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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1886-11-05
MANHATTAN RAILWAY COMPANY.
No IL BROADWAY,

NEw-YoRK Oct 8, 1886.
THE ANNUAL MEETING of the sharehOd,,
i ers of the Manhattan Railway Company VIII
- hsId at the Companys Office New.York CITY No. II
proaiwav on the second WEDNESDAY in November next
Rsne tile 10th day said month";. at ~ o'clock, noon
oar OF directors for the ensuing year Is 10 Dc eecea anu
three inspectors OF election. AL. ,..... H.. -,
the New Elevated Railroad Company and OF the Metro
rnlau Elevated Railway Company for the same term
The books will he closed October H. AT O'CLOCK
r. '''' $685. D. w. McWILLIAMS,
Secretary.
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The Luck of a Nevada Senator.

"Ive always believed in providence since
one day, years ago, when was sheriff over
in Shea county. 1t was roastar of day,
aud l wa. returning on horseback from q
hunt for some slllice robbers. l was slowly
following a faint mountain trail, and the sun
was Just baking nle, and the horse was in a
lather came under the shade Of big rock,
anu thought it would be pleasant TO get off
and have a smoke. l sat down on a cool
Louder, cut pipeful from my plug, filled
my pipe and felt for a match. Well, Joe,
there wasn't match anywhere in my pock
cts | searched and searched, but there was
10 match tell you, Joe, felt worse over
that disappointment than pve done since,
when the market has gone back on me and
hit me for SlUu,O0O at Il clip.
"Iut while / sat there on that boulder
wrapped III gloom, what dye suppose my
eyes suddenly fell on. A match, by heaven,
lying on tile trail not six feet away from
me! l used it-though wis q little
afraid to touch it at tirst-and had my
smoke. So you needn't worry about how
this political fight is going to como out A
man for whom Providence will 60 to tho
trouble Of providing u match for smoke i'll
the wids OF the Sierra Nevudas, where
mans foot scarcely ever treads, isn't likely
TO get left when it comes to a commonplace
little thing like being elected to the United
States senate. Ever since that time" COLI
clutled tho Comstocker, "I've never refused
q dollar to u parson, and have generally
done my lest i'll quiet, unobtrusire way,
to make myself sold with the people who
have the pull on Providence. Jones
in San Francisco Post
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Compulsory Prayers at a College.

Tho campaign against compulsory pray
ers at Harvard is being waged furiously by
the students One CT them tells this Incl
dent to illustrate the hardships Of the sys-
tenn:
The prayer cut is busted" said sopho-
moro when his girl asked him last night to
come with his bicycle and join her with her
tricycle. for morning spin, 81 can't como. "
"The VIII what is buSted:'
"The prayer cut. Dont you know what
the prayer cut is: It's cutting the morning
prayers DON'T you know: Not going to
chapel"
And you've actually got to 60 to the
chapel every morning"
"Yaas, got my prayer warning yester-
day."
"And what's prayer warning"
"Oh, it's thing about so long and about
50 wide, and looks something like postal
card, or something thrilling ike that; but
what is your horror when you take it up
after a while to lind that it is warning that
you have aLsented yourself from prayers all
that is PERMITTED, and that your attendance
at chapel will he required hereafter"
And you've got to go 10 prayers after
this"
II regret to say that have You can
only cut prayers just so much, and Ive
used up my cut, as said. Oh, l tell you
those involuntary prayers arc tho ono tyran-
nical survival OF burbarism that dis!igures
the otherwise fair and pleasing aspect OF
the nineteenth century. They have got
to go."-New York Sun
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Nuns OF a Buddhist Monastery.

Strange to say, though we must have WIS.,
tied scores of monasteries. am not con-
scious of having ever entered q Buddhist
convent, though these are really numerous,
and we occasionally fell in VITA small par
ties of nuns whom, however, it was diii-
cult to distinguish from the holy brethren,
save by their dimiuutive size. Their dress
is precisely thu same-namely, long gray
or yellow robe, white stockings AMI thick
shoes, like those worn by men, and their
poor bare heads are closely shaven-a pro-
cess to which the little lO.year- old novices
are partially sub, ,ecte1, and which is COM
pleted when, at the advanced ago OF lO, tho
full blown sister takes the vows of per-
petual virginity, OF vegetarian diet, and
strict obedience 10 the perccpts OF Euddha
Those vows are mado i'll the presence OF
Koon Yam, the goddess of mercy, who her
self was a canonized Buddhist nun, and
thenceforth the sole duty Of these lii
tie nuns seems to lie in going from house
to house, wherever their services are re-
quired on behalf of deceased women, for
whose benefit they chant prayers to hoon
Yam the live long day.
When this exciting work is not required
they are said TO spend their dull lives in O
state of utter vacuity, being literally with
out occupation, save that some of the
younger sisters employ their leisure upon
silk embroidery. have seen Buddhist
nuns make pilgrimage to many shrines,
never, apparently, pausins for one moment
in the ceaseless reiteration of the four
syllabled charm, "O-m-to Flu. O-mi-tu Flu"
You would probably have taken such Tor
gibbering idiots, but they were only de-
1out little nuns accumulating stores Of CO.
lestial merit by ascribing praise to TO,
alias Buduha Foreign Letter.
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Effects of Impurities In Metals.

In recent lecture Mr.. w. C. Roberts
Austen, chemist Of the British mint, re-
marked upon the wonderful effects often
prod iced upon metals by minute quantities
of impurities Slight impurities in metallic
copper would render ocean telegraphy i'm
possible. When purified, tin loses its we'll
known "cry," or noise made when bent A
trace of arsenic increases the tuidity of
lead so that it will roll Itself into small shot
in Siding down an inclined plane.
Standard gold melts at about Ii o degrees
but if fifth of per cent of silica b. added
it will soften in a cand!e-fiame. 4 trace OF
lead added to gold forms al alloy much
dreaded at the mint, the breaking strain of
the gold beirS reduced from twenty tons to
five. Some metals have remarkable power
of taking up gases, palladium being capabls
of absorbing JC0 times its volume of hydro
gen and giving it out again when heated. a
remarkable discovery is that an alloy Of
rhoiium and lead will absorb nitrogen and
oxygen, and when heated give them off with
explosive violence as gun-cotton does
Arkansaw Traveller.
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A Substitute for the Telephone.

A baker who docs an immense business at
Brussels, having chief depot and fifteen
branch establishments in that city, applied
to the telephone company for en- estimate
of the yearly cost of communication be-
tween his different shops. The Charge
asked by the company seemed to him so ex-
orbitant that he resolved upon starting new
means of communication for himself. He
had read in a military Journal Of the ex-
perinents with carrier pigeons, and it
struck him that the innocent birds might
be Just as we'll subsidized for the art Of
sustaining life as Tor the art Of destroying.
He had pigeon house erected at his head
quarters, and purchased fifty carrier pig
cons of the best race.
Every morning each branch has three
pigeons, who are sent of to tho head eStab.
lishment with tho list of orders wanted 10y
the hotels and families i'll connection with
the branch Each pigeon, at its arrival on
its own domestic floor, touches a spring
which has an electric communication with
bell in the managers Office. The system
is reported to succeed so admirably that it
will probably lie adapted by other great
houses The inventor writes that the cost
of his fifty pigeans was less than the tele-
phone company asked for two months SUBJ
scription. 1t is strange that the breeding
and training Of these useful birds have
made US yet but slight progress in this
country.-San Fran isco Chronicle.
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Sarah OFF in a Blaze of Glory.

Mime. Sarah Bernhardt has gone off to
London en- route for Spain, and has quilted
Paris in a blaze Of glory. Her brilliant sue
cess in the revival OF Fedora, which closed
the series of her impersonations at the Porte
St Martain, was more than sufficient to
e.fa3e from the minds OF her adorers all
memory OF her failures as Marion Delorme
and as Ophelia The great actress was never
greater than she was in that role, wherein
Sardou has fitted her talent like glove.
She has introduced new and startling effect
into the death scene. When the dead Fedora
rolls oil the sofa she does not, as formally,
fall prone upon the floor, but remains with
her head anu shoulders resting on the edge
of the sofa, the dead face fronting the audi
ence in most CHASTITY fashion. Also, Sarah
has acquired a new accomplishment, Of
which she makes full use in Fedora She
has learned how to cry. The first time she
visited England she remarked to Miss Ellen
Terry: "Ah, Miss Terry, you possess an art
which I long to be able to use myself-that
of shedding tears at will "
She has found out the secret now, and in
the last act Of Fedora" the other night she
wept so profusely and so Realistically that
ali tie rouge and pearl powder was washed
from her face by the continuous showers OF
tears She might have gone on playing
Fedora 10 crowded houses for weeks and
months to come. But she has taken her de-
parture, and she will be gone whole year,
to tho sincere regret of the play-goels Of
Paris, since she is the sole actress OF genius
that now adorns their boards. What o
strange compound is this singular woman
l1yo I,.o
matte artist-Rachel mixed with strolling
player. Gull from the columns OF an even
ing paper the following anecdote respecting
her: One evening WHEN her drawing.
was crowded with journalists, one OF them
asked his hostess what had become OF her
collin. ut is worn out" made answer Nine.
Sarah Beruhardt. y GU used to sit upon it
and uso it as b.nch l have Oil urn now
instead. My ashes shall be deposited in it,
and Oil it shall bs inscribei, she is at rest
or rather They are at meaning
you, gentlemen Lucy II. Hoopers Paris
InttRr
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Throwing Effect OH tho Balcony.

Clay Greene once played Romeo He
was to play it to a very beautiful Juliet, q
lady who has been known Oh the New YORK
stage for some time. Just before tho cur
tain rose in the balcony scene the man who
locked after the theater-this took place at
San Rafacl-discovered that tho footliGhts
had been put out This was dono, l sup
pose, to throw effect on the balcony. Con-
cluding that something had happened, the
studous and jealous guardian of the hall
went out and got candle. Clay was heav-
ing his whole soul up to that balcony and
Juliet Capulet was leaning gracefully on
the balcony, when the Janitor calmly
walked in with pair Of big boots on and
q candle in his hand and deliberately
walked along shutting out the actors end
lighting the footlights. Clay will kill that
ianitor when he gets money enough to buy
u jury to acGuit him-San Francisco
Chronicle "Undertones.
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GERMAN COLONIES IN NEW GUINEA.
An Old South Sea Traders Account
Settlers and Natives.

Settlers and Natives.
Finsch Haven Is an open anchorage, but
could be made good harbor at considerable
expense. Tho settlement consists OF six
Germans and fourteen Malays, who are lo-
Gated on q small island in the bay, con-
nected by main road with the mainland.
The settlers are forming plantations on the
mainland, but as yet only yams, corn, anu
other things are planted to supply present
necessities Only few acres are as yet
divested of timber The soil is splendid,
and the land is high and not densely
wooded A water supply is obtained from
a large river about a milo to the north
warl.
The natives are numerous, and appear to
be noo on the best terms with the Germans,
who have erected four sentry boxes ON the
island, which are occupied by sentrles every
night This precautioE Is found to Ge neces-
sary in consequence of an attempt having
been made recently by the natives to sur
round and massacre the settlers line
steamer Samoa arrived in the harbor just
as the attempt was about TO be carried out.
The natives were driven away, and now
are not allowed to coL!e near the island.
All trade with them has been suspended for
three months No force was, however,
used
After a stay of five days at Finsch
Haven, the Truganini steamed along the
northwest coast about 25O miles to Samoa
Haven. The scenery along the coast is
most beautiful, SURPRISING anything IN the
south seas The coast line is high, and yes
sells can steam close alongside, the water be-
ing deep and free from impetiimentS to navl-
CATION. No river or creek was seen for the
whole of this distance. Several Islands wore
passed, all densely inhabited, tue land BE-
ing all cleared and studied with houses,
butt in regular New Guinea fashion
Portions of the mainland are denSeiy
wooded, other portions being covered with
luxuriant growth of grass There were
apparently a great numGer OF natives
ashore.
Samoa Haven is far better barber than
Finscb Haven, but will require large eS-
penditure to make it q good port. The ma
tives are very friendly. They follow aGri-
cultural pursuits, and have well-cuitivated
gardens The German settlement is OH an
island, the only means of communication
being by boats The settlers, who number
fifty Germans only, are occupied in clearing
this island, which is about half O mils long
and q quarter of q mile wide with the Oh
ject of forming township thereon. Their
efforts have not yet been directed to the
mainland except in the way of trade, and
not much of this has been done except in
tobacco leaf, of which the natives grow
great quantity, taking in exchange pieces OF
old hoop iron, which appear TO he their
only requirement. The occupants Of the
settlement wero healthy and happy. The
climate at the settlements, although warm,
is very healthy, and the pioneers speak we'll
of it. The prospects are exceedingly bright,
and there is every probability OF agricul-
turists reaping n rich reward The great
drawback is the want OF harbors, which can
only be overcome by an enormous outlay
Melbourne ArruS
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Tho Swing of FriSco's People.

The whirl and swing and rattle and rush
of things here reminds one very much Of
the great western metropoils-Chlcago.
Every thing is rush, rush, rush, and nervous
excitement from early morn till close of
day, and everybody excepting the Chinese
seems to be affected in this same way. Even
tho ladies catch the contagion, aud they,
too, 60 brushing along tho streets Us if they
wero sent for and must get there on time
under fear of the severest penalties. We
must say we rather like the swing of the
people in this respect. Aside from the heavy
Chinese element here, the people of the city
seem to be largely American, and brighter,
cleaner-cus looking lot of business men Wa
never before saw in the streets of any city
in the Union They are sharp and as keen
as .woedged sword-San Francisco Cor,
Cleveland Leader.
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The Fastest Shaving on Record.

aJust wait till you hear from me," said
low -browed, tough looking passenger. For
seven years shaved in shop where one
barber run the razor over all average OF
sixty faces an hour What do you think Of
that"
impossible" exclaimed several listeners
III chorus
No, it amt impossible" continued the
low -browcl man. This barber didn't do
anything but use his razor. The men
lathcred their own faces whilo waiting their
turn, and boy handed him freshly honcd
razors. Seven or eight slashes was shave,
and the customers wiped their own faces
after leaving the chair.
"How much did tho barber charge O
head
Nothing: and he got no wages. He was
the harbcr in Je!lersonville prison, Chi
cago Herald
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millionaire Floods Mob Hill House.

Mr. J. c. Flood will enter upon the &C.
cupancy OF bis new HOUSE on Mob Hill, San
francisco, next fail The Alta California
SAYS: This building is probably the most
eApcnsive private residence in America
The structure is OF veritable New York
swelldom brownstone, and the dimensions
in the clear arc about lGOxl2J feet, with
sufficient surrounding ground for floral
paradise. Tho artist in charge is the same
gentleman vino superintendent tho finishing
of the mansions OF Vanderbilt, Stewart
Willard, and other eastern millioaaires; and
his isAt over his present task is such that
he declares that the parlo:s OF any OF them
would be rale'l ly comparison with the
back hall of tue Flood palace. II is idle to
estimate in particular the cost of any OF the
parts of this magnificent editiCe or set a
yaluo upon the whole. The contractors for
the interior decorations are said to have
made All outlay OF ov,r :SUJ,OoO for their
work and material alors.
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A Full Head OF Steam On.

In his lecture before tho Yale theological
students short time ago, thu Eev Dr. Bur
ton said: Il tell you, young gentlemen, u
man must have full head of steam on anl
keep his whistle open wide or modern con-
gregation viii 20 to sleep over one OF his
sermons. Times have changed, end o
preacher cannot pray an hour and then
preach an hour, and then pray another
hour, without disgusting congregation of
the present day. \ ou must SO conduct your
services that an hour spent i'll church will
not amount to Imprisonment" ."-Cleveland
Jeoder
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TORTURE OF A "SCAPE-GOAT."

Good Fridays Repentance in Mexico
Furnishing the Wickedest Man.
Once year, on Good Friday, the Mexi.
cans select victim for the whipping, and
sometimes more than one The selection Is
made by taking the worst one of the lot.
This is determined by all making con-
fession before priest of the years mis-
deeds, and the one decided to be the worst
sinner is selected as a sort of "scape-goat" to
bear the torture.
The margyr is prepared at the church by
being stripped nearly naked and by being
prayed for. Then he is made to carry a
heavy cross full ten feet high, with the cross
arm of five or six feet in length, and made
of wool six to eight inches in diameter He
carries this cross for considerable dis.
tance to place selected for the purpose,
where there is another larger cross erected.
Arriving at the upright cross, he carries his
cross around it and is then permitted to lay
it down. Here the business takes turn not
quite % agreeable to the candidate, for he
finds crowd of worshipers surrounding him.
Two of these worshiperS are. armed with large
cactus bushes Of what is commonly called
"tree cactus" or "cane cactus" on &C
count of its being used to mako walking
sticks Of. This cactus grows to the hight OF
three or four feet and is armed with thou
rands of needle-iike spines fully an inch
long. The main stalk is as large as q man
wrist at the ground, branching off as ii
rises, and each branch having many lateral
branches from three to five inches in longth,
oil fully armed with needle-like thorns,
which are very poisonous, the prick caus.
ing very painful, fostering wounds in short
time.
Selling one Of the cactus bushes by the
butt and which has been trimmed for the pur-
pose, two begin the ceremony by striking
the candidate on the naked back and march
ing him around the cross, the rest keeping
up continuous shouting and singing, with
music by sort of wind instrument Hav-
ing whipped him around until their bushes
are broken up, they form a procession and
march him back to the church door, where
he is stopped. Here, with sticks like laths,
the adhering pieces Of the cactus ore
scraped off of him and placed on the ground
in the door where he is next to enter, walk
ing barefoot on the pieces OF cactus After
this the victim is allowed to be taken to his
home to get we'll or die, as the case may be-
He is not allowed to pull out the thorns un-
til they come out by fostering, and it fire.
quently occurs that six or eight months
elapse before he recovers.
l went to see one of these ceremonies
through curiosity, ard I am not curious
enough to go to see another. The sight of the
bleeding victim, subject to a torture that
far exceeds burning at the stake, is no at
traction to me, though the poor victim never
uttered single groan during the per,
formance. e.-Mexico Cor. Kansas City Times
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4 BETaOTHAL.

81 love you," hs whispered low,"
In Joy, for a moment bold;
And suddenly, white as snow,
The warm little hand grew cold.
II love you," again he said,
And touched the soft tingertips;
But shyly she bent her head,
10 eide the two trembling lips.
N love you"-she turned her face.
His heart over6lled with fear;
When 10, on her cheeks the trace
OF one tiny passion tear!
II love you," he gently spoke,
And kissed her, sweet, tearfu.-eyed;
The rose. blossom. fetters broke;
Hove you, too," they replied.
Freak Dempster Sherman in The Century
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The secretary Of the Chinese legation at
Washington is named Mr.. Lang. He is
civilized enough 10 know how to make
pun in English At a reception the other
evening he told lady that "Atld Lang
HYns" was one Of his ancestogz
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A Natural ShanDoOiDr Water.

Earbers near Mono lake, California, whose
water is heavy with salts of sodium and
horax, use it as natural shampooing
waaer, to the satisfxction Of their cus5o-
merS,
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Hard to Hold Up AgNinst.

M. Pusteur is under q strain very hard
to hold up against. His door bell rings
every two minutes and people PRESS III on
all sorts Of pretexts .....-...
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To do kind act IS the proof of q good
man; not Dragging about it afterward, how
ever, is the proof of q noble man--Jud
Lafagan.
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che Jules Verne of the Future.

The imagination of %-yoar-old 10y is
often H. stupcndous thing. On" cunt holp
wondering how much child Of that age
believes of his own big stories. This ors
for example: 81 went ont in dc front yard
dis morning." said Benny, and saw nav
full big horse ~ i'll Il tree, and looked a
gun and shooted it, and | looked it in do
house and my mama picked de fedders or
it and cooked it for breksit!" Boston
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The Savannah News says that the
real reason why southern mon wear their
hair long is to keep the sun from tanning
tbrir necks
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nIcxicp's Pearl-Fishins Monopoly.

six large boats, al carrying the Me- .can
flag, are working on the pearl fisheries oil
the Mexican Pacific COAST. 4 monopoly
controls the fishing ground.
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Moonshlne whisky disrilleries are reported
to be crapping out in all the mountainous
parts Of Pennsylvania