, 1890-08-14

ready us ever for any deed of vii
lainy. IL old and gray headed, and
stands on record US having during
the course of his long, career commit
ted AZ murders, 66 robberies and lsi
assaults with intent to MAIN and
kill. The immunity which both he
and his fellow citizens have enjoyed
until now IL due to the reluctance of
any of the inhabitants Of the district
to bear witness against him. Nor Is
1t possible TO blame them for the
hesitation.
For Pnsuuale's wife, Teresa,
strangled with her own hands last
autumn an old man named Can
none, u resident of Artena, who was
suspected of having consented to
testify against the band. Under the
circumstances 1t has become exceed.
ing difficult to secure u conviction.
Even the government officials of the
province hesitate to become known
as taking any active part In pro-
ceedings against them, and pre-
ierred to close their eyes TO the
crimes that were perpetrated under
their very noses. AS an illustration
thereof, IL may be stated that two
military officers related to Prince
SSciarra were attacked, robbed and
killed i'm broad daylight by Pas
quale and his band, in the very
court yard of the railway station at
Nalmontone lone of the first stops
after leaving here on the line to
Naples, while the station master
and his assistants We're looking on
were passing through the station.
What u fiction 1t is to talk about
the beauty of any member of the
English royal family! There could
not be a more commonplace lot of
women. The Princess of Wales is
slender almost to cmaciation; her
eyes would be dull but for the make.
up which surrounds them; her
cheeks are rouged and II wig always
covers her head, which / am given
to understand, Is completely bald.
She has little, If any, bust, she
limps us she walks, and she is al
most stone deaf; so, one way and
another, it Is rather sickening to
read the mass of gush that is to be
read daily in the British newspapers
about the beauty, etc, of England's s
future queen. She il, no doubt, an
accomplished, amiable, virtuous
woman, but in appearance she Is an
absolutely commonplace and alto
gether uninteresting person.
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Wales have indifferent teeth, bad
compilations and wretched figures.
Nobody would look ut them twice
but for their exalted position. The
daughters of the Princess Christian
are equally plain looking, and
there is no promise of beauty in the
young daughters of the Duchess of
Edinburgh. AS for Princess May,
of Teck, who has so often been de-
scribed us beauty, all she can claim
to possess il n passable figure and
good eyes. Her face, however, is
spoiled by the way in which her
upper lip protrudes and by II nose
which suggests an Hebraic strain
somewhere or other in the family.
OF the many vaunted beauties of
London society ONLY the Duchess OF
Leinster would perhaps pass as u
lovely woman all over the earth.
Lady Londonderry also comes un-
der that head, and so does Miss
Wolseley, the young daughter of
General Wolseley, who made her
debut this year. Lady Dudley is
now completely passee and is as
much made up as an opera bouffe
prima donna. All the duchesses are
plain-looking women; even the two
American duchesses, Marlborough
and Manchester, are too far beyond
their youth to claim afliliation with
Venus.
The Duchess of Portland looks like
n well-fed dairy maid and the Duch-
ess of Newcastle bears II marked re-
semblance to u younger edition of
Mrs. Cleveland. The Dowager
Duchess of Montrose is n sight for
the gods. with her flaxen wig and
canary col0red garments, not to
mention her enormous proportions.
She reminds one of the better half
of n suddenly enriched German
brewer from Chicago. She certainly
would not be permitted to enter II
fashionable New York hotel until
her rank had been explained.
The Duchcsses of Rutland, Leeds,
Cleveland and Richmond are old
women, while the Duchesses of
Abercorn, Hamilton, Argyll and
Westminster are absolutely plain
and undistingushed.
The two large naphtha tanks in
the pumphouse Of the Consolidated
Gas Company's works, at the foot
of East Twcnty-frst street. burst at
a o'clock yesterday morning, setting
the building on fire. James
Devoe, 43 years old, who
lived at No. 332 East Twenty
first street and was in charge
of the pump ut the time, was
covered with the blazing fluid. He
was dragged from the building by
some of the workmen and the flames
extinguished. He was horribly
burned and was taken to Bellevue
hospital, Where he died at 10
O'Clock.
Another workman named Keefe
was burned, but was able to go home
unaided.
The first firemen who arrived in
response to the fire alarm rung in by
the watchman of the yard, saw at
once that they had "a hard fight be-
fore them, and third alarm was
Immediately sounded, bringing
Chief Bonner and his assistant,
Chief Reilly, and ten engines and
two hook-ard-ladder trucks to the
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