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The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
NOT An INTERNAL MACHINE.
A Story Showing the Caution of Russia
 Officials.

A Story Showing the Caution of Russian Officials.
 Does anyone remember Byron'S famous plum-pudding? asks the Gen. tleman. If so, the Nikita plum-pudding story may strike them as somewhat of parallel. When staying at St. Peters burg for Christmas some English friends of the young singer, thinking to please her, and regardless of the effects on her voice, sent her monster plum pudding as a surprise. Imagine her amazement and trepidation when it was announced in every morning paper that large box supposed to contain an in- fernal machine, directed to the young singer, had been deposited at the near est police station. A letter reached her from an authority-there are many au- thorities about in St. Petersburg-in- forming her that the police were chary of opening the box, fearing it might be dangerous to their lives; but did she know of anyone valiant enough to at tempt the deed the box should be hers. Her impresario undertook to die in the attempt, and, on arriving at the police station for that express purpose, was somewhat relieved to find the huge package reposing quietly in a tank of water. Now came the moment for the untying of the Gordian knot; and there reposed, wrapped in linen within an earthenware bowl, the pudding dearest to the heart of Englishmen on the 18th of December as every year comes round. The police still refused to be satisfied, and insisted that the terrible thing might shroud a mysterious bomb. After a vast amount of probing and pronging, the pudding was at length conveyed to its destination, and both it and the joke were heartily enjoyed by the Nikita party.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
American Pearls.

Pearl mussels are often found in the upper Mississippi and in rivers flowing to the lakes, but whenever a pearl is discovered in any locality all the mussels in the stream are immediately destroyed by persons in search o1 others. If the search were systematic ally conducted, as is done in some parts of Germany, pearl fishery might be- come an important industry in this country. In Germany the streams are carefully preserved and are fshed for pearls only on6e in ten or fifteen years. The shells of mussels picked out of the river are carefully opened with a pair of pinchers made for the purpose. and if no pearl is found then the mussels are replaced in the water. By means ot such system as this the annual find of pearls in the German empire exceeds S25O, 900 every year.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
RIGHTEOUS INDIGNATION.
Aunt Sarah Felt as IT She Had Lost He
 Wings.

Wings.
 Not long since, says the Washington Post, an old colored auntie came to the to cook for a gentleman who had known what an expert she was in pre- pairing toothsome dishes since his boy hood. The employer was on the sport ing order, and knowing the old woman to be of deeply religious nature, he took care to keep her in ignorance of the fact that she was to provide meals for festive club where draw poker was the nightly programme. For few days things went on swim mingly. The habitues of the place praised the cooking to the skies, but their good living was not to last. Aunt Sarah discovered by accident that the people whose palates she was pleasing were an irreligious lot, and that they were habitual card players. The dis covery appalled, her. Rushing into the room where dozen men were intent on a jackpot she shouted:
 "I'm goin' right back home. You kin git another cook dis very day, Marse Jim. feel jest like you had taken my wings from me SO I can't never fly to Heaven. All de money in Washington couldn't keep dis old woman in dis sin fuI place."
 The very next train on the Virginia Midland numbered Aunt Sarah among its passengers.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
eRUIN IN WINTER.
He Enters 8 Hollow Tree and Remainl There I'll Spring.

He Enters 8 Hollow Tree and Remains There I'll Spring.
 e' Bruin does not retire from the open till he is compelled to do so by frost and snow. He lives through the sum- mer on berries, buds, insects of every kind, grass, mice, or any other small animal that he can get. I may say, for the benefit of the gentlemen that pub- fish so many terrifying bear stories in the daily newspapers, that bruin is as harmless as cow during the summer, and will take to his heels in fright on sight of human being. It is only when he leaves his lair too early in the spring and he is not able to find any thing to eat that he will attack man: but he prefers calf or sheep, and the farmers tale is often short at sundown, says Our Animal Friends.
 But when winter overtakes him he sets about to find a winter home. He has very likely during the summer when poking his nose into hollow trees looking for the honey of wild bees seen some place that will suit him, and to this he goes straightway. The tree must be large one, and he will not se- lect it unless there is space with plen- ty of room where the snow or rain can not reach him. This secured, he bun dles himself together, his head on his paws, closes his eyes, and remains in this posture till 'those blind motions of the spring" tell that ''the year has turned" Then he drags himself out and begins his struggle for an existence.
 Sometimes, however, when lying in this stupor, loud sounds startle him, and his tree castle shakes; this is when the lumbermen have found him, and are assailing the tree with their axes. He seldom escapes, and if he does he will surely die in the snowy forest un- less he can find another home.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
Myrtle as a Flavor.

{ In Italy the myrtle is used to flavor a great many dishes that with us are sea- soned with pepper and salt. We should not regard roast of meat favored with the peculiar odor of the myrtle as in any way improved, but the Italians like the taste and the perfume, and use it both in fish, meat and macaroni. The perfume of the myrtle is found were in its leaves, and great many sachet pow ders are made from the pulverized leaves of this shrub. It is said that even the wine in Italy is favored with it, but if so it is not exported, for for eign taste would scarcely endure so per ceptible an addition.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
Found by Telegraph.

"I have lots of fun in my quiet way" said an ex-telegraph operator to re- porter for the New York World. 'Iwas dining at hotel the other night and while waiting to be served I began to tick on a plate with my knife. In a few minutes got an answer in the same way from the other side of the room. Conversation was maintained for some time, and finally names were exchanged. I stood up and, looking across the room, saw an old side part ner of mine whom I had not met for years " -
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
SAVED HER YOUNG.

How Small Bird Turned Aside a Large
 Herd of Cattle.
 A herd of five thousand beeves were toiling over the lonely trail from New Mexico to Kansas, says correspondent of the Youths Companion, leaving be- hind them across the grassy plains and valleys swath as bare as if it had been swept by the fiery breath of a simoom.
 Suddenly the leader of the herd, a huge steer, started back in terror, gave vent to a snort of warning, and moving to the right passed on. Those immedi- diately in his rear turned to right or left, and their example was followed by each long-horned pilgrim as he reached the dreaded spot.
 When the entire herd had passed a wide, trampled track lay behind, but near the middle of this dusty space stood a luxuriant island of grass three feet in diameter.
 A herdsman rode up to the spot and dismounted, expecting to find rattle snake, a creature of which cattle as we'll as horses have an instinctive and we'll founded dread. Instead of a serpent, however, the grass tuft contained only a harmless killdee blower, covering her nest, while her wings were kept in con- stant and violent motion. Seen indis- tinctly through the grass, she had evil dently been mistaken by the steer for a rattlesnake.
 She did not take flight, even at the cowboy, but valiantly pecked at his boot as he gently pushed her to one side to find that the nest contained four un- fledged killdees.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
A cLEoPArRAN NIGHT.
Egypt Beneath the Stars Place of En.
 chantment for Poets.

Egypt Beneath the Stars Place of En- T. chRntment for Poets.
 Nights there were, too, full of enchant- ment-such nights as Cleopatra once outwatched on some wave-washed AL exandrian terrace-when the moon, burning with a white fire unknown to the north, hung over her own perfect image in the water; or when the sky, ''clad in the beauty of thousand stars" was mirrored in the still river below, and we seemed to float through a starry world.
 In the crystal-clear air the great con stellations famed with unwonted splen- dor; above, Orion blazed; the Hyades and Pleiades glittered like diamond fbulae in the nights dark cloak; Cano- pus's great lamp burned with mellow light; Bernice's shining locks hung on the vault like votive offering; Cassi- opeia queened it in her silver chair, while Gemini's twin beacons fared and paled, says Scribner's Magazine.
 Under such sky, from the terraces of the Alexandrian museum, King Ptolemy's astronomers watched these gleaming worlds in their ordered march through space, seeing in each planet divine chorister in the infinite sym phony and hearing faintly the prelude of the celestial harmonies centuries be- fore it thundered in Galileo's ears as he stood on the brown Tuscan tower among the olives.
 Most precious of all these experiences is the remembrance of the hours spent on deck at what the Arabs call ''the time of evening prayer" when the sun dipped behind the Librian chain and iMustapha's fire rose in pale-yellow flame against the violet water.
 : The mountain tops still glowed, the desert was ashes of roses, the high bank turned to bitumen, the sky to molten gold, and darkly silhouetted against its splendor,a a frieze of living bronze against a golden wall, the eever-charming figures of the Egyptian pastoral-Canephorae, on their stately march; Chloe, 1.-the and slender, driving home her sheep; Daph- his, herding his goats; the gleaners of Virgil, the husbandmen of Theocritus; the lovers and nymphs of Anacreon passed before us in the glamor of the evening light, every low-browed profile outlined in sharpest relief against the glowing west
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
Australian Foresta.

With the exception of a living carpet of delicate maidenhair, which attains a height of from five to six feet, and of ropes of creeper ferns which swing from tree to tree like fairies in the castle of a giant, the forest of Australia is alto gether bare of undergrowth. In the woods of recent growth, however, veg citation is more luxuriant. The long tendrils of the clematis and rata con- meet trunk with trunk in garlands of white and scarlet bloom, and at their base fourishes an infinite variety of ferns, while here and there a graceful tree-fern rears it's silvery-lined crown.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
Antinuitx of Shaving.

Unlike the Romans of later age the Egyptians did not confne the privilege of shaving to free citizens, but obliged their slaves to shave both face and head. The data not are exactly as authen- tic as one would like to have, but it is believed that the custom of shaving the beard was introduced in Rome in the year 400 B. c. According to Pliny, Sciplo Africanus was the first Roman who shaved daily.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03
America in the Lead.

The United States still continues in the lead in iron and steel production. Statistics just received show that Great Britain produced 7.22S, 496 gross tons of pig iron in 1891, 1,642, ,OO5 tons of Besse- mer steel ingots, 662,676 tons of steel rails and 1,514,5Ss tons of open hearth steel In the same year the United States produced s,279,s70 tons of pig iron and 1,21s,s74 tons of Bessemer steel rails.
The St. Johns herald., 1892-11-03

Ear marks: Clean split from root to point left ear, upperbit in right ear. Wattle (varuga) on jaw, under mouth. c on left jaw (cheek> bulls c on left cheek only. Flooded stock C on left cheek and c on left ribs.
 HENRY HUNING Post office: Show Low, Arizona. Range: Show Low creek, Silver creek, Laguna Ortega and Lagune Salada.
 Horse brand C C left shoulder.E
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-19
THE BEHLING SEA CASE.

Edward J. Phelps, cX Minister 10 England. and
counsel for the United state, Government In the
Echrug sea aritratlon assisting senator Morgan aud
Justice Harlan IS at ia" Clarendon for lcw days
ON private business III speaking Of The arbitration,
Mr. Phelps stated that the preparation Of The case
for the American Government was duly ADVANCING
the course Of events In Nchrng S,a not having mod-
n,d the points AT issue and that 1t WAS hoped that
The arguments might b. prc,cnted 10 the Tribunal
~ Paris In the latter part Of February or early In
March. The decision viii probably not be- gwen AT
once 70. the principles Involved are far reaching In
their consequences. The ease will De argued before
the Tribunal according to The recognized Iqts In
sach arbitration. the practice of the different ma
lions Ia international procedure j. practically uni
form.
Vi. Phclp, IS o preer: with important engage
mcnts that he las decided 70 abandon the course Of
lectures which h. had been invited 10 deliver nj tho
New York Law school. and VIII aso undertake. some
what l,s5 WORK than u,Ial at Yale.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-19
BrRKHALTER FAILURE LITIGATION.

Tie litigation over the Burkhaer failnre bobbed up
again In the supreme Court before Judge Andrews IN
Chambers Yesterday. an application Z" remove the
assignee Charles II. Fancher, and Pit the assets OF
the firm in the hands OF receiver. The motion was
made on behalf Cf the Peoples Bank Of orange ana
sixteen other creditors Of the firm. They nave ciuH'
against Brrkhalter & Co. amounting 10 SlOO'OVV'
The creditors were represented by Blnneps'eii "
Hirsch and David Mcclure, and f. {. RuSlihoTe ap
paared for the assignee. MIR. Rushmore wanted an
adjournment so that he could be prepared 70 answer
the serious charges which had been made against
thc assignee Of an attempt 70 pat the assets O1 lhe
def,nct firm where they could not be seized by 'he
creditors. Mr. BlumenStell declared that mere un-
doubtedly was attempt being made to driiHnd lhe
creditors ard he wanted the argument to proceed az
once. Mr. Rushmorc stll persisted IN hi7 application
for q postpOnement, and Justice Andrews hiaiIy
granted his request on condition that in the mcah-
lime the assignee should be en!oned from III any
wav dispOsing OF any OF the assets 0i ne nm.
Tie case will come up for argument on lntSHnV hcAt
The assignee also secured from Judge BOOE3uVer'
I'm tNe Court Of Common Pleas. an order "Atcholh9
his tine to file an inventory Of the g)3ls whch came
into Iii hands under The assignment. lie was re-
o-lrod bv raw 70 Gle the schedules NeseNny. but ne
secured this order Instead OF DONG So
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-19
ASKING HELP FOR NEWFOUNDLAND

Br-hop Potter OF New York, has sent letter 10 AL
the Clergy OF this diocese indonsng letter nom the
Eishop Of Newfoundland, and asks that the clergy
commend the appeal 10 their people. Bishop Potter
SAYS, The blow which the church In Newfoundland
has received l. one under which II must 81 eyer for
q long tmo TO come" The letter from the Bishop
OF Newfoundland is follows:
MY Dear Bishop: greatly cheorcd by The
sympathy with my sOrrowing diocese which was 50
widely expressed at the Generul Convention at Balti
more last month and have thereby been encouraged
to hope that assistance viii be forthcoming from our
brethren Of the American church to enable Us 70 re
store some OF the church buildings Of which the recent
disastrous fire has deprived | venture 70 ask
whether you could kindly bring case under the
notice of your clergy and request them invite their
RESPECTIVE congregations 20 contribute collection ia
our behalf Oh some Sunday to be- named by YOU"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-19
REQUEST or THE TILDEN TRUSTEES.
THEY WANT THE CITY TO ERECT BULLDOG
FOR TIE PROPOSED LIBRARY

THEY WANT THE CITY TO ERECT 4 BULLDOG
FOR TIE PROPOSED LIBRARY.
The trustees Of the TIden Trust have sent letter
to Mayor Grant, which read at the Board OF
Estimate yesterday, reviewing the terms OF the will
and the litigation which followed Mr.. T3den's death.
The paper addressed TO the Mayor, Aldermen and
Commonalty Of the city OF New-York 1t said:
ave expect to realize for such from p 0OO.
900 TO s2,250,Oo0, the annual Income from which
may be moderately estimated at $4,000. The trus-
tees OF the TIden Trust anxious TO apply tbs
fund In the way that shall prove most advantageous
the people OF the city OF NewYor, and the sans
time most strictly conform tie wishes and expec-
tatons Of the testator manifest In his will
The Income 81 this is insufficient provide
suitable buildings Tor the accommodation If such
library as was contemplated by the te>'atOr, and in
addition 10 equip md operate II, but qLge sufficient,
In their Judgment, 10 equip and operate it II suitable
accommodations Tor It's Installation provided from
other souIces
IN view Of these facts, und OF TIE facts that the
city of New York Is not only destitute Of library
accommodations than any other city Of size IN tie
world, but destitute than many cities In our own
country OF iar less wealth and population the under
signed trustees OF the Tden Trust respectfully invite
your honorable body 70 consider tie propriet Of ayInni
yourselves of this opprtuny Of establishing library
commensurate With the magnitude and dnpOrtahc" Vi
our commercial metropolis ana oil taking measures =
provide for IL the requisite acfouinOdali'ns Win nc
unders standing 70 which the trustees OF the Illocl
Trust hereby their readiness TO become RsrIos
that they VIII equip ana operate s'icn Mor'T!
The paper signed by John B!geloW, presldeut
and l.. v f. Randolph secretary of the Tsdsn trust
Upon the suggestion OF Mayor GRANT the DydIu ".
Estimate referred the paper 90 Controller Myers ioF
ROM
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-19
ASSISTANT INSPECTORS OF THE STATE G. A. 4

Albany Nov. Il (speclall- Theodore L. Poole De
pnrtmrnt Commander Of New York, Grand Army of
he Republic has Just issued general order deS snat
ing comrades ~ act rs stant inspectors 10 Inspect
posts in every county IA the State. Those for New
York Orange, Weschcstrr and Kings are follows
Ncw-Yorl- John Jero.oman Post 30 Inspector
for rests {, -. -, 80; Frank N. Ball,
Post a. for Posts - A., 81 G5T; James
H. Porter Tost Il, for Posts a., 02, ~.
CD; NJ J. Kelly, Post 1876, for Posts 10, II, TO- SO
! H. Malrc, Post lao, for Posts 06. 100. IO3, Il3
Edward Hendricks. Post l72, for Posts 1875, 1885, l36,
no. John Lammrs. Post l0: for Posts 49, Is2, lo6,
.I; Isaac H. As,in Post .53 for Posts b. I92 234,
o55 Charles ". Randall. Post 3d. for Posts 259, 26i
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-19
A VETO ON MR.. BEERs's PENSION

THE co1,RT SAYS THAT NEW-YOEK LIFE
TRUSTEES HAD no POWER TO GRANT 1T.
William II. Beers will have some trouble In col
Iec,Inr his comfortable pension OF st'1Oo N'! l'oi
the New-York life Insurance Company. The E'hcr"i
Term Of the Supreme Court yesterday handed u"""
decision against Beers determining that The coHpaS
mood NOT nav the sum to It's former president The
case was submitted 10 the General Term by h'cr'
and the company. Al the end Of the irs' quarter
tor which he was 10 receive the pension the com
uauy refused to pay II, the new president OF "'e
company. gohn A. Mccall. declaring that. III DIS
op,pon the agreement BY which the company prom '1
70 pay this sum wds Illegal and void IN" ''Her"'
Term In IN opinion written by Presiding Justice al
Brint and concurrcd In by Justices o'hTlcn ana
Lawrence uph0lds Mr. Mccall in his coh''lu'" "'"'
the agreement is illegal and void
Judge Van Brunt says, In the opinion, flat The
object plainly was to compensate Mr.. Bc'rs i"r past
services in spite Of Ia" fact That tAc rf'ol"oAN u
tle trustees stud,Ousy declare thai iLr COMPENSATION
is to be for services TO be performed In the ""r''
The board of trustees had no power 10 maze SUCH u
contract he says otherwise there IS 10 reason WHY
it could not employ al the clerks, messengers anu
oil other employees Of the company Tor Hfc ana take
tho management Of the company entirely out Of The
hands of the owners Of the assets. the policy hoii'
II MAS not within the power Of the trustees 10 Ht"
Mr. Beers upon the company a. an cmp"!e ~ ""S
as he lived. In fact, the trustees were Wholly WI"
out authority TO make this contract. aud II Is h"e"'oS
The court also comments harshy upon the acuoh "a
Mr. Beers when he was president OF the company III
presiding at the meetings when his own Interests were
being considered by the board
The history OF the company is reviewed al some
length. and the scandalUIs developments at me ih
yestlea;lon which followed the Internal troubles are
commented on by the court. The TACT that te Pp,TS
holders did not agree with The trustees "a .o r
hat beers ought 10 have pension OF $50 3VV var
Is mentioned and the court says that ne trustee &c
moi empOwercd TO take the control or lhr '"'lPtHS
20 completely out Of the hands OF the oWllrrs % ,o
assets, and that the trustees acted III WY WIN"
was not justified by the bylaws
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1892-11-19
GENERAL HKJARES LANDS IN PEACE.


THE PHILADELPHIA ADMITTED TO Entry
VENEZUELAN TROUBLES NOT YET OVER.
The steamship Philadelphia which left la Guayra,
Venezuela on November 10 without clearance papers.
was admitted entry yesterday at the Custom House.
Captain Chambers produced letter from the United
States Consul at La Ouayra stating that he had de-
manded clearance papers, and they had been refused.
and that as the vessel carried the United states mnil
no had with the consent OF the United states Minis
ter Caracas aud The Secretary Of Legation, who
was Mt the consulate given the captain authority 10
proceed.
General Pedro Ylncente MrGres, Ex-Governor OF
Caracas. the refugee on whose account the whole
trouble arose, was seen on beard yesterday morning.
o said that nom 1886 TO 1888 ee had been Venezuelan
consul, in New-Yorh and that afor lbs return TO that
country he had been elected 10 Congress from Miranda
After Palaclo became president be made Governor
OF Caracas lie sud that the trouble Is not yet ended
and that greater revolution than the last viii
soon take place. General MIares Will remain In
New York III he is called 10 Venezuela when ts
time IS ripe
Another passenger the ship was Nr. Lerrate
tho Venezuelan Commissioner TO the Worlds Fair
10 was almost shot by reporter, who handling
some firearms on deck. without knowing that they
were loaded. Tho Incident created some excitement
IL tlought at first that an attempt had been
made 10 assassinatc him.
j. j.. Naruil. OF Caracas, who Is going as Consul
General 20 Lnelnnd, WAS also IA passenger on the
PhllndcpM
The ten2uelun Consul In this city, DR.. II. r. sal.
civa, said that lie had ,eard nothing from his
pent about the matter that he would Ignore 1t unless
h. did hear and that Mllares would not De- prosecuted
here, and no efforts would be made to eAtdite him.