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out and had breakfast dOwnstairs and

out and had breakfast downstairs and q
half hour in the gardens.
On Sunday morning last witnessed .
ceremony very interesting to an American.
A high platform had been built in the front
garden, with two wide flights of stairs lead.
ing up to it. On the stairs were heavy car
pets and thick rows of ferns where bannis-
tiers usually are. The platform was covered
by a red carpet, and at the back was an
altar with the ermine-lined mantle sur
mounted by the crown, and the candles and
golden flowers. Behind this was high
painted scene, much like the scene OF
theater, representing the towers and turrets
of ancient Boulogne. At the end of streets
perspective was glimpse of the sea with
boat containing the two angels who, the
legend hath it, brought the statue of Notre
Dame de Boulogne to the favored city when
the centuries were young. Against the gray
deceptive towers were trees and shrubs,
adding to their reality. The convent, ivy
grown, runs around three sides of this gar
den, the wall closing in the fourth. In each
window were flowers and plants, the build
ing was vivid with scarlet draperies and 100
honor of the bishop, who makes his rounds
every two years. This richly arranged plat
form is called a reposoir.
THE BISHOPS RECEPTION.
At about 10 o'clock the procession made
its appearance to the accompaniment of a
band of music and singing, men and women.
First came the ladies Of the town, who
always walk in these professions, and as
many as possible were admitted within the
convent gates; the rest stood without in the
Enclos. Then came the servants and work.
ing girls who are under the patronage of
the Ladies of the Retraite. They wore white
gowns and wells and blue ribbons above the
waist. Following, were the altar boys, in
their red gowns this time, and the little
communicants whom have Just described.
Then, under gorgeous red canopy, came the
Bishop and his chaplains, followed by many
priests. He left the canopy at the chapel
gates, and went forward and ascended the
altar, while the assembled crowd bent its
knees. 1t was most impressive sight the
bishop and his chaplains in their splendid
garments against the gray and green of the
old castle, the kneeling yellow-robed priests
on the wide sweeping stairs, the white-clad
girls in the court below. Then,-an unseen
choir,-the nuns began to sing, the Bishop
responded, and in a few moments the cere-
mony, all too short, was over.
The most interesting room in this old
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
. GOING TO BACK OUT.

Why n Detroir Street Car Patron Wanted
Long Ride.
Detroit Free Press.I
"Does this car 60 up Trumbull avenue?"
he asked of conductor as he got on at
Woodward avenue.
"Yes sir.
"How far is it to the end of the liner"
"About two miles"
will you be an hour and half going
up?"
"About that; why?"
"I'm going up there to, see a widder.
We've been courting for year. We are
engaged. want to funk out of it. Iwant
time to collect my thought and get nv ex-
cuses ready. An hour and a half will do
purity well, guess, but make it two hours
If you can. I'm patron, you know, and
the line orter run for the benefit of
patrons"
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became q monastery, then Jesuit College,
and finally passed into the hands OF the
ladies who founded the order of the Retraite
du Sacre-Ceur.
These ladies do not teach, but they do
much good among the working girls of the
city and are never idle in their beautiful
home. They have q number of ladies as
permanent boarders, and in times of re-
treat the convent is full; it is the favorite
resort of the devout Catholics of the En-
glish and French nobility. The boarders
find their material routine much like that
of an hotel, except that one is served BY
black-robed, bandeaued sisters, and that
the bell which summons to meals has
very cloistral sound.
A BEAUTIFUL SITE.
The Archbishop who built this convent
had an eve to both splendor and the pictur-
esque. The main building is nearly 400
feet long and from right and left wings
extend, making a number of courts in which
are most beautiful gardens. My own room
overlooks the largest of these gardens, a
wilderness of green, with thick clumps of
trees and lake with gold fish beneath the
water lilies. On two sides are the cold,
gray walls of the convent, above another
side tower the ramparts, and at the end is
the great sanctuary Of the cathedral with
the dome above. The trees and vines cling
to the ramparts, showing vividly against
the hewn grey stone, and here and there are
inches with statues of the yirginsand saints.
At the end of the garden, just under the
massive walls of the cathedral, is statue of
st. Michael and the devil, almost hidden
by the luxuriant and rapidly-growing foil
age.
My window is shaded by the magnificent
trees on the ramparts, and the place is so
quiet that one can hardly realize that the
town huns beyond. Just behind this wing
is the cloister and garden de communante
of the nuns, sacred place, where COM
mon mortals are not admitted. Otherwise
the boarders have perfect liberty and can go
and come as they please, provided they ere
at home at $50 at night. They have an i'm
mense salon in which to receive their Wis.,
itors and a very handsome one at that. 1t
is IN the main building, arched and heavily
hung with curtains, and overlooks three of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

thorough in seeing everything worth look
ing at At the hotels and on steamboats,
are sold volumes of description OF Lake
George scenery, interlarded protusely with
Indian legends. The writer has seemingly
made an industrious collection OF these
aboriginal tales, and has not hesitated to
locate them with an exactitude that is al
most convincing. To see typical Briton,
with q shawl crossed from one shoulder to
the opposite hip, his sturdy legs clad in
knickerbockers, his hard head surmounted
by a helmet hat, and in his hands one of
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
A SUPPLY OF WOOD FREE.
How a Darkey and His Dogs Laid In Store
of Fuel
Savannah News.l

Savannah News.l
One of Starke's colored farmers, who pos
sesses more ingenuity than energy, was
tired of hauling home fire wood. and put a
pair of vicious ours in his yard to compel
passers by to furnish that article. A palins
was knocked from the fence to allow the
dogs to run out on the road and attack
pedestrians The latter, for defense, would
never pass the place unless they were pro-
chunk the dogs with.
At night the darksy ga$ered up the dogs
earnings for the day, as fou..d fuel not
only enough for the hominy department,
but a surplus to lay up for winter. But
now his ours are both poisoned, and their
owner sits on q stump beneath a wide
spreading Jerusalem oak bemoaning his
loss.
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4 S0CIABLE SNAKE.
II Becomes a Star Bonrder and IL Useful
About the House.

H n
About the House.
All the people of jackson, Mich, are not
liars, and one Of the most truthful writes
in the Saturday Star about snake which
he caught in Whitmore Lake while fishing
through the ice last winter. The reptile
was very large and beautifully colored, and
when the hook was removed from its mouth
coiled itself and sprang 80 feet into the air
several times. 1t then sat down on chunk
of ice and took lunch with the jackson man,
and after smoking mild cigar slipped back
into the water.
This summer it came to the jackson mans
house as star boarder, and it saves his little
girl from drowning every time she falls into
the water, lifts pickles out of the barrel
with its forked tongue, and keeps the lawn
sprinkled by filling up on water and spout
ing it over the yard, although it acted a
little difident about the last job until the
jackson man removed his keep-off-the-grass
sign.
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Dental he coniesses that he transported
them in big canvas bag, such as he uses
as cage for his captives, and set them free.
He is professional snake catcher.
The State pays a small bounty for each
head of a rattler, and Platt used to get a
meager living, along with considerable no
toriety, by hunting the snakes, trying out
their oil to sell to druggists; disposing OF
their skins to pocketbook makers, and col
lecting the State fee for the heads. Core
spoudents found readable matter in him,
and the publication of such articles made
him believe that he could proftably become
something of a Snowman. That is why he
has seized upon Rattle Island. as he CHRIS
tens it, and lets it be known at the hotels
that rattlesnakes may be plenteously seen
there. There is something fascinating about
snakes to many folks, and sail boats land
not a few yenturesome visitors at Rattle
Island. They are not much inclined 10 ex-
plore it, and are generally satisfied with a
view OF about a hundred big and little
snakes in glass cages; but if they are will
ing to take the risk, Plat will conduct
them through his small domain, and more
than likely afford them a sight of one or
more snakes at large.
ENGLISH TOURISTS.
The tourists at Lake George who look
most like tourists areS English. They dress
distinctively for tratel; they use guide
books almost constantly. and they are very
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

- - I-I-- ;: =. -. -a--.J,,..;o,,
these GUIDE BOOKS, 10 get reProIucIlon
OF tne Ehgnsn Iouris. as ne 1i u. uucn av,e an
numerousiy encountereu IN an pal's oi :ns
European conuhens' II u ne rs T acI1m ,tp.e..oJ
Dy uaugn.er, she ~ equans SS mst t.onsI Ou''e
In the matter OF clothes ioI rougn Iravei. !
saw such couple yesterday solemniy anu
trustingiy ldentlfylIg rocky preeipiee , as
tne very one rom wnicn, 80 tne guioG ooos
narrated, an tnulan maIGen nau ieaPeu e
sulcloeoly. IelI IKE teIllng nun .L INA. 'ne
Amer,can ,, mountaino9s reSors Si'n'u'
maloen leap q9l.e unAn9"h.
one Q, tne ecGeneTicI'ies az the.S Lahe ueUrse
Is miss mamie W ooIsen, an neiress irom
new orieans, ana reia1eu an some way 70
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SIXTEENTH CENTURY PRINTING.
Fifteen Years Work to Get Out nm Edition
of 600 Volumes.
American Bookmaker.

of 600 Volumes.
American Bookmaker.l
They took their time in printing impor-
tant books during the first century after the
discovery of the art. For example, take the
famous Polyglot Bible, printed under the
patronage of Cardinal Ximenes. 1t was be-
gun in 1902 and finished on January 10,
1917. The last sheet was carried to Ximenes
shortly before his death, when he thanked
God that he had lived to see the completion
of his greatest work.
The edition was limited 10 600 copies and
cost 80, 900 ducats, a sum equal to about
S5, 900, 900 in our day. 1t has now become
very scarce A copy on vellum (ot which
only three were printed), and supposed to be
was sold in 1929 for nearly $4,000.
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A CELESTIAL THEORY.

The Chinese regarded the human body as
Hydraulic mechanism the free circu-
lation of whose s'1uids" was the agent OF
health and Of restoration to health. This
circulation had to overcome both the weight
of the fluids" and the friction thereof
against the walls of the vessels, and every
thing that formed an obstruction against
either was naturally looked upon as bearing
influence upon the health. Their theory
was that the air, which continually enters
the body through the lungs, increased the
movability Of the fluids, the consequences of
which was that anything that facilitates or
retards the entrance of air into the body
must necessarily either facilitate or retard
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

Lake George incident. At the dockrail of
the steamboat stood father and daughter.
''There is typical German tourist" said
companion of mine. "He might almost
be taken for Bismarck himself"
But he was no German at all. He was
Morosini, formerly partner of Jay Gould,
and noted also as the father of the pretty
girl who married the family coachman. 1t
will be remembered that Victoria Morosini
went into the chorus of New York comic
opera company, but quilted that employ
ment and her husband rather mysteriously,
after which she was lost to public view for
two or three years. 1t was known that her
father had regained control Of her, and that
she was cured of
HER SINGULAR INFATUATION
for Just about as commonplace coachman
as ever wore livery. Even intimate friends
OF the family did not know where she was
secluded, and they are not yet able TO get
any Trustworthy information on that point;
but Miss Morosini-and / call her that be-
cause, as l am credibly informed, divorce
has restored the Morosini name to her-is
this summer for the first time since her
elopement an associate of her parents and
sisters. They are spending the season at
Saratoga, where Victoria is one of the most
expert of equestriennes, and a conspicuous,
although very modestly behaved, young
lady. She was with her father on the Lake
George steamer, and they had come up from
Saratoga, as many people do, for days
float on the famously picturesque water.
Jay Gould and his family frequently in
dulge in these excursions. The Goulds
have been away for a wild outing in the
Adiroudacks, but this week they returned
to Saratoga, where they expect to remain
until September.
A RATTLESEAKE PRESERVE.
C. P. Huntington is another millionaire e
admirer of Lake George, and he comes here
from Saratoga every week or so. Upon his
last visit he took sailboat, along with sew
eral companions, and visited Rattle Island.
That is a new thing The island has been
there long enough, and it is one of the more
Insignificant among those that dot the lake,
but this year old Cephas Platt locally
famous as catcher of rattlesnakes, has
taken possession. The island is wooded and
rocky, and Platt has stocked it with snakes.
He tells the tourists that he found the rep
tiles there, but upon getting at all conf
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Something Stronger Thnu Sullivan.

Chicago News.l
The race is not always to the swift nor
the battle to the strong. but if John L. Sui
livan gets safely out of that Mississippi mess
and will tackle the Chicago river to finish
we will lay odds on the creek and give the
slugger the choice of rules.
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the gardens. The floor is waxed and very
dark, and the table and chairs are of carved
antique oak. Out of it open the various
wings, and to the right extends a long hall
leading to the chapel. The wide stone
staircase leads to Its door and in the marble
paved vestibule below are always palms and
shrubs.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
Indigestion

Is not only distressing complaint, Of
itself, but, by causing the blood to
become depraved and the system en-
feebled, is the parent of innumerable
maladies. That Ayers Sarsaparilla
is the best cure for Indigestion, even
when complicated with Liver Complaint,
is proved by the following testimony
from Mrs. Joseph Lake, of Brockway
Centre, Mich
oliver complaint and indigestion
made my life burden and came near
ending my existence. For more than
four years I suffered untold agony, was
reduced almost to a skeleton, and hardly
had strength to drag myself about. All
kinds of food distressed me, and only
the most delicate could be digested at
All. Within the time mentioned several
physicians treated me without giving re-
lief. Nothing that took seemed to do
any permanent good until commenced
the use of Ayers Sarsaparilla, which
has produced wonderful results. Soon
after commencing to take the Sarsapa-
rilla could see an Improvement in my
condition. My appetite began to return
and with it came the ability to digesS
all the food taken, my strength i'm
proved each day, and after a few
months of faithful attention to your
directions, I found myself a well
woman, able to attend to all household
duties. The medicine has given me q
new lease of life."
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ESPECIAL CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DISPATCH,

that tourists are willing to go little out OF
their direct course to sail over its phenom-
enally clear water and to look at the mount
ain scenery which surrounds it. There is
hardly place in the country, away from a
big city, where one sees so many nationali-
ties represented in the guests at the hotels.
But when you come to settling in your
mind, without outside evidence, what coun-
try each foreign looking man has come
from, you are liable to mistake. Here is a
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18
They Met by Chance.

Thin Bather-I beg pardon, sir. Have
we not met before?
Stout Bather-Possibly, sir. am Blob
son, the inventor of "Blobson's Great Anti
Fat Remedy"
Thin Bather-Ah, 1 knew could not be-
mistaken. am Professor Dingbats, of the
School ofIPhysical Culture. Shake!-Puck.
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A VIEW OF ENGLAND.

When the boarders get tired of the gar
dens they can go up on the ramparts and
have o superb view of the city sleeping on
its hills, and on clear days, of England
across the Channel. The ramparts encom-
pass all of the old town, or the Haute-Ville,
as it is called. and in which live the aristoc-
racy of Boulogne, whose forefathers lived
there when the sea washed the ramparts,
and the Basse-Ville was not. Leading off
from the ramparts by drawbridge, over
hanging a waterless moat, not far from the
convent, is an old gray castle, with massive
towers and narrow barred windows, high up
in the steep, rough walls. 1t is the Chateau
de Boulogne, now the fortress and residence
of the Governors, and in one of these great,
round. Norman towers Napoleon III. was
imprisoned after his famous descent upon
Boulogue in 1910. His room overlooked
the court, not over the broad avenue of the
ramparts, and he must have had pretty
dreary time of it. Out of the walls, occa-
sionaily, spring bunches of green, but other
wise they are as stern and bare as cliff
that overhangs the sea.
Quiet and peaceful and away from the
world as convent life is, it has its distrac-
tions. got up at 7:30 week or two since
to witness the first communion of the little
bows of the college. The chapel is large
and handsome room, with the carved stalls
of the nuns at the back, many chairs and
prIe-dieus in front, and rich and beauti-
full altar smothered in wonderful flowers
made by the Reverende Mere, so perfec:
that never questioned their truth.
In the center of the altar. was a draped
crimson mantle lined with ermine and sur
mounting a crown, and beneath was a mass
of gilt roses. Thirty or 40 wax candles
burned on either side, and when the priest
hon IL lol -
heavy gold embroidered yellow robes he
made picture which many subiect-hunt-
ing painter would have hailed with joy.
Red draperies were everywhere.
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THE FIRST COMMUNION.

In little room behind the stalls choir
of boys sang, and after the parents and
friends were seated. door near the chapel
opened, procession of altar boys appeared,
and two by two passed down the aisle and
out into the hall to meet the comm unicants.
They looked like little bishops in their long
red silk gowns, with the delicate white lace
falling above, and their hands crossed over
their chests. In little time we heard the
sound of approaching chanting voices, and
the little commandments appeared, clad in
dark blue, with a white band on their arms.
They marched between the stalls and took
their seats in the long red pews which had
been placed IN the upper part of the chapel,
and each kneeling beneath a tall stalk Of
white and shapely lilies. They were fol-
lowed by the altar boys, and then left their
seat, each taking enc of the great white
candles ranged in the sides of the chapel,
went to the altar. This performance was
repeated several times, and there were two
impressive sermons. It all lasted about an
hour and o half, and then the boys went
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They were exquisitely dressed, their manners
were gentle. and they were uDcommonly
pretty. But one of them cried out, $50
long!'' while the other exclaimed, ''I'll see
you laterp' That was not very shocking as
an example of slang, yet it called out a
severe reprimand from the girls mother,
who until lately would not have thought of
forbidding expressions much further off
from dictionary sanction. KAMERA.
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LIFE In A CONVENT.
a Picturesque and Historical Retreat
on the French Coast
DESCRIBED BY A NOTED NOVELIST.
Impressive Ceremonies at the Visiting
Bishops Reception.
NAPOLEON AND TIE GRAND SALON

CORRESPONDENT OF THE DIsPArcH.J
BoULoGNE-sUR-MER, July 80.
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centuries. Henry VIII.
once slept there, and in
1904 it was the residence of
Marshal Ney while COM
manding the camp of Bou-
logne. 1t was originally
built as q palace for the
Archbishop, and contains
the authentic portraits of
'he IL bishops who occu-
pied the See of Boulogne
from 1566 tn 1890 T,atar IL
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1889-08-18

HE Convent de la
Retraite, where 1
am writing my new
book, is one of the
oldest and most in
teresting in France,
counting its age by
Santa Fe daily New Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1885-1897, 1889-04-03
DEATHS SAD HAVOC.
Mrs. VIM. Mailsn Dies Last NIghtrDe-
misc Of y Pioneer.

Death under the ssddest Of So circum-
stances has invaded the home OF Mr..
VIM. Mailan. His lovely young wife,
who but few weeks ago became the
mother Of an only son, departed this life
last night after painful illness Of several
months. She had not been ut all well
for year past, being afflicted with pull
monary troubles. During the birth OF her
child she was extremely i'll, but rallied
again and only begun to sink some three
days ago. The deceased was the daughter
of Thomas Moore, and became Mrs.
Mailand three years ago. Life never ap-
peared brighter than it did for this es-
teemed young couple until sickness in
vaded their happy home. For the
bereaved husband universal sympathy is
expressed. The funeral will take place
from the Episcopal church at 3p. N. to-
morrow. The child is now & weeks Of
a re; is in good health, and has the care
of very faithful nurse.
CAPT. BRESruEGER.
Capt. Brentlinger, sturdy old timer
known to all the pioneer residents Of New
Mexico, died at his room at Don deg,
Gonzales residence last night. He came
to the territory in 1859 from Texas
with lot of prospectors " no disbanded
at old Fort Fillmore. There Capt. Brent.
lnger secured employment with the
of the army rs assistant
wagon master. After serving year there
he went with Capt. Fred Myers to Fort
Union. He served re- wagon master till
the breaking out OF TIE war, when
he lett and went to Texas and
Joined the confederate forces, later
returning to New Mexico as wagon mas
ter under Col. Sibley. He was taken
prisoner by the iederal forces at Fort
Craig during the battle OF Nalverde. Be-
ing aiterward parolled he settled for a
time at Peralta, where served as post
trader for several years until the post was
abandoned. Thence he rame to settle at
Golden and ran a store, and a year or so
later he secured employment at the gov
eminent corral here under John Ritter.
This place he held until few years ago,
" nen Ills dPe lH'Hpd' HateI illui-lOT dtllEc
work, since which time he has been ten
derby cared for by Don Diego Gonzales
and family, whose charity was most I'M
stintingly bestowed. He was 81 years of
age, and has always borne the name Of
being an honest, straightforward man in
all the paths Of life. His only known
relative is niece, Mrs, Molie ?. Mich
olson, of 81 India street, Boston, who las