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Oneer Head.DreSSeS.

There are many graceful head dress
es, but of them all none is so fantastic
ally beautiful as that in vogue among
the Darnley Islanders, who live on an
island in Torres Straits, between New
Guinea and Australia, and are not only
ugly looking, but are more than sus-
pected of being cannibals.
On Darnley Island, it appears, there
is kind of very large and most beau
tiful butterfly called Pdpiiio poseidOn.
1t is marked in brown, black, and
bright-red colors, and measures seven
inches across the wings. This gor-
geous creature is captured by the Is
landers bent on decoration; tough.
but delicate vegetable fiber. in lieu of
q thread of cotton, is tied about its
large body, and the end of the fiber
secured to the mans hair. A half
dozen butterflies will be tethered in
this way TO the man, and as they soon
become accustomed to captivity, their
graceful futterings about the unhand-
some head of the man produces an eff
feet difficult to describe, and hardly to
be imagined.-St Nicholas.
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The Arabian Nights.

In letter written by the Rev. Robert
Hall to Sir j. Macintosh, in the third
year of the present century, we read OF
gentleman who, before the age of
II, had made himself master of
Hebrew, Chaldee, Persian, Arabic, and
Turkish, besides Latin and Greek and
French and Italian, and many other
modern languages. This gentleman,
who began Arabic at 8 and Chinese
at IA; who was devoted to the
study of music; who was we'll skilled
in horsemanship and i'll the manage
ment of the scimitar and lance who
had the eye and pencil of an artist, and
deep-rooted sense of religion m addi-
ton to other physical and moral excel
lencies, was Claudius James Rich. 1t
was he who gathered together, while
Consul at Bagdad, that fine collection
of Oriental manuscripts in over eight
hundred volumes, which, having been
purchased by Parliament for the
British Museum, now forms n portion
OF what is termed the Manuscript De-
partment of our National Library. OF
this large collection, Nos. 7,40i, 7,405,
and 7,406 are the three codices, COM
posed of Oriental paper, the first small
quarto and the other two 12mo., con-
tanning all together some six hundred
folios of "The Arabian Nights" written
in the Naskhi character or that of
modern Arabic by various penmen, who
are not on all occasions to be congratu-
lated on the care bestowed on their
writing or the perspicuity of their
meaning.
"The Arabian Nights" is not a story
emanating from one person. 1t is a
vehicle for many tales told by various
story-tellers with very different de-
grees of ability. Many of the stories
in the Rich Mss. present q remarkable
similarity to western anecdotes. Nor
will any reader be surprised at this
who remembers how closely connected
is the old history, first told by Galland
in a western tongue, of Schahriar and
Schahzenan with that of Astolfo and
Giocondo in the twenty-eighth Canto
of Ariosto's "Orlando," or the Genie
imprisoned, in the brazen vessel i'll the
story in the Fisherman, with the
"Diablo Conjuelo," in phial of Luis
de Guevara, or the Sleeper Awakened
with the induction to "The Tanning of
the Shrew; or, the Enchanted Horse
with Chaucer's Steed of Brass" on
which Pierre carried off the fair Mague-
lone, afterwards initiated 10y Cervantes
in his "Clavileno. "-LondOn Society,"
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plain, his father, who was of Scotch descent,
being dealer in leather, neither rich nor poor,
but ranking among the hard workers of a young
and growing State. The humble home where
Grant was born Is not unknown To the public
through the engraver's skill.
At the age OF n Grant entered the Military
Academy at West Point. Those who believe that
a name has much to do with the destiny of it's
owner will find confirmation of their theory In
the accident which gave him the name he has
made famous. He had been christened Hiram
Ulysses, but the Congressman who procured his
appointment by mistake wrote him down as
Ulysses :. Grant. The authorities at West Point
and the Secretary of War were petitiOned by the
young cadet to correct the blunder, but no no.
tice was taken of the request. Ulysses =. Grant
he had been recorded and Ulysses s. Grant he
remained the name now so worldwide In its
fame having been bestowed through a Con
gressman's defect OF memory. The initials u.
5. suggested Uncle Sam" To his comrades, a
nickname he never lost, and one peculiarly
prophetic in view of his extraordinary career.
During the war he was not intrequently nick
named United States Grant" and "Unsondi-
tonal Surrender Grant," the u. 5. seeming to
have special significance in those days which
tried mems souls"
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Pen and Pencil Sketches of
His Busy and Event
full Life.
Outline of His Career and Public
Services from The Cradle
10 the Grave.
The Great Commanders Military
Campaigns, from Belmont
to Appomattox.
BIOGRAPHICAL.
From the Cradle To the breaking Out of
the Rebellion.

From the Cradle To the breaking Out OF
the Rebellion.
Ulysses Simpson Grant was born at Point
Pleasant, Ohio, April ~, 1922. His ancestors
were Scotch In 1928 his parents removed 60
the village of Georgetown, Ohio, where his
bOyhOod was passed. lie entered West Point
Military Academy i'm 1889, appointed by the Hon.
Thomas l.. llamer member of Congress. His
name originally was Hiram Ulysses; but the
appointment was blundoringly made out for
Ulysses y, and so il had 10 remain. The study
In which he showed most proficiency during his
course at the academy was mathematics. lie
graduated in 1913. ranking twentY-trst III a
class of thirty-nine, and was made brevet
Second Lieutenant OF infantry, and attached
as a superuumCTaTy Lieutenant to the Fourth
Regiment which was stationed on the Missouri
frontier. In the summer OF 1913 the regiment
was ordered To Texas, 10 JON the army of Gen.
Taylor On Sept. 20 Grant was commissioned
as full Lieutenant. He first saw blood shed at
Palo Alto, May &, 1916, aud took part also in the
battles OF Rcsaca de la Palma and Monterey, and
the siege Of Vera Cruz. In April, lSi7 he was made
Quartermaster of his regiment, but stu par
ticipated IN all active operations; and after the
battle of MOllnO del Rcy, sept. 3, 1877, he was
appointed on the field First Lieutenant for his
gallantry. I'm his report of the battle of Cha
pultepec Sept Is, lS40, Col. Garland, COM
manding the First Brigade, id: The rear of
the enemy had made stand behind a breast
work, from which they were driven by dctach-
ments of the Second Artillery under Capt
Brooks and the Fourth Infantry under Lieut.
Grant, supported by other regiments of the di-
vision, after a short but Sharp conflict. i
must not omit 10 call attention 10 Lieut.. bTanu,
Fourth Infantry, who acquitted himself most
nObly, upon several occasions, under my own
observation" Grant was bTeyctted Captain for
his conduct at Chapultcpcc, 10 date from the
battle, After the capture Of the city of Mexico
he returned with his regiment and was sta
toned first at Detroit, and then at Sackctt's
HarbOr In 1SiS he married Miss Julia T. Dent
of st. Louis, sister OF one of his classmates In
1852 he accompanied his regiment to California
and Oregon, and while at Fort Vancouver. Aug.
., 1858, was commissioned full Captain. ON
July 81, 1884, ne resigned, and removed to ~.
Louis, Cultvatiug farm near that city and en-
gazing in business rs real estate agent In
1859 he was employed by his father in the leather
trade at Galena. ILL.,
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He Judged BY the Missus.

An old country gentleman returning
home rather late, discovered yokel
with lantern under his kitchen win
dow, who. when asked his business
there, stated he had only come a-court
ing.
"Come what?" said the irate gen.
tleman.
Accounting, sir Use counting Mary"
ats lie. What do you want Ian
tern for. never used one when ] was
young man."
"No, sir?" was the yokels reply.
II didn't think yer 'ad, Judging by the
misssps. "-Argondut,
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GRANTS Political CAREER.
The Chief Events of His Two Terms "a,
President.

NJ the republican National Convention held
in Chicago May II, 1868, Gen Grant on the first
ballot was unanimously nominated for presi-
dent, with Schuyler COltaX for Vice President
Their Democratic competitors were Horatio
Seymour and Francis II. Blair. Grant and Col
fax carried twenty-siX States, and received 2i4
electoral votes, against 30 for Seymour and
Blair. Grant was inauguratcd President on
March Z, 1868, and on the next day sent In To the
Senate the following nominations for Cabinet
officers: Elhu ID. Nashburne, OF Illinois. Score
tary of state; Alexander r. Stewart, of New
York, Secretary of the Treasury; Jacoh u. Cox,
of Ohio, Secretary of the Interior; Adolph T..
BOrie, OF Pennsylvania, Secretary of the Navy;
John NJ. SChohcld. of Illinois. Secretary of War I:
John A. j. Creswcl, of Maryland Postmaster
General II. Lockwood llOar, of Massachusetts,
Attorney General. These nominations were at
once confirmed, but IL was discov red that Mr.
Stewart was disqualified 10y an act OF 1853.
which provided that no person should hold the
Office of Secretary OF the Treasury who was
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Gen. Grant retired from the Presidency, upon
the accession of Rutherford b. Hayes, on the
4th OF March, 1877 His career since that date.
which has been in the main a quiet and unc-
ventful one, is too familiar to tho
reading world TO require any extended notice.
Every one knows of his trip around the world,
and the enthusiastic receptions that met him in
every city, town, and village through which he
passed upon his return journey across the con-
tinent: of his candidacy for third term of the
Presidency, and the heroic devotion with which
his adhcrcnts in the Chicago Republican Con-
vention of 1880 stood by him as long as there
was hope; of his unfortunate connec-
ton with the banker Ward. and how
the honest old hero was used as u
stOol-pgeon by that willy rascal: and,
finally, of his fall upon an icy pavement, result
ing in a fracture of one of his hips, which was
followed soon after by the development of a
cancerous growth near the roots of the tongue
For n time the public was kept In Ignorance
possibly the doctors were In the same blissful
state-regardng the nature of the distinguished
patients malady, and in some features, such as
the unreliable or purposcly cOorod reports OF
his condition, the case bears strong resemblance
to that of the lamented Garfield.
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REMINISCENT.
Gen. Grants Early Life In st. Louis-Hls
Marriage Ia Miss Dent.

10 MISS Dent.
The happicst DAYS and the darkest days I'm the
long life OF Gen. Grant were spent in st. Louis.
Lieut.. Grant and Fred Dent had become
friends in the military school at West Point, and
when young Dent invited his chum to come
with him on a visit to his st. Louis home, he
did much toward shaping the destiny of Grant
and possibly of the nation. The two young
men, after Grants visit, went to participate in
the Mexican war, and when young Dent fell
with a bullet in his groin while leading his COM
pany to charge, Grant picked him up and car
ried HIM i'm his arms to place OF safety. The
affection between the young men increased,
and the affection between the beautiful Miss
Dent and her brothers friend with whom she
correspondent more than kept pace with IL. AZ
ter the war, the wedding The elite OF st. Louis
were there, the officers from the barracks at
tended in full uniform, and IL was the social
event of the year lsls.
The journals of that day were not given
to making mention of social events, and the
only newspaper reference to the wedding that
has been discovered consists of the following
notice that appeared in the ReDUbiicdH of Aug
"a, 1913, two days after IL occurred:
Married-On the 22d inst, by Rev. j. ii. Linn,
Lieut., Ulysses 5. Grant, u. s. A, to Miss Julia,
daughter of Col. Dent of st. Louis.
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An oh siinaic Man.

In the early DAYS Of the campaign, Mrs
Grant gave an opinion about Richmond which
was as we'll founded hat OF the Generals
father about Vicksburg. Somebody was 81
good as TO express TO her hope that her hus-
band would take Richmond Mrs. Grant OBJ
served, with dry simplicity Of phrase that
sounded ~ II she had gone 10 school TO hel
husband as well as married him Well,
don't know. l think he may Mr. Grant al
WAYS was very obstinate mani"
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EARLY DAYS.
Grants Boyhood--Thc House where II,
WAS IsOru.

The life of Ulysses S. Grant Ia a romance as
evcntful, wonderful, and interesting as any
thing ever evolved from the brain OF novelist.
lie lived in a time of extraordinary activity
in the development of this country, and
figured in its history more conspicuOusly than
any other man of his time.
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HE'S GONE!
At Last the Unequal Fight
Is Ended,
And the Soldier Hero Passes
to the Great Beyond.
a Nation Mourns, and the Whole
World Drops the Tear of
Sorrow.
A Few Words Tell IL.

Gen. Grant breathed his last at Mt. McGregor
at :Os o'clock Thursday morning, July %, sur
rounded by his family and the physicians.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28
SUSPENSE IN LONDON.
The Fate Of the Gladstone Ministry
Uncertain-A Crisis Anticipated.

LONDON, February 2S.-The house Of com.
mons was crowded in every part early last teven-
ing in anticipation of the vote on the motion Of
censure. When Lord Harrington rose to speak
the result of the division In the house of lords
was known and the galleries OF the house OF
commons crowded with peers and
strangers. The whips were then perfectly un.
able to forecast the result and everybody was
anxious.
When the motion was put the Parnellites
dramatically baffied curiosity by remaining
seated until the house was cleared, and then
rose in a body and went with the conservatives.
Still the result was not known until the clerk
read the figures, showing that the motion had
been lost by vote of 302 to 2SS. The result
was received with vociferous cheers and coun-
ter cheers.
The queens private secretary, Gen. Sir
Henry ponsonby, left Windsor to-day and Wis
tied Mr.. Gladstone at his official residence in
Downing street. A long interview took place
between the two.
THE CABINET SITTING AND A CRISIS LOOKED
FOR.
3p. m.-The cabinet council met at o'clock
this afternoon, and is still In session. Earl
Spencer, lord lieutenant of Ireland, is present
at the council, having arrived from Dublin this
morning. The outcome of the meeting is very
uncertain, but a crisis is predicted.
1t is reported that before the division on the
censure motion last night the ministry decided
to retire 1rom office if their majority should be
under fifteen.
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kilograms to The Star.
CABINET TALK AT ALBANY.
Five Names Decided Upon.
CRISIS IMMINENT AT LONDON.
GLADST0NE'S RESIGNATION LOOKED
FOR.
Five Names Decided Upon.
Five Members Thought 60 Have Been
Finally Decided and Offered
Places

Places.
Special Dispatch to THE EVENING STAR
ALBANY, February 2S.-Another letter, con-
tanning the formal proffer OF a cabinet position,
was dispatched from Willett street late last
night, making IN all five cabinet officers who
have been irrevocably determined upon. The
letter was not sent t9 New England man, and
New England's representative in the cabinet is
yet held under advisement To whom the letter
was sent, and who are the other four men, are
questions for speculation. Mr.. Cleveland, Mr.
Manning and Col Lamont are the only men
who know who the five men are. President
elect Cleveland will not decide upon the
men TO hh the two remaining positions
which are understood Ia be the War and Navy
departments, until he has reached Washing
ton and consulted with leading democrats
there whom he means TO ask specially To meet
him on his arrival on Tuesday night He will
not be able to see other visitors AT that time,
save the few specially invited, one of whom is
To be Speaker Carlisle. Mr.. Cleveland said to-
day To THE STAR correspondent: 'Of course
cannot say to you now anything definite about
either the cabinet or the inaugural" and Col
Lamont has put on his old Tiden paddock.
Mr.. William c. Whtney's visit with the Pres
ident-elect occupied only hall an hour, and IL is
stated that he was not offered a cabinet posi-
ton.
General Black. OF Illinois, has been dismissed
from the cabinet possibilities. He will hold,
however, an important position in some depart
nfSnt.
Colonel Villas. of Wisconsin, will probably be
one OF those whom the President-eect will meet
Tuesday evening. 1t is understood that the
senatorial members OF the cabinet were chosen
first in part at their own suggestion, so that
they might have opportunity To take steps
toward securing the election OF the best possible
men as successors. senator Lamar Is reported
to have impressed upon the President-elect the
adyiSability of this course.
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1t was stated at the Capitol to-day that Mr..
Cleveland had determined to appoint Mr.. Whit
ney, of New York, Secretary of the Navy, thus
giving two places in the cabinet to New York.
good many democrats regard it as very prob
able that this may be done, and some OF them
do not hesitate to say that it would be a mis-
take. 1t is said that Mr.. Cleveland earnestly
desires to rebuild the navy, and in Mr..
whitney he would have Secretary
who thoroughly understands all his (Cleve-
land's) ideas in regard to the subject'
and who would readily carry them out.
There are democrats who do not think this a
Justification for selecting two cabinet officials
from New York. They think that more or less
tll-feeling will be caused anyhow by passing
over the democratic states of Indiana, New Jer-
sey and Connecticut, and that to favor New
York with two places would have the effect of
making this feeling more intense \ STAR re-
porter was informed to-day, upon authority en-
titled to credit, that Mr.. Cleveand's present in
tenton is to name Whitney for the Navy de-
partment, and that all the cabinet
but the War department is now made
up;that Bayard is to be Secretary of State, Man
ming Secretary of the Treasury, Lamar Secre-
tary OF the Interior, Garland Attorney General,
Villas Postmaster General and Whitney Secre-
tary of the Navy.
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Terribly Assaulted by n RObber.

IN A SALOON.
CHICAGO, February 2S.-"Murderi Police
Help! Murder!" screamed a man, rushing out
of George Berz's saloon, on Madison street near
Union, at / o'clock this morning. Two officers
ran to the saloon. "They are numbering my
brother" exclaimed the man. The policemen
rushed inside and found man lying on the
floor covered with blood. Another man was
bending over him beating him with a blood
stained ice-pick. Officer OShea dragged the
man Off AS he did SO he recognized the would
be murderer Frank Fields, known as Hanky
Panky. The man on the floor was James Nor
ton, wealthy commission merchant of this
city. The man who gave the alarm was c. s..
Morton, his brother, and a member of the board
of trade with Keen and Deang James Morton
was taken to his home after being attended by
a physician. His wounds are quite serious.
The brothers stopped in BerZ's saloon on their
way home Field is an old thief, and attempted
TO rob c. 5. Morton. When James interfered he
turned upon him and assaulted him with the
ice-pick.
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GALENA, ILL, February 2S.-The Lancaster
Wis.) Fish and Game association report the
freezing of from 10000 TO 10000 brook trout
in transit to that place from the state hatchery
TO stock the streams In Grant county.
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From Wall street To-day.

NEW YORK, February 2S, Wall Street, IL am.
Early trading at the Stock Exchange this morn.
ing was at prices a shade lower than the closing
was quite active This was followed after the
first fifteen minutes by moderate rally, and
the market during the remainder of the first
hour continued steady, drifting at the same
time into dullness. At IL o'clock prices are
generally shade higher than they closed last
evening, Lackawanna and Louisville and Nash
vile being prominent for their strength and
Missouri Pacific for its weakness.
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Fuel and Provisions.

NO FEARS OF A FAMINE IN THE CITY.
The reports put in circulation that the rail-
roads will refuse to bring freight here next week
is an error In no case will cars laden with pro-
there is no cause whatever to fear that there
will be shotage. AS to coal, &c, several weeks
lago the dealers were notified that, as the press
OF passenger business might make 1t difficult to
get coal here next week, it would be well to an
ficipate the stoppage, and most OF Them took
Quantities of coal and heavy freight have been
brought in and are still arriving. There is no
reason whatever for any fear as to either coal
or provisions being shut out, and, therefore, no
excuse for an increase in prices, so far as the
railroads are concerned.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1885-02-28

TOPEKA, KAs., February 2S.-The house OF
representatives has unanimously adopted the
committee report in favor of dismissing the quo
proposition submitted few days ago by thai
CORPORATION.
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The Ice Block ade Breaking.

NO DAMAGE OF FLOOD UNLESS IT RAINS.
The ice on the river is thawing and the ferry
boats are running. When asked to-day about
the danger of flood signal service office said.
"There is no immediate danger OF a flood,
although all that is wanting TO make disas-
trous one is q heavy warm rain"
"a heavy rain with all the reported snow on
this side of the mountains would raise the river
at Harper's Ferry, break the Ice and cause
gorges all the way down, and with a disastrous
gorge here there is no telling the damage that
would result. The danger signal from Harper's
Ferry has not yet been received, therefore no
flood threatens Washington just now"
The Commissioners stated that from reliable
Information they have there is no good reason
to fear an ice gorge In the Potomac river. Sew.
eral boats and tugs have been offered the Dis
trict service for breaking the ice, but unless the
danger increases they will not be employed.
Harbormaster Sutton states this morning that
the ice In the river is rotting rapidly the under
tow cutting il away. The channel is navigable
between this port and Alexandria, and no fears
are expressed of damage by an ice gorge.