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BOULANGER.
Some Interesting Points Anent
That Man on Horse
back.
Those Who Come in Personal Contact
with Him Charmed BY His
Manners.

II is curious to note the ceaseless in
terest with which the world follows
French history and politics. Events
in Paris echo round the world in q way
commanded by the incidents of no other
metropol s. Mr.. Frederic Harris IN,
who. like all the Positivists, regards
France with something like filial love,
contrasted the conqueror and the con-
quered in 1871; ali eyes, he said, were
fixed on Paris, more on Berlin; the
vanquished was the object Of attention,
not the victor. 1t was quite true. but
the inference he drew-the superiority
of the French over the Germans-was
not Just. France is an interesting
country because of its contrasts. 1t
does by short leaps and bounds what in
other lands is achieved after centuries,
or at least generations, of growth and
development. In 1889 France leaped
from the England of the Tudors to a
point far beyond the England of the
Guelphs. Tho suddenness of the
change was fascinating in itself.
Principles of political liberty which
had been taught soberly and cal
ried out sensibly in England a
century before were suddenly flashed
upon Europe by men of wit writing in
a language known by every aristocracy
in every court; they were not new TO
us, but they we're new to Italians, Ger
mans, Spaniards, and Danes. There
is another cause for the attractiveness
of France. She resembles among ma
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plain of Suez; but canalizing the solid
rocks of Panama is quite different
thing. This is az last admitted by De
Lesseps, and he now proposes to
change his work from sea level to a
lock canal. But will the undertaking,
even in It's new shape, ever be sue
cess? Can its promoters ever raise the
vast sums needed for it's completion
lie Genie CtUiI, the most prominent
engineering periodical in France, has
an article in a recent number on the
subject of the proposed alteration In
the plan Of the canal. The statistics
it presents must certainly startle the
Gallo enthusiasts who have been in
weighed into dumping money by the
cart-load into big ditch which prom
Uses to remain for all time without
form and void" Following is a syn
opsis of statements made by this French
scientific authority, which, by the way,
is not hostile to the enterprise:
@The five divisions into which the
line of the canal at Panama is divided
contained at the outset 135, 0O0
cubic meters to be removed. The &C
-complishment, up to this time, has been
as follows: In the first division, from
Aspinwall westward, three-fifths OF the
excavation, and in the fifth division.
from Panama eastward, one-third
In the second and third divisions,
from Tavernilla to Emperador, one
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eternal story of France. We know not
what she may do next; what hero,
lover, adventurer, or scapegrace she
may take up; what wild fury of maniac
rage like the Commune may possess
Paris; what mad march on the frontier
may hurl her across the Rhine.
Gen. Boulanger is the popular idol
of the mercurial Frenchmen at the
present hour, and is unquestionably
the most conspi. uous figure in the re-
public. We present herewith most
excellent picture of him, reproduced
from faithful photograph The Cen
eral is now just 80 years old. He is
noted for his grace aud gallantry. and
mole than any other Frenchman is the
idol and the especial hero of the ladies.
No one else can open q fan or remove
a lady's cloak or mount a restless horse
in so graceful and charming a way,
and the same qualities are said to char
acterize all his military actions. A
recent letter from Paris has this enter
tanning gossip about this much dis
cussed man:
the popular cry aud the electric idea with
which the atmosphere OF Paris is charged.
write, a correspondent OF the Pail Natt
Gdzette. Every one is discussing Boulanger
But notice that while the lealers are more
or less excited the people generally are tran
quL Boulangi-m Is not fever Ii Is q
stroag belisf 10 a personality, confidence IN
Boulanger's merits and in his future, mingled
with an Indignation which is not at all hys-
terical, bnt only persistent and determined,
at the treatment which he has received.
am living in the same hotel with the Cen
erel 1t is the Hotel du Louvre Sud lenly
through the hotel a whisper runs: IN 10
General descend. II va monter a cheval. "
The famous black charger, Jed by the Geper-
ais servant is lei into the court of the hotel
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tions the ladies whom Carlyle nick
named @high-class unfortunates. She
is always committing indiscretions.( In
any social circle, the steady matrop or
the happy maid offers little to the pen
of the poet, the novelist, or the Ora
matist; but when impulse, accident. or
calamity drives woman or girl from
the shade and shelter of home, then
her emotions, her adventures, her
hours of fleeing pleasure, her renance
of pain, fascinate readers as they fol-
low Manon Iescaut, Carmtn, or q
Sappho through vicissiiudes Gnd sor-
row. That is the characte isti, of the
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eighth each, and in the fourth divis-
ion, La Cuiebra, two twenty
OF the total accomplishment of 30, $685.
$50 cubic meters out of the 1850 $1,000
to be extracted 1906, 666 comes from
the Atlantic and Pacific sections. where
the earth is soft and the dredges en-
counter no serious obstacles. From
the three central and diff .ult divisions
1000. 600 cubic meters have been ex-
trscted, after seven years operations,
and out of total of J6,UUO,0OO. Even
IL the substitution OF a canal with locks
should reduce the total remaining ex-
cavation in these sections TO 4c,00p, 900
cubic meters, as claimed by the com
pany, il would require twenty five years
TO complete the work at tho same rate
of progress. In that time. even at the
present rate. the aggregate interest of
the existing debt, incorporated.
would amount to SiOn, 600, 001. and the
world would have. for the requirements
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GILMORE.

Portrait and sketch OF the Great Band
Leader.
Patrick Sarsfeld Gilmore, probably
the most renowned and certainly the
best known band leader in the United
States, was born near Dublin, Ireland,
Dec. %, 1929. At the age of 10 he
connected himself with military bands,
and at once showed remarkable tai
ent and aptitude. So we'll was the
youngster thought of that he was taken
to Canada along with crack English
band. After that engagement was at
an end he went to Salem, Mass,
and became leader of band there.
He soon found, however, that his tall
ents demanded wider field. and he
went to Boston, Massachusetts, where
he organized "Gilmore's Band" and
made such q success herewith that he
was enabled to make an extensive and
successful tour of the various cities of
the country. In 1861 he accompanied
the Twenty fourth Massachusetts Regi-
ment TO the field. and in 1868 was
placed in charge OF all the bands in
Louisiana by General Banks. He
originated monster concerts. in this
country, and was the protector of the
great Peace Jubilee" held in Boston
in lS69-72, and published an account of
the first thereof. This account was
published at Boston in the year 1871.
Seven years after the latter date he
made a European tour with his band,
and created quite Juror in the large
cities there. He is now Bandmaster
of the Twenty-secona Regiment Ma
tional Guards of the State of New
York. Bandmaster Gilmore has COM
posed and revised many marches snd
songs. the most renowned being his
American National Hymn.
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will have paid 65, O0O,0 900 francs OF
interest on its ooligati ms, which makes
total of 1868, 900. 900 francs to be
added to the l.0tO,0 100000 already
gone-an aggregate of 2,625, O0O,OOO
francs
And even this is not all.
In order to raise $50, 900, 900 francs
the company has had to issue obliga-
tions amounting to 1,67?, 800, 200
francs, and if the additional ]. 56E, 900,
900 required should be raised on sim
liar terms, the total DBL cations would
be 4.12l, S04,00O francs, or $751;
72E, 5O0l
But this total, enormous as it is, is
deduced in the main from the figures
most recently stated by De Lesseps.
Tested by results, his figures must be
multiplied. His original estimate for
the entire cost of the canal was $780,
600, 900, which he raised; after that
sum gave out, he increased his esti-
mate to SPA, 900, 900, then to $40, 0O0,-
600, and finally to $500, 200, 900, where
he stopped.
The two greatest obstacles to the
work are the peculiar hill section OF
the isthmus called the Cuiebra, which
is formed of greasy clay that slides,
and the Chagres River. which the
canal crosses twenty eight times. and
which is often converted into resist.
less torrent by the heavy rainfall.
The deadly climate is another obstacle
but high wages have kept the force OF
men and officers at total exceeding
HOO. the dead being rapidly re
placed. 1t is here interesting to not,
that the principal hosp tai maintained
by the company has cost over $3.50, 900
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Away from sight OF man
But he W no on this column looks
May read IL IL he can.
Discard your so-called knowledge now
Begin again anew;
From words below, I'm wisdom grow
For what write as true.
ARAB-A news reporter.
BAND-An imitation of cat corral
in flames.
CoLLEGE-An institution for train
ing young men to kick football in
Homeric Greek fashion.
Observation-Disclosures cannon
balls.
EEL-A debtor.
FARMER-A vegetable iuggler.
GREEKs-Old resident in Limerick.
HEART-A bust padding of flint,
worn by fashionable female fiirts.
IsAAc-Avuncular relative of every
one save himself.
JEsTER-The obituary editor on the
London Punch.
KIN-Conventional sponges.
LADY-The boss OF the kitchen, who
sits around the house while the family
hustle for grub.
MAP-A design made by industrious
cockroaches, who battle In ink, then
crawl over paper in war times for
James Gordon Bennett to have their
tracks photographed as startling
sample of the progressiveness of the
New York Herald. Usually labeled,
Surveyed by your correspondent on
the spot" Spot, 5000 square miles.
NJ A To- M
horrors, calamities and scandal.
Spanish for boarding
house soup.
PosT-A boy half started on an an
willing errand.
Observation-Disclosures ink.
REoUIEM-A humorous anthem said
over the skeleton of deceased news
paper men.
SIDEBoARDs-Little knots of hair
worn in front of the ears to hold up the
cheek of bashful drummers.
Observation-Disclosures soup form.
Us-Not you.
VoID-A nothingness in the head OF
the rhyming sane tum-bore.
WHMs-What we have when writ
ing this column.
XYsTER-An instrument for scraping
the inside of poets skull.
YEs-A word that makes man feel
disappointed when his hearts choice
fails to utter it, and makes him doubly
disappointed in her in after years. if
she does utter it.
ZETETIc-What readers of this col
umn may occasionally be obliged to in
stituta
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LETTER FROM ASP. NwALL.

An Interview with One of the Contractors
on the Great Ditch.
From the Boston Globe.
AsPINwAIL, April 10.
The great question which interests
everybody at Aspinwall, Panama, and
all over the Isthmus, is the one in con-
nection with the opening of the Panama
Canal.
Count Ferdinand De / esseps has
named 1890 as the year when he in
tends to sail across his water route
from ocean to ocean, but it is very
doubtful whether Ferdinand believes
in his prophecy.
nj. lacquer, Director General OF
the Panama Canal Company, stationed
ut Panama, declines TO speak on the
subject except when closely questioned
by admiring Frenchmen, and then, of
course, he joins in and with enthusiasm
shouts 1890.
M. st. Anne, chief engineer of the
French company, however, does not
agree with his superiors, and told me
that he expected to be present at the
ceremonies incident to the opening OF
the Panama Canal in 1898.
Frank Germann. Chief Engineer of
the American Dredging Company
(Slaven x Co.., goes still further, and
states that the Panama Canal can
never be canal as long as De Lesseps
and his associates are the recognized
leaders of the great enterprise, but at
the Same time points out that the
canal could be finished within four or
five years from date il American en-
gneers would undertake its manage
meat.
asked Mr.. Germann to give me h s
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Into the very court, mind you. where no
vehicle or horse of any other mortal is ever
admitted
NJ 10 General comes downs stairs All the
windows of the hotel which look onto the
court are crowded-crowded with guests, mes
sieurs ct mesdames, crowded with garcons and
temnses de chdmbre. A page brings a wooden
stool for the General to mount from. The
General appears in English riding costume,
he mounts, all the crowd IN the court salute
HIM respectfully, he rdss forth, and We dis
perse with feeiing that -Vvs Boulanger" is
III the air. An eminent English politician,
who Is in Paris day, said TO me: ~Boulan-
ger enjoys marvellous personal popu arlty
and think he deserves it. have been In the
habit of putting up at this hotel for years and
he has often been here at the same time The
enthusiasm OF I'll the hotel people for him Is
unbound ID He wins this popularity by his
amiability ana absence of 'swagger
~Ihe best informed people think that he
ha, not the remotest desire TO make himself
dictator or to make himself anything. Poll
tics he does not understand in the least But
his great merit, in the view OF those capable
OF judging, is this: He saw that what the
French army needed was TO be put in good
heart and % feel the old esprit de corps which
had bsen damped by long, inglorious peace.
For this reason he assumed az his style as
generAl-the black charger, thd0iazziing uni
form lie said, in effect: The army wants
a little encouragement. shall make myself
its spokesman, it's representative. And at the
same time shall show myself bonnie mine on
all occasions, and create some warmth, some
hope, some enthusiasm in the army and III
the sentiments of the people toward it. This
is my role. lconfine myself to IL ,"
In fact the motto Of Gen. Boulanger IA IN
the words no repeats thousand times and is
never tired of repeating. the words he re-
peated to me when interviewed him: Isl
ie voulais lie guerre, je serais un fou; ~ je ne
my preparals pas, je serais un miserable
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The "brave General, with scars to
prove his every battle;" the "pictur-
esque General. with scores of decora-
tions on his breast" the prosecuted
General" reduced from active COM
mand because of dangerous populari-
ty; the peoples General" as opposed
10 tho Government of France, which
he has defied aud outfaced, Boulanger
is tho god of the masses. At q
word from his lips there would DE
revolution.
The moderate Republicans, the OPP
portunists, the Parliamentary Royal
lists, and the followers of Clemenceau
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PROF. SIMMLER brings forward the
somewhat plausible theory that the
basis of diamond formation is liquid o.
iquefied carbolic acid. Indeed, facts
observed by different savants tend to
show, it is said, the presence of this
agent in the coating of the most valua-
BILE gems. Upon the bursting of such
crystals there are often found to occur
two liquids in the cavities, the one be-
having like water, the other like liquid
carbonic acid. Un one occasion. in
deed, it was observed that the liquid
in a quartz crystal, which was dashed
to pieces, scattered its contents around
with great noise, burning holes in
the handkerchief wound around the
hands of the experimenter. The acid
content itself had disappeared. Under
these circumstances Nj. SIMMER argues
that. if carbon be soluble in liquid
carbonic acid, it would then only be
necessary to subject the solvent to slow
evaporation. The carbon would there
10y be deposited, and, by taking proper
care, assume crystalline forms. and in
evaporating quickly the so-called black
diamond, which, in the state of pow
der, is much used for polishing. the
colorless diamond might be produced.
Though the liquid in question has
never been subjected to chemical analy-
sis, the formation of liquid carbonic
acid in the interior Of our globe may,
it is admitted, be considered as highly
probable.
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The Etiaue,te OF Parting.

The social etiquette that regulates
the time young man will tear himself
away from his very best girl is not so
rigid in the rural districts as in the
city. When the clock hands swing
around toward ten aud the pretty
maiden by his side reminds him of the
fact, the city swain goes home. Not so
the youth in the rural district. Toward
ii o'clock his jamie says:
"Do YOU know what time it is, Ned
Bangs?"
Course / do" he replies, smartly.
"Well, 1 guess you'd better put out
for home"
whats the rush?"
"Pd say rush if l were you, when
it's most midnight.
L don't care if it's most midnight"
"Well, do, and you shan't stay here
one second alter midnight.
Bet you a cookie do"
mo. you shan't. I'll call pa, see if
don't.
"Oh, yes, you will. :"
You'll see.'
iii risk it,"
"Oh, you're perfectly horrid Now,
you get your hat and clear out"
"Oh, pshawl you'd be mad if did"
"You wretchl You've got to go right
away, ior saying that"
"lou don't say so.
Il do, too; and Lift you dare
kiss me again.
He dares.
"Oh, oh, OIL You are the meanest
fellow. I've q notion to box your
ears"
BOX away"
when are you going homer"
When 1 get good ready"
"Pa1l start you if he comes In"
He won't come in.
"Don't be too sure Of that. If ma
sees the light she'll scold."
Let's put it out.
"No, you shan'ti You'd better put
yourself out"
"See if / do"
you'll sit here with the cat then. +
shan't keep you company" 80
Pooh A team of horses couldn't
drag YOU away"
"Oh, you horrid, horrid thingf"
But it is midnight before he goes, all
the same, and he hasn't had to sit with
the cat either.-Tii-B Bits.
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MARIAN HARLAND.
Portrait and Brief sketch of Familiar
Artist.

Portrait and Brief Sketch OF Familiar
Artist.
The name of Marian Harland, the
authoress, has long been familiar one
In literary circles, and from her pen,
which is guided by gentle, firm hand.
and welded by firmer brain, have
emanated some of the purest senti-
ments of modern literature. Marian
Harland is one of the busiest women
of our country to-day. While con-
Quoting the household department for
a syndicate of fifteen papers, she, in
addition to this, does editorial work In
BGbyhood and is completing COM
panion volume TO her Judith. The
new book is to be entitled SIN Old Vir-
ginia, and its success Is warranted to
equal if not surpass that of it's prede-
cessors A household manual enti-
tied Home Making and Housekeep-
ing" is also to be issued from
her publisher within a short time.
Marion Harland's golden secret of
success in literature lies in the
open, unaffected way in which the ex-
pressions of sentiment, contained In
her writings, appeal to her readers,
carrying them on from page to page
with an ever-increasing interest to the
fms. She is sensible, middle-aged
woman, with motherly way about
her which emanates from a deep, sim
cere kindheartedness which results in
winning the affections of all who come
in contact with her, endearing her to
all hearts. Her appearance is one of
plainness coupled with predominant
ing sense of neatness, which pervades
her whole person. her toilets being not
at all calculated to win the eyes of an
admiring fashion advocate. Her sin
cere kindness of disposition, which
lies at the root of many of her actions,
enables her to do and say the right
thing at the right time and place, Civ
ing discreetly the advice which is so
abundantly sought after and asked of
her.
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are arrayed against him. Cant from
his military position. they thought no
would drop into obscurity; but the
people. encouraged by the Bonapart-
lists, who see their opportunity in the
feverish state Of the nation, have show
cred honors upon him. With or with
out his candidacy votes are cast for
him wherever elections occur through
ont the country.
Such popularity is without prece-
dent. Bollanger seems practically the
master of France. 1t remains TO be
seen what use he will make OF his
power.
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FoR some time past the builders in
Germany have resorted to the use of
q composition of cork, sand and lime,
nodded into bricks, for the con-
struction of light partition walls. This
is said to- exclude sound better than
ordinary brickwork, while being light
and q good non conductor of heat and
cold.
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a Crisis Near at Hand for M. De
Lesseps' Gigantic En-
terpriss.
An Array of Financial Figures
Large Enough to Stun an
Ordinary Person.
Interview with the Chief Engineer o
the Slaven Dredging
Company.
He Asserts That the Work Can De Done
Only by American Men
and Money.

IL has cost some hundreds of mill
ions of dollars to demonstrate to Count
Ferdinand de Lesseps that stone has
not the degree of permeability posses
sed by sand. 1t was no trick at all to
dig Q hole through tine granulated
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DouIangrr Opposes Aggregation.

bouinnger Opposes Aggression.
A recent cable dispatch from Paris
says that "Gen. Boulanger has written
a letter protesting against the warlike
ideas that have been attributed to him.
He wishes now to declare distinctly
that Democratic France is maligned by
being credited with thoughts of aggres-
sion, to viii h he has ever been. and
still remains, resolutely opposed"
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The battle of Agincourt, where
Henry V. of England, with about
1000 men, defeated about 10000
rench, took place Oct. 20. l415. The
village of Agincourt. near where this
battle was fought, and which gives the
contest its name. is situated in the
uorth OF France.
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Is Boulapger Another Napoleon.
For or against Boulanger. Thus the
French republic seems to be politically
divided Mt present, says an exchange.
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A Fatal Omission.

Old Man Ito daughter)-Clara, 1 d.s-
covered Nero lying dead in the yard
this morning.
Daughter-I am very sorry. papa,
but 1 can not help it. You knew very
well that young Mr.. Harvard was COM
ing to see me last night, andyou sho aid
have tied tho dog out Of harms way
Ne,C York Sun.
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An Interview with One of the Contractors
on the Great Ditch.
From the Boston Globe