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has just been sold TO Yorkshire gen
tleman.
HENRY L. CLINTON, W. H. Wander.
bliss principal lawyer in the will-con.
test case, has sent his client bill OF
$250,000 for services rendered in the
suit. Vanderbilt declines TO settle.
AN appeal comes from Persia for the
starving thousands in that land. A lady
who for more than twenty years has
been a missionary in Persia has written
TO friends in this country vivid account
of the terrible suffering of which she is
a daily witness.
A QUEBEC merchant has experiment.
ed successfully in shipping beef to Eng
land in the carcass. The animals are
beheaded the entrails are taken out, land
the bodies pressed into a small compass
and frozen. The hide is not removed
until the voyage is over, and it is
claimed that the meat is superior in APP
pearance to other imported beef, and
keeps longer.
A MEMBER of the Virginia Legislature,
during a discussion in regard to en-
ploying stenographic reporter, offered
a resolution that the Clerk of the
House purchase Immediately phono-
graph into which the members who de-
sire to perpetuate their speeches shall
deliver them and turn the crank thereof
for the benefit of future generations. e"
It was ruled out of order.
AARON BARNES OF Independence,
Iowa, was advised to 90 to the poor
house, as he was old, infirm and desti-
tute; but he said, aid die first" and
hobbled away from the village store to-
ward his lonely shanty. He was not
seen after that for a week, and was then
found dead, from hunger and cold, by a
messenger who brought the news that
his claim for 81, 600 pension-money had
been allowed.
Mr.. AUGUSTUS MEVES of Hanwell,
England, who died recently, was sin
gular kind of claimant. His father pro-
fessed to be the Dauphin who was i'm
prisOned in the temple at the French
revolution, from which in some mys-
FERROUS manner he declared he had been
able to escape. The son believed firm
ly in the legitimacy of his claims, and
some time ago published a book in
which he attempted to establish it.
A MAN and woman, of Phoenix, Ulster
County, n. Y, decidedly on the down.
hill of life-he was 60 and she was Co.,
could wait no longer to be married, ana
started for the clergyman's house in a
sleigh. On the road they met another
clergyman, and, with rare and beau
tiful enthusiasm, requested him to per-
form the ceremony or the spot. They
stood up in their sleigh, the minister
stood up in his, they were pronounced
to be man and wife, and pair of frisky
horses with their sleigh-bells furnished
the wedding music.
THE nearest realization of the CHEEKY
BILE Brothers of Dickens is furnished in
Sir W. Lawrence and Alderman Law
renee of London, brothers and partners,
who retired from business few weeks
ago. They handed over the whole of
their business to their clerks and mana
gers who had served them faithfully for
years, with the sum of ESQ, 900 to carry
it on, gave the artizans who had served
them for ten years and upward sums in
proportion to the number of years, and
a few of the the oldest an annual pen
sion of Ego, reserving no interest in the
new firm for themselves.
A MELANCHOLY picture is drawn by
the correspondent of Vienna paper Uf
the condition of the Turkish army in
Albania. Begging, be says, is no long
er regarded by the Turkish soldiers as
disgrace, and the streets of Janina are
full of soldiers who stretch out their
hands to the passers-by for aims III broad
day. At night they attack the peasants
and rob them of all their valuables
The Turkish soldiers are, indeed, so much
in want of money, owing to their not
having received any pay for more than
three years, that they often sell their
arms; and the military commandment
has found it necessary to issue a decree
strictly forbidding this practice under
severe penalties, when discovered.
NJ. CLAUDE ETIENNE MIME, the in
ventor of the carbine known by that
name, who died recently, was born in
Paris in 1904. He entered the army as
a private, but rose to the captaincy of a
company of chasseurs. Itwas then that
he conceived the idea of improving the
weapon used by this corps. He refused
to make money out of his inventions by
patenting them, or to quit France for
superior service in Russia. He was, in
1919. appointed instructor in firing at
the Ecole Normale, at Vencennes, and
retired from active life in 1858; but he
had all along been occupying himself
with the improvement of firearms, and
his last achievement, a rifle lighter than
the chassepot, and carrying one thou
sand metres further, was exhibited at
the Universal Exhibition of 1873.
In Japan they honor the aged with
the same congratulations as we offer on
their attaining remarkable number of
years, though in a somewhat different
way. Mrs. Iva Kura, mother of one of
the dignitaries of the Empire, has just
arrived at the sum of fourscore years.
In order that she might understand how
great was the joy of her friends, eighty
of them came TO an understanding each
to write her short poem. Among the
authors were included some OF the
greatest personages of State. The
verses written by the Queen delicately
treated of the great age to which the
stork attains, and, contrasting Mrs. Iva
Kura with this favored bird, drew infer
ences of the most fattering character.
1t is not said that the old lacy read all
the poems, but it is noted that she took
pains to conserve them by having every
one pasted on pair of screens and
relegated to a distinguished place in her
dwelling.
A WOMAN in Scotland lived 80 years
after she was hung for the murder of
her child, born while her husband was
serving a term in prison, The British