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A Woman Soldier.

In conversation with Mr.. Joseph n.
Allen, of Brooklyn, veteran of the war,
who was a member CT company |, Second
regiment Michigan infantry, concerning
the petition OF Mrs. S. L. Seeley, of
Iowa, for a pension for disabilities re-
sulting from service during the war, he
related the following curious and inter
esting story concerning the lady and her
claim:
Among those cnlisting in company
F of my regiment at the first call for
troops in 1861, was delicate looking
youth, answering to the name of Frank
lin Thompson, who was mustered into
the United States service for three years.
After serving two years. and doing all
the duties of an enlisted man, going
through the different battles of First
Bull Run and in the advance on
Richmond in 1862 under Mcclellan,
it was discovered that Thompson was a
woman. When Thompson first applied
to Captain w. r. Morse, who was recruit
ing company F for the Second regiment to
serve for three months, under the first call
for troops in 1861 he was rejected because
he did not reach the requisite height.
Later, however, when the three months
men returned and were asked to re-enlist
for three years, many dropped out. We
were then rendezvoused at Fort Wayne,
Detroit, and volunteers were asked for.
Among the first TO respond was Frank,
who was accepted. lie was faithful and
brave and gained all hearts by his cheer
full, obliging activity and good sense.
He and became comrades and warm
friends. He stood guard, did police
work and fatigue duty and drilled with
the rest of us, but was never an expert
with the muskct. lie said his father was
a New Brunswick farmer, a mixture of
Scotch and Irish, and his mother an
English woman. In 1862 Colonel Poe,
who commanded the regiment, detailed
Frank as mail carrier, in which position
he remained until he left the regime Mt.
After leaving the regiment Thompson
resumed feminine attire and entered
Oberln college and studied for a time,
and then married Mr.. Seeley, who had
known her from infancy, and is now a
gress is to grant her, in her married
name, Mrs. S. E. Seeley, formerly Frank
lin Thompson, private, of Company F.,
second Michigan infantry, a pension for
disabilities, resulting from service dur
ing the years she was my comrade and
friend in the army. / need hardly add
that | was the most surprised of all to
learn thGt she was a woman, for | never
suspected it. Mrs. Seeley is also the
authoress of the book Nurse and Spy, )
which is an account of her adventures
while Il soldier"
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SELECT SIFTINGS.

Flotsingen, Wurtemburg, has brigade
of forty-two female water carriers belong
ing to the fire department, each of the
four squads being commanded by 'fe-
male corporal"
Inns were established about the close
of the fifteenth century, when the mobiles
began to grow exclusive in their habits,
and to object to dining in the same hall
with their servants and making all CON-
ers welcome to the board.
Some idea of the increase of the but,
ton manufacture may be derived from the
fact that in q single French village near
Paris there are more than 5000 persons
engaged in making agate buttons, al
though in 1851 there were but 6, 1888 but
ton makers in England.
The clerks in the government depart
mcnts at Washington say that the returns
and papers received from the Pacific
States have resinous or balsamic odor
strong enough to be perceptible even
when the papers are mingled with others
from many parts of the country.
Whales were eaten by persons of the
upper classes in Europe as late at least as
the latter part of the thirteenth century.
The tail and tongue dressed with peas
or roasted were priced as choice dclica-
cies. The Princess Eleanor dc Montfort
paid, in 1866, the sum of 24s. for 400
pieces of whale" to be used as food in
her household.
Many visitors to Statuary hall, in the
capitol at Washington, have noticed
that in the statue of Washington, con-
tributed by Virginia, both the upper and
the lower lips bulge out into undue
prominence and give the expression
rather curious cast A native Virgnian,
while in Washington the other day,
cleared up the mystery as follows: II
don't believe that it has ever been in
print before, but the real reason why these
features are distorted is that a short time
before his death Washington used
double set of false teeth. They were
made in Paris on gold plates, but they
did not fit him. AS a consequence, when
he died they were in his mouth, and, as
| said, they bulged the lips out. The
plaster cast faithfully reproduced this
distortion"
The origin of the word ''queer" is due
to Quin, the actor. He bet G100 with a
nobleman one evening, that, by the next
morning, at breakfast time, there would
be word in most peoples mouths that
was never heard before. That night,
when the theatre had closed, he got all
the "supers' and Others whom he hired,
furnished each with a good lump of
chalk, and instructed one and all to
go through the principal streets of Lon
don and chalk on the flags the word
"Queer."- The next morning people
were startled by seeing such an unusual
sight. Some believed it was significant
of danger-that secret enemy was near,
and this was his watchword; so the word
went the rounds in most amazing way.
1t might be said to be not ''in most peo-
pies mouths" but Sin everybody's
mouth" Quin, of course, won the wager.
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This is a story of George d. Prentice,
which never saw in print and which is
a better illustration of his ready wit, than
anything else he said, think. The old
Journal Office used to be the stamping
ground of many Southern men, more or
less known, who liked to hear the vet
eran journalist tell story or warm up
presumptuous young man for lunch.
Among those who frequented the Journal
office was Will S. Hays. the song writer
Coming into Mr.. Prentice's office one
day in that free and easy way of his, he
sat down in one chair, with his feet on
another, and jamming his hat on the back
of his head, said, without consulting Mr..
Prentice's leisure:
"Scen my last song, George 2"
Mr.. Prentice ceased writing, sighed
heavily and looking up sadly and re-
proachfully at the young man, said:
81 hope so, Billy. Blu Nye, in Free
Press.
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Surprising He Had.

On a Bay City train coming into De-
troit the other day was great big hull,
of fellow with a voice deep enough to
shake the foundations of house, and a
disposition to eat somebody up. He
got into trouble with three or four diff
ferent men in the smoking car, all of
whom left it to avoid trouble. This en-
couraged the man in the belief that he
could run the whole train, and he was
observing that he had come down from
the lumber camps to sniff the fresh air
and start a graveyard or two, when a
brakeman who had caught on quietly
took seat beside him.
stranger" said the overgrown chap
as he limbered up his arms, care you
prepared to die?n
The brakeman acknowledged that he
wasn't
"Say! how would you like to step out
on the platform at the next station and
stand before me fur two minitsN
The brakeman rather liked the idea.
"You will, eh2 Say Jist feel O. that
Then smell of it!n
'Don't rub my nose like that again,
sir" warned the railroader.
"Why not!,'
"Because you might get hurt"
He had scarcely spoken when the big
fist rubbed itself against his nasal organ,
but something more than words followed.
In about a New Jersey second he had the
big man by the throat and jammed into
corner, and there he held him until the
man who wanted to 90 into the grave
yard business turned the color of horse
plum, exhibited all the tongue he had,
and made signals that he would even sell
his shirt to bring about an amicable set
Element of affairs.
"Got enoughi" asked the brakeman.
"Y-you bet"
"Will you keep quiet"
"Y-yesp
With that he was released, and for a
long ten minutes he had nothing to say.
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NEWSY GLEANINGS.

LAST year the railroad track laid in the
Southern States extended ,G62 miles.
EIGHTEEN colored teachers are employed in
the Nashville, Tenn, public schools.
A COLoRED baby show show, containing 1O3
infants, has just been held in Chicago.
MIsSoURI'S real estate is valued at 1912. =
$50, 3SS; her personal property, SlS7,33S, OG6
GEORGIA is said to have more Mormons
within its boundaries than any other Southern
State.
THE New York street railways kept 12.j 8
horses last year at a cost ofS2, ,2l5, or
Sl0L3S each
TIE vital statistics of New Jersey for 1888,
show 9. 1865 marriages, "a, 430 births and %,
80 deaths.
Two sacred birds known as the ibis, and
worshiped by the Nubians, of Africa, were
among the attractions at the bird show in
Boston.
SENATOR PEYDLEToN, of Ohio is to de.
liver the Grafton at the Mecklenburg celebra-
ton in Charlotte, n. c.. on Tuesday, May 20,
and Speaker Carlisle is to make a brief ad
dress.
GENERAL CLINTON b. FISK, speaking al
the dedication of tho Park Avenue church, in
New York, said that the Methodists have ~,
600 churches and are building 1000 yeaI
right along
'PINK dinners" have now taken the place
of "blue teasn in New York fashionable
circles. Everything in the room is pink, and
the favors INCLUDE horn of plenty to which
tasty pink streamels are attached.
ALFRED CHADWICK yoked his wife TO a
pillow with "A steer for which Judge Jenni
son, Of Detroit, gave her divorce. He in
sisted that lie only followed the general
usage among the market gardeners of west
ern Canada.
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MANY LIVES LOST.
Wreck Of an Ocean Steam.hip off
Halifax, N. S.
Only Nine Out Of One Hundred and
Thirty Reported Saved.

During a dense fog the Belgian steamer
Daniel Steinmann, from Antwerp for Halifax
and New York, struck the rocks off Sambro
island, north of Halifax harbor, at 10 o'clock
at night and sank in deep water. There were
ninety-six passengers and thirty-four men in
the crew. OF these the captain, five sailors and
three passengers were saved Seventy-six
passengers were bound to New York
Sambro island is three and a half miles
from Sambro village, near the scene of the
wreck of the Inflated Atlantic eleven years
ago There is lighthouse on the island. All
around are rocks and shoals.
The Daniel Steinmann left Antwerp on
March 20, under the command of Captain
Van Schoonhoven. She carried a
cargo of telegraph wire and general
merchandise. Her crew numbered
thirty-six men, all told. She carried in the
Storage ninety-four passengers, all Germans,
twenty of whom were to land at Halifax and
the rest in New York She was also to land
500 tons of freight at Halifax. The steamer
was reported at st. Catharine's point, near
Antwerp, two days after leaving. The next
thing heard of her was when the light keeper
on Sanbro island heard her whistle as she
was going down. A few rockets were seen
from the shore. but a storm prevented anyone
from going to her rescue.
Seven souls came ashore somehow in the
night, and We're safely landed through the
surf. They reported that some of the crew
were clinging to the rigging, part of which
was above water. During the night the
weather continued too rough to permit any
one to go to the assistance of the men on the
wreck, although it was only POO yards away,
but at daylight n fisherman named Gilkie
launched a fatboat and brought off Captain
Van Schoonhoven and boy who had been
secured in the rigging by the captain. These
two were the only ones left in the rigging.
The survivors all remained temporarily on
Sambro island, twenty miles from Halifax
The weather had been so rough and the fog so
thick that no one could pass either to or from
Sambro island to the main shore 1t was not
until afternoon that word was received here
that disaster had occurred, and then it came
by signal from the island the only means of
communication in rough weather.
] The Daniel Steinmann belonged to Stein
mann & Ludwig, the managing owners of the
White Cross line. She was 211 feet long,
thirty-four feet beam, and twenty -five feet
deep She was built Of iron, had two decks
and five bukneads. She was brigantne
rigged. She was called twenty-day boat
between Antwerp and New York. She was
worth about 100000 and was fully insured
She was bringing nearly 1000 tons of freight
to New York She was fitted to carry several
hundred Storage passengers, but her cabin
accommodations We're limited to fifteen or
twenty
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Continued from last 1eek)
How Watch Cases are Made.

The many great improvements intro
duced in the manufacture Of the Jas. Boss
Gold Watch Case, have led to similar i'm
provements in the making of silver cases.
Under the old methods, each part of a
silver case was made of several pieces of
metal soldered together requiring great
amount of cutting and soldering, which
softened the metal and gave it the pliability
of lead rather than the elasticity of silver.
Under the improved methods, each part
of the Keystone Silver Watch Case is made
of one solid piece of metal hammered into
shape. The advantages are readily appar-
ent, for every one knows that hammering
hardens the metal while soldering so.tens it,
TO test the superiority of the Keystone
Silver Watch Case take one of 8 OF. weight,
press it squarely in the center when closed,
and it will not give while n case Of same
weight of any other make will give enough
to break the crystal. The Keystone Silver
Watch Case is made only with silver cap
and gold joints.
send cent stamp keystone Watch Factories Phia-
delPhlA Pa for handsome illustrated Pamphlet showing
James Boss and Keystone Watch Eases are made.
IT, L.
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Gas from SaWduSt.

The village of Deseroto, Ontario, is
said to be lighted with gas made from
sawdust. The lumber company, to which
the settlement owes its life, cuts fifty mil
lion feet of lumber annually, and what
to do with the huge heaps of sawdust has
been a vexatious problem.
Before introduction into the retorts,
the sawdust is thoroughly dried, after
which from twenty to thirty thousand
feet of gas are obtained from ton. In
illuminating power it is said to be equal
to that made of coal, and it is entirely
free from sulphur. York Hour.
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a Great stale.

Several gentlemen from different States
were discussing the merits of their par
ticular homes.
"Kansas is great State. We raise
sixty bushels of corn" said man from
Kansas, "and 200 bushels of potatoes
to the acre"
''But have you Kansas people any
market for your produce" asked man
from Connecticut
Certainly they have" responded an
envious Texan, they raise enough grass
hoppers and potato bugs to cat up ten
times the corn and potatoes they can
raise. "-SVtingS.
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FOR THE LOVERS OF FUN.
HUMOROUS SKETCHES FOUND Nv
OUR EXCHANGES.

NO Fire Nceded-A Great State-She
Laughed Too SoOn-RIis Last Song
acknowledgements He EHad.
"Don't they have any fire in this carr"
asked a passenger of drummer.
"They never do, replied the drum
mer.
GLOW is that2"
"Why, because this is such slow road
that when man feels cold he is supposed
to get out and walk along beside the
train for several miles to get his blood in
circulation. "-Puck.
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A Great Deal i'm Her.

81 don't see how you can endure that
Pliffy girl, Jackl' said his sister. "rm
sure there's nothing in her"
Nothing in her, indeed just wish
you'd been with us to supper after the
theatre to night" and he dropped tear
over his buried salary.-San Francisco
Post
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Then sickly smile crossed his face and
he leaned over to the man in the seat
ahead and whispered:
''He was the man wanted to step out
before me at the next station"
eyes"
"Say, stranger" continued the big
passenger as he felt of his neck, and sort
o. licked his chops -''supposing he had !"
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The production of fine wool in the
United States is increasing even more
rapidly than the consumption.
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Georgia farmers suffered loss by dogs
last year of so, 900 sheep.
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THE NATIONAL DEBT.
A Reduction of Fourteen Millions in
March.

The payments made from the treasury by
warrants during the month of March, 1884,
were as follows:
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EAST WASHINGTON.

Tho road leading from the terminus OF tho
hnncostla Railroad TO tho old National race
coutte, IT, In deplorably bad condition. A
valuable morse, belonging % Mr.. John Brooks,
was seriously injured day before yesterday
by failing into one OF the numerous holes
nlOug this road.
Aserylce OF song will bo given this evening
at the Seamen's Bethel Retreat, corner Eighth
and J. streets southeast, led by Mr.. George W.
Hnvell w.
The pall.bearers at the funeral OF Miss Mag.
gle Dunn yesterday afternoon wore members
Of the National Rifio cadets, and were Chariea
&. Domer, n. A. Tomlnson, Leo ID. Mo-her, j,
Ashburn, M. u. Hartley aud Charles Cam.
mings. Among the floral gifts were pillow,
cross Rnd anchor ana wreath, besides va
riOus bouquets,
The Old Folks' Concert at Odd. Fellows' Hall
last evening by leading musical people OF
EAT Wsss,hington' melted about 500 TOR the
consisting OF forty persons, was feature OF
the entertainment
Murray Meynberg, No. IL Ftrat street south
esst, has contributed quantity OF under.
clothing TO be distributed by tho police OF tho
Eighth Precinct
'THE sARAH.NADE," an illustrated poem 10
this week's Hatchet, out tomorrow, Is very
laugbHble story OF tho adventure OF n love-
lorn swain and her pas unclaimed bulldog.
Residents Of East Washington VIII hear with
regret OF the death this morning OF tho venor-
able Henson Brown, from genlle debility. Ho
was 40 years OF age, and for sixty years had
lived In East Washington. His home was ON
Seventeenth street, near southeast. He was
man OF great strength aud endurance, and
WAS accustomed to state how he once thrashed
"Bull Frlssle," one of the most formidable
men In this section, who lived In Georgetown.
Thirty three times he was knocked down, but
by his pluck and remarkable staying powers
he succeeded In getting the best OF the other
finally. For this feat no gained considerable
reputation. He was OF a quiet disposition and
not given to quarrelinR. In his younger days
he oran with the machine" aud later in life
was on the Metropolitan Police force.
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DIED.

EVANS suddenly, February @, 1854, Thos.
Evans, aged 5S years.
Funeral from St. Matthew'S Church on Sat-
urday, February o, at IL m. No flowers.
william Rupp, aged GO years.
MECHLIN.-On February o. Sophia, widow
of william Mechlin, In the S2i year of her
age.
day, February o, at 2 o'clock.
CLEMENTS..-On February 8, 1891, Ella L.,
daughter OF Elizabeth and the late Aloysius
N. Clements.
Funeral Will take place from the residence
OF her mother, Saturday morning. Requiem
mass at ST. Patrick's Church at % O'Clock.
DoDsoN.-on February A, 1884, Sarah Jane
Dodson.
DURKIN.-on February 8, 1884, Mrs. Maria
Durkin.
GANTT.-In Baltimore, at 10 O'Clock M, Feb.
ruary @, 1884, Elizabeth H., daughter OF the
late Christopher Loundes CAN'T, OF Maryland,
KEEsE.-o on Tuesday, February 8, 1884, at
1908 a, M, Catharine Reese, beloved wife OF
A. Il. L. Reese, aged 6S years, L month and
10 days.
KRAFFT,-On Wednesday, February @, 1881
Mrs. Catharine Krafft, after long and painful
Illness, in her I'D year.
PEAISoN.--At O q. m, February z, 1884, In
tho Nth year of her age, Emma j. Pearson,
widow OF the late Peter III. Pearson.
Funeral services VIII take place at her late
residence, No. sos Eleventh street northwest,
Saturday, February o, at Up: M: ., zoe,
at z o'clock p. M, Mary j., wife OF j. II. Power
In her dist year.
alexandria and Baltimore papers please
o6EEN.-on February o, 1881, at 4 O'Clock
p. M, Elizabeth Queen, aged OF years.
SUMBY.-Suddenly, on Wednesday morn
ing, February o, 1884, at 10 :45 o'clock, In the
Goth year Of his age, Dennis Sumoy, 81.
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RUMBLINGS OF THE RAIL.
Matters of General and Personal In
teresa TO Railroad Men.

Colonel @. /. Foreacro has been appointed
general manager OF the TRANSIT Ohio Divisions
OF the d. & o. Railroad, with headquarters at
Newark, Ohio. He has recently boon general
manager OF q number OF branch roads OF the
Richmond Il Danville System, and was for
merly general manager OF the Atlanta Char
lotte Air Line. He is thoroughly efficient
railroad man and has made his mark wher-
ever he has been, and IN his new and more no.
sponeible position may be relied upon to work
out the best possible results for the company
with which he 10 now connected President
Garrett Is good judge OF tho competency OF
railway men, rs shown by the selection OF
Colonel Foreacre. There are 567 miles OF
railroad In the Trans.ohio Divisions.
on the 10th inst. there will meet in this
city at the Metropolitan Hotel tho Southern
Railway & Steamship Association, OF which
Senator Brown, OF Georgia, is president. IL IL
their regular annual meeting TO revise
freight ratee. 1t VIII bring together all the
leading railroad men OF the South and South
west.
Mr.. A. G. Galloway, OF North Carolina, one
of the agents OF the Associated Railways, is
in the city, stopping at tho Metropolitan Ho-
tel.
The Florida travel by tho Atlantic Coast
Line continues very heavy, and the passenger
agent reports that he is making reservations
in the sleeping cars two weeks In advance, as
people want TO be sure OF their accommoda-
lions.
AS an evidence OF tho increasing travel South,
TO Florida and other points, by the Atlantic
Coast Line, we learn that thore was an In
crease last month OF 20 per cent. over the
same month last year, and that last years In
crease was 70 per cent. over all previous