Gloucester County Democrat. (Woodbury, N.J.) 1878-1932, 1881-08-11
FACTS AND COMMENTS.

FACTS AND COMMENTS.
M. Munkacsy, the Hungarian painter,
has just declined to take less than $780,
600 for his new picture of Christ be-
fore Plate" 1t is not so long ago that
this brilliant and now wealthy artist
was cabinet-makef's apprentice, and
was thankful to earn small sums III his
leisure hours by painting flowers upon
the furniture of the peasant farmers OF
his native town, taking his commissions
from them as he stood in the market
place with his masters wares. A chance
talk with two art students, who stood
with him under gateway during a
heavy shower, first opened to him the
way to regular academical education.
:" If it were only possible" Mrs. Gar
field said, "for my husband and me to
go around and see all these dear people
who have been so grateful in their re-
membrance for us here of late days, /
would be so happy; and I know he would,
too. want to thank them-to tell them
all how kindly feel toward them for
what they have said to me. I never
could understand anything about poll
tics, and if l liked person it made no
difference whether they were Republi-
cans or Democrats; and now I have
grown to think that there Is not much
difference between the two great parties,
for one says just as kind words in our
present affiiction as the other. It makes
me feel like forming an opinion as to
what would do were women permitted to
vote as we'll as men. believe would
get two tickets, fold them together so
as to look like one, and drop them back
in the ballot box"
Lieutenant-G Governor Tabor, Of Col
orado. owns from four to eight millions,
all acquired within four years. But his
sudden wealth was preceded by eighteen
years of poverty, deprivation and strug-
gle for himself and his wife. They
went West from Maine during the Pixies
Peak excitement, spent all their money,
found no gold, and thereafter roughed
it in border settlements, working for
small wages at first, and afterward keep
ing stores in mining camps. In 1877
he bought in Denver So, 500 worth of
goods for Leadville store, and tried to
induce the firm to take half of the Little
Pittsburg claim in payment, but they
preferred to take his note. That mine
yielded him $15O,0O0 in three months,
and eventually $1,300,000. The orig
inal cost was grub stakes for the two
prospectors, the bargain being that he
should have half of whatever they dis
covered on the trip.
A wealthy landowner at Gonesse,
France, has founded upon his estate a
private asylum for superannuated ami
mails, which, except for his protection,
would perish Of neglect. Many of the
inmates of this strange establishment
have attained extraordinary ages; in
deed, the figures representing the NUM-
Der of their years, which their bene-
factor carefully records, severely tax
credulity. The patriarch of the family
is mule in his seventy third year; next
come COW thEty-six years old, pig
Of twenty seven, and a goat Of eighteen.
summers. In the quarters assigned to
fowls the visitor is introduced to a
goose in its thirty eighth year, whose
paunch touches the ground and whose
feet are disfgured by countless warts.
In the aviary are q sparrow in his
thirty second year, and bullfnch re-
puted to be twenty-eight years old.
Young and frolicsome creatures need
not apply for admittance to this asylum,
for only the aged are received.
A curious provision of the criminal
code of Germany, for which there is nc
analogy in English or American legisla.
tion, makes deliberate homicide, where
it is perpetrated at the request of the
victim, lesser grade of crime than
murder, and places it within the dis
cretion of the court to impose as low q
sentence as three years Imprisonment;
for the offense. Under this law mil.
ler's apprentice of Berlin has just been
sentenced for cutting his wife's throat
He was out of work and money, and he
and his wife formed the resolution to
commit suicide by taking poison. His
wife, however, drained the cup contain
ing the mixture alone, leaving none fol-
him, and after while begged him to
kill her at once, to put an end to the
suffering that ensued. He complied
with her request by making several
gashes in her throat. This state of facts
was deemed sufficient to warrant a sen.
tence of only four years imprisonment.
The Atlanta Industrial exposition, to
open October 5, promises to be great
success. The entries already number
over l, 100, representing all branches Of
industry and production. Foreign ex.
hibits are being offered freely, and two
steamers are under charter to sail from
Liverpool for Savannah with goods fol
the exhibition, while other exhibits will
follow either in specially chartered YES
sells or by the regular channels of com
merce. Some of the machinery and
processes to be exhibited will be Of an
unusually interesting character, and
ONE will be entirely new development
Of industry. The exhibition of cotton
and silk fabrics will be especially
attractive. The associated railroads Of
the South will make a representative
display of woods, soils and minerals from
all sections of the Southern States, and
the planters of the Mississippi valley will
make typical exhibition of sugar,
cotton and tobacco. The last will be
seen in all stages of growth and manu-
facture, from the springing plant to the
finished cigar and plug. One of the
largest and most active displays will be
competitive exhibition Of fifty cotton
gins, by as many different manufac
turers. The influence of this exposition
upon the prosperity of the South, and
indeed Of the whole country, in the
stimulus it will give to enterprise an6
invention, and the enlargement of ex-
isting fields of competition, will un-
doubtedly be very great.
Mayor Richmond, Of Pueblo, in The
mining region of Colorado. tells the