The Press., 1885-09-03

A HINT FOR HUSBANDS w. is quite an elderly, wealthy gentleman, hay ing for his second wife a lady many years his junior, and much petted. Any express ed wish of hers he has at once gratified, if money could be the medium. One even- ing she remarked in her charming way, "I saw today, at-store, Q lovely cam els hair shawl that want ever so much. Would you bring home to- morrow check? It's only $l, ,50O." "Yes, dear, he replied, 'I will bring the money ;' and the next evening, with the assistance of his porter, he did bring home and placed on the par Tor table fifteen hundred silver dollars. At the sight of this pile of metal, weighing nearly hundred pounds, the wife exclaim- ed, "What are you going to do with all that money ?" "Why, love, its the money you wanted for the new shawl" "Good gracious does it take all that to make $1, 800? Why I had no idea it meant so much. I will do without the shawl, and put it all in the savings bank, if you will let me ;' and she did so, and has since ad- ded several sums to the deposit. MT. w. affirms on his honor that since that event she has not asked for quarter part so much money as before the incident. The above is not fancy sketch. It all really hap pened. .-Ecchange.
 Hartford Courant The New York, On tario & Western railroad, which is closely identified with the West Shore road, has preferred stock of about two million dol lars that pays or has paid dividends and has been reckoned a valuable security while the many millions of common stock have at best only "the promise and pc- tency' of profit. The road must be work ed in harmony with the West Shore for the West Shores sake, and so MT. Van half the preferred stock paying par for 1t. A syndicate of shares was made up, and he took it. The rest of the shareholders still have their shares. Mir. Vanderbilt doesn't want any more than the majority. Incidents of this short, showing the pow erless condition of minority stockholders, ought to have weight ill securing some protection by law of their rights. A simi- lar case occurred in this state few years ago where a majority of the Canal road stock .'dickered" with the Boston & AL bany managers for sale at 75 and effected sale to the New Haven road at 100 and now the stock is sworn to be only worth 15, and the shareholders who had no chance to sell out at 100 are hardly happy.
 The elephant Albert, of the Barnum
 
 show, who was shot because he had killed his keeper, was given to the Smithsonian Institute by MT. Barnum, and two of the institute staff were sent to dissect him. The head and trunk were first removed, and then the hide was taken off in two : pieces, being split on the back and belly. The hide was in many places an inch and quarter thick, and the work required nearly three hours. The skeleton was then dissected, and every bone saved in tact. The firing party that executed Al bert consisted of twent ty-nine men, twelve of whom fired at the heart and seventeen at the head. During the autopsy, so te speak, six bullets were found in the heart and they had all been fiattaned. In tn, evening those of epicurean tastes dined oi elephant steak, and it is reported that many who did not know what they were eating pronounced the steak unusually fine il flavor, but triie tough.
 1, Tons on tons of decayed and unrip l fruit, fish and meat are destroyed in Ney York daily. The New Workers would ca