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Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
COUNTESS OF MONTE CRIST0.
Sonora Cousino is the Wealthlest Woman
in South America.

Philadelphia Press.I
The richest woman in South America is
Sonora Cousino. She has palace at San
tiago. but resides in Lora portion of the
year in large and magnificent house with
grounds beautifed to the last degree both
by nature and art, though more especially
by the latter, The grounds constitute a
veritable botanical garden. They comprise
great vegetable and flower Enclosures, enor-
nous greenhouses, Turkish towers, foun-
tains, belvederes by the sea. brooks. suspen-
sion bridges, a labyrinth of arbor-vite,
ponds, grottoes and waterfalls. Fifty men
are constantly employed upon this splendid
place.
The fortune of Sonora Cousinois is estimated
at hundreds of millions of dollars. She has
millions of money, millions of acres OF land,
hundreds of thousands of cattle, coal, copper
and silver mines, acres of real estate in VAL
paraiso and Santiago, feet of eight iron
steamships, smelling works. railroad, etc.
Every house in Lota, village of some z, 900
inhabitants, is hers, and to the people of this
village she pays out over S100, 900 monthly.
She owns the only large coal mines in South
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
AGAINST A DIAMOND BROOCH.
Tho Queer Title of Suit Brought in tht
United Stnres Court.

Tho Queer Title of a Suit Brought in the
United STATES Court.
New York Star.]
"We have many queer suits like this one
on hand at times" said Clerk Gilchrist of
the United States District Court to me yes
terday, handing me parcel Of law papers
entitled "the United States against dia-
mond brooch" "That diamond brooch"
explained Mr.. Gilchrist, was seized by Gus
tom House inspectors, who found it con-
cealed among some baggage which came
over on the steamer Etruria. The brooch,
which is very valuable, was placed where
it was found by its owner with the
hope that it would escape detection by the
officers. When it was discovered and
seized, the person to whom it belonged did
not come forward and claim it. Isuppose
he or she was afraid of the iron hand of the
law, and rather than be hauled up on a
charge Of smuggling, allowed the matter to
go by default.
stIn such cases the article seized is held by
the Government for a reasonable length OF
time, and if the owner does not put in an
appearance papers are made out and sent to
this court and a suit is instituted by the
Government against the article seized for
the recovery of :he duties. If no one ap-
pears in court, the article is sold and the
proceeds 60 to swell Uncle Sans Treas
urv
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
NYETALKS DELSARTE.
Thoughts Expressed by Various Move
ments of the Human Body.
THE IDEAS INVOLVED IN A KICK.
Experience in Punting on the River Thames
Before Great Crowd.
"REMINISCENCES OF MR. OSCAI WILDE
WRITTEN FOR THE DIsPATcH1

WRITTEN FOB THE DIsPArCH1
Art should interest by the true.
Art should move by the beautiful.
Art should persuade by the good.
Art should interest by the true to illumine the
intelligence,
Move by the beautiful to regenerate the life,
Persuade by the good to perfect the heart.
-Delsdrte.
One beautiful day in July last I foated
along down the bosom OF the Thames in a
brown study, also in canoe that had tried
the sunlit waters of nearly every American
river before it came to visit this quiet but
rather noted English stream. Harry Wei
come padded and smoked an American
cigar. I did not paddle for the reason that
I do not know how. I enjoy industry, but
there are lines of industry with which I am
not familiar. This is one of them. To pad
die birch bark canoe so that it will run
straight is not an industry, however. 1t is
an art. Punting seemed to be more in my
line. Punting looks more simple. Punting
on the Thames is conducted BY means OF a
long pole and fat-bottomed gondola.
The puntist rams his pole into the bottom
of the rive r, and by a dexterous push sends
the boat along at an even and delightful
gait. 1 had poled a raft on the upper Mis-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
A WOMAN'S SUPERSTITION.
The Little Fads of the Handsome Author
of Bootles' Baby.

The Little Fads of the Handsome Author
Of Bootles' Baby.
A writer in San Francisco paper says OF
the author of "Bootles' Baby" Mrs.
Arthur Stannard is tall woman of hand
some presence. She is very superstltious,
and always carries two little bits OF gray
fur inside the neck of her dress, which she
looks upon as talisman.
81 have never been without these bits OF
fur since I was about years DID," she said,
looking a. them quite afBectionatelly. Some
times when I am composing and come to a
standstill 1 take them out and pass them
gently over nv lips and cheeks, and you
have no idea how they soothe me and pro-
mote inspiration as if by magic" -,
She has the same odd feeling about old
bits of iron and castoff horseshoes, of which
she has quite a quantity, as she picks up
everything of the kind she comes across;
"They always bring me luck" she said
seriously.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
A Public Benefactor.

Mr.. G. J. Bennett, of Ormond, Pa, SAYS
he had hard time getting Chamberlain's
Cough Remedy started there, but now his
customers-think him a public benefactor.
"No doubt about it." ''It does the work, :"
he says, and that is what makes it popular.
For sale by e. G. Stuckey, Seventeenth
and Twenty-fourth sts., Penn ave. and cor.
Wylie ave. and Fulton ST.; Markell Bros,
Ihrig, 3610 Fifth ave.; Carl Hartwig, 4,O16
Butler St, Pittsburg, and in Allegheny by
E. E. Heck, 72 and 1914 Federal st.; Thos.
r. Morris, cor. Hanover and Preble aves. !;
F. H. Eggers, 172 Ohio St., and f. H.
Eggers & Son, 199 Ohio st. and IL Smith
field st. wsu
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02

America, from which alone she receives
5000 month.
All these vast enterprises Sonora Cousino
herself controls and directs. exhibiting great
foresight, breadth of purpose and large
ability as manager of affairs. Her income,
of course is expressed in seven figures. NO
wonder she is styled the "Countess OF Monte
Cristo,"
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
ConcIusive Evidence of Greatness.

Lippi ncott's Magazine.]
Miss Redingote-No, Aunt Brindle. am
not engaged. When 1 marry it will be a
great man.
Mrs. Brindle (doubtfully)-Well. 1
dunno. You can't always tell how man
will turn out. Now, there's joshua
Miss Redingote-Now, you don't mean to
say Uncle Brindle has ever distinguished
himself
Mrs. Brindle-Well, I'll tell you what he
did. sent him down to the store with q
ribbon the other day and he matched it.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02

IETY in Lent is pal
pable here in New
York, and a goodly
proportion of it is
unquestionably sim
cere. Not only do our
fashionable women
forego some OF their
social pleasures, but
even in church their
manners are more de-
vout than usual. I
am not writing care
lessly.
What I mean is
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02


influential, and under the Second EN-
pire they led, with the Empress Eugenie at
their head, in the world of fashion. Nor are
the women of the Third Republic inferio 7,
as a whole, to their sisters Of the past.
1t is true that one cannot point to-day to
q Marchioness de Rambouillet, to Nine.
Roland, to Nine. de Stael, to Nine. de
Renusat to Nine. de Girardin, or to
&eorge Sand, but think your readers will
fagree with me that, if the leaders be not so
great to-day as were the leaders of the past,
the rank and file of French
womanhood is now immeasurably su-
perior in almost every respect,
to the general body of women in years gone
by. With the advent of modern democracy
'the masses" have usurped the places once
occupied exclusively by "the classes"
THE MOST ACTIVE IN FRANCE.
Probably the most widely known lit
erary and political lady of the France of
to-day is Nine. Juiiette Adam. She may
not be the most intellectual and solid,
but she surely is the most active and en-
terprising. She was born with a taste
for letters and began writing in her
teens. But it was from her marriage
with Senator Adam and the advent of
the Third Republic that dates the fame of
Nine Juliette Adam. Her second hus-
band-M. Adam-was rich and a Repub-
lican politician. She was handsome, fine
conversationalist and ambitious to shine in
state affairs. So, during the stormy days of
McMahon's presidency, it was in Mime.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02

White skirt, vandyked at the edge, and
falling over fringe Of narrow green ribbon,
the skirt is pleated to initiate long petals.
Yellow plush bodice, with white petals fall
ing over it, fastened on the shoulders with
marguerites. Tuft of daisies in the hair.
White shoes with yellow sandals, and a
marguerite at each interlacement. Similar
lacings on the gloves.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
PARIS, February %.

PROPOSE in this
letter to give your
readers some ac-
count of the liter
ary work of the
French women of
to-day. France has
always had great
women. Under the
old regime they
were famous as di-
lettantes; during the
r ev tion they
shone as patriots and
martyrs; under Ma
poleon, the Restora-
tion and Louis Phil
ippe their political
ind literary salons
we're brilliant and
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
LITERARY FRENCH WOMEN.

The Ladies Have Always Been n Power In
France But Never More Than at Present
Cbaracteristics Of -Four well-Known
Writers.
CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATCH.I
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02

fine large fiat in one of the big old houses
on the river opposite the Louvre. The hall,
the dining room, the double drawing room,
and two studies on either side of it, gave her
all the space she needed to display the rich
pieces of tapestry, quaint furniture, pictures
and knick-knacks which she and her hus-
band-for Nine. Greville has husband
also we'll known in the art, literary and
scientific world of Paris-love to collect and
set up to the best advantage.
Nine. Greville's lecture tour in America
was not brilliant financial success and the
large apartment was expensive. So she has
now moved to smaller but scarcely less
artistic home in the quarter of Paris where
artists, musicians and men and women of
letters abound. The bear skins, the plants,
the vivacious conversation of Nine. Greville
and the witty and instructive reflections of
NJ. Durand-Greville-M. Durand has added
his wife's nom de plume to his own name
are the same in the Rue Blanche as on Mont
martre and the Quai Voltaire; so the new
drawing room is as charming as the old
ones, and the people who frequent it as
numerous and interesting as ever.
AN ENGLISH-FRENCH LADY.
One of the most curious women of letters
in this city is Nine. Blaze de Bury. Though
English by birth, she is French by marriage
and residence, and can write brilliantly in
both languages. Her husband, who died a
year or two ago, was a well-known author,
and the sister OF Buloz, the founder of the
Reuue des DeuJ MondeS, so that Nine. Blaze
de Bury is the aunt of M. Charles Buloz, the
present editor of that famous periodical.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
CLARA BELLIES CHAT.
A Young Beauty's Impressive Exhi-
bitiOn of Lenten Spirit.
HOW GENTLEMEN SHOULD DRESS
A Kiss Impressed on Loves Missives the
Latest Sentimental Thing.
DIGNITY OF LADIES In THE STREET

CORRESPONDENCE OF THE DIsPATcH.1
NEW YORK, March 1.
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02
TO MAKE HOME BEAUTIFUL.

Holder for n Ball of Twine That is Orna.
mental and Useful.
1t is not difficult to push the bottom out of
one of the little globe-like Japanese straw
baskets which are sold everywhere for cents
apiece. But it is rather more difficult, al
though still quite possible, if some of it is
unwound, to squeeze a ball of druggists
twine into the small orifce A ball OF some
pretty color must be chosen, and by some
compression it can be worked into the bas-
Pittsburg dispatch. [volume] (Pittsburg [Pa.]) 1880-1923, 1890-03-02

worshipfully to religious services during
Lent than at other times. You may know
that our Rev. DR.. Heber Newton has just
taken his congregation into Fifth
avenue church, and has thereby become
more modish. Well, it was there that I
saw pleasant exhibition of Lenten spirit.
1t was a pretty instance of gentle courtesy
afforded to the 200 strongers who were wait
ing for seats. The strangers were huddled
together in one corner of the church near
side entrance, while pew-holders forced their
way through the crowd to the peril of their
own and the walters apparel. Among the
latter was
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18
Cleaning Carpets.

Perhaps the most thorough way to clean
a carpet, especially Brussels, says Good
Housekeeping, is to lay it on a clean grass
plat, face down, and beat it as it lies there.
After being beaten thoroughly it can be
dragged by the corners over the grass,
which will brush off all adhering dust,
and the carpet will be cleaned in the most
approved manner. To beat a carpet on a
line is but an imperfect way, and the work
is not as well done, unless by the most
patient beating, besides not being as easy
as the first mentioned way.
Don't let carpets be cleaned on the floor,
as is being practiced in some cities. That
Shiny compound that is brushed on the
carpet is only soft soap, nothing else, col
ored and perfumed, perhaps, with sassa-
fras. 1t is true that it makes the carpet
look clean, but it is well known that more
or less of that soap stays in the back of
the carpet, having worked its way through
along the sides and in the corners. Any
one versed in chemistry knows that this
soap which stays in the carpet is resolved
into common grease, attracting myriads
of flies, carpet bugs and insects of all kind,
besides decomposing and filling the rooms
with dangerous gases from this disgusting
compound of grease wool and dirt.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18
An Ideal Cnn of Coffee.

"Grind moderately fine a large cup or
small bowl of coffee; break into it one egg
with shell, mix well, adding enough cold
water to thoroughly wet the grounds; upon
this pour one pint of boiling water, let it
boil slowly for ten or fifteen minutes, ac-
cording to the variety of coffee used and
the fineness to which 1t is ground. Let it
stand three minutes to settle, then pour
through fine wire sieve into a warm
coffee pot; this will make enough for four
persons. At table first put the sugar into
the cup, then fill half full of boiling water,
add your coffee and you have delicious
beverage that will be a revelation to many
poor mortals that have an indistinct re-
membrance of and an intense longing for
an ideal cup of coffee" says an importer
of the coffee berry, who has tested the
recipes of many lands. If cream can be
procured so much the better, and in that
case boiling water can be added either in
the pot or cup to make up for the space &C.
cupied by the milk as above
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18
Why the TURKEYS Danced.

There died few weeks ago in San
Francisco an old man who, a generation
ago, was known in New York as "Tur-
KEY Levy" His name was Aaron Levy,
and in ante-bellum times he kept a sa-
loon on Chatham street, near Baxter.
The great attraction of Levy's place was
a big cageon araised platform, in which
were confined three solemn turkeys. An
old chap with cracked violin would
begin 10 play a tune, and the turkeys
would dance, first with slow and stately
measure, gradually becoming more AMI
mated as the fiddler fddled faster, and
eventually ending with al dicrously Wild
and frenzied motion, which created IN
tense surprise and amusement. Old Levy
kept his secret until one night 8 party Of
inquisitive toughs upset the cage, and
found underneath a charcoal furnace.
The bottom of the cage was of metal, and
when the old man fddled he kept time
with his foot This put a bellows IN
motion. the. fire burned bright. the metal
began TO get hot and .the.turkeys began
TO dance. ''Turi1syLevy- has never had
a successor. New York Word
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18

ellis of the camp in the crisis of that hour.
Then the boy, Midshipman Beale, an
swered that no other could aid him, and
Carson himself pleaded to be allowed TO
accompany the brave fellow. Kearny
yielded, and they set out at dark, with diff
ficulty passing Gen. Pico's double rows of
pickets on the hillside and a patrol of
mounted lancers on the plain. These pre-
cautions of the enemy had been taken es-
pecially to prevent just such movement
as this communication with Stockton.
The California generals orders on posting
his guards had been, 'Be alert, Carson is
there" pointing to the American camp on
the hill. He had learned from the first
messengers from the camp whom ne had
captured, that the redoubtable scout and
guide was with Kearny.
In order to move with secrecy Carson
and Beale removed their shoes, and in pass
ing Pico's wary sentinels they crawled but
an inch at time. The task was so diff
cult that at once Beale urged Carson
to give it up. LET us jump out on them
and fight, for it is all over with u.s." he
said. Carson answered, mo; have been in
worse places and Providence served me-"
At last they passed the standing pickets,
and then crawled over the two miles Of
plain, which was guarded by mounted
patrol. This they passed, and then day
came on. During the day they hid in q
mountain gorge, and on the following night
struck Pico's pickets around Stockton's
camp. They now separated and eluded
the new danger successfully. Beale, how
ever, was so exhausted that Stockton's
men had to carry him from the outposts
to the camp. Stockton at once sent
out strong party to meet Kearny and
the delicate mission, thanks to Carson's
GOODNESS and pluck, was accomplished.
In the civil war Carson commanded the
First New Mexico volunteers, and the same
characteristics distinguished him in the
army that he displayed in the exploring
and hunting camps. At the battle of Val
verde, in New Mexico, he crossed the Rio
Grande with his regiment, and attacking
boldly was gaining the day when sudden
orders came to retreat across the river. In
his report Carson offered no protest, but
simply said that his regiment was sweeping
everything before it when it was called of.
In person Carson was a simple minded,
modest man. He made nothing of him
self; his career is written indelibly where
he lived and wrought. A tribute to his
memory published in The Salt Lake Trib-
une closes with these words, which fifty
indicate his niche in history:
'He followed the water courses to their
sources, and guided by them learned where
the mountains bent their crests TO make
possible highways fer the feet of men He
climbed the mountains and disputed with
the eagles of the crags' for points of OBJ
servation; he met the wild beast and sub
dued him; he met the savage of the plains
and of the hills, and in his own person
gave notice of his sovereignty in skill, in
cunning and in courage. To the red man
he was the voice of fate"
fAFr L. KIIlrER
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18
AL AROUND THE HOUSE.
Old Furniture Made New with GiIdinn
Paint and Bright Rshben&

aAht ana EsEl81s AA~e~
The Decorator and Furnisher advises q
correspondent how to renovate set Of
cane seat chairs with painted frames, old
fashioned, but of attractive shape, as fol-
lows:
We would have the paint scraped OF
with glass and the surface smoothed with
fine sand paper. Then we would have the
chairs gilded, and Intervene narrow rib
bons in the meshes of the cane work. For
the purpose you can use ribbons of several
colors-turquois blue, old rose, moss green
and golden, or olive brown, for instance;
or you can use several shades Of single
color. The effect is beautiful, and thus
you would have charming set of chairs.
Instead of gliding you could have the
chairs of some delicate color or white
picked out with gold; and if you have any
of the small, old tables with marble tops,
once fashionable, you could paint them en-
suite with the chairs, and finish them with
ribbons tied around the standard or the
legs, and furnish them with covers Of
printed China silk, trimmed with fringe
of silk tassels strung on twisted cord.
Very much can be done out of odds and
ends of cast off furniture by an ingenious
woman to give a modern and pleasing ef-
feet.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18
s.. Louis to colorado via wichi.a.

Commencing Sunday, July Is. 1890, the
Missouri Pacific railway will run through
sleeping cars from St. Louis via Pleasant
Hill, Rich Hill, Fort Scott and Wichita to
Geneseo and from thence to Pueblo. Colo
RADIO Springs and Denver. This change
was made on account of great many peo-
pie from the east going to Colorado being
DESTROYS of going via Wichita. The train
will stop here two hours, giving all a
chance to view the Peerless Princess" and
still land passengers in Colorado same
time as if they had gone via Kansas City.
1t also gives the citizens of Wichita sleep
ing car service from here to Colorado. Re
turning, it gives US through sleeping car
service Wichita toSt. Louis, and gives the
Colorado people a chance to go east via
Wichita This change will undoubtedly
be appreciated by the travelling public, and
especially by the citizens of Wichita. If
you are going east or west go via the pop
ular new through route. Through chair
and sleepingcar service. New route just
completed between Fort Scott and Rich
Hill goes through the finest mineral and
agricultural country in the west. Don't
forget the new short line to st. Louis or
Colorado.
City ticket office, 1877 North Main street,
Wichita, Kansas.
46-tf E. E. BLECKLEY, p. G. T. A.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1890-09-18
A Notable Event.

In securing the meeting of the grand
lodge, l. o. o. f., which will be held at
Topeka, September Is to 20, Kansas may
feel highly complimented. Only a first
class, progressive, wide awake community
can suitably entertain such a notable
organization as that of the Odd Fellows.
1t is estimated 10000 strangers will be
present. May we count on you as one of
the number, and have the pleasure of
ticketing you via Santa Fe route? The
Santa Fe runs more passenger trains into
Topeka than any other line. Our depot is
convenient to all hotels. Street cars, cleo
trio line and omnibuses to all parts of the
city
Tickets on sale September IA to 20. in
elusive; return limit September %; rate
one fare for round trip. Inquire of
w. d. MURDOCH, Agent.
A, I. q S. F. R'y. 122 n. Main,
Sc If and Douglas ave- station.