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A Glimpse Of the sultan.

FROM the Httsburx Presl
B, The sultan looks like many another man with
black hair and short black mussache and beard,
neither very old nor very young. j have NOS
enough admiration for him 10 cal him hand
some. He was in uniform and wore RED tar
bush or iez hat, which, b. the way, IL the dis
tinguishine head dress Of every Mohsmpeasn,
neat The Koran. Later In the day, when We
we're in the magnificent mosque Of ST Sophie
In the STEAMBOAT quarter, asked the guide II
The milan never came TO that mosque. He
said, ma; he is afraid" The fact u the sub
Tan 4 4 prisoner in his palace, afraid 70 yen-
turs In the public throng lest he meet the fate
Of come Of bis predecessor. How, pleasant IL
must be 10 b sultan!
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BlganLlc eplOrnlS OF REAL SIZE.
Madagascar, which stood IL feet high and laid
| an egg as big as 14s good-sized hens eggs and
holdlng Two gallons. Arab traders, such as
SlnDad the Sailor is said to have been, made
their way to Madagascar centuries ago, when
this mighty fowl was still in existence, and
brought back the yarns which subsequently
developed into the tabled roc. A bigger bird
than this, however, taking weight a criterion,
existed In New Zealand as late as the time of
Capt Cook. 1t stood 8 feet high, though it was
so bulky that full-grown one would have tipped
the scale at something like !. 900 pounds. The
egg 1t laid was trihe smaller than that Of the
roc. This was the giant moa. 1t was so clumsy
that 1t could not escape from sailors. who
landed on the island and killed it for food. The
extinction OF the species is supposed to have
been caused by a change i'll the New Zealand
climate, for it is known that the enormous
fowls gathered in great numbers at the last
about certain hot springs and there persisted.
Quantities of their bones have been found in
these springs.
SEA ELEPHANTS.
Among the interesting skeletons already
! cleaned and soon to be mounted in the museum
are those Of the very last sea elephants, sup
posed to have survived the slaughter by
hunters who pursued them off the coast of
southern California for the oil they yielded.
These creatures look like huge seals and grew
to be 20 feet in length. The males had pro-
bosses resembling an elephant. The museum
has also, as yet unmounted, the only
bones known to exist of the famous
extinct pallas cormorant, which formerly
inhabited the Commander Islands off the
coast of Kamschatka. Also it possesses more
bones of the extinct great aux than are owned
by all the other museums in the world. These
are so valuable that single skeleton of this
bird was sold the other day for $500. The
great aux used TO breed in immense numbers
on Funk Island, northeast of Newfoundland,
but the cod fishermen killed them off for food
and for their feathers, to sell for making
feather beds. They could not fly and 30 were
unable to get away.
SKELETONS FROM PARIs
The world is pretty much supplied with hu-
man skeletons from Paris, where they are pro-
duced for market in great numbers. One great
| establishment there is largely devoted to turn
ing them out, though it also has a department
for the manufacture OF skeletons of beasts and
! birds, and even Of frogs, lizards and other rep
tiles. In the French metropolis there is never
any difficulty In securing human bodies for
such purposes from the hospitals and the
morgue. They are quoted as a regular COM
| merclal article. Human skeletons are OBJ
| tanned and mounted like any others. An in
genious process worth mentioning is employed
for separating the bones of the skulls of chill
dren, which are too fragile to admit of disartc-
ulation by hand. They are filed with dried
| peas, which are then permitted to soak, and
their swelling effects the disjunction with the
most perfect nicely.
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ury you can nave your
family skeleton in handsome ash case with
see that, according to these figures, very many
people are worth more dead than they are
alive. man living, however, is supposed to
be much more valuable creature than a
gorilla. Strange to say the reverse
the mounted skeleton of gorilla
being worth six times rs much a. Q mans, or
$500. A cat, worth nothing at all when alive,
sells for Sl2 when its bones are strung together
In proper shape with brass wire. In its case
artisan creating it. With the gorilla IL 10 Just
the opposite, the raw material being the thing
that Is difficult to obtain. The skeleton of an
orang-o1tang sells for s200, lions for SIS,
bears for eos, q dogs for ESQ, whales for
4l60, Q horses for S70 an Indus river croco-
for ss0o, python's for $75 aud . ella mon
stars for els.
A CELLAR FULL OF BONES.
Tho entire cellar OF q building close by the
Smithsonian ID given up 10 the storage Of
skeletons in the rough. Hundreds of big
drawers In huge cabinets are filed with the
bony parts OF birds and small mammals One
drawer, for instance. will be stuffed with skeIe-
tons OF parrots, another with those of owls.
another with those Of cormorants and frigate
birds, and 90 on Still another drawer will
contain the osseous frame works Of MONKEYS.
Wild oats, foxes. &c. From the rafters
overhead and the water pipes that run
across between beams hang similar remains of
larger creatures, such ailigators and Chin
panzees. Good-sized boxes are filed with
great snakes perfectly dried, among them boa.
constructors fifteen feet or more in length. A
little room shut of is clu;tered with the skulls
OF buffaloes, and long tables and shelves are
covered with jars Of alcohol, in which are the
bodies Of birds and little animals, most con-
veniently kept In that way. Ii Is . gruesome
place altogether.
low sKELKroS n PRrpARKD.
When the National Museum experts are ready
10 prepare . skeleton for mounting, supposing
that II 10 that Of = small creature, they simply
Dss 10 soak In water for while and then scraps
the bones, which are subsequently bleached in
the sun Nothing more need be done prepare
tory 10 putting them together with wires. But
in the case Of big animal the process il niue b
more elaborate. Suppose that 1t Is Q giraffe
sent in the rough from Africa The hunter
who shot 10 has taken on all the hssh he con-
vsniently could aud has packed the remainder
Of the dried beast a. compactly a. possible.
poisoning 10 with arsenic or arsenical soap.
70 RRKvKNr n IRON pxcAY.
30 effective II arsenic in this way that the
snakes sent in. evon very big ones, are simply
tallsd and dried whole. with an arsenic sppii-
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they are packed up and
sent off to the skeleton
factory, wherever it
may be, the skull and
leg bones being placed
inside the rib cavity for
the sake of economic
ing packing space. In
this condition they are
shipped in filing orders
by the commercial
houses, or they are pre-
pared and mounted to
suit the customer. This
is really a great indus
try. 1t is very interest
ing even to read one OF
the catalogues pub
lished by a firm of this
sort. From it you learn
that o human skeleton.
adult. mounted with a
suspension ring Is worth
from Si0 to $50. The
anne article on a black
walnut pedestal, with
bronzed standard and
with a cambria tunic,
is valued at $50. 1t is
worth mentioning that
the tunic is a black
dress for the skeleton,
calculated to show off
its yhitened bones to
advantage. Skeletons
have fashions like live
persons, and black is
their proper wear. If
You wish to spend a
trifie more for the lux
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employed for purposes OF transportation where
horses we're unavailable. but they did not serve
ct all They were established on a ranch in
New Mexico and encouraged to propagate their
speeiea italian settlers, with an eye to bust
ness, went into the enterprise and raised camels
for the market 1t il said that many descendants
Of these original assisted hump-backed immi-
grsnts are now being exhibited in circuses.
Biggest Of the imported lot was an old fellow
named Nebuohadnszzar,w whose carcass has been
st the Smithsonian for some time past awaiting
sociological attention. Now his skeleton has
been mounted and set up in the museum
HE GATHERS THEM IN.
One branch of the National Museum Is eX-
slusively devoted to the manufacture Of skele-
tons. Nothing could well be more interesting
than this very extraordinary industry. There
are in various parts Of the world great estab
lishments engaged altogether in the business
Of collecting what are called natural history
specimens" Largest of all these concerns is
one at Rochester. NY, the proprietor OF which
has several immense ware houses filled with
dead and preserved animals of every imagina-
bic sort His occupation in life is to gather for
sale the carcasses OF beasts and birds from
every part of the earth, and he spends most Of
his time travelling all over the world i'll search
of his stock in trade. The object of his jour
ney Is not to procure the dead creatures him
self but to hire others to obtain them.
he will contract with an Australian hunter,
for instance, to supply so many samples OF the
duck billed ornithohy nchus; or he will make
similar arrangement in South Africa for the de-
livery of given number of dried ostriches at
stated price. In the same way he will make an
arrangement for q batch of crocodiles from the
Ganges or for assortment of pythons and
snacondas from South America. He has cor
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Death Of an Old Priest

Brother Vincent OF Notrs Dame University,
South Bend, Ind, died Thursdsy nighS Of
the university. He was one hundred years old,
and had been blind for many years, but his
other senses were not enfeebled BY his great
age. Brother Vincent was one OF the four
Frenchmen who came TO the spot where the
famous Notre Dame now d with Very Rev.
Father Lorin in 1872
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A PORPOIsE.

respondents all over the surface OF the globe,
and through them or from other big firms like
his own in London, Paris. Berlin and other
cities Of Europe he buys whatever he wants in
this way. The stock hekeeps on hand is simply
enormous and includes such things skele-
tons of extinct and even antediluvian creatures
very rare and worth up In the thousands of
dollars. He publishes regular annual cata-
logues Of what he has to sell, and one has only
to send to him an order for anything Of the
kind that may be desired.
HOW THE MUSEUM PRoCUREs SKELETONS.
It is through this concern and others like it
abroad that an institution like the National
Museum secures its skeletons. Such of them as
are not got in this way are procured by ex-
change with other museums, all of them having
among themselves a regular system Of barter
The original producer Of the raw material, if
he may so be called, is the hunter or other
person who captures the game. He cuts off
from the bones as much of the flesh as can be
conveniently removed and permits the re-
mainder of the carcass to dry in the open air
not in the sun, for that would drive the grease
into the bones, but in the shade. When the
remains have become entirely dessicated
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A REAL Roc's EGG.

One of the most in
teresting things in the
National Museum is
the cast Of a real roc's
egg. Strange as it may
appear, there is a
foundation for the
storied existence of
the supposed-to-be-fab-
ulous bird. IL was the
q. .
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French Crops Destroyed.

The crops throughout France, except in
the section east Of the Rhone, have
been DESTROYED by incessant rains. Off,
ciAl reports from the great wheat district Of
Lablangs state that the crop is rotting. Tbs
losses are estimated at 00,000, 900 francs.
Dealers In grain discount the scarcity and the
price Of bread In rising.
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Fire Thursday at Urbana, Benton county,
Iowa, destroyed J. d. Burrers store and the
Masonic and Odd Fellow halls. The loss 10
100000. Insurance ives small
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N HISTORIC camel's
skeleton was added this
week to the National
Museums collection OF
queer bones. When
Jefferson Davis was
Secretary of War thirty
camels were brought to
this country from
Arabia for use in the
Great American Desert.
1t was supposed that
they could be proftably
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UNCLE SANS BONES.
The Wonderful Collection of Skele-
tons he is Making in Washington.
A CELLAR FULL OF BONES.

All the Beasts and Birds OF the World
Represented-How the skeletons are
Procured and Prepared-Restoratio
Of Ante-DeIuge Monster.
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TEACHING YOUNG BOYS TO ROB HOUSES AND Or
aANIzISa THIEvISo ExPEpIrIoNs-A SCHOOL
OF BURaLARY-oPERATIoss IN WHICH TIE PRO-
FEssoR TOOK PART.
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Conclave Of Catholic Bishops.

The conclave Of Catholic bishops Of the
United States. which has been in session at
Boston closed Thursday afternoon. Thursday
morning remarkable sight was Witnessed at
the cathedral, three gradations OF the priest
hood celebrating mass at the same hour In one
church, the cardinal being the celebrant
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which everywhere abound In respect to III
CANNES the queen city u the Constantinopls Of
, 1890-05-23

CHICAGO. May 22.-The American
Publication society today elected Samuel
A. Grocer. of Pennsylvania, president. A
large number of other officers were also
elected, A committee report was adopted
recommending hat the managers appoint
men to prepare a catechism for use in
Sunday schools. At the afternoon session
a sensational episode occurred involving
the race question. Rev, A. Binga. Of
Virginia, presented a protest from the
lists condemning the publication society
for iindignity offered colored people by
dropping, through race prejudice, the
names Of Revs' Lowe, Simmonds and
Brooks from the list contributed to the
Baptist Teacher. Mr.. Binga firmly de
manded an explanation of the dropping
Of his three colored brethren, Gen
eral Secretary Grifhths assume
all the responsibility. He said the
three ministers in question had
said warm things during the bitter
troubles at indianapolis last year which
people had exaggerated and misunder-
stood. The three were thereby untitled
to serve as editorial writers and the pub
llshers, who had a right, so informed
them. At the conclusion of DR.. Griffiths
remarks the protests were referred to the
board of managers. 1t was intimated
during the discussion on the matter that
unless something is done to counteract the
effect of the dismissal of the three col
ored writers, the Baptists are liable to
have their hold on the colored race weak
ened
, 1890-05-23

NEW YoRK, NAV 22.-Patrick Hyncs
of Green Point. who has served two
terms as national treasurer of the Ancient
Order Of Hibernians, left home two weeks
ago saying that he was going t. attend
the convention OF his order in Hartford.
His friends in Green Point say that they
have not heard from him since. The man
in charge of his blacksmith shop in Green
Point said yesterday that he didn't know
what had become of Hynes. The two
men who are his bondsnen for the money
that he held as national treasurer have
been making inquiries about him at the
shop. At the convention Thomas j.
Dundon OF Ohio was elected national
treasurer to succeed Hynes. The treasu-
er's report was read at the convention by
the secretary. According to a delegate it
showed that there was a deficit of ST.,
400
, 1890-05-23

WASHINGTON, May 22-The house com
&c on census reported tie bill amend
ing the census act to prescribe for a pen
atty upon any supervisor or enumerator
who shall receive or any person who shall
pay any fee or other consideration in ad-
dition to the compensation for such ser
vice. Passed.
A conference was oyjered on the army
appropriation bill and military academy
appropriation bill and the house went
into a committee of the whole on the river
and harbor bill.
Henderson of Illinois, chairman of the
committee on rivers and harbors, ex-
| planned the provisions OF the bill. saying
it appropriated $40, 932, 900, based upOn
estimate s. aggregatiug $39, 500, 900. He
believed there was no money that went
out of the treasury that was of SO much
interest to the people "a such money as
was expended in the improvement of
rivers and hartors.
Blanchard of Louisiana spoke in favor
of the river and harbor bills contendipg
they did more to solve the problem of
cheap transportation than all the inter
state commerce bills that could be passed.
The fact that a great and disastrous food
had recently occurred in the lower Ms
sissippi valley was a sufficient excuse, if
one was needed for calling the attention
of the house to the requirements of that
s'ream. 1t was time congress should
be walking up to the idea that something
should be done to harness the waters
OF the Miss ssippi. That was too great a
national feature to the handled by any
state or aggregation of states. The time
had come when congress should appIO-
pirate money, not only for improving the
navigation of the river but for the pur-
pose of preventing floods. The late flood
had not demonstrated hat the levee sYs-
TEN was a failure, but that an ~sdCqulte
system of levees should prevent floods,
and the piecemeal system which the i'm
poverish states of the south was able to
carry on was not sufhci nt to prevent in
undatiou.
Catchings of Mississippi spoke in the
same vein.
Kerr OF Iowa attacked the hill which
was defended by GroSvcner of OhiO.
After the committee rose Quinn OF New
York introduced a bill reducing to one
cent an ounce postage on drop l,ttcrs in
Giles of lOO, 900 nhalitants or over. Ad-
iuuned
, 1890-05-23

MELBOURNE, May 22.-The Victoria
parliament was opened to-day by Earl
Hopeton. He congratulated the parlla-
ment upon the prosperity OF the country
and the rapid strides toward federation,
which, he said, was nearing the work of
STRENGTHENING the fort works of the col
ony. The arming Of forts with new style
of breech leaders was almost finished. A
conference will be held at Adelaide to
take action in concert with other Austria
liam colonies to bring about lower postal
and cable rates between Australia aud
Europe. Large extensions of existing
railways are also to be made and irrigating
works are to be constructed.
, 1890-05-23
CONGRESSIONAL.
Calvin S. Brice's Creden tials
Filed in the Senate.
The Senate Still Wrestling
With Coinage.
The River and HarbOr Bill in
the House.

WASHINGTON. May 22.-ln the senate
a message was presented from the presi-
dent with a communication from the sec
rotary of the interior on the subject Of the
pur chase from the Creek Indians of land
for the use of the Seminules. Referred to
the committee on Indian affairs.
The credentials of Calvin S. Brice, sena-
tor from Ohio. were presented aud placed
on file.
Senator Stewart today proposed an
amendment to sundry civil appropriation
bdl authorizing the secretary of agricul-
ture to expend $3.50, 900 in continuing in
v~estigation as to the extent to which the
arid region OF tho United States can be
redeemed by irrigation and segregation of
irrigable lands 10 such region and for the
selection of sites OF reservoirs and other
hydraulic work in connection with irriga
ton,
The silver bill was then taken up and
Daniel addressed the senate in its ia
vor.
Daniel said gold and silver money were
welded by nature. Before a Jury of all
civil and enlightened nations throughout
centuries the cause of gold and silver had
been heard and with one voice the nations
had answered hat to gold and silver be-
longed the royal attribute of money. Dan
lei ridiculed the idea Of an avalanche of
silver crushing down upon the United
States in case of the free coinage of silver.
1t was obvious, he said, that silver money
abroad would not come to the United
States mint, and it was also obvious there
was no such annual production of silver
in the world. 1852, 600. 900. ofwhich all:but
$5l 100000 were now coined as to cause
any fear on that score. There was only
one other point of apprehension
apprehension that there was an
accumulated stock of silver that
would rush to America as
soon as the mint was open to free coinage
and this was answered by the secretary Of
the treasury himself, who stated in his
report: There is no known accumula-
ton of silver bullion anywhere in the
world" All silver should be admitted to
free coinage and all silver being SO admit
ted to valu, equal with gold. 1t was not
reasonable to conclude that as soon as
there was a restoration of silver to its
ancient plan OF money dignity aud thus
an enlargement OF worlds volume of
money prices these things that had gone
down with its decline would again have a
tendency TO rise with its ascension. 1t
the close OF Daniels speech the silver
bill was laid aside without action, and
tue amendments to the naval a~ppropria-
ton bill agreed to in executive session.
Adjourned.
, 1890-05-23
Stocks and CarrIe Markets.

NEW York. May 22.-The stock
market was less active today for the regu,
ular list, bat some of the trading in the
unlisted department especially in sugar re.
~ineries, after some hesitation, developed
a strong tone, which had the effect OF
leaving almost everything traded in at
the highest point for the day and many
material gains were scored.
Government bonds dull.
Money on call close at 4GS per cent
Petroleum opened weak. Spot g2f,
June 90, but declined to 9li, spot 9ls.
June then rallied and closed firm.
Following are closing prices of stocks:
Pacific 6s. liz; American Express, IlS;
Canada Pacific, sli; Canada Southern,
COZ; Central Pacific. 35f; Burlington,
l0Si Delaware, Lackawanna l. Western,
l46s; Denver & Rio Grande, 10; Erie,
29t; Kansas & Texas. l6i; Lake Shore,
lllb; Louisville & Nashville. 9lt; Michi-
gan Central. 99I: Fargo Express, As;
Western Union, $50; Missouri Pacific, 763;
Northern Pacific, 3S; preferred, S5s;
Northwestern, ll6s; preferred, 1861;
Rev York Central, l09; Oregon I'm.
provement, 5Of; Oregon Naviga-
ton. lO6t; Oregon Short Line, ST.;
Transeontinental, 4SI; Pacific Mail,
43t; Reading, 46t, Rock Island,
$50; Milwaukee 4 st. Paul, III; Texas
Pacific, 234; Union Pacific, 81; United
States Express, IS; American cotton
oil 32s.
CHICAGO. May 22.-Cattle-Receipts,
II, 500, Market dull and 59IOc lower.
Beeyes, 81 65G5.00; stockers and feeders,
81 s0(94. 10; steers, s.. SOFA 25: Texas
grass steers. 81. 9O(93. rs.
Sheep-Receipts. 1000. Market
steady. Natives, 50. 75@6.l5; western,
a 0o96. 90; Texans, $4,000 SIS.
Wheat-Easy. Cash, June, 95; July,
Corn-Steady. Cash, S3I; June, 33E
@34; July, 34!@ 34s.
, 1890-05-23

CHICAGO, May 22.-The fast has been
brought to light that j. B. Siumonds,
the man who bought the furniture for the
Carlson cottage. where DIR. Cronin was
murdered, was recently seen in the city BY
Salesman HATFIELD from whom he bought
the furniture. The police, however, have
been unable to find him. Yesterday a
detective returned from a f~ruiiless trip to
Mexico in search OF the man who drove
the famous white horse. Today Chief
of Police Marsh said be knew positively
that this man was in Mexico but had re-
ceived a warning of the officers approach
through the g~arrulousness of some of DIR.
Cronin's friends, whom 1t was necessary
t. apprise Of the object of the search.
, 1890-05-23

ASHLAND, Wis, May 22.-An awfu
railroad wreck is reported to have occurred
yesterday al or near Plovsr, a remote
station on the Pontage branch of the
Wisconsin Central. Local officials of the
road refuse to FAY anything about it.
A Lake Shore engineer who got into
Ashland this afternoon says he was
informed that several people we're killed
and injured, and that the company ha.
taken advantage Of the remoteness otsthe
place to suppress news of the accident.
1t is doubtful if ANYTHING more can be
learned until tomorrow.