The morning news., 1888-12-25
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with the anarchists, has been finished, and will
be sent at once to New York for casting. The
foundation for the monument is now being pu
| III place In the square. The figure is feet high
| ana Will stand on granite pedestal feet il
height The model was robust patrolman, o
splendid physique. whose face and figure ar
familiar to many Chicagoans Toe figur,
stands with the right hand upraised as if in
voking the law.
The town Of Eaton, o., is aroused over th
outline of a mans face, which appears on tn
window glass of house in which one Christ
man, who was murdered two years ago, lived
Shristmans wife and daughter occupy tn,
| dwelling, and the Cincinnati ENQUIRER quote
both as saying that they ''have seen the fac,
| since last March, and have avoided making i
known to the public. from the fact that they
coming to see ii. " 1t is stated that others have
seen the face, and that it resembles very CLOSELY
| that OF the murdered man.
FINDLAY (O) SPECIAL says: Crawfis college
built by John Crawfis, farmer, who had a sur
| plus of wealth and wanted to build monument
to himself, is nearly completed. 1t is situated
| IN Blanchard township, Putnam county, just
across the line from this county, and cost about
| S!5uOO. When it is finished nobody knows
what it will be used for Certainly no college
| can be maintained that far from a town, and
\ unless Mr.. Crawfs endows the Institution with
| at least $4,000 there will be no possibility of
or maintaining even small-sized school much
less great seat of learning.
THERE was an exciting scene on North Grand
avenue st. Louis, late the other evening caused
| oy horse attached to roofers wagon run
| nlng away. There was stove in the vehicle,
and the horse. by making short turn, scat.
tered tne 1--we Goals about the wagon, setting it
on fire. Flames several feet high leaped from
the wagon. but the horse nevertheless contjn-
ued on Its almleSs run. After boy had been
knocked down and run over, an excitable citi-
zen thought to shoot the steed and, whipping
ont revolver, Joined in the chase He ran
for several squares, but didn't get within shoot
ing distance until the runaway had been
stopped, He was then so thoroughly exhausted
that he could hardly take aim and shoot the
animal, even If he cared to.
For FOUR YEARS Mrs BENJAMIN Mover of
souderton, Pa was totally blind. Not long ago
she was taken i'll, so that she had to stay in bed
several days On the fourth day she awoke in
the morning and exclaimed: II seer' Her
husband rushed to the bedside and was recop-
Glzed. Then the other members of the house
hold came In and were recognized She pointed
out different articles of furniture in the room,
told different persons what they were wearing
and In many ways proved that she saw. She
asked that all her children and grandchildren
twenty-five in all, come to her bedside and they
did. She told them that she had earnestly
prayed that she might see them all once before
she died, and this was the answer to her PRAYER
Then she said:> This is the last day that shall
ever have the use of my eyesght." She awoke
the next morning as blind as ever and has been
SO ever since.
AT recent auction sale in London the great
Hindoo Lingam god was knocked down to a.
jeweler for $4,000 This curious relic stood 2h
inches in hight. 1t was preserved for more than
1000 years in an ancient temple at Delhi The
base is OF solid E old, and around it are set nine
gems or charms, diamond, ruby, sapphire
chrysoberyl cats eye. coral. pearl, hyacinthine
garnet, yellow sapphire and emerald Round
the apex of this gold pyramid is a pIiuth SET
with diamonds. On the apex is topaz / 10-f6
inches in length and 9-16 of an inch in depth
shaped like horseshoe; in the center of the
horseshoe the great, chrysoberyl cats eye
stands upright When Bad Shah Rahador
Shah, the last King of Delhi, was captured and
exied to the Andaman Isles, his queen secreted
this gem, and it was never seen again until
being distressed during the mutiny, she sold it
to the present owner.
FL Paso, Texas, is the distribution point of
some rather wild stories, of which 5the follow
ing-the latest-is certainly good specimen:
During heavy snow storm in Sierra county.
New Mexico, Capt. Grozer got lost while en-
route on horseback from his raucn to Chloride.
a small mining camp. He had neither a gun
with him to discharge, and thus attract atten
tlon and help, nor matches to start a fire All
ne had was pocket knife. When he found that
ne was fast getting benumbed he killed hi.
morse with the knife, took out the entrais and
crawled into the warm carcass lea wing only
the liver inside. Completely covered up with
snow he remained in this retreat for three days
liver When he was missed a party went ont to
hunt for him and was successful in its search
He was taken to Fairview, a mining camp on
The Cudrillo Negro creek. He is badly frost
bitten.
AN OLD MAN, who called at the Mayors office
in Baltimore Monday. to learn the law govern
ing the sale Of fruits, explained tnat he had
been fruiter for many years, and during the
var sold apples in front of Independence Hail.
fhiladelpnla, Oy special permission of the May
or With an eye to business he had the legs of
his stand painted red, white and blue and or
namented the stand with the Union flag and
several stanzas of bad poetry, referring to the
issues of the times. He was born on February
IL, lSl2, and. as his hair is yet black, the Mayor
remarked that he must have been dying his
hair. The old man said that there was nothing
artificial about him. Look at this spring. he
remarked, at the same time making number
or gyrations to attest to the activity of
his legs. After the exhibition of his condensed
war dance, he showed his ability as a go as-you-
please pedestrian. He then quoted some of his
Independence Hall apple poetry, and after ex-
pressing the hope that he would meet the
mayor in heaven, the old fruit vender left.
SAYS the Pail Mall Gazette: When Mr..
Gladstone reads book he does so pencil in
hand, marking of on the margin those passages
which he wishes to remember, querying those
about which he is in doubt. and pu ting q cross
opposite those which he disputes. At the end
OF the volume he constructs a kind of index OF
thlngs he wishes to remember in the book
Darwin records a meeting with Buckle and
was very glad to learn from him his system of
collecting facts. He told me that he bought all
the books which he read, and made a full index
TO each OF the facts which he thought might
prove serviceable to him, and that he could
always remember in what book he had read
anything, for his memory was wonderful /
asked him how al first he could Judge what
facts would be serviceable. and he answered
thai he did not know, but that a sort of instinct
guided him. From this habit of making indices
he was enabled to give the astonishing number
OF references on all sorts of subjects which NAV
be found in his History of Civilization Oar
wins own method. as described by his SON. was
not very dissimilar I'm each book as he read
1t, he marked passages bearing on his work. In
reading book or pamphlet he made pencil
lines at the side of the page, often adding short
remarks, and at the end made q list of the pages
marked When IL was 20 be cataloRlled and
put away, the marked pages were looked at
and so rough abstract Of the book was made"
PROBLEM that at a glance seems easy
enough to tempt many schoolboy to spend
portion Of his Christmas vacation in an en-
deavor TO solve it, appeared recently in a
Maine journal, and is as follows: Take the
number fifteen. Multiply IL by itself and Won
have 2ls. Now multiply 225 by itself Then
multiply that product by itself, and SO on until
ffteen products have been multiplied by them
selves in turn" The question aroused con
interest among lawyers In Portland
ana their best mathepatician, after struggling |
with the problem long enough 20 see how much |
labor was entaed ia the solution, made the |
Following discoura Zing report upon Il:
ina .ifs.sN IL.