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QUEER, QUAINT. AND INTERESTING

Iiay is selling in Burlington, Kan, at
81 per ton.
They are talking of Worlds fair at
Berlin in 1897.
Sponges have recently been found in
Gibraltar Pass. on Puget Sound.
A bug is killing Off the pines and wor-
rying the turpentine men of Georgia
White county, Arkansas, clains girl
0 years of age who weighs 230 pounds
Beer bottled in 1903 by am English
firm was recently tested and pronounced
hearty.
The new doorkeeper of the Kentucky
House is seven feet high and weighs $50
pounds
A members seat in the Chicago Board
of Trade has dwindled in value from
"a, 200 to $500.
Hereafter Australia is to make the am
munition for her army, which hitherto
has all come from England.
A. S. Clough, of Prescott, Ariz. drives
a team of mules that are 33 and IS years
old. They are still good workers.
Luther IL. Leber, of New York, pho
tographed the bottom Of an oil well,
1,700 feet below the surface at Warren.
The biggest wild turkey ever seen in
the Chickasaw Nation, was shot only a
short time ago. 1t weighed 40 pounds
Green roses of delicate petals and per-
fectly formed are among the familiar.
old-fashioned flowers in many New Or
leans gardens.
Charles King, of Middletown. Mass,
is 100 years Of age He had ID children.
His wife died at 80, and brother lived
to the age of ITO.
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SCHOOL AND COLLEGE NEWS.

Northwestern University, Evanston,
ILL.,, has 1902 students.
Boston is calling for nine new school
houses to meet the pressing needs of the
city.
New York last year spent S17,0O0,0OO
on her public schools, which contained
1.S03,o pupils.
The experiment of self-government in
place of the sef-reporting system at
Vassar, is found to work admirably.
An effort is being made at Johns Hop
kins University 10 revive the old House
of Commons, founded several years ago
by DR.. Woodrow Wilson.
There are now eighty-seven professors
in different colleges who were students
under DR.. Jamas McCosh, the venerable
ex-president of Princeton College.
A school board of Albany has con-
tracted with liveryman to furnish con-
veyances to carry children living in the
outskirts to the nearest school,
Professor Shumway has organized at
Rutgers a class in colloquial Latin, the
ODISCk Oh WHICH ID W Illdho a. oeuuy VI VIC
Latin literature in the language itself.
The girls in India display their superb
GRITTY over boys the same as they do in
civilized countries. AT a primary schol-
arship examination in Bengal eight out
Of the twenty scholarships were awarded
to girls.
A few Of the advanced students in &C.
ology, under Professor Shaler, of Har-
ward, have done most of the work in
preparation for the map of Massachu-
sets, which is to be published shortly by
the Massachusetts Geological Survey
An English religious paper publishes
the following advertisement "A lady
wishes to hear of good school for girls,
where the birch rod, now coming into
fashion again, is used in the old way.
Also of one for boys. Mrs, Griffiths,
Church Times office.
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Mrs. CIeveland.s Beauty.

Mrs. Cleveland combines AN English
size and perfection of development and
condition with what we can really claim
as purely American delicacy. 1t is
very curious why you never hear her
spoken of as big woman. She is. One
of her personal friends said to me that it
it was because she has childlike man
ners. Her head and face are small
which may be another reason, though
it does not show in her pictures. wish
she'd give us some new pictures. / am
sure she would take much prettfer one
now, than those rather raw, uninterest-
ing ones she was so fond Of sitting for
when she was first married but she
seems to have taken out all her ten
dency in that way in that first burst.
She is not one Of the women, of whom
we have SO many, who spend fourth
of their time at the photographers
New York Letter.
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GRAINS OF GOLD.


The secret If thrift is knowledge -
kingsley.
Method viii teach you to win time, -
Goethe.
Time Is the old justice that examines
ell offo, ders.
Ar ounce OF mother is worth pound
of clergy. -IScotch.
C,emency is a kingdoms best pre-
server. Il Marcus Aurelius.
The path of duty leads to the castle OF
happiness, i Anon.
Life should be measured by deeds, not
words. Il Sheridan.
One trick needs a great many more to
make it good. Tillotson.
If you do not hear reason, she will rap
your knuckles. = Franklin.
Good and bad men are each less so
than they SCENTS. I. Coleridge.
The only disadvantage of am honest
heart is credulity. -TSir Philip Sidney.
Some run headlong into danger be-
cause they have not courage to wait
for it,
Fortunes are made by taking oppor-
tunitieS; character is made by making
them.
The way not to have any more rascals
is not to grow any more rascals. DIR.
Holland.
They only are poor who feel poor, and
poverty consists in feeling poor. Emer-
son.
Tears bring forth the richness of our
| natures, as the rain sweetens the SMELL
ing briar.
When we trade with virtue we do but
buy pleasure with the expense of time.
Il Feltham.
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A doll, which belonged to one of Mrs.
Moore's daughters, had been carefully
laid away twelve or fourteen years ago,
with tobacco sprinkled over it to keep
the moths out. This doll she was taking
out to fix upfo her little granddaughter,
and, in running her hand over it to
brush off the tobacco crumbs, one of her
fingers was slightly scratched by pin
which fastened covering on the doll
In short time her hand and arm up to
the elbow began swelling and coloring
and was very painful. This was about
fourteen weeks ago, and in that time her
arm has been lanced no less than eleven
times. -[OwingsviIie, KY, Outlook.
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The Locked Ant,ers are Provided.

Locked horns are becoming quite
fad with some of the swels Mt the me-
tropolis, said gentleman the other
day, land some Of the Adirondack hunt
ers and guides are making nice little
sums by occasional sales of tho curiosity
that is demanded. You see the old story
about the bucks that fall TO fighting,
and in some manner get their horns
locked SO they can't get apart and then
staxve to death, has taken strong hold
upon the romantic natures Of many peo-
pie, and if they can only get q set OF
locked horns mounted they are happy.
so the hunters select nice horns that
correspond rs to size, and by the uso Of
n twisted cord and case spring them to-
gether as if locked in their death em-
brace by the maddened thrusts Of fight
| ing bucks. Then, ON account of their
great rarity and the difficulty Of finding
them. they are sold TO the rich curiosity
hunter for hig price. His friends look
in wonder and envy at him, while he re-
counts the story told him by the guide
who found their skeletons held together
| by the horns and the earth all trodden
down around the place 80 solidly that
vegetation had not grown there IN years,
ETC., and the guide goes back to the
woods and fixes up another pair for the
| next curiosity seeker.
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RELIGIOUS MATTERS
TlSpurgeon has preached 400 of his
sermons since 1855.

TfSpurgeon has preached 2,1O0 of his
sermons since 1855.
The Moravians have projected mis-
sion on the Victoria Nyanza
The Presbyterian church received
from other denominations last year f05
ministers, and dismissed to other denom-
nations only thirty-three.
General Lew Wallace has been strong
" urged Of late to assist in the mission
airy enterprise of publishing in Syria an
Arabian translation Of his story, BEN
Hur.
The Rev. Edward Abbott, who has
been elected missionary bishop TO Japan,
is said so be the original Rollo Of the
"Rollo Books, written by his father,
Jacob Abbott.
Prof Swing has a very swingy style Of
delivery. lie says; My words fell over
themselves, and often got ahead too
rapidly. cured myself of this by put
ting up signboards in my manuscript,
such as ~Slow Up Here in large let
tiers.
The African Methodist church, with
out q single white member, has mem
bership of $50. o0o II has $4,000 places
OF worship, 10000 ministers, $4,000 Sun-
day schools, has miSsions in the West
Indies. Mexico, and Africa. and reports
contributions of more than $4,000, 900
annually for church work
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Mexioo,s Vanderbilt.

Judge Murat Masterson was at the Le-
land not long ago. direct from Mex
ico. With him is Don Luis Huller, who
is the Vanderbilt of Mexico, though n
Vanderbilt would have little standing
in his family. for he prints q golden crest
at the head of his note paper, which has
distinguished such long line of HulleT
Dons that the memory OF man does not
begin to run back to the first of them
Don Luis is OF the bluest- bloodesi Castil
ians. He lives in castle at Tacuba,
little town but few miles from the City
Of Mexico, where two other Of Mexico's
wealthiest men live--Antonio Escandon
and Sebaston Wier Don Huller owns
and occupies the famous Villa de Bar
ron. The place is really a palace. The
house has fifty rooms, and its cons true
ton is ON scale of magni6cence, equal
to any in Mexico. The grounds alone
cost 5000, 000 and the whole place
several times that sum. Most of the In
terror finishings were imported from
Europe, and even the stone carvings for
the doorway and tho great gateway into
the grounds were imported. Even with
all this magnificence for home, the
owner spends much of his time in Europe.
He is on his way there now, to join his
family
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The Langtrvs, Mr.. and Mrs.

A picture has recently been shown
around up town which represents Mr.
and Mrs. Langtry as they appeared about
twelve years ago. 1t is cheap picture,
taken in a small provincial town, and it
represents Mr.. Langtry sitting on bit
of rock, with Mrs. Langtry leaning on
his shoulder. The Jersey Lily had not
then achieved any fame as a beauty. In
the photograph she wears an nl-ftting
sacque, an awkward little walking hat,
and her gloves are wrinkled and bulky.
Mr.. Langtry is fat, heavy-faced, and
solemn looking man, who would be re-
garded as fair type OF the New York
cabman dressed in holiday attire. He
looks ten years older than his wife, but
his face has lines of dignifed persever-
ance and determination. - New York
Sun
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A Bolle Of the -Four l,undrea.

saw one of the famous beauties the
other day, Miss Sallie Hargous. She is
one of the bellies If the -Four Hundred.
No ball or assembly is complete without
her. She has an income of $12, 600, Is
accomplished and charming. She is of
the Spanish type, with lustrous eyes and
marvellous coloring. She lives with a
married sister, and her brother Robert is
devoted to her. The ball which he gave
on her coming out is yet talked of. On
the street sho dresses plainly, as all the
swell New York girls do. She wore a
brown cloth gown and sable cape and
carried muff to match Her evening
gowns are always tasteful and fresh, and
her complexion is 80 faultless that she
can wear almost any color -LNew York
aftAr
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A New York Catch.

Miss Tessie Fair, who is one of the
most notable catches in the matrimon-
ial market, is seen a great deal about the
theaters in New York. She dimes in the
Hoffman House restaurant with her
mother and sister every night, and her
table is gazed at by variety Of profess
sional bachelors with faces more or less
indicative of deep and earnest yearn-
ing. Whoever will marry Miss Fair will
come into possession of her original
dowry, together with the share which
she is TO have from her fathers estate,
the whole Of wkich foots up to SO many
millions thas Il Is rsthSz dazzling thing
to think of during this era of financial
depression. Miss Fair looks something
like Mrs. Randolph Churchill L New
York Sun.
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The Moral Teachings Of sclencc.

What we want is q clear and intelligi-
BILE basis on which we can take orr stand
In the work of life. If it were true that
selfishness is the universal law Of pro-
gress, then the sooner we learn the truth
the better. But if this is not so, we need
have no fear that the study of natural
laws viii mislead us into believing it.
With our limited knowledge we MAJ
often be perplexed, but so long as we do
not overstrain the facts we shall not be
COMPOUNDED. If it be true that the in
stincts which lead us to be just and mer-
ciful, honest and unselfish, pure and af-
fectionate, to fear moral degradation
and to aspire to nobleness of character,
are inherent in the very laws of our
being, then we shall find the gradual
development of these qualities in the
groundwork of living nature. In a
word we shall find evidence that high
moral duties are not merely true because
all religions have taught them, but that
all religions have taught them because
they are true. If we can establish this
conclusion, though much must remain
uncertain, so long as our view is so linz
tied, yet we shall have found firm ground
upon which the scientific and religious
sanctions of morality meet, affording a
bulwark against the flood OF scepticism
as to all things noble and good which
| threatens to overwhelm u.s. Arabella
B. Buckley.
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Portugais King and Queen.

King Carlos, of Portugal, who pos
sesses sixteen Christian names, while his
younger brother answers to no less than
thirty, is personally one Of the most
amiable OF monarchs He is handsome
blonde young man, who carries himself
with a military air, and is credited by
his personal friends with considerable
decision of character. He is devoted
sportsman, an accomplished musician,
speaks seven languages and paints in
water colors-in short, he is bit of a
savant, like his relative, the unlucky ex-
Emperor Dom Pedro. The queen is be-
lieved to be popular She is tall and
handsome and was very carefully educa-
ted. She does not share her husbands
passion for music, but is a student of his
tory, delights in mathematics, and is q
clever sketcher. She speaks French,
Portuguese, English and German. She
is said to take deep and intelligent in
terest in public affairs and to be exceed
ingly fond of her adopted country.
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"rhe idle Singer OF an Empty Day"

William Morris, now the second OF
English living poets, might like Tenny.
son, and unlike Browning, be taken for
poet by a man in the street. Art, lit
erature, and socialism are his three in
terests. He talks rapidly. eloquently,
suggestively, finds the need Of pacing
about the room when he gets warm with
his subject, is entirely frank, unconven-
tional, and sincere. and shows a grand
manliness, simplicity, strength and di-
rectness Of mind He is a scholar to the
lips of him, without the scholars petty
love of detail AS speaker he has much
improved on the rough style of early
days, end is now fluent, and even grace
full, preferring to speak without notes.
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Personal Gossip.

Signor Salvini prides himself on
skill as a billiard player.
Mr.. Rockefeller's income is said to
Oh the enormous sum of 81 900
hour.
Ierr Krupp, the gunmaker, is the
lest man in Germany. His in
lie in 1889 was $l,295,OOO as
inst 81, O5O,OOO in 1888.
george W. Child's "reminiscences
Lippincott's Magazine were die
I'D to a reporter who got 1000
the job. Mr.. Childs gave him
matter to help him along.
he late Solomon Suller, of Wen
aged SO, was the reformer of the
ish liturgy and composer of a
/ 1t part of the ritual music used
he reformed Jews.
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A. Golden and the Sheep.

Americas Golden, going out into
the country one day, met a sheep.
"a fine lot of wool you have on
your back" said he. by the way
what is the price of wool ~
"Twenty-five cents a pound,
answered the big Merino.
"Too high-entirely too high
That's the result of protection. Raw
material ought to be on the free list
"But, sir, it costs my master much
Ito feed and care for me, and he must
have some profit. You do not be-
Igrudge him a fair living, trust
Denied a reasonable margin on wool
! he would have no money to spend
for clothing, and in that case the
factories would lose business and
workmen be put to sore straits, and
Indirectly the whole community
would suffer"
A. Golden replied loftily; "Bah
Your are mutton-head !"
The sheep wandere ed down the
galley, after stopping long enough to
Remark:
"I'm glad l am a sheep. Any
BOW, it's far better than to be an
ISIS"
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When over me the needless wild things grow,
VIII any mourn for me n little space,
Or grieve that in that grave 30 cool and low
find my resting place?
The strong world will go on though am still
The morning sun mock darkness with his
pride,
The sunset splendors clothe the western hill,
As though had not died.
The spring flowers will awake in field and
hedge,
The Summer roses answer to the sun;
The lone last bird wall in the icy sedge
For winters reign begun.
No feetirg joys shall mock mo whore lie:
No hate so keen that it can pierce that rests
/ shall not hear Life's footsteps passing by,
Or know that Death is best.
Or If, sealed fast by Death, even to that cry
My ears were deaf and my closed lips were
dumb,
Ny soul, needless of others passing by,
Might know that thou hadst come.
For me tho busy world did not stand still,
Nor in one heart the Summer cease to glow,
And Love and Life on earth shall have their
will;
But, comet shall not know
lLouise Chandler Moulton.
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Laar rauneefote.s Lonr walks.

Lady Pauncefote is very popular in
Washington society. She is very fond Of
taking long walks. and every pleasant
day her swinging stridedown the avenue
is something that the general society
woman may well envy. She will start
out pleasant afternoons in one of her
stylish walking costumes and make a
number of calls In this democatic fashion
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Emin rasha,s Firth ana parentas-,.

The certificate of the birth and bap-
tism of Emin Pasha has been unearthed
by German newspaper, which, after
Emin's recent accident, thought it well
to collect some reliable facts and figures
for biographical sketch Of the traveller.
The documents were found in the regis
ter kept at the Protestant church ut
Neisse, where Eduard Karl Oscar Theo-
dor Schnitzer, alias Emin Pasha, and son
of the merchant, Louis Schnitzer, was
christened and confirmed. The boys
parents were Jews, and he waS only
christened at the age of six years.
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Mortality of the. Union Generals.

General William T. Shermanreach-
d his SEVENTEEN birthday ON the 9Th
{ this month and in vigorous health.
lie is almost the only great comman-
er of the Union armies who lived
ae allotted term of life. 1t is a
5riking fact that the soldiers gener-
lily of both armies fall short of civil
|lns in lease of life.
Grant would be but 68 were he
ow alive aud he died at 60.
Sheridan was bore in 1881 and died
81.
Thomas died at 54, and he was
aturally arobust constitution.
Meade died at 81.
Halleck was but 81 when he died.
Nc Clellan was but SO when he died.
Mcdowell died at 81.
Hooker was IS when he died.
Burnside was but 81 when he died.
Hancock died at GO.
Fremont, was born in 1913, is still
ing.
RosecranS was born in 1919 and
still living.-Harper's Weekly.
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In. John Jacob Astor, the hea
ne Astor family, and owner of
largest part of the great Astor
e died at an early hour Saturday
hing last from an angina pectoris
| IS home, No. 338 Filth avenue,
York, after an illness that last
teen hours. He had not been
obust as usual since December,
he suffered from an attack Of
Russian influenza during his
to London. His estate is esti-
at $l5O,0O0,O00. He owned
thousand houses.
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@Forgive you I" warmly repeated the
Young engineer. why, what was there
to forgive you FOX, my love? II people
were 70 lay up every quick word in their
hearts, what a hornets nest we should
all live in. Kiss me, my girl and Ven
say a month from to-day.~
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ighbor's Boy-Mrs. Moxie, moth
| like to borrow this weeks pa
rs. Moxie-You are just five
ties too late, Jemima. Tell your
hat Manda has taken it to church
er hustle; but she can have last
IS hustle to read if she'll iron it
There's an admirable article in
makeshifts.-Drake'S Magazine
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A young lady asked an editor this
|traordinary question-Do you
ink it right for girl to sit on a
ung mans lap even if she is en-
ICED ?
|Whereupon the editor told this
traordinary lie. We have had no
perience in the matter referred to
Why didn't he say-If it was our
i and our lap, yes; if it was an
Ter girl and our lap, yes but if it
s our girl and another fellows lap,
YER, never, never = Wayback as
asher.
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The ship of state in Russia gets con-
siderable knocking about by the serf. -
boston Herald
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Oyster selling is a shellfish business -
[Pittsburg Chronicle.
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1t is the paying teller who frequently
meets with check.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1890-06-20
CLUBBING NEGRO PRISONERS.
Colored People Organize the Citizens,
Protective Association.

The Second Baptist Church, on Sd street. was
well filled last night with colored citizens. who
gathered to further discuss the alleged club
bing of colored prisoners by policemen. Mr..
J. W. Cromwell was chairman Mr.. Ruffin
offered resolution for the appointment of a
committee OF fifteen to wait on the district at
torney and urge upon that Official the necessity
OF a trial in the case OF Policeman Dean, who,
1t il charged, beat a negro prisoner named
Sam Hutchinson, as heretofore published in
The STAR.
Messrs. Ruffin, Hewlett Kicks and Rev. W. b.
johnson spoke in support Of the resolution and
each Of them took occasion to denounce the
action of Assistant District Attorney Armes for
entering nolle pros in the case Of the police
man.
The resolution was unanimously adopted and
the chairman appointed the committee.
ASKING THE REMOVAL OF DISTRICT ATTORNEY
ARMEs.
The meeting decided to prepare petitions
asking for the removal Of Mr.. Armes.
1t was finally decided to form permanent
Organization and the name adopted was the
Citizens Protective Association.
THE MOVEMENT AGAINST ATTORNEY ARMIES.
The committee appointed at the meet
ing last evening TO take action in. ref
erence 10 the charges against As
sistaut District Attorney Armes
had an interview with Judge Hoge This after
noon and arranged TO send him commuuica-
ton with list Of witnesses to the charges
made.