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Joel 3. Erhar'lt. who has been mentioned is
tho next collector OF customs for the port OF
Ne" York. has becii prominent in NEW York
city politics for years. He has bccn police
commissioner of Now York, AMI has served
as United States marshal. = He WAS the Re
publican candidate for mayor Of New York
city last fall. He is very popular man, and
is noted for his canlor. Durin. the mayor
nlty contest heaisplayei Il frauaness with the
newspaper u,cn TINT is rare with candidates,
especially for municipal Office He would
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The new cellular clothing now coming into
use in England is said to be success. 1t is
woven out of the same materials Us the COM
mon weaves of cloth, and being simply, as its
name indicates, closely woven into cells, the
network of which is covered over with q thin
fluff. It's porous quality allows the slow pass
ing OF the outside and inside air, giving time
for the outside air to become of the samo
temperature as the body, obviating all dan
ger Of catching colds and allowing vapors
constantly exhaled by the body to pass off,
thus contributing toward health and cleanli
ness. The very common objection to cotton
clothing-that it is so productive Of chills
and colds-is removed If woven In this man
ner, and the invention can certainly be said
to lie strictly In accordance with hygienic
and scientific principles = Frank Leslie's
NeWspauer. =z
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FAST LOCOMOTIVES.
The Pian Of Using Steam Expansive1y to
Haul Railroad Trains.


Haul Railroad Trains.
Railroad men the world over arc now en-
gagged in trying to improve the speed of their
locomotives All readers who arc interested
in matters of transportation will remember
that last year the managers of several English
railways instituted competitive trials of speed
upon their lines. The best result was obtained
with compound ocomotives-thatis,so is SO built as
to make use Of the expansive power Of steam.
Although marine engines and stationary land
engines have been built for this purpose for
several years successfully, it was not until
lately that the principle was applied to loco
motives Now is proposed to introduce this
style of locomotive in America, and the PENN
sylvania railroad has imported from England
locomotive called the Dreadnaught II the
new engine is success locomotives upon n
similar plan will be built in America. and tho
Pennsylvania, and undoubtedly later other
lines, will be equipped with them.
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A Friend Indeed.

There is man living at Petoskey, Mich,
who served during the war for tho Union UNI
der peculiar circumstances. His best friend
had enlisted, hut as his wife was very sick the
Petoskcy man took his place in tho ranks,
served faithfully under the name of his af-
tlicted friend, and was honorably discharged
Chicago Times
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DEER LODGE, MONTANA, April, g. 1889.

garded as something III the nature of hydro
phobia. The Coptic Christians dress, educate
their children and prepare their food like the
Jews; have many set prayers a day like the
Mohammcdans, and drink whisky like other
"Christians." The gospel was carried to them
in the Fourth century by Frumentius, and in
the Sixth century they separated from Rome
and Constantinuple on certain questions, as
to the union of two natures in Christ. BJS
there is SO little difference between them and
Russian Christians that Atchinofr's alleged
scheme was plausible.
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OF, Mount Athos in
Macedonia and in
Other. places turn
out to be strongly
fortified places; tho
pretcnse was to ut-
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generally the precautions against danger are
many. But with all that sharp wounds are
often given, and blood is spilled in unpleas-
antly large quantities The spirit of combat
is easily excited and as the amateurs warm
to their work they grow more reckless,
Sometimes the point OF q rapcr is broken Off
by Il fierce stroke, and the piece flies i'll the
most uuaccountable line to IN exposed part.
The fashion OF inviting friends to private
exhibition prevails SO far that tho most ac
couIplshed fencers in the city are engaged
for weeks ahead; and young men of wealth
and high social standing appear on the boards
us amateur fencers in aid of charity, as they
lately did in amateur thentricals. At all
these private exhibitions theld in tho halls OF
the wealthy, there are two important per-
sonages--tho "presidentn and his assistant
The former is often an old fencing master
who has grown too fat for the business; yet
he is clad i'll the professional costume, and the
awful dignity and serious interest he displays
double discount tho president Of tho Corps
Legislatif. His assistant bends the rapicrs to
test them, fastens the button securely on the
point for otherwise the amateur might run
the shTp weapon through his friend), places
the combatants and does tho preliminary
work generally. The etiquette Of ''the as
sault, as they call it, is most rigid, combin-
my INC slIlclIesa OIL army 1lc anu tue ucIcI-
ence of the ball room; tho fat president would
not ,leign to do anything but preside and pro-
nounee on any disputed point. Showing
anger at defeat is an unpurdonable oifcnse.
The advocates and patrons of tho new a1nuse-
ment-or rather the old amusement revived
claim that it is ga perfect school for gen
tlcmcn.n Tho physicians say it develops pli-
ability in every muscle of tho body. Yet it
must be indulgetl i'll sparngly, for it is most
exhausting exercise. 1t is very amusing, the
reports say, to noto how the amateurs warm
to the work The first strokes are given tim
idly, but when one is somewhat discounted
his eyes CLEAN with cagerness; when he is so
far beaten That tho point of his weapon is
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HERE is an cpl
le1nic of sword
play in Paris and
throughout France
generally. The'pre-
Willing ''fad" is to
hive u fencing mas
ter and to talk with
a knowing air Of
"cutf and thrust" !"
"cnrte en- tierce,"
F." u II ges'' and
guards. F" And, as
generally hnppens
in revivals OF old
customs, the move
nlent goes much
farther than any
one designed at
first, all the old
patterns of swords
Il narians
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THE SAMOAN COMMISSION.

Something About AIessrs. Phelps. K;,ssoA
and Bates.
Tho appointment Of three commissioners,
William Walter Phelps, Of New Jersey, john
A. Kasson, Of Iowa, and George II. Bates Of
Delaware, to represent the United States ut
tho conference to bo held in Berlin concern
ing the Samoan trouble indicates that the in,
tercsts Of the United States will be we'll
looked nfter Nh Pholns is 50 we'll known rs
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powers Of oratory
as for his deep
scholarship and his
gre at personal
magnetism. It is
said that he was on
terms Of friendship
with as many as
5000 persons, and
that In the course
Of his four decades
Of priest Ii ood no
has advised and in
.structed over 20,-
GOO young men,
many Of whom are
now noted in the
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A VARIED CAREER.

Justice Stanley Matthews and His Rise In
tho World.
Justice Stanley Matthews, associate judge
of tho supreme court, whose death has re-
Gently been announced, was born in Ciucin-
natl on July 21, 1924, and at the early age Of
16 ho was graduated from Kenyon college,
He studied law, was admitted to tue bar, AMI
began practicing in Maury county, Tennessee.
He shortly afterward returned to Cincinnati,
md for three years, from 1916 to 1910, was
assistant editor of The Cincinnati Herald, tho
first daily nnti-sluvery paper published in that
city, In 1851, when but 81 years old, he be-
c;ltic judge of the court of common pleas Of
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A HANDSOME COLLEGE.
ST. FRANCIS xAVIER'S, RECENTLY
COMPLETED IN NEW YORK.

The Late Rev. Theodore Thirty, u Jesuit,
Who Was the Adviser of 10000 Young
AIcn-The Establishment of the College
in 195O-Notcd Priests.
Rev. Theodore Thiry, who recently died III
New York city, was ono of the most promi-
nent Jesuits in the United States. He was
connected with the Church and Collegeof St.
Francis Xavier for forty years. Ho was a
native of Metz, nnd was born in 1928. He
was ordained priest by Bishop Hughes in
1851, four years after his arrival in the United
States. He was noted not SO much for his
The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1889-04-05

What is stated to be the largest electric
pleasure boat in tho world has been launched
on tho Thames This is the Viscountess Bury,
which is mahogany built, and will carry be-
tween seventy and eighty passengers. She
is 65 feet in length, with u beam Of 10 feet, n
mean draught Of % inches and displacement
of 12 tons. Tho launch is worked by twin
propellers which obtain their impetus from
two Immisch motors, each Of ~ horse power
and driven by 200 uccumulators placed un-
derneath tho floor of the boat. Tho whole
deck space, from stem to stern, is thus left
free for passengers. There is cabin amid
ships, which occupies that portion Of the boat
usually appropriated to the furnace and tho
boiler in steam launch The accumulntors
are Of sufficient capacity to store power for n
full days run at the highest speed
allowed under the Thames conservancy
bylaws, which is ten miles an hour.
This speed was fully reached on her
trial run, but higher speed can be attained
for special purposes if required by joining up
the cells Of tho battery in series instead Of i'll
parallel, rs now joined up. The accumula-
tors can be rechargcd during tho night after
days work, and the boat thus iuado ready
for tho next dpy IS run. This recharging is to
bc effected at any one OF u series Of charging
stations which aro in course of construction
at various points along tho river, tho inten-
ton being to construct number of launches
OF this typo for pleesurable purposes.-New
York Telegram.
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Necessarily, head lines carry with them
all the power and influence OF the journal in
which they appear. Sometimes they have
even beyond this an influence and a power Of
their own. Occasionallya phrase, catch
word, a witticisnl, nickname, is, as it were,
inspired. 1t has life and mission beyond
and independent Of that of tho sheet which
first gave it currency. 1t may become the
rally cry Of IL campaign, or term Of obloquy
beneath which man or party may sink to
rise no omore-Charleston News and Courier
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JOEL b. EitHANDT. acted Ike Roscoe
Conliling in this matter. His course was to
do everything in his power to get the news
paper mcn right on any question they wero
sent to ask him about, but he Invariably
wound up with the casual remark that he
talked as Roscoe Conkling, private citizen,
and not as Roscoe Conkling, tho public man.
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bent, then ho bends forward and throws his
whole soul into the contest. Often the presi-
dent must assert his authority with the ut
most sternness. An hour of tho combat
makes tho strongest amateur gasp aud trem-
bic with fatigue.
In every street i'll Paris aro fencing halls,
and men of all ranks tako an occasional turn;
ut any hour ono may SEQ the grave teacher
overlooking q class Of students, worlmeu,
boys or professionals, and these cutting and
slashing the Innocent dir with all tho awful
seriousness of Hash-hash-een fanatics. It's
q queer "fad," but they like it, it is an
amusement that just,suits the French.
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For three successive congresses ho was Il
member of the committee on foreign affairs,
and he has been prominent in tho recent dis
cussion OF Samoan matters.
John a. kasson was born in 1922 at Burling-
ton, Vt, was graduated from the University
of Vermont, became lawyer, removed to
st. Louis, and from thence to Des Moines, Ia.
He was first assistant postmaster general
under Lincoln, United States commissioner
at the postal congress held ut Paris in 1863,
member of congress, and was ranked as one
OF tho leaders Of the house. Mr.. Bates was
sent by Mr. Bayard in 1885, to Samoa for
tho purpose Of gaining information concern
ing affairs in tho islands. On his return he
made carefully prepared report reviewing
the Samoan question and advising such action
on tho part of the United States as would in
sure native autonomy and tend to preserve
tho interests of the United States in the
islands
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Assistant Secretary of tho Treasury.
George Tichenor, who has been nominated
to be assistant secretary Of the treasury, has
been a special agent of the treasury depart
meut for Ycars and has thus ncauirel q
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ATCIIINOFF DRIVEN OFF.
RUSSIA TAKES 1T COOLLY, BUT
FRANCE HAS AN EXPLOSION.

Queer Compiicntions-The Cossacll IIct-
man ..tcl,inoT Starts n Colony in Abys-
siun--The French Drive Him Awny--In-
icrlocli of Politics, Religion and Race.
The French have lately had a little by play
in their politics and diplomacy which startled
them So much ns to make them actually ig-
more Boulangcr for week, involved them
i'll Il delicate negotiation with Russia, and
led TO Il dissraceful scene in the Corps Legis-
iatif and the suppression Of a political order
called the I.gne dcs Pat1iotes. The open
facts seen, simple enough, but there is a good
deal OF intrigue behind them.
Hetman Atchiuotf, Of the free Cossacks of
the Volga region, some years ngo made d sort
Of pilgrimage to the head Of the Church of
AbysSnia, and that official having received
permission frcm the Coptic Patriarch of
Alexandria, entered into an agreement with
Atclinoif that the latter should establish II
colony or colonies of his free Cossncls, said
colonies to be religious in character, but
strong enough to protect themselves against
the supporters Of the mahdi Pursuant TO
this agreement Atchinotr returned during
the winter with los persons, among whom
werc a few women and children, and took t.
commanding position on the Bay Of Tad TO-
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various branches OF life. Father Thirv was
the chief director of the Society Of the Holy
Childhood of tho United States, and pub
lshed report of the condition of the society
just before his death.
The College of st. Francis Xavier, to the
success of which Father Thiry devoted the
greater part of his life, was established in
1850. The founding of tho college was the re-
suit Of the combined labors Of many noted
Jesnlts, among whom were De Luyncs, Kob-
Ter, Teller, Driscoll, Joun, Walmsley, Du.
ranquct, Durthaler, Migunrd and Thirty.
The college was opened in 1850. 1t was
located on Fifteenth street, and in those days
was considered an edifice of considerable pre-
tentions, but now, dwarfed by tho fine build
jngs which surround It, is not very impressive
in appearance. New York city was compare.
lively small place. The college nt first was
not remarkably successful, but tho excellence
Of tho faculty aud the thoroughness of its edu.
cational system soon began to be known, and
the college became too small to accommodate
the students who were sent to it from all parts
of tho United States. The classical training
given to the students of st. Francis Xavier's
even in the old days when 1t was struggling
for existence, has been enthusiastically COM
mended by some Of the most noted and ex-
acting educational writer's Of tho times
The new building recently completed, on
Sixteenth street, next to the fine Church of
ST. Francis Xavier, is one of the finest In
America. The ceremonies attending the
formal opening took place on ST. Patricks
day, and the occasion was an auspicious one.
Tho new structure is an imposing one. AS
ono passes along Sixth avenue, in the ele-
waited trains or on foot, aud casts glance
up Sixteenth street, there is the impression
of Il fash Of soft light as if huge creamy
fake had fallen from the heavens and nodded
itself into q beautiful building. The eyo Of
tho person who glances closely is first greeted
by tho severe majesty of the Jesuits' massive
church. Then come the long, graceful lines
Of the new college building. The effect is
superb But tho details arc quito simple.
The result Of richness and ornament is Sc
cured by au original application and combi-
natl of simple materials. Tho architects
work has been what may be called the mod
ern treatment Of classical architecture, and
the building may be called Greek in taste.
AS to its general lines, for capitals and key
stones, it is simple and original. Tho combi-
nation is original, and tho effect has been
made rich by q skillful and judicious harmo-
nizin:r Of the simplest forms.
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WHOLE NO. 1880.
SWORD PLAY In PARIS.
GREAT REVIVAL OF THE OLD AMUSE-
MENT OF FENCING.

The Professors of Swortlsmunship in
Frances Gay Capital-Skil1ful Foilers.
Fencing Halls in 1Iansions--Tili Men
again Garry Swords Mt Their Sides?
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u politician. He assisted in the compilation
OF tho senate substitute to the Mills tariff
bill, and by this and other work lnconnection
with the customs has gained reputation
for knowledge Of this branch Of the treas
ury department. :.
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Emperor William is said to be an inveter-
ate smoker Of cigarettes, amoking even at
meals, between tho courses He eats but lit
tie and seldom drinks wins. but takes guam
Titles OF tea.
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master in Cincinnati, and was promoted to
the postmastership, which Office he held for
SIX years. The colonel Is prominent in Gran':
Army circles
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been reproduced and tried, amateurs have
appeared IN the costumes Of all the cras from
I'cpin md Charlemngne TO the Directory and
the Empire. Much is said Of tho Gallo
heather iorkin and the Moorish doublet the
knee boots Of tho dragons, the slashed sleeves
Of Looce Cartorzn and the pointed rapier of
"IIongrce Cattr' G4ouis XIV and Henry w.
There arc said to be more Pc fessors Of
fencing in Paris now than ever before, and
the prevailing t;lss has set the fashion III NIL
the theatres. There are fencing halls in all
the fine houses y says the satirical Mirliton;
''swordsrnans boots arc the style III all tho
boys schools, the opera dance is grand
sword play, the 1tgurantes at tho Porto ST.
Martin exercise with sticks while they wait
on the side between the scenes, and at all
the cafe concerts nothing goes but n pass ut
arms even the graceful Quadrle is no
more
Pi.steur is humorously advised to seek the
microbe OF this strange frenzy, and comic
writers predict th.7- the time is ncar at hand
when gentlemen will promenade with swords
af1heir sides.
There is much discussion as to the best
suits and tho most suitable colors. Buff and
blue lead in the latter, and for serious work
the favorito suit is a stout jacket toften Of
leather and very tight pantaloons, as shown
in the annexed engravings, The face Is pro-
tectol of course, by wire mask, which in no
way interforcs with the sight. Jackets and
tights often have metallic trimmings. and
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plainly tell the sit
uation OF his can
vass, and t hen
would direct t Il @
Il g W spnper men
what part of his ut
ternnccs came from
Col. lSrllar,it, their
friend and helper,
and what news was
to be printed for
Col. Erilardt, +. h Q
lrlayornlty zcnndi- i
date. The colonel
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COL. JOHN C. NEW
Successful Career of the New Consul Gen

Successful Career of the New Consul Cen
cra1 To London.
Col. john ChHfnnt New, of The Indianap-
oils Journal, has secured what is probably,
all things considered the most profitable for
e;9n appointment under tho Harrison admin
stration; for the consul general ut London
receives ut least $4,000 year and is not
hardened with the duty Of entertaining,
while he enjoys IN honor only second to that
Of tho minister.
Mr.. New was born in Jennings county,
Ind. July 6, 1881, his father being preacher
of tho denomina, on which styles itself
"Chrstan or Disciples, but who are some
times called "Campbclites." " Tho boy showed
at [. very carly age that lie did not purpose
to get left in the general scramble for the
good things of this life, and after graduating
from Bethany college, W., i'll 1853 aud study
ing law for II short time, he secured place
as deputy in the Marion county clerks Office
at Indianapolis. Benjamin Harrison had
barely got II start as Il young lawyer there,
and tho currents of their two lives haze run
i'll curiousiy close parallels ever since.
His principal, tue county clerk, died in
Office and Mr.. New WAS appointed to the
place lie made the Office pay, and was abo
to form q banking, partnership with the Hon.
Wm H. English They got possession of the
First National bank of Indianapolis at the
most favorable ,nolncnt-Hhcn United States
bonds wero very low--nlalaged it with Won
dcrful skill, ran the stock up to lG0 md sold
out at an enormous profit. This was the once
noted bauk which cut such figure when Mr..
English was caudidnto for vice president III
1880 and furnished tho "Greenhackers'' with
80 many points, for attack on the bloated
bondho!ders. twas alleged that the investors
''tloubled their money" within two years, the
rapid rise in the value Of bonds being con-
temporary with IN of great speculation