The national leader., 1889-03-09
NEWS IN BRIEF.

OI eiUV, OHer0u Dy Lno CONGREGATIONAL
Sunday-school and Publishing Com.
pany, for the MS. best suited for q
Sunday-scbool book.
Jersey City has abolished its
Newsboys' Home. It was found that
the boys used it for loaing place.
and that four-hfths of its lOdgers were
boys who ran away from home and had
no real need for its conveniences.
Benjamin Franklln's watch is
owned by Lancaster (Pa.) gentleman,
who still carries 1t and says it keeps
good time. 1t is of silver, shaped like
biscuit, and has engraved on its back:
stBen Franklin, 1776. Philadelphia. !"
N-Or the four women who received
the Crlmean medal from Queen Vic
toria, one. Mrs. Newton, of Toronto, is
alive. She was nurse all through the
Crimean war. and was shot through
the knee in trench before the Redan.
The Queen herself pinned the medal on
her breast.
james G. Blame has developed into
great theater-goer. He has attended
every new performance given in Wash
ington SINCE he reached that city few
weeks ago. He enjoys low comedy
especially, and bis laugh does not
sound as though he was IN delicate
health.
"A valuable white pearl was recently
found in the stomach of a clam by
Captain Lemuel Z. Staplins, veteran
clam digger at Stonington, Conn.
Staplins has refused an offer of $75 for
it. Another fisherman at Stonington
recently found a diamond in the
s.omach Of a mackerel.
1t is reported that Prince Luitpold,
the Regent Of Bavaria, has condemned
Countess Larish, the daughter of Duke
Louis, Of Bavaria, to perpetual exile
for the prominent part she played IN
the events which led to the death Of
the Archduke Rudolph, the Crown
Prince of Austria.
About nine-tenths or all the clay
pipes manufactured in the United
States are made in Brooklyn, n. z.
where three factories are located that
turn out $1,000 gross annually. The
clay comes from Woodbridge, N. J..
and costs at the factory S5 per ton:
Charles H. Lanier, who acted as
General Harrison's barber. has been re-
tanned to act as valet to the President
elect at Washington. AS the Indian
apolis Journal supplies this news, 1t is
reliable enough to discourage others
from making a brush for the place.
Libby Prison is to 60 to Chicago
after all. The work Of taking apart
IN al So 10 npOiyI0 nv1 IN,
Richmond, Va, and as the bricks and
beams are displaced they are num-
bered, 80 that the building can be put
together again just as it stood In Vir-
ginia. The interior of the old prison is
to be used as a sort Of war museum.
Illinois census returns show that
outside of the cities the population is
decreasing. The school census of 1888
shows that in July last there were In
the State 843, 1916 males under twenty
years of age. In 1880 there we're $780,
676. This is a gain of 81, 300. but the
gain In Cook County was 83,2l7, 80
that the loss in the rest of the State
was 2S,917.
1t is an interesting fact that the
majority of Presidents have had blue
eyes. Mr.. Harrison's eyes conform to
this rule. Mr.. Cleveland's eyes are
brown. as were those of Arthur. Will
liam Henry Harrison had dark eyes.
President PIerce's eyes were intensely
black, as was his hair. Thomas Jeffer-
sons hair was red, and looked well in
tie white House.
AT a recent dinner given by the
Crown Prince of Servia to the officers
OF the battalion he commands, one OF
the guests asked His Royal Highness
to propose a toast. The boy, who is IL
years old, without hesitation proposed
the health of his dearly beloved mother.
The officers were painfully embarrassed,
but after short pause they all drank
the health of ''Their Crown Princes
Mother,'' without calling her "Queen."
1t would be interesting to know.
though 1t Is not easy at a glance to
see, on what principle Mdme. Patti
regulates her scale OF charges. When
she was singing In the United States
as member OF Mr.. Mapleson's Com.
pany she received 81 600 a night.
Soon afterwards, at the Royal Italian
Opera, under the same manager, her
fee was G500. at the Paris Opera
House she consented to sing at the
representations recently given OF
Gounod's "Romeo and Juliet" for
e2O0; and it appears that at charita-
BILE performance about to be given at
Brussels she will sing for nothing.
81 suppose I shall not meet you
again before your departure for Wash
ington," remarked lady visitor to
General Harrison: "I want to express
my wishes for your success. and 1 hope
you Will be reelected for another
term" 81 thank you," replied Gen.
eral Harrison, W ith a serious expression
Of countenance, "but / am not sure
that care to be reelected"
In speaking to General Fred Knefer,
an old friend, about his departure. he
said: ''I am beginning to realize that
1t is lonesome thing to be Presl-
dent"
The chair in which President
Cleveland has sat for four years is one
that he had made to order and paid for
him self. 1t Is MADE Of light oak to
match the desk made from the timber
of the Resolute and sent to the White
House by Queen Victoria. 1t Is q