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The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
CARDINAL LAVIGERIE.
One Of the Most Famous Men in the
Catholic Church.
HIS Remarkable Devotion to the Cause
of Liberty - How He Promoted the
Influence of France in North
ern Africa and Asia.

A dispatch to the Reuter- Telegram
Company from Algiers says that the
French cardinal Lavigerie is dead. By
the death of Cardinal Lavigerie the Ro-
man church loses one of its greatest
princes, perhaps the most widely known
of any, and eminent alike for learning,
for piety, and for devotion to the cause
of liberty. Throughout his career he
was famed as the aggressive, relentless
and successful foe of the slave trade in
the recent movement, for the suppress
sion of which no one was more noted
than he. He also distinguished himself
as the friend of republican institutions,
and upon him the monarchist parties
of France lay the blame for the destrue-
tion of their hopes and the dispersal OF
their followers.
He was born in Bayonne in 1895 and
was carefully educated at st. Sophia.
So diigent and SO brilliant was he in
theology and in the classics that the
archbishop of Paris urged his appoint
ment to the distinguished position OF
professor of ecclesiastical history at the
Sorbonne, and secured it from the min
lister of public instruction. His learn
ing and his address won him many &C.
clesiastical honors while he held this
Office, and at last he became attached to
the papal court in comfortable posi-
ton. In 1868 he became bishop OF
Nancy, and soon afterward Napoleon
III. made him member of the imperial
council of public instruction.
About this time number Of eminent
Frenchmen, taking up with the en-
perG5.'s idea Of increasing Frances
greatness by colonization, formed a
league for promoting French influence
in Africa and Asia. Bishop Layigerie
set out upon extensive travels in their
interest, and, in Africa and Asia, saw
the slave trade in all its horror. He
set himself actively in opposition to it,
and when he became bishop OF
Carthage and Of Algiers he had the
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
The Language of Files.

An English inquirer armed with
microphone, or sound magnifer, has
been listening patiently through long
hours to the curious noises made by
house flies, and reports his belief that
they have a language of their own.
The language does not consist of the
buzzing sound which we ordinarily
hear, which is made by the rapid vibra-
tons of their wings in the air, but OF q
smaller, finer and more widely modu-
lated series of sounds, audible to the
human ear only by the aid of a micro
phone. Probably this fly conversation
is perfectly audible to the fly ears,
which. as every schoolboy knows who
has tried to move his hand slowly up
on+hem, are very acute. The hope Is
expressed that since the heretofore in
audible whispers of flies have been de-
tected and recorded, some inventor may
construct a microphone which will en-
able ns to make out the language of
the microbes, and SO surprise them in
the horrible secret of their mode Of
opera tons. = - = ,z -.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
MOVING BONDED GOODS.

from the big, black, grimy steamships
which come to this port from the Med
iterranean. At times a great part of
their cargo is made up of huge blocks
Of marble Sometimes the duty is paid
atonce by the consignee, and the mar
BILE shipped to the various factories
where it is worked up into salable stuff
But much of it comes in ''to order" OF
to be sold on commission, in which case
it is transferred to lighters and by them
taken to the ':bonded warehouse"
which is nothing more than a plat of
ground bounded by the East river, and
Corlears and Water streets, right at the
point of Corlears Hook. This yard is
strewn with blocks of marble weighing
anywhere from two to twenty tons: a Il
under bond to the government for the
payment of duties.
Fastened to the East river side of the
yard is an enormous derrick, worked by
steam, and capable of picking up load
of over one hundred tons and swinging
it in the air. The derrick, or crane, has
steel wire cables half an inch in diam
eter run through two sets of blocks, one
with two and the other with four
sheaves, and with such nice adjustment
of power that block of marble weigh
ing twenty tons can be laid on top OF
another without breaking a sheet of
tissue paper placed between them. 1t
was built after the model of one used at
the government yard in Boston, and is
the largest machine of it's kind in the
city, and when scows laden with four
or five hundred tons of marble are
hauled up to 1t and the powerful en-
gines get fairly settled down to work,
that boatload of stone meets short
shift, and it's transference from sea to
shore is matter of little time.
Visitors to the. yard will not wonder
at the carelessness displayed by the
keeper, for if anyone. Is anxious to
prove to his satisfaction how futile
would be the attempt to rob the place,
he is ateliberty to try it. zN se5-..
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15

using it as foot bridge over the
Niagara river. Prior to that he was
only gymnast. He was a good GYM
mast, to be sure, yet only a gymnast,
quite unknown to fame But Blondin
was a gymnast with Napoleonic ideas.
He conceived the mighty idea Of con-
quering the awful Niagara with his
balancing pole, and came quietly over
from France and studied the ground,
Then he startled the world by the mere
announcement of what he was going to
do, and laid the world PROSTATE at his
feet by doing it.
But Blondin did not content himself
with merely taking the world by storm.
As soon as the world was fairly his own
he proceeded to knock it speechless. 1t
was stupendous enough that man
should walk airily over the gaping
chas,n with its dizzy swirl of green
water sweeping under him TOO feet be-
low That alone was quite sufficient.
But that was nothing. Blondin next
dressed himself up in a way that made
him look like an ape of prize-fghter
proportions, and in this guise scampered
over the rope, cutting up all sorts of
monkey antics on the way-hanging by
his toes, slsinning the cat and other sim
liar playful capers, all in midstream.
After thathe trotted gayly over his rope
wheeling wheelbarrow before him as
he went. But his great and culminat-
ing feat was when he walked over with
an able-bodied man hanging to his
back. The name of the hero who took
that exhilarating ride is now unknown
to fame, 1t did not seem to occur to
most people at the time that 1t re-
CURED almost IS much nerve on his
part as it did on the part OF Blondin.
At all events, he was not commemorate
ed in song and story as was Blondin,
and he did not get medals to pin {on the
left side Of his coat as did Blondin.
Yet he certainly was not without his
claim to glory. 1t is literally true that
people dropped intoverse over Blondin.
The poets got ut him very early in the
days of his glory. cH
At the age of sixty-eight Blondin is
still vigorous and as agile on the tight
rope as he ever was. Only recently he
appeared in Manchester. England, and
among other bits of mid-air playfulness
cooked an omelet on the tight rope and
passed it down to the admiring audience
below.
He is still and always was wonder
fully strong man. It has been said, in
deed. that one clement of his security
on the rope lies in the strength of his
arms, which enables him to carry a
much heavier balancing pole than that
used by the majority OF tight-rope
walkers.
Blondin lives near London, in a pref
ty house of his own which he calls
Niagara villa, and where he likes to
hear music and cultivate flowers and
potter about in his garden. Yon can
get him TO walk atsany time II you are
willingsto pay his terms, which7are FIVE
hundred dollars a night. 6s4f
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15

trees and bushes, making its detection
a difficult matter So when it was an
nounced that Chantrey had killed two
at a shot he. was Immediately made a
hero and congratulations began to pour
in on him in great multitudes. The
sculptor himself, much elated by his
good fortune, decided to erect monu-
nent to the fallen game, of which he
should be the designer.
Inscriptions were invited from the
men of letters of the day, but in spite
of the fact that some very celebrated
writers were among the contributors
none of their efforts was considered
worthy of adoption.
Later in life Sir Francis acknowl-
edged that the shot was scratch and
that he saw but one bird when he
aimed. The carved effigy Of the wood
cocks which he made was a very poor
work of art.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
THE HERO OF NIAGARA.
NJ. Blendin, King Of RopeWalkers
and Gymnasts.
The Famous Frenchman Who Thirty
Three Years Ago Crossed the Dizzy
Chasm on a Rope.-The So
cret of His Success.

Clifford Calverly, of Toronto, Can,
broke all previous records recently as
tight-rope Splinter over the Niagara
Falls chasm. His time from shore to
shore was 6 minutes. and seconds,
something like half that Of his towns
man and schoolmate, Dixon, who was
considered fast at 12h minutes. CAL
verify walked solely for glory and con-
tingent future profits. He did not pick
up enough money from the 5000 people
who saw him to pay for stretching the
rope; and as for glory, lsestook very lit
tie away with him. The great and only
Blondin gathered in all there was OF
that article on the 10th day of August.
1859. Blondin was the first tight-rope
walker to dream of crossing that hid
eous chasm on spider thread, and he
carried his dream into reality. The
country rang with his name. His pic
ture was everywhere. Tght-rope walk
ing became rage in all the baclyards
of America. The New York World feels
safe in saying that Jean Francois Gran
ele, whose stage, or rather tight-rope,
name is Blondin. is responsible for more
broken arms, dislocated shoulders and
broken collarbones among the youth Of
America than any ten circuses that have
ravaged the land
As for Blondin, he was the greatest
man in America. Even railroad con-
ductors let themselves be introduced to
him. He was a made man from the
moment he stepped off that rope. after
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
A VIENNA SENSATION.

Mysterious Horsewtipping That Is Per-
picking the KaiseAstadt.
A mysterious horsewhipping is per-
picking Vienna, says the Illustrated
American. 1t happened this way: Two
stylish horse1nen were on the Prater,
the fashionable drive of the Austrian
capital. A stylish carriage drove up to
them rapidly, a stylish lady alighted
and proceeded to whip. one of the
horsemen about the face. The
horseman submitted without a murrnur.
The police came dashing up, the lady
reentered her carriage, which was
driven away, and the two horsemen gal
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
THE AVERAGE LIFE.
DIR. Talmage Thinks Its Length Is Stead
iIy Increasing.


There is not much doubt, think,
in the minds of thinking people, that
we are returning to the old order OF
lengthy lives, writes 7. De Witt
Talmage in the Ladies Home
Journal. The average length of hu-
man life has so nightly increased
that life insurance companies and sta
tisticians and PSYCHOLOGISTS and moral
lists are beginning to recognize it in
their calculations. Emperor William.
departing few years ago, an octogena-
rian; Oliver Wendell Holmes, alive and
well, an octogenarian; John Moltke,
dying year ago, an octogenarian; John
Greenleaf Whittier, blessed soul, dying
all too soon, and yet he was an octo-
genarian; William E. Gladstone, step
ping to the throne of power, an oeto-
genarian. The fact is, that life has
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15

Hoped off. The police began to make
strenuous efforts to discover the iden-
tity of the actors in the scene, but their
ardor was quickly dampened when they
learned that the gentleman was Count
Chotek, one of the leaders of Viennese
aristocracy and a prominent figure at
court 1t is asserted that the lady was
Princess Stephanie, widow of Crown
Prince Rudolf, whose unhappy romance
with Baroness Vecsera ended in the
death of both.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
Pay for women's work.

Why are women paid less than men
for the same work? Many reasons have
been gwen for this very formidable
fact, from which we quote the follow
ing: I'm the first place, the supply,
consequent upon the great numbers of
women who apply for work, is greater
than the deaaand. Then she is new
factor in the Industrial system, and this
tends to keen her wages low. Again,
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
IN ARCTIC WATERS.
Remarkable Fate of tho Whaling Ship
"HeIen Mar"

The whaler Helen Mar was crushed
in the whaling grounds of the Arctic
ocean and thirtyfour men were lost.
Only one of the Eve survivors reached
San Francisco. on the eth of. Noyen-
Der, and he is now IN the Marine hospi-
tai for treatment. The story which
this survivor, named Koshan, told
through an interpreter illustrates the
perils of whaling in the far north. The
Helen Mar was an old but staunch
boat, which sailed from the Golden
Gate on December "a last. On October
6, when in latitude II degrees north,
the vessel took two whales. The crew
were SO busy in trying out the catch
that they didn't observe the swift cur.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
ESTABLISHED JUNE %, 1se2---voL. 81.
BONDED WAREHOUSES;.
One in New York Is a GIaring Ex.
ception in Many Ways.
Guarded by Ramshackle Fence on the
shore and a Big Derrick ON East
River-Never Visited by
Burglars.

The places where 'sUncle Sam" stores
imported goods upon which the duty
has not been paid are known as "bond-
ed warehouses; and are generally re-
garded as big, gloomy, forbidding,
frowning structures, with every win
dow shielded by iron shutters, every
door locked, barred and bolted. and the
whole under the watchful guardianship
of an officer armed to the teeth, and
bound by oaths to deliver over to the
stern hand of justice any wanderer
who would dare to more than look at
him and the treasure he is there to pro-
tect This view is in the main correct,
but there is one brilliant, glaring
exception to this rule, says the New
York Tribune. This statement is lib
eral as well as fgurative. for the place
is not shut in by high walls, there is no
lock on the door which would bother a
boy with a brick, let alone an expert
burglar, for more than a minute. The
roof of this bonded warehouse is the
blue arch Of heaven, and its custodian,
lovingly called the cold man" by those
who know him, has no more hard work
to do than to sit at q window in his
shanty in one corner of the 'house"
and smoke and watch the progress of
work in his tiny domain. At night he
can go home and rest, confident in the
knowledge that, although thieves can
break in and steal the goods under his
care if they wish, the chance of their
doing so is exceedingly slim. ~
The merchandise which is so accessi-
Bile to those with predatory instincts
and desires is delivered to the 'house"
by lighters and scows which receive it
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15

SCISSOR of lopg-haired white coat
beautifully marked with red, which
called forth enough admiration from
fair visitors at the Crystal palace to
have turned the head Of q less saga
cious feline. But a cat that is able to
walk away with the first prize, gold
medal, silver medal and two specials
without turning hair ought to be- able
to withstand few feminine exclama-
tions.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
A WONDERFUL SHOT.
Hew Chsntrey Astonishcd Himself and
His Army of Friends.

The most memorable shot that is re-
corded in the annals of sport is that
made by Sir Francis Chantrev, the
sculptor, on the Goth of November,
1929, at Holkham, in Norfolk, England.
On that occasion the famous artist
.yhile visiting his friend, Mr.. Coke, of
Holkham, brought down two wood
cocks at one shot.
The whole shooting world was par
alyzed for time by this feat, and it
has been more or less of wonder ever
aimee. The woodcock, it is hardly
necessary to say, is very difficult bird
to shoot even singly. Its fight is rapid
and twisting and it always keeps to
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15

she lacks technical training and, I'M
fortunately, she is not always willing
to spend the time necessary to acquire
the proper training, because she has not
an appreciative idea of it's value. Last
ly, she has not the same physical en-
durance possessed by man, and she is
constantly expecting assistance. which
affects her standing"
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
JOHN BUNYAN's MUG.

Westward Progress of tho Pilgrim Cup of
the Pious Tinker.
Chicagoans claim to have discovered
solid silver cup which was once the
property of the wife of John Bunyan.
Of course, they are going to exhibit it
at the worlds fair. The cup weighs
more than 90 avoirdupois ounces, and
holds a little more than a quart. The
inscription indicates that it was given
by Nathaniel Pander to Elizabeth, wife
of John Bunyan, of Bedford, in 1871.
The front of the cup bears the words in
letters that interlace each other: '"The
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
TIE Quality ofCourase Is Qneer.

The wife of an Australian eolonist
saw a snake swallow mouse and cour-
apeeusay4 chopped the reptilessin two
with aaqax. The mouse ran out unhart
and the woman jumped on fence and
ashrieked pitiably for assistance until
the mouse was well out of sight
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
LoNDoN's PRIZE CAT,

The Best and Prettiest Tabby In the
Crystal Palace Show 81 sxs.
Women who are fond of cats will be
interested in knowing that the aristo-
cratic. tabby to which was awarded the
first prize at the recent cat show in
London rejoiced In the name OF
"Chicot," that it was the property of
one Mrs. .Pattison and in all respects a
superior animal 1t was the proud pos
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
Liberty's Crown.

The statue of liberty in New York
harbor now wears a blazing diadem of
hfty-four electric lamps in vari-colored
globes, and the radiance from it is equal
totthat from $40. 900 candles. M
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
The Origin of Trousers.

BY the patient archaeological re
search carried on by one woman it has
been provided, for the qualification of
all women, that the bifurcated neither
garment supposed to be specially dis
tinctive of the masculine toilet rightly
belongs to the feminine dress The
women of Judah, it seems, were the
first wearers of the garment in bifur-
Gated form, and man, perceiving the
convenience and comfort of this article
of dress, evolved by the superior intelli-
gence Of woman, appropriated the same
for his own use, aBd doomed his woman
kind to cucumber their limbs with flow
inc, robes which render it impossible
for them to cope with man in the useful
~, \
Salvation Oil gives perfect satlsfacft0h- 1oA
horses witheraeked heels. G. W. Lee, Ala W.
Ratio Baltimore Md.
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
Coming Out strong.

The Nurse--It's twins, Mr.. olscni
Papa Olson with a brave effort to be
-shYeeds to de Shveede!
Chicago Tribune
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15
New Explosive.

herculite, the new French explosive
IS $50 powerful that half 9. pound 81
in recent test, displaced a stone weigh
ing thirty tona ~ ~
The Portland daily press., 1892-12-15

We are receiving every day large duplicate
time. PurintonMedicine Co.. New York
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-26

And Men, women and Children Are All
Curious.
Since Mother Eve through curiosity ate
of the forbidden fruit in the garden Of
Eden. her children have been guessing on
all imaginary sorts of propositions, and
some of them have done pretty we'll by fol-
lowing the bent of their inclination and
specializing on the future and what it
would bring fourth. Already ten thousand
PEOPLE in the state of Montana have given
way to their curiosity and made gueases on
the result of the vote in this state next
winning those VALUABLE prizes offered by
Mr.. Thomas Graham. prop ietor of The
Headquarters, 81 South Main street, Hell
ena. Votes are being hanGed in by the
hundred and the mails each day bring ad-
ditional hundreds.
Mr.. Crahan's enterprise and generous
offer are being appreciated by all classes of
people, and in unexpected Numbers thev
are taking advantage of them. The condi-
tions ore fully set forth on the fourth page
of The INDEPENDENT each day, and any adj
ditional particulars may be learned by ap-
plying to Mr.. Graham.
The winter ia coming on fast and that
prize of 300 would buy a comfortable
overooat or oloak-it would make possible q
lovely s~ealskin-and those three prizes OF
$50 each would help out very decidedly on
some pretty Christmas present or furnish a
table for Thanksgiving day. or buy q good
deal Of coal. The beauty of the plan is that
it costs the guesser nothing at all.
Guessers these last days have the advan-
ta0e in that they can compare notes with
friends who have already made their figures
and have the benefit Of their study of the
political field.
Oct. s3O the contest closes, and unless
your vote is in by that time you will lose
the 500 and your friends the 500.
Vote easly.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-26

Ed Calc0tt IL Acquitted Of an Assault or
q Policeman Israel Gets u Verdict
Against White.

A case OF more Than ordinary interest
to women waa argued before the supreme
court yesterday. 1t involves the question
as to whether all the property of q married
woman 10 exempt from the debts Of her
husband, and II the supreme court decides
ths snms way Judge Buck did, nothing that
belongs to her can be touched except for
her own obligations. The case is that Of
Violet M. Kelley against Charles M. Jeaoris,
sheriff Of Lewis and Clarke. A judgment
WAS obtained against j. j. Kelley on behalf
of parties in Idaho. and Sheriff Jeferis
levied on his saloon. Mrs. Kelley, who
claimed to own the saloon, had executed a
chattel mortgage for the property. and
brought suit to recover it from the sheriff
under the act of 1887, which said that a
woman should retain the same legal exist
enoe and personality after marriage as be-
fore. aud should be entitled to the same
protection as a man. The common law
has always boon that u wife's property
is subject to her husbands debts.
Prior to the passage of the
act OF 1887, the Montana law on the sub
ject held that q wife's separate property, in
order to be exempt from her husbands
debts, should DO recorded as her own in II
list. The main contention is whether the
Legislature ment to exempt fiom q hus-
bands debts all property in a wife's name,
or whether, il 10 did SO mean, it had the
right to do 30. Judge Buck. in the district
court. decided in favor of Mrs. Kelley. The
appeal was taken on behalf Of the sheriff
to settle this important point. i. H. Nc
Intire appeared for Mrs. Kelley. and J. A.
Carter for Sheriff Jefferis. In legal circlsr
the outcome of the case before the supreme
court il looked forward to with great in
terest, for should Judge Buck be sustained
IL will mean the complete emancipation OF
woman, 90 far as concerns her right to own
and control property that shall be outside
the control of her husband, and which will
not be held responsible for his debts.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-26
The boys M ust stop 1t.

To the Editor Will you kindly notify
the people, or rather the parents of chill
dren, In regard to she breaking ont Of win
dow lights. no most Of them have the habit
Of picking mp II stone and seeing which can
break out a window light the quickest.
Somo have what ID called q sling-shot, and
either have shot or smnll bullets to use In
u. Ii parents don't zee to the matter and
have it stopped at once, they will find their
children in tho lookup before long.
Got. 90. TAXPAYER.
The Helena independent. [volume] (Helena, Mont.) 1875-1943, 1892-10-26
Acquitted of Assault.

Ed Calcott, driver for the Helena Cab
company. was tried before a jury in Judge
Hunts department of the district court
yesterday on the charge of assaulting ".
H. Bushnell with a whip On Got. 6. 1891.
Bushnell was a policeman at the time. and
said he was arresting Calcott for soliciting
business at the Montana Central depot,
when the alleged assault occurred. Calcott.
in his testimony, claimed that he was not
violating any law. and WIS willing to so
with the officer. TIL latter, however, was
using more force than WAS necessary. The
jury brought in u verdict of not guilty.
County Attorney Nolan prosecuted and @.
G. Newman defended the accused.