Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1891-05-15

heed ~ his rcnnrku. Even a cigarette
snotcr might derive advantage from
rumiDaling upon them.
Senator Warner Miller, Of New
yofls, has been exp ioring Ia Nicaragua.
He ~ lnrgc man, and the natives
ware astonlshed nj his cndurance In
that hot climate. Licutenant A. u.
Menocal, an energetic aud tlreless
engineer, who has spent years In sur
wy and work on the Nicaragua canal,
arrived IN New York on the 18th inst,
from Gfeytown. fIo said: al have
been In Graytown aud ON the canal
Tor now ten months. The food there
grows horribly mOnotonous. IL II
canned gsods all the tiue. | began TO
get the fever and feel tie effects Il my
diet on my skin. There will lie no
such trouble about food when we once
get the railroad running 10 the river.
II was t1iA gentleman who related
Warner Afiller's fcats In Nicaragua.
A. Montclair, New Jersey, n little
eight year old boy lived alone with the
dead boJy of his mother for n full
week. Nrs. johnson was given to
drinking 10 excess. She frequently be-
came 20 beso,ied that she remained
nbud for three OF four days, and then
the bright youngst.r cooked his own
food and said nothing to tho neighbors.
On Monday one Of the ncighbors re-
marked that nothing had been seen Of
Mrs. johnson for more than week
and when her little hoy appeared Sow
eral women asked him whore his
mother was. HE answered that she
whs ssleep and bnd been abed more
than q week. This statement aroused
the curiosity Of the noighbora and sew.
ernl of them went 10 the house together
In the evening. On opening the door
they were overpowered with the
stencil, which could not be mistaken.
lights were procured and they saw
the blackcned and swollen body Of the
woman lying on the bod. The win
dows were open and an examination Of
the body showed that Mrs. johnson
had been dead many days.
News from New York says that the
pearl button industry IL again revived.
Old factories which were closed for
some years are now In full operation,
and new factories have started up. All
Of them have nore orders than they
can conveniently I'LL. Wages have
been advanced from 40 10 30 per cent.
and workmen who formerly earned 81
week when they could get weeks
work, now earn frUm $3.50 10 s23.
Several yeau ago there were about
twenty three factories In Newark max.
Ing pearl buttons alone. The change
IN the tarlT ON pearl buttons had n
disastrous effect on the Industry.
Nearly all the factories were closed,
and all the work that the fow had TO
do was 10 I'LL In such small orders as
could not be attended TO by the import.
ers. Some work was also done for
jewellers on pearl ornaments. In seven
months after the Mckinley bill went
into operation. the trade IA almost
restored. That bill provided the rate
Of protection 10 long asked for by the
button makers, and its effect Is almost
magical.
Baltimore has curiosity In tho
shape Of n black and white girl. Chs
IN Martha Moody, mulatto. About
eight years ago she was very sick, and
during convaiescence her akin which
was black began turning white. At
first the blotchcs were small, but grad
ualiy they Increased In size until now,
from head TO foot, She hns at intervals
circles about the size OF n silver dollar.
The blotches are q pinkish tingc and
very unlike the natural complexion OF
the Caucasian. They increase In size
In the spring and fall, ut which time
tho girl says she feels languid. At
these periods she also loses her appe-
lite. Her hair IL also undergoing n
decided change, but here the colon,,
which appear In spots, arc pure white.
She has been under the treatment Of a
female physician here for some years,
but shc seems unable to give the de-
sired relief. Tho girl says she wants
10 have her white spots entirely elimi.
mated or else have the change mRde
uniform, but she prefers her natural
color. Until she wAs first taken sick
she was very healthy. The doctors DIFF
fer m 10 the cause Of the trouble and
say II IL one OF the most remarkable
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