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Intelligence in Animals.

The London Field tells OF a pair OF
swallows that built nest inside OF q
school room where more than 100 chill
dren were in daily attendance.
A goose was seen futtering on the
surface of one of the Wisconsin lakes, and
investigation proved that forty-two
pound turtle had it by the leg. Both
were drawn into boat.
When ostrichcs are breeding they are
very savage, yet colley dog will tame
them completely, and at the cape of
Good Hope the dogs do the work OF
herding with great sagacity.
A dog belonging to Charles Porter, OF
Parkersburg, W. Va. goes regularly to
the postoffice and brings back the mail,
gets the mix from the milkman daily,
and has delivered a deposit at the bank
correctly.
An immense Newfoundland dog, be-
longing to gentleman of San Francisco,
snapped at child who was plaguing
him. The child's mother upbraided the
dog, who skunk away, but soon returned
with rose, and, with very extravagant
capers, laid it at the feet of the child.
Then it hurried to its mistress for a
caress.
John H. Osborn, of Belleville, N. j.,
tried breeding quail in an immense wire
cage. The third day after the female
had begun sitting she died on the nest.
The cock was greatly distressed. He
dragged the dead bird to n corner and
buried it, leaving only the long feath-
ers on one wing exposed. This done he
returned to the nest and sat on the eggs,
and eventually succeeded in bringing out
a brood of ten young quail. The young
birds are now alive. York Sun.
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Knows When to Laugh.

"There is a man in this city," said a
well-known Washington lawyer to the
New York Telegram correspondent,
"whose chief stock in trade is in know.
ing when to laugh. Yes" he continued,
and that mans profession is that of q
LOBBYIST. He is smooth talker and al.
ways has his hands full of business. One
day last winter / was in his COM
panv, when he introduced me to o Jer-
seyman, who had come down to Wash
ineton TO look after some matters before
Congress. In the course of the conver-
sation the Jerseyman told joke-a YER
liable chestnut. My friend laughed
immoderately, but as l had heard the
socal!cd joke thousand or more times
I could not join in the merriment. The
next day met my lobbyist friend, who
said: I was probably as much bored
last night as you were; but the fact that
induig ged my Jersey friend and laughed
at his stale jokes has brought me ducats.
Here is his check for $1,000, which he
gave me as a retainer to represent his
claim before committee of the house.
Sam Ward he continued, made fame
and fortune by knowing how to feed
people. I make my money because
know low and when to laugh.'"
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comfort will be provided for tho weary
The Moscow Cathedral.

- The great Moscow Cathedral, lately
completed, has cost more than $l1, 600, :
900, and will accommodate 10000
worshipers. 1t is, says the London Times,
one of the most remarkable churches IN
Europe: :. -
. "Not many cathedrals can boast OF
having been built in lifetime, but there
are Russians still living Who saw the
French army depart from Moscow. to
commemorate which event the church of
St. Saviour has been erected. In less
than three months after the retreat OF
the foe decree went forth from Alex
der I. that memorial temple should be
built, and five years later the founda-
tions were laid, but not on the present
site. The emperor accepted plans
which, had they carried out, would have
given to Russia the highest building IN
the world namely, 10 feet, on the
Sparrows Hill, between the routes of the
entrance and departure of Napoleon; but
the undertaking for while collapsed,
and the architect and building commit
tee, after expending or misappropriating
upward of 4,OuO, 200 roubles. were
banished and their estates confscated.
The Emperor Nicholas adopted new
plans, and chose the present site,
which has cost, with embankmente,
and terrace, etc., upward of e1SO, 900,
and where, at the outset, nunuery had
to be removed and 10000 cubic feet OF
earth to be displaced before, on July ~,
1929, the laying of the foundations was
commenced. The building continued
slowly to rise for twenty years, and in
1853 the scaffolding was removed, this
latter item alone having cost 177,OOO
roubles, or upward of e4e, ,O6O (reckon-
ing the rouble, that is, at IS, as through
out this article). A quarter of century
has been expended on fittings and deco
ration. The style is ancient Russian or
rather Graeco-B byzantine, the most strik-
ing feature of which, to western eye,
on the exterior is the five copper cupa-
los, for the gliding of which were re.
quircd 900 pounds of gold, their total
cost being upward of e170,000. The
domes are surrnounted by crosses, the
centre one, nearly thirty.nine feet high,
standing $40 feet from the ground. The
building covers an area of $4,000 feet.
The bells, as usual in Russia, are of pom
derous weight. The largest, or holy,
day bell, weighs twenty-six tons, or half
rs much again as Great Paul, Even
the second, or Sunday bell, is swithin a
toms weight of our bantling; while the
smallest Of the everyday bells deseends
to about thirty pounds. The cost of the
peal was upward of e13, ,000." ..... ''."-..
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A Terrible Tale OF the Sea.

An account of what Captain Morland
calls one of the most remarkable escapes
on record appears in the Times Of India. If
this story be true, an Arab seaman, Abb
doo,a bin Ahmed by name, lived without
either food or water for eighteen days
and drifted upward of 500 miles in an
empty tank before striking the coast OF
Clutch. A large bugla, the Jabree,
owned in Bombay, foundered off Ras al
Had while on the voyage to Muscat. The
crew numbered sixty souls, and there
were forty passengers on board, seven of
whom managed to climb into an empty
water tank that had been washed off the
deck as the bugla sank amid the "whist.
ling of the wind and the apparition of
men and spirits in the sea-" Here in
this tank the seven men lived for ten
davs without either food or water;
but after the tenth day one person died
daily, the bodies being flung overheard.
The tank drifted on toward the coast of
Clutch at the rate of twenry-eight miles
a day. The sixth man died while within
sight of land, and the seventh managed
to crawl ashore at Jackao, in Clutch. He
saw P;r's Ia saint's) place with flag,
but it was deserted. "And as I was, I"
he says, "quite naked, apologized my
self to the Pr and appropriated his flag
to cover myself" He also found a pot
of millet; but this, on account of his
parched throat, he could not touch until
he had moistened it with sea water.
Thus refreshed, he was ableto find a hu-
man habitation, where he was kindly
treated, and where he was laid up for a
long time with fever. The tank and the
CORPSE were found in confirmation of his
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THE VILLAGE ORACLE.

Beneath the weather beaten porch
That shades the village store
he sits at ease, an aged man
Of three-score years or more; -
That ample seat for him is placed
Beside the open door.
His face is very keen and shrewd,
And piercing are his eyes,
As with an air of prophecy
He scans the cloudy, skies;
And children look with awe on him,
For he is weatherwise. :.
And jolly farmers riding by
On fragrant loads Of hay,
Call on. "Good-morning, Uncle: :Dan,"
And "Will it rain to-day!" ~.
While boys who would a-fshing 60 I'll
Await what he will say.
"Wall, Ell the wind should change about
They listen eagerly,
But he is very slow and calm,
For thus should prophets be
s'Mebbe them clouds will bring us rain,
But dunno" says he. ans Ct
And ever as the seasons come,
And as the seasons go, .-.,
The oracle is asked the signs
Of wind, or rain, or snow;
But still he never hesitates
To answer: 81 dunno" - -
-Tenas Sifings.
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LIES CHIVALRY.

Where, in the busy city's care and strife,
Its thirst for riches and its toll for bread,
Is found that soul Of chivalry in life
Which some are mourning for as truly
dead!
Shall we seek for it in the forest glade;
In hoary, dim cathedral, gray with age;
In chancel, where the mailed knights are laid
With rusted lance, no further war to wage;
In mold'ring castle or in ivied tower,
Where pomp and pageantry were won't to
be!
All, no! But yet the ancient spirits power
Is with us, and its form, if we would see,
To labor cheerfully from hour to hour,
To do good graciously is chivalry.
Chambers Journal.
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on the main deck who should I see come
out of the cabin but another man knew
we'll. He had on long apron and
white cap, but he put on airs enough for
O captain. He was the steward OF the
ship. But who do you suppose it wasa
1t was Bill Jones, the man who for sew
eral years passed himself off as ship.
master, and who then called himself
Captain Phillips. ."-Ne,o York Times.
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F. Houghton, of Corning, Tehama
county, CAL, will soon have probably
the largest poultry farm in the world.
He has nearly 5000 hers, and has his
hen house built on sleds, SO that he can
move them from place to place on MS
wheat stubble.
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TIMELY TOPICS.

Statistics show that the wheat trade of
California. Oregon and Washington Ter
ritory with Europe give employment an.
nually to more than four hundred sail
ing vessels going around Cape Horn.
The average passage for each vessel is
about 10000 miles, in IN average time
of little over four months.
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The japanese government constituted
8 mixed commission of native and Euro
pean scholars, with the object of finding
the way ef expressing the immense mass
of Japanese written symbols in Europe
an letters, and of fixing rules for spell
ing japanese words in our alphabet.
they have SO far succeeded that they
have compiled japanese dictionary
printed in Roman characters. -"
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is, remarks city paper. In this coun-
try, even in rough neighborhoods, thou
sands of people often get together IN
close quarters without harm. So orderly
is everybody that the fear of death is
the last thing one thinks of when he
starts out to sec great spectacle. In
Europe, however, large crowd Is sell
dom collected without some one being
hurt or trampled to death. So simple
an incident as gathering to give sere,
made to Nilsson in Stockholm resulted
in the death of seventeen persons and
serious injuries to twenty-nine Others.
The reason for the difference between
Continental and American crowds may
possibly be found in the fact that the
American carries his habit Of self gov
ernment always with him.
This is how Chicago strikes q New
England woman who writes about 1t to
the Hartford Times: "But the city gives
an expression of mixed vulgarity and
maenihcence. For one example, in the
hotel where we stopped the floor of its
gaudy barber shop was partly lnlald
with silver dollars. Between GOO and
700 of these large coins were cemented
in marble blocks. This inexprcssibly
vulgar ornamentation is looked upon
with awe by thousands of mistaken
American people. 1t is no doubt pay
inc advertisement. 1t IS also the worst ex.
ample of depraved taste that America can
show All the more when the hotel that
can afford to pave one of its floors with
silver dollars apparently cannot afford
to furnish the bedsteads of some of its
bedrooms with comfortable pillows. No
bolster, and very small flat pillows that
bring the head almost on level with
the mattress is discomfort that some
have to bear at a first-class hotel, even
when paying the regulation hlgn Prices:
If YOU ask the chambermaid if that is
the general rule in the hotel, she replies
some of the rooms have larger pillows.
And this hotel explicitly advertises that
it is q 'homelike haven where every
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SOMNERFIELD. THE MURDERER.
His Pastor Says He is Not Hardened
hut q Peuitemt Sinner.

Rev. l. II. Schneider, the Lutheran minister
who has been attending to the religious wants
OF Louis Sommerfield, who is to be hanged FRI
day for the murder Of his wife and son-in-law,
stated to STAR reporter to-day that Sommer-
Held desired to give him his pistol In order that
he (Mr. Schneider) might use IL as a text for a
sermon and teach q lesson from it, "The news
papers have published all along" said Mr..
Schneider, Statements 10 indicate that SOM
merneld is q hardened wretch. Now that is
not so. Sommerfield is truly penitent and pre-
pared to die. He went so far rs 60 request me
to ask the President not 70 grant reprieve in
his case. He believes that the law demands his
death; that his death will be n warning 10
others He says that he cannot tell what the
consequences might be IL he were sent to prison
for life. He will look upon the gallows next
Friday as q sign that he has been forgiven in
heaven. He is not hardened, but CAIN and
brave-a converted Christian. You will see
age"
Rev. L. II. Schneider and some members of
his church held special Easter service at the
Jail Sunday for Sommerfields benefit After
the service Sommerreld told some OF them that
he had intended to let the tears which he had
held back now on that occasion. but he could
not, as 1t was an occasion of JOY TO him and not
Of sorrow,
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THE DEATH WATCH SET.
Preparations at the Jail for the Double
Execution Next Friday.

Sunday afternoon the two prisoners in the
Jail who are to be hanged next Friday between
IL and oclock-Lewis Sommerfield, for the
murder OF his wife and son-in-law, and Richard
Lee, for the murder Of his wife-were removed
from the cells heretofore occupied by them TO the
cells adjoining that OF Antonio Nardello who
Is to be hanged on Friday, May 9TH, for the m ur-
der OF Carmine Rotunno. They now occupy cells
on the east side OF the south wing first tier.
Nardello has cell No. 2; Sommerfield, No. 4,
and Lee, No. q. On Sunday several friends
OF Sommerfield went to see him, and with his
pastor, Rev. Mr.. Schneider. engaged with him
in religious exercises In the wardeu's Office.
Some of Lees friends were also present and
held religious services with him. Nardello
spent the day quietly. Sunday night the death
watch was set, Messrs. johnson and Coughlin
being assigned to that duty. Until
the condemned men are taken to the
scaffold they will not be left alone for q single
moment. They are all in good health physi-
cally, sleep soundly, and seem TO have fully
made up their minds that they must suffer the
penalty of the law. In fact, Sommerfield does
not ask any communication of sentence, and ex-
presses his willingness to expiate his crime on
the scaffold. Lee and Nardello are
fully resigned to their fate. Mar
dello has written his farewell letters to
his friends. Gen. John 3. Crocker, the warden,
has been quite sick and is still confined to his
bed, and perhaps will not be able to personally
supervise the execution. In that case the re-
sponsibility will devolve on Captain Russ, the
deputy warden.
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DIED.

residence Of Mr.; < Biedler. 200 street northwest.
Notice Of funeral hereafter.
EsLEk sfsr long illness. aged seventy three yssrs
May she rest in peace
Friends q me family invited 20 sitspd fsstSe e
and Ellicot CITY papers please copy.l
FIsKE In this city on April 18th, 1855. ARTHUR
w FIsKE, ssed forty eight years -
St, at p "A. On Thursday.
JOHNSON. On Monday, April 2eth, 1856. .s 1920
+ ~ ssd Of
the twenty seventh year OF his age
Asleep In Jesus, blessed sleep.
From which none ever wake TO weep"
Funeral WI, take place 81 Gainesville, Va. on Wed
JORDAN On April "a, 1885. ut 4so O'Clock an.
LAURA yIRGINA JORDAN. daughter Of C.fhe.
rine and Geo Z Jordan. aged ~ ysars, months and
Funeral win take place from Eeene.sr y. e church.
18th instant ~ m Friends and RELATIVES invissd
70 attend
Mcguire A. St. yoseph,s hospital, Philadelphia.
REv BEkNARD A AAGUIREs s. J., In the sky
Funeral services win be held in ST. Aioysus chsrcA
sMITHsoN: April 24th. 1855. THOMAS I
No 46i street southwest. on wsdnesdsy, SstS. st
O'clock M HIS friends ana relatives are rsspsctfaiy
Msss he e 1at
the deceased Psased away IN psscs with God and 10
ToRNEY. On Monday. Aprn 2esh, lsse g ess
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THE TELEPHONE INVESTIGATION.
The President Of the He'll Company BE.
fore the Committee To-day.

Professor Alexander Graham Bell, his father
and uncle, VIM. H. Forbes, president, and W
r. Driver, treasurer OF the Bell Telephone com
pany, were in attendance when the telephone
Investigating committee met this morning
Mr.. Forbes, of Milton, Mass, the first witness
said he had been president of the Bell company
since its organization in 1880.
CHANGES IN THE ATTORNEY GENERALS TES
TIMONY.
The chairman suspended the examination to
call attention to the statements made in the
New York Tribune. alleging that the official
report of Attorney General Garland's testi.
mOny showed important omissions. He said
he had yesterday been requested by the At
in the Tribune. The Attorney General had ad.
dressed letter TO him (the chairman) on the
day following his examination for submission
to the committee. correcting his testimony Sc
to make it appear that he had returned To
Washington early in September, 1885, instead
OF November, as reported.
Mr.. Ranney called attention to what he said
were numerous changes in the phraSeology.
The reporter, Mr.. Lnney, stated that he had
submitted the report to the Attorney General;
he did not know that ii was against the rules OF
the committee. Some OF the changes in phrase
ology had been made by himself, and some by
had struck out two or three questions and in.
serted the correction touching his return 10
the city Of Washington in the year 1855.
Mr. Ranney said that he did not believe the
reporter intended to do any wrong.
The examination of Mr.. Forbes was then re.
sumed. He told of the growth of the American
Bell company. Gardiner Hubbard, Professor
Bell and Mr.. Saunders, he believed, were the
original associates who controlled the patents.
He believed that Messrs. Hubbard and Bell
held two-thirds interest and Mr.. Saunders
held One-third. The witness did not know that
any officer of the government or member of
Congress had been connected with the original
companies, or held stock at the present time in
the National Bell company.
Mr.. Ranney had telegraphed Mr.. Hudson, the
general manager Of the company, asking him to
look over the stock list to ascertain Ii his (Mr.
The chairman, upon Mr.. Ranney's request,
directed the witness to tell all he knew of the
matter and he proceeded to state that Mr.
Mr.. Ranney's name as q stakeholder; that was
holder. SO far as witness knew no member OF
The chairman then put number Of Ques-
his company had procured newspaper publica-
had done anything TO procure or affect the In
vestigation now proceeding, to which he re-
piled in the negative.
The witness estimated the total stock Of the
local com panies licensed by the Bell company
$4,000, 600, OF which the parent company
held about 500, OOO, 900 par value, or between
SIG, DOC, 900 and ST., DOC, 900 market value.
Secretary Manning, who held stock In the Troy
company, was the only government officer he
knew OF who held the local stock.
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HENRY SOMMERS HELD FOR THE GRAND JURY.
Henry Sommers, the alleged colored divine
from Jefferson county, Va, who was arrested
yesterday by Officer Hawkins, was before
Judge Smell this afternoon, charged with as
sault with intent to commit rape. His counsel,
Z. NJ. Hewlett, pleaded mot guilty" for him.
Assistant District Attorney Lavender APP
peared tor the prosecution.
Lille Perry, thirteen years old, testified that
yesterday the defendant and Maria Henson
and herself were in the front room of the house,
1874 Monroe street; the defendant was reading
the Bible to Maria, who was sitting on his lap.
Sommers said to witness: "Why don't you go
out in the kitchen and wash the dishes?" Wit
ness went out and closed the door, and. looking
through the keyhOle, saw the defendant
Maria, when the latter screamed, and witness
ran into the room.
Maria Louise Henson, aged seven years, testi-
fled that after Lille Perry left the room defend
ant attempted to take improper liberties with
her. Witness screamed.
The case was sent to the grand jury; bonds
$780,
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Capitol TOuica.

Capitol Topics.
SIGNAL SERVICE EXPENDITURES
The committee OF the House to which was re-
ferred the Investigation Of the expenditures OF
the signal service, agreed to q report this morn
ing. They say that money has probably been
expended without sufficient authority Of law,
and there may have been extravagance but
the expenditures were made. In good faith.
TOO MUCH WORK FOR ONE CLERK.
Mr.. Edmunds submitted In the Senate to-day
q resolution to appoint for the remainder Of the
session an assistant clerk to the Judiciary CON-
mittee at 50 per day. He said there was SO
much business pending in the committee that
this assistance Is necessary. Referred to the
committee on contingent expenses.
NOTES
Representative COD, has returned nom Ohio
where he was called by tue dangerous illness Of
his son, . bright lad who was there sc school
His son il now conyaleeceut.
Dissatisfaction Nimmo urged the House conn.,
meEcc COMMITTEES to-day TO report fayorably q
resolution TO appropriate ~, 900 70 aid him In
his work Of gathering statistics regarding live
stock.
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CRAIG-GOODRICH. In Chicago, Thursday April
22d, 1856 at the residence of L. c. Reich~ald esq
by the Rev. T. f Green of 81. Andrews Episcopal
church HARRY T. CRAIG. of Webster, Oak ta ter
ritory. to HATTIE L GOODRICH. Of Washington,
DC
JOHANSEN-SEILER On Monday, April 26th,
1886. by the Rev. h N. Baer, GEORGE T.. .70HAN-
No cards.
BoCK-ALLAN. At Omaha, Neh, Tuesday, April
10th. 1856, by the Rev. j. n. Harris. HENRY O.
BOOK Of Washington, d. c. 70 Miss MARY r.
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ne. | O. 1900
Washington stock Exchange.

The following changes from yesterdays quotations
on the Washington Stock Exchange are noted to-day
5Oyear fund. 365s. 1924 currency, 1191s bid 119la
asked 20-year fund, 6s, 1892. com, 11o4 bid 1l6
asked. Columbia T. r. stock SO bid. North Capt.
tol and Street = r. 46 bid. Washington Gas, 33l4
MetropSltan ms. 5sls bid National Union ms 1871
man-American Ins 141 bid. Riggs ms, Ga. bid "a
asked washington Market stock, 20a4 bid. PIN
ton Brick Machine ITO bid. Farmers and Mechan-
les Bank, Georgetown, 155 bid, l65 asked. Second
$50 bid. Real Estate Title Insurance, lO5 bid, los
asked. Penn. Tel. Co.. 46 bid, 47la asked. Cnesa-
electric Light. 20 asked w. L. l.. first mort bonds,
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