is gener-
lily eaten with cured fish. The taro is
cry much like superior kind of an Irish
,otato in taste and nutrition. There is no
rticle of diet anywhere that has more nu-
riment to the square inch than the taro.
lhe natives are the most careless. improyi-
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A THREE-YEAR-oLD HERoINE.-A remark
able feat was performed by the little three
year-old daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Frank
Smith, of Pelican, Mimi, and a niece of Mr..
and Mrs. S. NJ. Woodworth, of Audubon.
While Mrs. Woodwork was on visit to
her sister one day, Mrs. Smith was taken
alarmingly ILL., Mr.. Smith was away from
home at the time, and no one near the
house to render assistance save Mrs. Wood
worth and the child. Mrs Woodwork
could not leave, so she called little Angie
and asked her to go to the house of neigh
Dor, three-quarters of a mile distant, and
summon assistance The child did as she
was directed in an incredibly short space OF
time, and upon her return with the neigh
Dor, it was found necessary to summon a
physician. 1t was now nearly dark, and a
storm brewing; yet this brave little heroine
again took the road and went to the nearest
ncighbors house, a distance Of one and a
fourth miles in the opposite direction from
her first trip, where she found man to &c
for physician Ere her return home the
storm had so increased as to render prog
ress very slow, and the vivid and constant
lightning might well have stricken terror
into the heart of many an older pedestrian
yet this three-year-old child bravely and
faithfully performed her mission, and re
turned in safety. - Audubon IN. Y.
Journal.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19

Peak, in time to see his dying wife, and
was well satisfied with the result of his fast
trip. The fastest time made on the route
was fifty miles per hour, the average time
about thirty-fve miles. 1t is the
fastest time ever made across the plains
from the Missouri river to the Rocky
Mounta ins.- -Kansas City Times.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19

THE London Times states that young
lady recently died at,Aschott at the ten
der age of one hundred and four years,
and that for the last forty years of her
life she had been in the habit of drinking
gin to excess, spending as high as thou
sand dollars a year for her "schnapps" "
Only for this bad habit she might not
have been thus cut off in the heyday of
her youth. She had been an orphan for
several years, and for want of parental
restraint probably fell into vicious
habits.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19

If the Halifax Commission, fairly con-
stituted upon terms agreed upon in ad-
vance, adjudged that the United States
should pay 81, 100000 for the privilege
Of catching 100000 worth of fish, it is a
bad bargain upon oul part, but we can
better stand it than try to go behind the
returns, Bad as it is we can better
afford to pay the award than attempt to
get out of it.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19

A young man from Connecticut writes
home glowing description of life in the
Black Hills. He rays that the sunsets are
beautiful, the atmosphere delightful,
md money SO plentiful that be recent
ly made $500 in single day He incl
IDENTIFY adds that he expects to be hung
that afternoon for robbing a stage
coach.
The Cincinnati daily star. [volume] ([Cincinnati, Ohio]) 1875-1880, 1878-03-19

THE Legislature of Kentucky, by re-
cent act, endows the Agricultural and
Mechanical College with all sums of
money received by the Commonwealth
under or by virtue of any act of Con
gress distributing public lands, or the
proceeds of the sale thereof. By an act
Of the Legislature of that State passed in
1874 establishing a uniform system of
common schools for colored children, this