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Tie Adventurer who Directs the Mahdi.

Nine years ago there was in New York city
a young man who has since proved himself
one of the foremost adventures of our time.
He was a refugee Frenchman and had been
an actor in the communist revolt in Paris in
1871. For this he was sentenced to the penal
colony of New Caledonia, but escaped from
there in company with Rochefort and shortly
after appeared in New York. He then
dropped out Of sight until the Turco Russian
war. We again hear of him as private secre-
tary to Osman Pasha at the siege Of Plevna.
When Plevna fell he was captured by the
Russians and offered to the French govern
ment. The latter refused to protect him on
account of his having been an escaped con-
vict, and left him to his fate, SO he was con-
demned to death as spy. Somehow the sen.
tence was not executed, for he next turns up
In Paris under the amnesty Of 1880. Here he
soon won distinction as a journalist, but
again disappears, until it is now known that
be is the mysterious "Irishman" who has so
successfully guided the Mahdi in resisting the
British in the Soudan, resulting in the loss of
Gordon and Khartoum.
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His widow inherited 5000 or so. All in due
time Mr. Jones married the widow. The tin
business went on; the dollars kept rolling in.
Some wind waited an ambitious English
man into town, named John Swindle, who
had theory that a local beer brewery would
make its protector rich. Mr.. Swindle ven
tured and lost, and at auction one day the
proprietor Of the tin store came into possession
Of brewery, and Jones made money with
the same ease that Swindle had lost it. He
startled everybody by his ventures, but all
the while the fortune grew, till one day folks
awakened to the fact that two-thirds or 30 Of
the property within reach was all padlocked
to the Jones' possessions. Frank Jones sud-
denly became recognized as the capitalist of
the slate. Then came politics, in which he
shines at present.
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Said Brother Gardiner to the Lime Kiln
club the other day: 81 verify believe dat de
foolishness Ut sartin parents In tyin' names
TO der offsprings has beclouded an wrecked
many lives. De ole man who was shovelin'
snow mex doah to me de odder day was
named Henry Clay. It was on de ideah dat
he would make . mighty smart man, but de
mint he got old 'nuff to realize who an what
Clay was he pulled right back. He couldn't
nebber git dar, and he knowed 1t. Instead Of
bein' addressed as Henry Clay, eberybody
calls him Hank Dirt an he's gwine to be
called dat till de clay kivers his coffin.
Some y'ars ago q naybur o. mine
named his baby Washington Lincoln
Grant Smith He war bound to
all dat boy chock full o military
genius an statemanship, but de chile wasn't
TO- yars ole befo' be realized dat it was too
steep. He hadn't reached ten befo' he was
thief an liar, an de odder day he went to
prison for burglary. De name was too long
fur de public to grapple wild, an 90 he was
called Wash. Grant Later on it got to be
sWashboard, an by de name Of Washboard
Smith he am registered ON dc prison books.
I has seen Prime Minister Jones drawin' o
swin cart around, while clus behind him,
leadin' yaller dog by piece Of old clothes
linz, came MontmorenG Stubbins. Ihas seen
Queen Catherine Bivens at de wash tub, while
de Princess Blcnville was hnngin' out dc
clothes fur her. / has whitewashed On de
same Job wild Czar jackson, an has blacked
stoves alongside Of George do Fo'th Bones
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English Officers In Egypt.
tChicago News ]

I1ihSabo 4sc"s.l
Lord Charley" Beresford was 50 years
old last week. He has two gold medals for
having ON three occasions jumped overheard
and saved lives at sea. He is one Of the
finest boxers that ever put on the gloves
Sir Herbert Stewart was a teetotaler. He
was man Of irrepressible spirits and untir-
ing energy. He won his Victoria cross In
the Crimea.
aSir Redyers RULER" once said Archi-
bald Forbes @has seen more war than any
of our soldiers who are not yet veterans"
For saving three lives under fire In Zululand
he was rewarded with the Victoria cross
Sir Gerald Graham-is an adept at racquets.
Of which he Is passionately fond. His Vic
toria cross was earned by saving lives under
FIRE on several occasions In the Crimean war,
and for leading ladder party in the assault
ON the Redan.
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A Dakota Board Of Trade.


A member of the Cleveland board Of trade,
who was in Dakota last fall, happened in q
town on the line of q railroad which had
only one wheat elevator. In conversation
with the owner Of the elevator, he inquired:
"Who makes the prics OF wheat hersf"
@Our board Of trade was the reply.
$50 you have q board Of trade, chr
"Well, . good enough one for such town
as thisn ....
@How many members@
"Only two-myself and clerk I'm the
bear and he's the bull, and between US ths
market is kept pretty lively" .as
3But suppose the farmer doesn't want to
sell at your fgurssP
"That never happens. Being we are the
board Of trade, and own the only elevator,
and being as he is, head over heels In debt,
and must have money, the market may b,
quoted as steady"
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Senator Wade Hampton was born in
Charleston In 1918, received the college educa-
tion and training which was accorded to the
southern aristocracy, of which his family were
distinguished members He served in both
branches of the legislature Of his state, being
a member of the senate when his state
seeded. He served in the confederate army
throughout the war, but it was In an accident
since that he lost his leg. He was elected
governor of the state in 1876 and again in
1878, and since 1879 has served his state in the
United States senate. Though he began life
rich he is now poor, possessing but little in
come beyond his pay as a senator. The
estates which formerly yielded him a prineely
income avail him but small profit now. His
family is an expensive and quite a large one,
and his young daughter, Miss Hampton,
rarely accompanies him to Washington.
Wade Hampton was twice married and is
now a widower. His first wife was Miss
Preston and his second the only child Of
George McDuff, the families of both being
distinguished in the annals Of the history Of
the Palmetto state.
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A New Cleopatra.
Tphiiadalf.hia Times


w. w. Story has modeiei new Cleo
patra. of which q writer in Rome thus
chats: II went to see it n the clay last FRI
day morning just previous to its being
broken up for casting. Story is, ! think,
particularly happy in his clayA. Tney are
of light-brown, warm tint, which gives
singular effect Of life to the model yet moist
from his artistic fingers. Sir John Sav.lle
Lumley, the British embassador. who hap
pened also TO be there on Friday morning,
said to me: She Is exactly the color OF an
Abyssinian girl You must have seen them
exactly like that In Egypt And ! had 70
admit the truth Of the remark The new
Cleopatra lies on couch, the upper part Of
the figure nude, the lower limbs draped with
a soft and clinging Oriental stuff, the small
feet bare Her elbow rests on q cushion
ana the head l. supported on her hand
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It Worked Like New Yeast.

Brown twho has just had telephonic con-
nection established between his Office and
house and IL very much pleased with it'll
tell you, Smith, this tslepaone business is
wonderful thing want you to dine with
me this evening, and ! will notify MrS
Brown TO expect you Speaking through
the tslsphone)-My friend Smith will dine
with as this evening. Now you listen and
hear how distinctly her reply will come
back.
Mrs Browns reply coming back with
startling distinctness)-Ask your friend
Smith II he thinks we keep hotel,
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A HumiIiating Mistake

IuIItIsNO ENh1huesI
White, of Kentucky, while speaker Of the
house, in the Twenty congress, was
30 pressed with business that when he had
to deliver his valedictory, he got one Of
those men who are always on hand TO make
a little money to write his address, 1t was
handed him just a little while before the
time be had to deliver it, and he put 1t into
his pocket without reading When the time
came he rose, and, slowly unfolding the
manuscript. read the address. 1t was very
brilliant, but it was Aaron Barr's famous
valedictory to the senate. The speaker
never recovered from the shock. He went
home, was taken very Ill, and it Is supposed
hs killed himself for shame
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Fertility Of Dakota's Soi1.
Nav York Graphic.I

@You have very rich soil here" 10.
marked tsuderfoot to Dakota farmer.
@Richi Well, should say so. Two years
ago young man from the east came out
here. He carried o snakewood cane Ho
stuck it In the ground and left IL here"
II suppose" emarked the tenderfoot with
. smile, ayou mean TO tell mo that 1t
sprouted.
46proutedi Well, should say IL did, and
blossomed too. Why, last year / killed tan
bushels Of blacksnakes on that patch Of
ground, and each ono was varnished and
bad . hammered silver head
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Very Near It.
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette.1 /

IC1ncInhat CommerciaI-UazeueI
Gen. Hickenlooper tells good one on Gen.
Corse. It was at Alatoona that rife ball
took Corse along side Of the head Gen.
Sherman received word from Gen. Con-
that his ear and a portion of his cheek bon'
were gone, but that he was still able to hold
his position and fight 1t out
As soon as possible Sherman got over to
see him, full Of anxiety for him. He found
Corse with his head swathsd In bandages,
and, in his anxiety to know the nature Of
the injuries, impatiently ordered the sur
geon to remove the cloths. This was done
slowly, and with great formality, and there
was revealed a slight scratch Of the cheek
and hole In the ear.
Sherman looked intently at II, and calmly
remarked: "Why, Corse, they came d-d
neal. missing you, didn't theyr
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THY TRUE MONUMENT.
lwalt Whitman in Philadelphia Press.l

lwalt Whitman in Philadelphia Pressl
All, not this granite, dead and coldl
Far from its base and shaft expanding
round zones circling, comprehending;
Thou, Washington, art all the worlds, the
continents entire-not yours alone
America;
Europe's as well, in every part, castle Of
lord or laborer's cot. r...
Or frozen North, or sultry South-the Arabs
in his tent-the Africans;
Old Asia's there with venerable smile, seated
amid her ruins;
(Greets the antique the hero nowl it's but
the same-the heir legitimate, contin-
ued ever, .
The indomitable heart and arm-proofs of
the never-broken line.
Courage, alertness, patience, faith, the same
-e'en in defeat defeated not, the
same;
Wherever sails a ship, or house is built on
land, or day or night
Through teeming cities streets, indoors or
out, factories or farms,
Now, or to come. or past where patriot
wills existed or exist,
Wherever Freedom, poised by federation,
swayed by Law,
Stands or is rising thy true monument
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IL Is impossible to give any idea Of ths
bsaaty Of these night pagsanta The noat,
arc two stories high and Of enormous sizs.
They are splendid in gilt and tinsel,
and with the living figures in costume
are as spectacularly beautiful as any OF tbs
great show pieces on the New York stage
II the most striking tableaux of the aBlack
Crook" -Sardanapalus,n the Seven Raw
ems" and Exc. .lsior" could b. seen in rapid
succession, they would be disappointing
compared 9TH tho Mardi Gras night pag-
eantx
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English Government in Cobbetts Time.
I'Gath" In Cincinnati Enquirer.l

I"Gath'' In Cincinnati Enquirer
So shamelessly corrupt was the govern.
ment In Cobbett's time that seats in Parlia-
ment and government situations were actu-
ally advertised for sale in the public prints
and privately sold to the highest bid
der Cobbett counted fifty-seven such
advertisements in the morning pa
pers Members of parliament sold
their votes - for prices ranging from
200 to 1000 pounds sterling-almost without
disguise. The public purse was plunderei
by all manner of jobbers; hosts of pension
srs, placemen, sinecurists and parasites of
every description fed and fattened at the
public expense. The court was so shame
fully profigate that the festive entertain
ments of the princes and their mistresses
were regularly chronicled In the ministerial
or court paper; and the daily press that
power which has been called the fourth
estate, the guardian of freedom and the
scourge Of villainy, was never more thor
oughly corrupt and venal than at this time.
The ministry bought up scores OF news
papers, in which they published anything
and everything they desired; they hired
troops of writers, who wrote at their dicta-
tion essays pamphlets, reviews and leading
articles, all aimed against liberal ideas,
which were scattered broadcast over the
country and delivered free Of expense.
When the opinion Of the nation was against
them, they made up their minds to change
that opinion by hook or by crook. This was
done during the whole sixty years Of the
retrograde and disastrous reign Of George
Ill, and In Cobbett's time it was as bad as
il had been at any time during this miser-
able reign
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IN LONDON RESTAURANTS.
Too Much Grill" Not Enough Buck
wheat Cakes, and Pies, and Things.

wheat CAKES, ana Gies, ana Ihngs-
London Cor. Chicago TribuneI
That long promised American hotel, like
the millennium, Is still not forthcoming.
What a blessing it would be to have q bill
embracing all charges under one head, and
table d'hote for two square meals day
q breakfast and dinner taken in Chris
tian-like mannerl Those who live at the
usual hotel get awfully ti. ID Of the table
d'hote dinner, In which there is very little
change, and 60 out wandering around tc
some Of those numberless restaurants The
only variety at hotel dinner day after day
is a slight change in the way the hare is
cooked At the restaurants it is the eternal
agrilp-a grilled chop, grilled steak; grilled
ham; and you get as tired Of the grill as Of
the hare.
There Is a better opening in London to-
day for frst-class American hotel and an
American restaurant than in any other part
Of the world. When / say american" do
not, Of course. mean American cooking.
But we want something conducted by an
American II any one would set frst-rats
American hotelkesper up in either one a
fortune awaits all concerned. Americans
pine for a change from chops and hare.
And, moreover, Englishmen would take a
shy from curiosity. There is an opening also
for some smart Yankee woman to open q
lunch-shop anywhere down in the city or up
in the Strand. II such one should open a
decent place, advertise Yankee buckwheat
cakes, corn-bread, doughnuts, mince and ap-
pie pies, and serve good ones, the police
would have to be called in to preserve order,
the rush would be 30 great
Every American would 60 as duty daily
IL it took him mile out of the way, anl
Englishmen would 60 from curiosity ito try
the blarsted stuff, you know" and they
would 60 again and continue to 60, for no
body is fonder Of good things to eat than
Londoners, and especially do they affect
sweets About lunch TINS they crowd the
cake shops, and such stuff as they eat under
the head Of sweets fought Well, gutta-
percha or q railroad sandwich is not worse.
And as for a pie, they know not what it is
Their attempts at a mince pie would make
any well-regulated, propsr-minded Connecti-
cut woman want to die.
Won't some good, smart woman, up to the
requirements of the American citizen in a
foreign land, come on to our rescuei Won't
somebody come over here and feed us2
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Mullen for Consumption.

Accordin, 30 some Of our medical journals
the uss OF mullein as palliative for tho
cough Of phthisis seems to be meeting with
favor in various quarters The customary
form Of administration has been milk do
coction OF the plant More recently the
smoking OF the leaves has been recommended
= more agreeable and effective nethoi of
administrations
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Rev. Echultheiss, vino studiel theology
after matriculat:ng at the Berlin university
in 1883 and re-enterel that institution in
1881 to finish his medical coans-aintsr-
rupted' By misionary work IN 6outh Africa
-has received his well-earned diploma.
Though now - years old, b win
rsturu TO his South African homs and settle
there as regular practitionsr.
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The members Of the Comedie Francaise
were agresably surprised q few days ago on
receiving an invitation from tho cure Of St
Roch to attend a great festival celebration
in that church. The actors and actresses
mustered In force on the occasion and Joined
In the ceremonial In very interesting and
edifying manner. Casting about for some
means Of repaying the civility OF tho cure,
they hit on tho happy idea Of inviting that
dignitary and all the priests at St. Roch to
. performance at the Comedis Franchise.
This incident has wholesome complexion,
and shows how completely the old prejudice
against players Ii being swept away.
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WILSON 8. BIssELL-

Wilson s. Bisse1 weighs 220 pounds. He
also wears ~ hat, which, it is unnecessary
to say, covers a large head in more senses
than one He has been ON intimate terms
with Cleveland for 20 years. He is lawyer
Of high standing at the bar In western New
York and was Clevelands former law part
ner. He Is graduate of Yale college, and
before his marriage was one of that coterie of
'sbachelorsr of whom so much was written
about during the campaign.
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wall-Paper Poisoning.
-,at

A New York physician reports case Of
Wallpaper poisoning-ths persons who slssp
I'm ths papersd room having contracted 4ca-
tarrh, pharyngitih migrains. ccnjunctivitis,
muscular pains and swelling Of the salivary
glandsn II must have made 'em sick; but
they are lucky that the wall paper didnt
also give them ingrowing nails, bunionA
strabismus and . hars-lip
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A Leader in New Hampshire Politics.

The career Of Mr.. Frank Jones, says the
New York Times, has been one of marked di-
versitieG Born among the basket makers Of
dreary old harrington, he has occupied Web
sters seat In congress; carting charcoal over
q country road In his early manhood, he has
lived to count u fortune reaching q good
many hundred thousand dollars. From a
tin-peddIer and brewer in Portsmouth,
N. H.. be was discussed for q place
in President Cleveland's cabinet. Frank
Jones had an elder brother, who opened
tin store IN Portsmouth, and by Yankee
shrewdness and push prospered. As his
business grew he put wagon ON the road 10
retail his dish pans and wash boiler merchan-
disc. Frank quit charcoal peddling, and for
year or more be and his cart went up and
down the billy roads round about Ports
mouth dealing out the shiny pie plate and
the plastic spoon. Then tho brother died.
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NOT ON THE FOURTH.
The Declaration Of Independence Not
Signed on the Fourth of July.
TrInoinnat, ripnao

The Declaration of Independence Not
Signed on the Fourth of July.
Cincinnati Times-Star
Few Americans ever entertain a doubt
about the date of the signing OF the Declara-
ton of Independence being July 4, 1776; yet
through the efforts and scholarship of Judge
Millen Chamberlain, chief librarian Of
the Boston public library, it has
been conclusively proved that it was
not signed on that day. The true history Of
this memorable document Mr.. Chamberlain
has found to be that on the End Of July,
1776, the Continental congress at Phila-
delphia passed the resolution declaring that
the United Colonies were and Of right ought
TO be free and independent states; and in a
letter to his wife dated July 3, 1776, John
Adams said: "This day will be the most
memorable epoch in the history Of America
It ought to be commemorated as the day OF
deliverance by solemn acts Of devotion TO
God Almighty"
On July 4 the declaration was read and
agreed to, but was not signed. According
TO direction Of congress, it was ordered to be
authenticated and printed during the same
afternoon and evening, and on the following
day copies were sent throughout the colonies.
On July 10 it was resolved that the declara-
parchment and signed by evory member.
On August the declaration was signed by
nearly all the members. The Hon. Matthew
Thornton, of New Hampshire, did not affix
his name till Nov. 4 Of the same year, nor
did the Hon. Thomas Mexican until some
time in 1871.
Moreover, the New York members who,
according to The Printed Journal, signed on
the Fourth of July, were not authorized to
do so until the 9th, and the authorization
was not laid before congress until the 18th.
Chase, Of Maryland, and Carroll, Of Carroll
ton, were not present on the Fourth Of July.
and Rush, Clymer, Taylor and Ross, of
Pennsylvania, whose names appear in The
Journal, were not chosen as delegates until
July 90 Notwithstanding the great paper
was not signed on the Fourth OF July, that
day still deserves to be commemorated above
any of the others, for it was then that the
sentiments and determination of the Ameri-
can people were proclaimed to the world.
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ICUOpc1Su0"H = ec1lI1El1 =
We have . friend In Oneonta OF the legal
profession who ID the father Of bright boy
or 8 summers. In attending funeral re-
Gently be took the lad with him. During the
early part Of the services the boy maintained
! proper decorum, but toward the clos grew
restless and wishsd to speak to his father,
who whispered with some sternnsss In his
ear, aYou must keep quiet" 4Just lot me
speak one word to you. papa, and will
aWell, what Is it~ 4Thsre are twenty one
bald headed men In the room besides your
self
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Arkansaw Traveller: rse 'spicicus q Dc
pusson whut hoI's my hand whin b h
creetin' me. It peers ter me dat he's 81
usttsn' np ss-' ~ litEle rpc' den bs fssla
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MRS. FRANK LESLIE.
AN INTERESTING INTERVIEW WITH A
SUCCESSFUL WOMAN.

A Lady Who Is too Busy to Get Married.
Her Trip Through the South
How She Lifted = Load
OF Debt.
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FOR SALE.

No. Hay Ranch, situated on Race
Track creek, hetween the railroad and the
Butte'road The creek runs through IL from
west TO east, making IL one of the most de-
Sirable farming or winter grazing ranches In
Deer Lodge valley. IL IL all under fence and
~ within three-fourths Of mile OF railroad
switch Terms, cash; or reasonable time,
with good security.
Apply 10 ED. III. IRVINE.
oio'f Deer Lodge, NJ. 7.
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