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The state Of Texas has accepted
the plans of E. E. Meyers, of Detroit,
for new capitol building at Austin,
to cost about s1,OO0,0o0.
TEXAS has recently enacted a law,
which has been approved by the gov
ernor, giving a pension of public lands
to all confederate soldiers who enlisted
in that state.
MOSES ROBINSON had for many
years paid taxes on his property at
East Northdeld, Vt, at a valuation of
$4,000. When recently it was put up
to $50. 900, he became insane and COM
mitted suicide.
The son of a Broadway stage driver
found in a dilapidated trunk which
he had purchased, cluster diamond
brooch, lost by Mrs. William H. Van.
derbilt at Saratoga, valued at $4,000.
The youngster, in returning the prize,
said he did not ask a reward, but he
hoped the affair might aid his father
In securing an easier job. ..a
AT Windsor castle a portrait of
Lord Beaconsfield hangs in her majes.
ty's private writing.room, opposite
one of the late prince consort. Once,
on being asked how it was he man.
aged to be such favorite with her
majesty, he replied, sententitiously ::
!" Well. you see, I never contradict
and sometimes forget" f"
The English chaplain at Tunis,
takes advantage of the present excite.
ment to ask subscriptions for memo
rial window in the church of St. Au.
gustine, Tunis, to John Howard
Payne, author of "Home. Sweet
Home" once American consul to
Tunis, whose remains are buried in
q Protestant cemetery in that city.
AN enterprise designed to counter.
act the enticements of liquor saloons
has gone into operation at Boston
under the name of the Poplar Street
Club. The house contains music,
reading and bathrooms, card and re.
freshment rooms, where light eat.
ables will be sold at cost. The rooms
will be open from S to IL o'clock,
Pm.
AMONG the applicants for admis-
sion to the New York state bar, at
Ithica, recently, was Frank Wal
worth, who was pardoned out of the
state prison four years ago, where he
was serving sentence for the murder
Of his father, on the ground that his
physical constitution had entirely
broken down. Through strong influ-
ence, soon after his imprisonment, he
was transferred to the insane asylum.
ON the ground of insanity.
HODsCHA.AHMET, who was sen.
fenced to imprisonment for life for
having translated the Bible into Turk.
ish, and for having circulated it in
the states of the sultan. escaped from
the prison at Chic, after the earth.
quake. The prison was thrown down
by the violence of the shock, but
Hodscha.Ahmet. was not hurt. He
managed to get on board an En-
glish vessel anchored in the harbor,
and he is now in London.
The telegraphic account of a forest
monarch 3l5 years old being cut down
to make lumber in New York state
provokes the editor of the Santa Rosa,
(Csl.) Republican to say: We know
Of one tract of 440 acres of magnificent
redwood and other timber on Russian
river, almost the last compact body
of it there, that the sawmills wont
get leave to touch while the writer is
above ground. Talk about 3l6 years
There are redwood trees there forty
five feet in circumference, and three
hundred feet high that were (by all
evidence) large trees 1900 years ago.
WHEN Hannibal Hamlin, during
whose public life the republic has
grown from twenty-seven to thirty.
eight states, and from population
of le, ,OOO, 600 to $4,000 900, was spend
ing his last day in the Senate, he wrote
to his son:
~ am sitting for the last day in the Senate,
and, my son, am happy man. You and
yours may not comprehend it, but feel it,
and in the language Of the sacred poet I may
say; ,.,,
That other veteran, not in congress.
ional service, but in years of public USE
fuiness lien G. Thurman, was likewise
spending his last day at the senatorial
desk and was near Hamlin, whose oc-
cupetion at the moment he knew.
Saying to Hamlin, "Old friend, I feel
just as you do,' he wrote upon anoth-
or page of Hamlin's paper:
I" M DEAR Nh. HAMLIN: I have not the
PLEASURE of your acquaintance, but have
known your father for over thirty.6ve years.
Like him, can say this 10 the last day Of my
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b such good company and with nv personal
ffiend OF generation. Ny sincere wish is
hat you may do honor to father So Illus
lYioue.
Truly yours, ETC.,
A. G. THURMAN"
ONE of the Conkling papers of New
York keeps standing at the head of
Irs columns this extract from Mr..
letter accepting the Chicago
"The executive should.
seek and receive the infor-
nation and assistance of those whose
knowledge of the communities in
which the duties are to be performed
best qualities them to aid in making
The wisest choice" The point Is, of
course, that in the appointment of