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The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
The Future PRINCESS of Monaco,


A relative of the lady in question in
forms your correspondent that the Ouch
ess dc Richelieu, who has host of
friends in New Orleans, having visited
the first exposition here, is about to be-
come the Princess of Monaco. Although
now q Catholic, she will be the first lady
of Jewish origin who has been married
to reigning Christian prince. Margue-
rite Alice Heine, the future princess of
the little Mediterranean principality, is
the daughter of Michel Heine, cousin
german of Heinrich Heine, the poet. The
father of NJ. Michel Heine was the
brother of the celebrated Hamburg
banker, Solomon Heine who left e1 ,2OO,-
900 at his death. NJ. Michel Heine and
his brother Armand amassed large for
tunes in New Orleans, whence they re-
turned to Paris, where they are now
residing. They have still large amount
of valuable property in this city. from
which they realize n handsome dividend
annually. On Canal street they own,
together with other good paying prop
erty, the Pickwicls club building. All
the ladies of the Heine family have be-
come either Catholics or Protestants
with the exception of Nine. Furtado
Heine and the sister of the poet, who
still live in Hamburg.-New Orleans Tel
egram to st. Louis Post Dispatch.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
Warming Gliosts In China.

In case the family is too poor to own a
burial mound, or to stand the expenses
of the funeral, the coffin is kept in the
house until they can raise enough money
to put it under the ground in good style,
writes Frank G. Carpenter. A tutor en-
ployed at the American legation in Pc
king has had the coffin containing his
fathers body in his house for the last
two years. and lie has not yet been able
to raise enough money to bury it. Be-
fore lie picks out a burial spot he will,
like all Cinnamon, get fortune teller to
choose lucky place for him, and he
will so periodically to the grave and
burn some paper money over it and
some suits of paper clothes to keep the
spirit of his father warm, and will place
some food before it that his father may
have ghostly feast during the night.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
Freaks,

Punxsutawney has boy who, when
he reads, turns everything upside down.
Newspapers are his hobby, and he reads
them when inverted best. This peculiar
faculty was not Unborn, but acquired.
Tho child did not go to school, but passed
the time away in room, the walls of
which were covered with newspapers.
The latter were generally upside down,
and by reading from the bottom upward
he became familiar with inverted print.
George Broombaugh, a 9-year-old pu-
pill of Mapleton, is an ambidexter of a
peculiar nature. He writes equally as
well with either hand. However, when
he writes with his left hand the copy
book is reversed-topside down-and the
letters are formed in an inverted posi-
ton. When writing with the right hand
the copybook is in the usual position.
All efforts at correction have proved
futile.-Harrisburg (Pa.) Telegram.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
The Cnurt,s EnoI.

John Haywood was fool to Henry VIII,
having been introduced to the king by
Sir Thomas More. Mary Tudor had a
great regard for Haywood, who INDUCED
in much audacious talk. Bold as were
his sayings, few of them appear witty.
A landlord asked him: GLOW do you
like my beer? Is it not we'll hopped:"
$50 WE'LL" replied Haywood, "that had
it hoped a little further it would have
hoped into water" DIR. Doran, in his
History of Court Fool" gives several
specimens of Heywood's rhymed cpl
grams. One of them is perhaps worth
transcribing:
Where am least, husbands" Quoth he, "In the
waist;
Which coneth of this. thou art vengeable strait
laced.
Where am biggest, wife!" I'm tho waist, too"
quoth she;
For all is waste in you, as far as can see."
-Cornhill Magazine.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
The German Empress, Crown.

Emperor William has much smaller
head than his father and grandsire and
the imperial crown, therefore, does not
fit him. A new one was ordered several
months ago, and it was sent to Berlin
on Monday, Oct. IA. This new emblem
of sovereignty weighs less than three
pounds, although made of massive gold;
therefore the head beneath will not be
SO uneasy after all. 1t is ornamented
with 100 diamonds, the ball which sur.
mounts it consisting of simple polished
sapphire.
The empress is also to have a new
crown as well as her lord and master.
There will be less gold about it and
more stones, 1900 diamonds of different
sizes mixed with few pearls.-Paris
Cor. jewelers. Weekly.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
Curious w.v. in n Waterfall.

A Boston lawyer, returned from trip
in Maine, tells of n curious phenomenon
existing at the Livermore falls, in that
state. at the foot of one of the dams
the descending water seems to be driven
back with SO much force that half way
up the column of water there is an ever
moving line Of water like crease in a
piece of cloth. This has an effect upon
the surrounding atmosphere that is al
most incredibly great. The phenomenon
is not observable at all times, but when
the "wave" is visible on the falling
water, objects suspended i'll the air at
some distance from the falls are OBJ
served to vibrate perceptibly in a regular
movement. The vibration, while per-
ceptible at tho time when the "wave"
can be seen, seems to stop almost in
stantly after the "wave" disappears, and
it seems almost certain that the latter
causes the former.-Boston Advertiser.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
An Eccentric.

But the best and most frequent speci-
mems of an eccentric nation hail from
the land of John Bull. Among them is
mentioned Mr.. Cecil S. (The Figaro wari-
ly suppresscs the surname), who for
many years made Paris ring with sto-
ries of his wild doings Finally gout
attacked him, and he was doomed to
perpetual confinement at home. The
ballet having always been specially pat
ronized by him, Mr.. S. started ballet
within his own four walls, where he
kept all entire stage with all that be-
longs to it, including costumes of every
possible variety. Five or six spectators
were invited to the choreograpEic spec.
taclcs, the artists in which were paid
with more than princely liberality. AL
though Mr.. s. could never set foot out
side his house, lie always retained his
ten horses and four carriages, which
were regularly driven about i'll the Bois
and on the boulevards, somewhat like
the empty carriages seen behind a hearse.
New York Sun.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
A LITTLE GIRL INFLUENCED A KING
Tho Royal Ruler of belgium Grants a
Philadelphia Chill's Appeal.

Philadelphia Child's Appeal.
In August, 1888, Frank S. Moore, of
Philadelphia, a sailor ON the steamer
Rhincland. of the Red Star line, deserted
his ship, after the captain had refused
him leave of absence, for the purpose of
fastening to the bedside of dying sis
ter. After the death of his relative he
shipped on the Waesland, of the same
line, under an assumed name. Six years
after his identity was disclosed by a fel-
low seaman while the vessel was in Ant
wcrp, and he was seized by the Belgian
authorities and thrown into dungeon.
Since that time all the resources of di-
plomacy have been exhausted in al effort
to secure The mans release, but nothing
availed until the latter part of June last,
when Bessie Keim, 4 little niece of Moore,
wrote this letter to the king:
"To Leopold III, King of Belgium, Ant
werp:
"YoUR MAJESTY am only n little
girl 13 years Old, and I hope you will
pardon me for writing to you when you
hear all.
'Aly uncle, Frank S. Moore, is now in
the Belgium prison for descrtion from
the Rhineland, over six years ago. He
was sailing on the Rhineland, and my
aunt was very sick. Her only prayer
was to see Uncle Frank before she died.
We sent word to him that she was dy.
ing. He showed the letter to the captain
of the Rhincland, but he refused to let
him leave the steamer. The sailors ad-
vised Uncle Frank to run away, and he
did.
"Aunt Debbic lived about week after
ward. After she died Uncle Frank
found that his vessel had sailed, SO he
sailed on the Waesland under the name
of Franks S. Walker. That has been over
six years ago, and he was just arrested
in Antwerp, as you can see by the news.
paper slip that send in my letter.
Your majesty, if you had been in hi.
place would you not have done the sameq
Hoping you will pardon Uncle Franz,
for deserting and me for writing to you,
am, very respectfully, BESSIE KEn."
Moore was released subsequent to the
date of Bessie's letter to the surprise OF
tlA iliS liieIluo, puG lllc HltttlcT WtlS cN'
planned when the thoughtful girl re.
ceived at her home big envelope
stamped with the royal arms of Belgium,
The letter was written in French, and,
when translated, read as follows:
CAT THE PALACE, BRUSSELS. Cabinet
of the King: have the honor of inform.
ing you that the king has read your let
ter and taken action upon your request
therein contained, by which you solicit
that he remit your uncle'simprisonment
"By his majesty's command an order
to that effect has been transmitted to the
minister of justice, out of compliment to
his majesty's little friend. For the king.
"BoMAtERHE1M, Secretary"
"To Nine. Bessie Kcim, at Philadel-
phia. a."-Exchange.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
Dickens. Letter to His Sons.

Here is a letter from Dickens, ad-
dressed to his younger sons on their
leaving home, one for Cambridge, the
other for Australia, il which the fathers
heart and the deeper side of his nature
reveal themselves:
"You will remember" he says to both,
that you have never at home been
wearied about religious observances or
mere formalities. You will, therefore,
understand the better that now most
solemnly impress upon you the truth
and beauty of the Christian religion as
it comes from Christ himself, and
the impossibility of your going far wrong
if you humbly, but heartily, respect it.
Similarly impress upon you the
habit of saying Christian prayer night
and morning. These things have stood
by me through my life, and remember
that tried to render the New Testa.
ment ineligible to you and lovable to
you when you were mere baby. And
so God bless you.
Ever Your Affectionate Father"
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
Smallpox.

Dr., Lewentaner, of Constantinople.
writing in The Bulletin General de The
rapeutique, No. 80, 1889, speaks very ell
couragingly of the success attending an
antiseptic method of treating this disease,
which lie tried in several cases. The ad.
vantages Of this method of treatment are
summed up by The Medical Record as
follows: l. All the children treated in
this way recovered, although the ordi-
nary mortality of the disease is 40 per
cent. 2. The duration of the disease was
decidedly shortened, the period elapsing
from the commencement of the eruption
to the falling off of the crusts being
twelve or thirteen days. 8. The disease
ran its entire course almost without
fever. 4. The danger to those around
the patient is greatly lessencd. In DR..
Lewentaner's cases there were other chill.
dren exposed, but. Notwithstanding that
they were not vaccinated, they did not
contract the disease. 8. The simplicity
of the method, as compared with the
treatment by baths and cold applications,
has much to recommend it. Q. Esthet.
ically, also, the antiseptic method of
treatment offers great advantages, since
1t prevents absolutely all pitting.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
They Live Long in Chill.

1t is n matter of comment, almost in
variably, by travellers in the Spanish
American countries, that in every settle
ment of importance there arc usually
several very aged persons who are at
least 100 years old, and often more. The
census of Chill, taken in 1885, furnishes
some interesting statistics relative to the
longevity of the human race. In the
twenty-three provinces of Chill there
were found to be in excess of 101 years
of age 211 men and 273 women. One
man, Rafael Munoz, of Colchagua, was
returned as $50 years of age. There was
one woman 1873 years old; 1876 years,
man, 2 women; 132 years, man; 1870
years, l man; 1877 years, 1 woman; 125
years, 3 men, women; 1873 years,
man; 1923 years, 2 women; 12l years,
Q women; 120 years, s men, 20
women; 119 years, 2 women; lis
years, men, women; III years.
1 woman; 116 years, 8 men, 2 women;
115 years, 13 men, IL women; ia years,
man, 4 women; 113 years, men, s
women; 112 years, 6 men, 8 women; Ill
years, 6 men, 5 women; 10 years, SO
men, SO women; 100 years, s men, 6
women; 1903 years, 6 men, 13 women;
107 years, 5 men, 8 women; 1O6 years,
10 men, 8 women; 105 years, 80 men, 81
women; 104 years, 12 men, Is women;
10S years, Is men, 25 women; 10e years,
10 men, % women; 101 years, 10 men,
20 women.
1t would appear from the foregoing
that the women of Chill are not averse
to giving their true ages, or else some of
them must be as old as She. If a woman
in the United States acknowledged that
she had passed her 13Sth birthday, it
would be a fair inference to set her true
age down at not less than $50 summers
San Francisco Alta
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
EolsoN's FlENplsh CLOCK.
The Wizards Latest Invention Il Dial,ol-
ical Ia Its Possibilities.

lcAl ia Hts possibilities.
Thomas Edison, tho phenomenal in
ventor, has reached critical stage in
his career, and it would be a strange
sarcasm of fate if his latest invention
should make him positively abhorrent
to the growing generation. Over in his
laboratory at Llewellyn park is this in
vention. 1t has been tried and found
perfect, and 1t is a Photographic clock
which, instead of Ginning the hours,
calls them out at every quarter in a
voice full of clearness. 1t may be fitted
with any set to suit the purposes for
which it may be intended. To re-
porter it was exhibited yesterday.
The inventor was CHEEKY and playful as
he always is "The clock" said he, sis
an improvement, and if it were only in
the market now it might save you report
ers a great deal of worriment. For in
stance, say you are at political meet
ing with dozen speakers carded. They
are each to havea half hour. You know
what fiction that is. But now, if you
had clock like this, see how it would
work" and here Mr.. Edison placed set
within it. He pointed the hand to the
quarter of an hour and a voice came ring
ing out; "This speaker is half through" J"
AT the half hour the clock blurted out:
"The audience will please not encore.
The gentleman now gives way to an
other.'
"The only fear have," continued Mr..
Edison, "is that the young unmarried
folks may not relish it. You are married?
No? We'll, l don't give this out as bribe,
but when you get entangled in the pre-
lininaries come to me and I will give
you one that you may present to the
family into which you aspire to be ad-
mitted. 1t will be tibber. I'm little
in doubt about the popularity of the
parlor clock with the younger people,"
Mr.. Edison has good reason to fear. A
more tantalizing ornament to a pair of
ardent lovers than matrimonial parlor
Photographic clock cannot be imagined.
Fancy, for instance, u Sunday evening in
a cozy parlor with two hearts beating as
one startled by the voice from the man.
tel: Good night, a fond good night. In
another hour it will he midnight" Then
dolefully at quarter past and each sue
cecding quarter comes out its hoarse
croakings, until 11:55, when it blurts out:
elm five minutes more it will be to-
morrow" and every ten minutes subse-
quently the air is filled with its mauldins,
such as: "Ah! how still the hour" "Ma.
bel, am watching thee, ha, ha!' "Me-
thinks hear the spirit of thy mamma
upon the stairs" "Please don't heed me;
it is my misfortune that Unjust warn you
that the hour is half-past 12." "Did !
hear you ask me to get that hat?" "Will
you kindly remember me in your pray
ers?' "Looll out hear a footstep. Ha,
ha! was only fooling thee!' "I'll soon
have to call father to go to his Office"
And SO the clock jabbers OH most ex-
asperatingly. OF course the words arc
set to suit the circumstances. If the
wooer be favored person of course the
language will be much different, the tone
of the clock will be sweet and simpering,
and the words coy and captivating
New York Press.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
A Little Romance.

Edward Graybill was released today
from the Indiana prison south, he hav-
ing been Unexpectedly pardoned by Gov
ernor Hovey late last evening. Graybill
some months since was arrested in New
Albany on the charge of stealing a sack
of flour from firm in Scott county. He
was taken to Scottsburg, where he was
tried, and jury gave him a sentence of
one year in the prison. He was received
at that institution Oct. 26, consequently
he has served fifty days of his sentence.
On the trial he pleaded guilty, but said
his family was starving.
There is something of history con-
nccted with this man. At the close of
the war a child was born, and after a
lapse of several days was carefully
packed into basket, together with suf-
ticient clothing and money, and quietly
taken to what is known as the Half Way
house, located on the line of the Jeffer-
sonville, Madison and Indianapolis rail-
road, between Jeffersonville and New
Albany, where it was left on the door
step of the residence. Appended to the
handle of the basket was note bearing
the inscription, "Name my baby Eddie"
plainly written in female hand. A
man named Graybill resided in the house
where the infant was left. He was the
first to discover it, and on taking it into
the house he consulted his wife, and it
was decided that they take the child and
raise it. The boy was named Graybill,
and the name "Eddie" prefxed, as re-
quested.
When Graybill grew to manhood lie
left his adopted home and started out to
shift for himself He at one time was
employed us brakeman on the railroad,
but lost his place, and could not obtain
another. He was then forced to steal.
There are two or three stories as to who
Graybill is. A prominent old citizen of
Jetfersonville says he is the child of
prominent citizen of Chicago. On April
II, 1861, when Fort Sumpter was fired
on, a young man and young lady of
Jeffcrsonville were engaged to be mar
ried. Lincoln's proclamation was issued,
and tho young man took fond farewell
of his sweetheart and went to the war.
A few months later this waif was found
on a doorstep. After the war ended the
soldier came back, claimed his promised
bride, and moved to Chicago, where he
is now wealthy man. For obvious
reasons the child was never claimed, but
it is said the mother always kept an eye
on her offspring, and that she paid a
lawyer $1,000 to obtain the PARDON
Jeffersonvillc Qnd.), Cor. Globe Demo-
| craft
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01

The bite OF a blue gummed negro Is
said to be poisonous, and the following
fact would seem to confirm somewhat
the truth of the belief: About six weeks
ago, in q difficulty near Gosport, Cesar
Hill was bitten on the finger by Harry
Davis, colored, of the blue gum variety.
Inflammation set in, and in a short time
amputation of the finger was deemed
necessary to save the arm. But the
poison was not arrested, and the hand
and arm soon showed fearful progress
of the disease. The arm has been cut
off. and yet it is thought very uncertain
whether the disease will stop before tax
ing the life of its suffering victim
Clarke County Democrat.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
Hunting in Maine.

Even the women and children are
participating in the present good hunt
ing up in western Maine. The other
day, Mrs. George Brown, of Guilford,
i'll Piscataquis county, while looking out
of her kitchen window, saw large and
handsome fox come out in, the field near
by. Her husband being away, she took
down his rifle and pointed it out of the
window at the fox. The window being
low, she found she could not rest the
gun on the sill and take good aim, SO she
raised it and held it at arms length,
fred and killed the fox instantly. She
then went out and brought her trophy
into the house. The Portland Press,
from which this paragraph is taken,
says that the distance, being measured,
proved to be thirty rods.
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
Rivalry in Rich Mems rombs,

A contract was signed yesterday for
the construction of a magnificent mau-
soleum in Laurel Hill cemetery for the
Floods, and work upon it will commence
in a few days and be prosecuted steadily
by large force of men for year, when
it is hoped that it will be finished. The
mausoleum is to be finer than the beau
tiful one lately completed by James G.
Fair and equal to that of the Crocker
family. 1t will cost at least 100000.
1t will be modelled after the Jay Gould
mausoleum, but in beauty of structure
will, it is stated, even surpass it. Its
form is to be that of peripteral Ionic
temple, and it will be constructed ell
tirely of California material, and almost
entirely Of granite. The only other ma
terial used will possibly be a little mar
Bile along the margins for the recepta-
cles for the dead. Ever this will be dis
pensed with, if possible, and artistically
worked granite substituted. 4.
The great tomb will be about thirty
two feet long and twenty feet wide, and
will reach to height of twenty feet.
There are to be twenty-eight columns,
each being a polished piece without joint
and unmarried in any way. The celia
will be ten feet eight inches in height,
with an angle or volute caps on all sides.
When completed the mausoleum will in
the interior have the effect of great
mirror, as its granite sides, and even
the floor, which will be of granite, will be
as smooth as glass. The dome in its in
terror will be of paneled and curiously
carved granite.
The mausoleum, as at first constructed,
will have receptacles for six persons, or
as many as constitute the Flood family.
When the monument is completed the
remains of Mr. Flood will be transferred
from the O'Brien vault to their per-
manent resting place.-San Francisco
GbropicIa
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
People Wonder
MHEN they find how rapidly l,..a'.
wv iS rpStor,.l l,y fnl,iur Avcr,s 81.

MAYHEM they find how rapidly l.,':'
w in restored l,y taking Ayers Sag
sapnrilln. The reason is I..at .i.s
preparation contains only the rurrSt
and most powerful alternatives and
tonics. To thousands yearly it proves ~
vcritable elixir of life.
Mrs. Jos. Lake, Brockway Centre.
Mich. writes: oliver con"plaint a"!
indigestion made my life burden
and came near ending my existence.
For more than four years suffered um-
told agony. 1 was reduced almost to
a skeleton, and hardly had strength to
drag myself about. All kinds of food
distressed me, and only the most deli
cate could be digcsted at all. Within
the time mentioned several physicians.
treated me without giving relief. Nu,l.-
ing that took seemed to do any per-
manent good until began tile use ot
Ayers Sarsaparilla, Which las pro-
s,uced wonderful results. Soon after
commencing to take the Sarsupmril!a
could see an
The Dickinson press., 1890-03-01
Hal, Enough of the Tune.

Come over to our church and hear
me preach this morning." said the pas
:cr. "If you don't like the sermon you
will the music: we are going to have
come of the loveliest chants you ever
listened to-" "No, thanks" replied Mr.
Badnan, for it was he. II took some in
the grab bag, the fish pond. the ring
cake and the prize doll at your fair last
week, and haven't cent left for the
contribution basket. Guess Ill stay out
till my luck changes" - Burdette in
Brooklyn Eagle.