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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-03

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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-03

THE REV CANON KNOX LITTLE Is expected q
al Trinity Church this morning as 10 80 oeloo
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-02-03
DEATH OF THE SULTAN OF vIrU.
MARoK's LATEST SAMOAN ORDER

A cable dispatch from Zanzibar announces tho
death Of Achmed Sultan Of VItu. His nephew, Tamo-
balar has been proclaimed his successor
THE INCOME OF KRUPP AND RorHscHILD.
A report presented to the Landtag on personal tax
alton for 1850 dscoses the fact that the richest Prus
stan contributor is In the Dusseldorf circle The per
son referred to IS undoubtedly Krnpp, whose annual
revenue Is 1850 900 marks. In the Wiesbaden circle
The largest contributor is obviously Rothschld, who
admits an income of 100000 marks.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
The First American stmi,tress.

The first American postmistress wa S the
those revolutionary tirsesssrr RE Be- CT
our good and great President, Washington.
She was a Miss Elizabeth Dayton, of New
port, r. l. Balfour came to America from
Edinburg, Scotland, in 1772, landing at
Boston. He was few years in the North
married Miss Dayton in New York. .city.
His brother had preceded him to Charles
ton, S c. In 1777 he sailed for Charles
ton, but the distracted state of the country
induced him to leave his wife and her
children with relations in New England
until he could prepare Southern home
for them, but soon after this the tide of
war turned South and rolled its wave over
the Carolinas, and her husband cast In his
lot with the defenders of the home OF his
adoption North Carolina; but he soon
fell a victim to the barbarity of party of
Royalists led by Colonel Fannin, British
officer. who murdered Balfour in his
house, in the presence of a sister and his
eldest child, recently come from Edin-
burgh They were with him to nurse and
comfort him in his illness, caused by ex-
posure and fatigue in military service.
Soon as Mrs. Balfour heard of her hus-
bands tragic death, she hastened South,
coming in care of General Greene, who
landed at Washington; from thence twas
a tedious trip through the country to the
home in Randolph County where her noble
husband was murdered on the holy Sab
bath, the 10th of March, 1882. She visited
the spot where he was so hastily inferred,
for it was unsafe for his sister and child to
remain long there, as Fannin threaented
to return and burn the dwelling and take
away the negroes. As the country was
still unsafe, Mrs BalfOur deemed 1t i'm
proper TO live upon the plantation. With
sorrow she turned away from his lonely
resting place, and went to Salisbury until
she could return to the spot so dear to
her
While residing in Salisbury President
Washington appointed her postmistress,
which position was filed with entire salts
faction, and when she gaveu office there
was only one-half cent behind in ac-
counts. When the country was peaceful
she returned TO the home pFn7i0e ed for her
by her noble but lost husband. She lived 1
under the protecting love of her only son.
After a long life of good deeds, she
rests beside him who was murdered be-
cause of his devotion to Cardinals free
dom, and to the American cause in the
days that ''tried mems souls" and princi-
ciples, too.-SUnny South.
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She hit thenail fearfJ whack-
I meant to say, she titled;
She bathed her thumb with afRica,
And then sat down and cried. -
1.-THE Second Jonah"

George Leonard, an Acting Master in
the United States Navy during the Civil
War, and stationed on board the gunboat
Katahdin. West Gulf blockading squad
ron, in 1868, told "a story Of heroism, and
exhibited marks on his body that cor
roborated his words. The year 1850
found Leonard as one of the crew of the
ship Enterprise, u whaler, N the North
Pacific. One day he was stationed In the
bow of a whale-boat a long distance from
the ship with brave crew, who had
sighted whale, and made for the monster
with all possible dispatch. When within
proper distance Leonard threw his har-
pooh, striking the fish hard and deep. In
some manner the line, as it was running
out, caught the body of one Of the men
in such way as to throw him overload.
The man suddenly sank, whereupon
Leonard transferred his line to a boat
mate and sprang into the ocean in aid Of
the drowning sailor
The whale, now maddened by his fast
flowing blood, made rush for the boat
Remarkable and horrible to relate, Leon
ards friend had managed to regain the
boat, while he himself was caught by the
whale between its jaws, his position being
inside the monsters mouth, with nothing
protruding but one Of his arms. In this
manner the man wss.ji ressity within the
Jaws of death itselfS. The whale instantly
plunged down into tEle deep. and III the
words Of Leonard himself, 1.-The fish
seemed to be going down, down into
eternity itself" The Imprisoned man,
after all of this had nc lost his presence
of mind. He mustered his entire bodily
strengthened he was powerful man
actually bracing himselfin sucha position
as to compel the fish to spread its jaws,a
the same time, with his arm that was free,
he grabbed the sheath knife out of its
socket, cutting right and left. No sooner
was there a sufficient opening made than
Leonard forced his body outside.
Up to the surface he swan, when, most
strange to say, he found himself within an
arms length of his boat. He was saved.
The marks of the whales violence and the
dents of its teeth were very plainly visible
on Leonard's arms, and he was always
pointed out by his brother naval officers
as 1.-THE Second Jonah. '-Pbi!adelPhia
Press.
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az was sickn .he apologized, forget

al was sick," she apologized, forget
ting that she had once denied it.
He was also much agitated, and ex-
ceedingly doubtful as to what he ought
to do or say. She was about to leave the
room with her aunt when he spoke
miss MeIine"-and she saw that the
secret was out-''I don't know at all
what to say. I don't know anything at
all about the customs Of society. Ihave
never had anything to do with young
ladies in my life except my correspond
ence with you. My accident at Chicka-
manga affected my brain for long time,
so that I could not remember. Perhaps
now have gone quite crazy. 1t is too
absurd. know, but 1 cannot go now
without saying more-if you will hear
it"
He paused a moment, but she did not
forbid it, and he went on:
II do not know how to explain it.
Either from the effect of that shell, or
from the weakness and half starvation
that followed, I was never able to remem-
Der your name; though you don't know
how hard l tried to think, and how much
1 should have liked to hear from you
again. All this time thought you were
a little girl. But now, if I die for it,
must say i'll love you, dear Miss Lille
He did not die for it. She took step
nearer, held out her hand, and then leaned
her pretty head on his shoulder
at is all so sudden, she murmured;
"but-" and she nestled closer, and with
a sort of sob she added: ''And all this
time thought you were dead. "-Flaank
Teslis'S
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19

There was an unfortunate charger
whose duty it was to carry an extremely
fat and heavy Indian General Feeling
that this task was more than could be
reasonably required of him, the intelli-
gent animal invariably lay down and re-
fused to get up whenever the General
tried to mount him, and so far gained his
object that his owner sold him to young
officer who was going to a distant station
up country. Two wears afterward the
Geneidi THU 70 inspect SOM -c,.-,aer
environments, and as he travelled TO his
destination IN "a palanquin, was obliged
to borrow a charger for the purpose of
the inspection. There was some difficult
iy in finding one up to his weight. At
length an officer resigned to him a pow
srful horse for the occasion, which was
brought out, duly caparisoned, in front
Of the line. The General came forth
from his tent and proceeded to mount,
but the instant the horse saw him ad-
vance he flung himself fiat upon the sand,
and neither blows nor entreaties could IN
duce him to rise. 1t was the Generals
old charger, who from the moment OF
quitting his service had never once prac-
ticed the artifce until this second meet
ing. The General, who was an exceed
ingly gOod-humored man. Joined heartily
in the universal shout that ran through
the whole line on witnessing this lu'''
G Gus affair TIE H0rss and HIS Ridsr.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
White House Hrgienics.

The White House Is carefully attended
TO every year, and the filling-up of the
flats at the back of the house has done
away with the malarial influence from
that quarter 1t deserves now, Just as
much as it ever did, the encomiums that
cautious Tom Moore passed on it-al-
most the only thing he found in this
country to praise; and the great country
house upon which it is modeled-that Of
Duke of Leinster-is considered one OF
the finest in Great Britain. When Mum
kacsy, the Hungarian painter, was in
Washington, he went into raptures ove-
the architectural beauty of the building,
declaring the proportions were among the
most correct of any he had ever seen.
As for the cramped five bedrooms, there
are in reality six, and they are all per-
fectly huge, with high ceilings, great
mantels and heavy, old-fashioned win
dows, out of which the most charming
views are visible. They all open on
large corridor, the size of the state cor
ridor downstairs, and on the whole it
seems rather ridiculous that people who
were yesterday plain American citizens,
and Tomorrow viii be plain American
citizens, should not be able to make them
selves comfortable in the house that
Abigail Adams thought palatial. Boston
Transcript.
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DEEPLY INTERESTED.

whats all this I see in the papers
about the Samoan question:" asked Mrs.
Hixby of her husband the other evening.
Hixby, delighted to have his wife in
terested in public affairs, began st the be-
ginning and carefully and deliberately de
tailed the entire affair to his wife, and
when he was through he said: "Now,
do you understand it, my dear2'
''Ye-e-s, I think do, George, only l
I've been thinking
Thinking whatl"
thinking for the last ten minutes
that, after all, I'd have a cardinal instead
of Iettuce-leaf green on my new bonnet.
Wouldn't you like the cardinal better,
dearestr Time.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
Gems and Their CompositiOn.

mo" said the chemist, 1.-THE ruby is
not called a ruby because it is red, for
the topaz, which may be yellow or a deli
cate wine color, and the sapphire, which
is blue, are both rubies. The humble
toiler consoling himself with his clay to-
bacco pipe, the potter molding the plastic
clay into shape upon his magic wheel, or
the deliver in damp slate quarries, proba-
bly, does not know that his pipe and his
CLAY and his brittle slate are of the very
substance from which the flaming Orien-
tai ruby, the mellow torpaz and the rich
sapphire are evolved; but such Is the
fact They are anon the most beautiful
of gems, yet are but simple crystals Of
sillaceous earth-mere cts of alumina.
The glorious blue light that turks within
the sapphire is the chemical action Of one
grain of iron on every 100 grains of
alunina The red ruby owes its bright
ness and hue to a mingling Of chronic
acid with the parent clay.
Different from the Oriental topaz Is
the topaz from Brazil, which, beautiful
as it is, is nothing but a compound Of
silica, or flint, and alumina, which also
make the garnet, and largely compose the
Occidental emerald and the beryl stone.
These two stones also contain an earth
known as glucina, so called because of
the sweetness of the salts discovered in 1t.
THE diamond is the king of gems, a
monarch blazing like the sun, and the
o,,oI ig 5ts y,,oorIi,,I,+ ,uaau Vor ou avarv-
one knows, the diamond is onlya chip Of
G9a7s:f5 ;asss l..E 4 an silica a net
water. But the diamond is the spiritual
evolution of coal, the realization of its
highest being Ten parts of water and
ninety parts of silica, combined in the
mystic crucible of nature, form the opal,
the water giving TO the gem that shifting,
changeable, irridescent coloring which is
the opal's peculiar charm Who would
imagine that the fire in the opal is not
fire at all, but, OF all things, water! And
yet the silica that holds the radiant
moisture captive is the common flint from
which our forefathers struck the igniting
sparks into their finder boxes.
''But the opal is not the only precious
stone that owes its being to flint. The
amethyst, the cat's-eye, the Egyptian
jasper-all are Oscillations of the ulti-
mate efforts of natural chemistry acting
on silica What is the lapis lazuli2 A
bit of common earth painted throughout
with sulphuret of sodium. And the
turquoise-what forms it and how did it
receive it soft, pale blue color! The tur-
quoise is phosphate of alumina, and cop
per III the earth gave it its lovely hue.
Chrysolite is pure silicate of magnesia.
OF the rare decorative stones and marbles,
if there were no carbonate of copper the
seeker after malachite would find his
search fruitless, and the sculptor would
sigh in vain for the matchless Carrara
marble if there was no carbonate Of lime
-Nelo York Sun.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19

1t Is said that the bite of rats Is poison
I'ous. have kept rats in big box for
to sell to gents, and when Pput my hand
in the box to get one l have been bitten
a dozen times a day, and no harm came
from the bites. Once l got a bite in the
ball of my thumb which swelled to my
elbow, and kept me in bed three months.
Rats, as some say, will lie down as if
paralyzed when they see ferret after
them. My experience is that rats will
run from ferret every time. Once l
had dog and ferret after rat, and the
rat to get away from the ferret ran right
lIn,,J al. -'as-'e ~ 9TH rs fact,
As for ferret sucking rats blood, 1t
don't do no such thing. 1t gives the rat
- min in the side Of the neck, drawing a
LITTLE stream of blood, and then it goes
for another rat
Fine tales are told about catching rats
with the gloved hand or with tongs.
Nonsense; the best way to catch rats is
to get a large trap with an opening made
so that rats can get in and can't get out.
Then put kind OF preparation in the
box that can he bought for SIPS an
ounce. The rats will climbs over each
other to get it. caught 119 in one
night in the Soldiers Home in Hampton,
Va, in this way not long ago.
Some say rats are not suspicious.
They are almost as suspicious as a crow.
I've seen a big lot of rats gather around
trap and hang around for half an hour.
E;1aI1,- ono old fellow wouId cross the
threshold and the Others would follow
like a flock of sheep.
I've heard chaps say as how they could
charm wild rats and carry EN- around in
their pockets l don't believe it. The
longer you keep full-grown live rat the
wilder he is. But if you take rats while
young and bring them up by hand they
will be as tame kittens.-Ne1o York
Sun.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19

The little country of Holland has fallen
so far from the proud position it once
held among the nations Of the earth, that
we are accustomed to think Of the sturdy
Dutch nation as people of little conse-
quenee. Yet, notwithstanding the de-
cline of her strength in Europe, Holland
is stin one Of the great colonial powers of
the world, ranking, it is said, only next
to Great Britain in that respect. Her
colonial possessions comprise some eight
hundred thousand square miles of fine
and fertile tropieal territory.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
The Lord of She SeiIly Islands.

81 am monarch of all survey an
nounced Alexander Selkirk, on his Rob
inson Crusoe island, and no doubt his au-
thoEity and power was greater and more
undisputed than that Of many of the Kings
and Queens. Indeed, should we want a
modern man with whom to compare him.
we would not look for him on a throne,
but may find him in a person of the nsne
of Smith-Colonel Smith Dorrien Smith,
Lord Proprietor of the Sicily Islands in
the English Channel.
He leases the islands, and hoKs su-
preme sway over the inhabitants thereof.
His word is law, and should am luckless
tenar: p1oses,, sgress or rsbel, he is
banished forthwith to the main land.
This is, we should say. united mon
aFchy without q King 81. yov
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
A SPRING GREETING.

What is this the bluebirds call,
Seeking mate and nesting-tree,
Whiting bright through forest hall,
Merrily, cheerily7
sit is spring--be joyous allF
This is what the bluebirds cali
What is this the robins sing,
Wooing from each leafng tree,
Making all the woodland ring,
Merrily, cheerily?
ut is spring, gladsome springP'
This is what the robins sing.
What is this our blithe hearts say,
As the Weakened earth we see
Broadening her robes so gay,
Merrily, cheerily?
Spring has come in springs old wayg'
This is what our blithe hearts say.
Spring old way, and springs old song
Only sung in newer key;
Gladened lives to spring belong,
Merrily, cheerily.
Sing we then, sing loud and long:
welcome, spring, in springs old wayp
Youths Banner.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
WORDS OF WISDOM.

Never worry or overwork.
Learn to put truth forcibly.
Watch the methods that win.
Keep your eyes and ears wide open.
It is a strange salt fish that no water
can freshen.
A capon eight months old is fitfor a
Kings table.
The vicious reproving vice are like the
raven Gliding blackness.
Choose brave employment with naked
sword throughout the world.
Live to-day-to-morrow may be too
late-the wise lived yesterday.
Whatsoever was the father of a dis
ease, an i'll diet was the mother.
Truth is as impossible to be soiled by
any outward touch as the sunbeam.
Contentment swells a mite into a talent,
and makes the poor richer than the In
dies.
A good trade is something which bank
failures or commercial panics do not de-
stroy.
When we fail to faithfully reprove a
sinful act, we lose our power over the
one who commits it.
If you have built castles in the air your
work need not be lost; that is where
they should be. Now put the founda-
tons under them.
The greatest of fools is he who imposes
on himself, and in his greatest concern
thinks certainly he knows that which he
has least studied, and Of which he is
most profoundly Ignorant.
Strong thoughts are iron nails driven
in the mind that nothing can draw out.
Although it is dangerous to have too
much knowledge of certain subjects, it is
still more dangerous to be totally igno-
rant of them. Rest satisfied with doing
well, and leave others to talk of you as
they please.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19

Says the New York Graphic. ~. l..
Bel, the new Superintendent of the Rail
way Mail Service, has not gone into the
service Of the Government to make money.
He was earning as railway expert about
$40, 600 year, and received $4,000 as a
fee for his advice and work in one rail
way case Just before he was asked to take
the present Office. His salary as superin-
tendent Of the Mail Service is $4,000 a
year He is personal friend of Post
master-General Wanamalzer, and has
sacrificed his financial interests to do the
Philadelphia statesman favor"
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19

Some Of the most ignorant immigrants
VINO arrive at Castle Garden, New York
city, look upon America as an Eldorado,
and are somewhat surprised to find that
they cannotpick up gold in the streets.
But that is almost the case now in Dull
luth, MINI, where a wonderful rich vein
Of copper has been laid bare in the prin-
cipal business thoroughfare, and within
two hundred feet of the City Hall Ex-
perts claim It TO be as rich as the Calumet
and Hecla veins.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
wEARY1N FOR YOU.

Jest a-wesryin' for you,
All the time a-feelin' blue;
Mlsnin' FOR you, wonderin' when
1ouu be comm home ageu.
RestleSs-don't know what 10 40
Jest a-pNearyin' for You
Keep a-mopin' day by day;
Dul-in everybody's way.
Folks they smile an pass along
Wonderin' what on earth is wrong:
'Twouldn't help 'em If they knew
Jest a-wearyin' for You.
Rooms so lonesome with your chair
Empty y the fireside there;
Jest can't stand the sight Of it:
Go outdoors an roam a bit.
But the woods is lonesome, too,
Jest a-wearyin' for you.
Comes the wind with soft cares
Like the rustlin' of your dress;
Blossoms faIlin' 70 the ground
Softly-hke your footsteps sound;
Notes.-The your eyes so blue,
Jest a-wearyin' for you.
Mornin' comes; The birds awake
Used to sing so for your sake.)
But there's sadness in the notes
That come thrilin' from their throatsl
Seem TO feel your absence too,
Jest a-wearyin' for you
Evenin' falls: Imiss you more
When the dark glooms in the door;
Seems jest ike you orter be
There to open it for mel
Latch goes tinklin'-thrills me through
Sets me wearyin' for you.
Jest a-wearyin' for you'll
An the time a-feeHn' bluel
Wishin' for you-wonderin' when
You'll be comm home agen-
Restless-don't know what to do
Jest a-wearyin' for you'll
F. L. Stanton, IN Atlanta Constitution.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
A Possible Phase of the Phonograph.

There is one possible phase of the pho
nograph which suggests the desirability
Of calling a halt to inventions The IN
strument has been used to take the sound
of the hearts beating, and it has been
suggested that people who can afford II
can keep a phonograph with which ne
can from time TO time record the ac1loH
of their heart, which they can lls STEM. 70
or have their physician listen to at lslI;ie,
Heaven spare the world any sae li,Ep 'llt
alon 81 ,0 II NV onr js already Hundreds
e1nsoloJ5 o % % o round imagining that they
Oh PeoPie 81 trouble" when if they
nav IN LET their hearts alone they
, woui5I J he perfectly wel.-Bost0S 1baas-
eript.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19

seldom a day passes but 1 read some
story about the quaint sayings and doings
of children" remarked an experienced
paterfamilias to friend on the rear plat
form of Niagara street car.
"They do say some funny things"
''Yes, indeed. My little six-year-old
daughter got off something new this
morning. Her older brother had been
going through some gymnastic exercises
and she had been watching him atten-
lively She suddenly turned to me, say
ing; Papa, amt it funny that we've
got so many hinges all over cur bodies. "
-Rlfalo Commercial.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19
to y&ndition.

de4d. The first funeral Of an Indian by
burial from the neighborhood of smarts-
vile took place a day OF two since The
remains were inferred in Nevada County.
They were Of a girl who was one of the
9Th Of six generations in which they were
living specimens up to two years ago.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19

oThe dearest and sweetest object in all
the world" said the young husband
fondly, 81 hold in these arms
.Isn't he little dariingl" assented the
Young wife, with a CLEAN of pride in her
eyes. s'And to think they wanted us to
mt him in kennel at Battery o for the
mob to look att Please don't embrace
MS so hard, Alfred. Fido doesn't like to
be treated roughly. Chicago Tribune.
The San Saba news. [volume] (San Saba, Tex.) 1873-1966, 1889-07-19

One Of the peculiarities of the United
States which forcibly impresses foreign
ems, states the San Francisco Chronicle, is
the bad condition Of the country roads.
While the facilities for moving goods
from ore remote point to another have
increased at a psodigious rate in America,
very little has been to improve the road
ways traversed by wagons.