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p1,MoRs OF AN EXTRA SESSION.

Washington. April LIT was reported at the White
House this morning that Senator German had stated
that the present extra ordinary session OF the Senate
woald end on April 10. Senator German is also
oven rs authority for sshment that the President
viii call an extra session to begin about September 10
"The Washington Fost- this morning makes
statement that Speaker Crisp had consultation
Nth President Cleveland yesterday in reference TO
ar orsstion Of an extra session. The President II
T. ssSd exacted assurance from Speaker Crisp that
the latter would support the Preddents ta.6 reform
monetary reform and pension reform policies. and
that the speaker gave these assurances. He was
then Informed that the extra session wouid be surely
cSstrmsnship should receive immediate attention.
Speaker trisps private secretary says there In no
trufk In the story.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-02
MUST NOT FOR.

They must remember II the face does
not look well and wrinkles are toi.
Grated on the face they show the more
when a ncw spring bonnet displays all
the freshness ~ spring and make, .
nnt look Young always. wnen Only -
bottle Of lotion will do III 4 young
lady Of twenty viii stay there ana LOT
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-02
v.w VISITORS AT THE WHITE HOUSE.

washington. April 1.-saturday 10 ono OF Mr.
sssvslsnd's free days. when Senator'S, Representa-
s,ves. ofBceseekers and the general pubic are re-
csived for more than three hours us".S 0n sue.
.s... the people who send in their cards to the
rsssdent arr numbered in the huhdreds. but to-day
~ .sssnasscc Vas so mall that every regular naDue
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1893-04-02
ro CHANGE rHE pEnr srArEMENr FORM.

TO CHANGE THE DEBT STATEMENT FORM.
washington. April i.-secretary Carlisle will make
. change in the form Of the public debt statement
,etween now and May I, II he can find the time to
live the necessary consideration to the matter. lie
Sss alresdy outlined in general way the change be
Intepds to make but the subject Is one that makes
: change IN keeping certain Treasury accounts. ne
rants to dive 1t Thorough sidy before he announces
= .,.nge OF FORM lie will not indicate what are
ths changes he has in mind. but they are eelieysa
"a be OF : radical character ana DOCKING 70 smP'
arafion Of the public debt statement
Eagle River review. [volume] (Eagle River, Wis.) 1890-1927, 1893-05-04

Lancastrans fought the first battle Of
the Roses war.
When the explorer was IL he, no
doubt. saw many of the Cologne Jews
who at that tine were expelled from the
German capital, and as we know
little OF his early travels he may
even have been at Co ogne, and there
have seen the foundations OF the Cathe-
drJl which is now one of the wonders of
the Christian world. It's first stones
were laid 200 years before he was born,
but the work went on slowly, and in his
youth the walls were scarcely ten feet
high, while Il small rooted inclosure in
one corner served to shield worshipers
from the weather. Three years after
his death the work ceased altogether,
and was not resumed until 1912, nor was
it until 1880 that the grand pile was fin
ished, over GOO years from the COM
mencement of the enterprise, which thus
covered in it's construction nearly half
Middle Ages and the whole OF modern
times.
In the travels of his early days it is
not impossible that Columbus may have
visited Antwerp and there have beheld
in their prime the fortresses which, now
in decay were then just finished and
the pride of the stout Dutch city that
hoped by means of them long to pre-
serve it's independence. The Antwerp
forts, however, dwindled into insig
nificance in comparison with another
fortress which Columbus may have
seen, and which had then just been
completed, the famous Bastile of Paris.
Erected as the citatel of Paris, it was
the principal defense of the city, and
was then deemed one of the strongest
fortresses in the world, rivaling even
the giant structures that the barons of
William the Conqueror had erected in
England to hold in awe the vanquished
Saxons. Nearly 100 years after the
death of Columbus Henry ~. and his
veterans assailed it in vain, it's thick
walls and lofty battlements defying
every attack. In Columbus boyhood
it was known only as a castle, not hav-
ing then been put to the vile uses Of
tyranny that afterward made it infa-
nous in tho eyes of the French ma
ton and brought about its demolition
at the hands of the Infatuated
rabbe. But Columbus did not need to
travel to Paris to see model prison,
| for in his native city there was an es-
| tablishment of this kind which, in his
day, rivaled the later reputation of the
| BaStile. The men of the fifteenth CEN
| fury had little Of comfort in their daily
lives, and, not knowing what it was,
| never missed it. Even the palaces of
those times were built without the
slightest care for what the moderns
consider comfort; and in the royal resi-
dence less regard was shown for the
convenience Of its occupants than is
now displayed in the cottage of the la
borer. Even in the Tuileries, begun
over 100 years after the birth of Column
bus, no systems Of sewerage or drain
age was provided, and the Stops of every
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in stories OF adventure. When Column
bus was a boy the name of Turk was a
terror word throughout Europe. Moth
erS frightened their children into obedi-
ence with the threat that the Turks
are coming" and the story of the great
est Turk, who, at the time of his de-
feat and capture was besieging Con-
stantinople, city in close commercial
intercourse with Columbus birthplace,
was doubtless told with many exagger-
ations in the streets and nurseries Of
Genoa.
The year before Columbus was born
Ladislas of Hungary was defeated and
slain at Varna by the Turks, and the
memory of this great national disaster
was doubtless revived by the terrible
defeat of the Turkish cavalry by Hun
niades when Columbus was years old.
When he was s the city OF Genoa was
stirred to it's depths by intelligence thai
alarmed tho world. Constantinople, in
spite of the heroic resistance that for
months had excited the admiration of
Europe, had fallen before the victorious
arms Of Amurath, and swift ships flying
before the southeastern gales had
brought the dismal news to Venice and
Genoa. The capital OF the East was
the trading post for Eastern Europe and
Asia Minor, and thousands Of merchants
in Genoa, Venice and other ports of the
Mediterranean saw their business swept
away at one stroke. For long time
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there had been talk of sending aid to
the beleagnred Constantine PalRologus,
and the last vessel that escaped from
Constantinople bore an urgent appeal
for help Come quickly, or we are lost,
said the letter dispatched from the un-
fortunate monarch. In Genoa and
Venice fleets were preparing to put to
sea; mercenaries, hired in Italy, Dwitz-
erland. on the banks of the Rhine, gath
cred from the strolling bands OF free
lances. recruited even in far-away
England and Scotland, were gathering
in both cities, ready to embark with the
first favorable wind; but before the
wind came the news arrived that the
Turkish cannon. novel and much dreaded
weapons, had made breach IN the
walls; that Constantine, sword In hand :.
had fallen among his troops, and that
the crescent had replaced the cross on
the giant dome of st. Sophia. when
the future discoverer was IL he no
doubt witnessed the illuminatlons that
were ordered in every city in Europe IN
honor of the brilliant victory or the
Hungarians over the Turks before the
walls of Belgrade, and, possibly, lew
wears later, may have stood among the
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THE KING AMUSES HIMSELF.
He Is Happiest When He Thinks He Has
Killed IA Peasant with His Gun.

He Is Happiest When He Thinks He Has
Killed Peasant with His Gun.
The one insane monarch who now
occupies q European throne, King
Ohio of Bavaria, shows no symptoms
ady. l am told that he has lucid in
tervals, which are very brief, and oc-
cur but rarely, and it is as we'll, for
these tleeting CLEANS of reason only
serve to make the poor man miser-
ably unhappy, for while they last he
realizes his own wrctched condition
to the full. Everything is done to
nary state, which is that of hopeless
as well as dangerous insanity. He
spends his days in unceasing occupa-
ton of an insignificant and mechan-
ical nature.
Atone time he worked from morning
till night in rolling cigarettes. Then
he took to peeling potatoes, and
provided for his amusement. OF
late his favorite pastime is by no
means of such an inotfensive nature.
He has taken to shooting peasants,
and will sit all day long with his gun
at the window, waiting for this new
kind of game on which to exercise
his skill. Even this freak his guard
ians have contrived to satisfy, with
out injury to any one OF his subjects.
His gun is loaded in his presence, as
he always insists upon seeing the
powder and shot duly put in, but Cor
the latter his attendant substitutes
dry peas.
Orders have been given that no per-
son shall be allowed to pass along the
road in front Of his dwelling, lest
King Ohio should fire upon him OF
her and be driven quite wild by see
ing his intended victim walk off un-
hurt. But at stated intervals a man
in PEASANTS garb makes his appear
ance on the road. The King takes
aim and fires, and the man drops
down, to all appearance, dead. The
supposed body is removed by two OF
the guards, and some hours later the
performance is repeated, to the i'm
mense satisfaction of his Majesty.
The make-believe peasant is fig
urant from one of the minor theaters
of Munich. Generally he simply
drops on hearing the shot, and re-
mains motionless, but occasionally he
varies the performance by dying very
hard, turning round two or three
times before he falls, and then eXpir.
ing in terrific commissions, catastro.
phe that always greatly interests the
royal maniac. - Philadelphia Tele-
graph
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Imperial Telephone Etiquette.

Emperor William IL has his own
imperial way of using the telephone.
Despite mistakes caused by the EN-
perors refusal to name himself at the
opening of the conversation, as other
people do, he invariably introduces
his telephoned orders merely with
the words: Il command that" and
so forth. As soon as the chief of de-
partment hears these words he mo-
tions that his subordinates must at
once leave the room. The signiti-
canoe of this arrangement is supposed
to be that the chief is having some
thing like an audience with his Mai
esty and that it would be presumpt-
uous for person not summoned to
hear the imperial voice to occupy the
room into which its tones are con-
veyed. At the end Of the converse
ton the Emperor walks away with
out saying. "good-by" and the chief
with whom he has conversed must
listen for five or six minutes after
ward to make sure that the imperial
orders have been completed. Then
he calls back his assistants and the
usual etiquette is resumed.
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"S brought intelligence from all quar-
WIS Of the known world. News spread
wa wonderful rapidity, considering the
% % mat newspapers. tolegraphs, post
-'teS, were all lacking: news OF the
~1e OF Agiucourt, fought thirty years
I0Fe Columbus was born, was tod IN
Y4e, over thousand miles away, be-
<'' 'le end OF week; the results OF
'SSy, hundred years earlier. were
,~g"" all over Europe within tort
s1" sometimes, Of course, eXagger-
or The accuracy of this hastily trans
lied Intelligence was wondorfuE.
ss1"eman in En&Iand, whose brother
S Killed and whose two sons were
funded when Joan raised the siege OF
leans in l429, learned the fact in SIN
SS.3S' and started to the relief OF MS
so.S on the seventh. When Intelligence
Eead like his, great center of busl-
r ,Ss aud population such as Genoa WAS
-. rvs also have been Il center OF news,
Nv (oIumbus. when lad OF = may
,' Aeard the news of the final eXpul-
y, ''4 OF the English from France in l4ol,
l+N when a lltcle oleer he must have
,'Iu news OF the war begun in l4o3 IN
rS'"hd between the rival houses OF
WI WA and Lanca ,ter, in which roses
n'e The cmblems and the kingdom
, ~S Prize. No doubt, among his COM
T, nTS ne h d heard tales OF the terrible
TnS and OF the still. mo. g terrible
o s'u'eriane, who, forty-th:ee wears be-
u me birth OF olumhus, had de.ea :
4, "Ho captm ed the Sultan Ba1azet, aud
sn, t''Soned him in an iron cage tor the
N-'Sement of the savage troopers who
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description were thrown into the court
yard through which the palace attend
ants constantly passed and repassed.
When royal dwellings were OF this de-
scription little regard would naturally
be shown for the comfort of prisoners,
and no more cheerless place of abode
can be imagined than the huge State
Prison of Genoa. It's forbidding eX-
terror was indicative of the internal ar
rangements. No provision was made
either for heat, light or ventilation, and
many Of the cells were SO far under
ground that no ray of daylight ever i'll
Illuminated their interior.
But those were merciless days, and
the prisoner was fortunate If he escaped
with only term of Imprisonment, for
in the lower tiers were torture cham"
bers where evidence was extracted from
luckless wretches by savage torture.
Executions were then public, and one of
the worst features were the insults
heaped on the condemned by the rabble
that always attended an execution.
These outrages were not only not dis
couraged by the authorities, but on oc-
casions when it was anticipated that
public sympathy would be extended to
the condemned bands of ruf1ians were
hired to attend the execution and curse
and maltreat the unfortunate victim.
Hanging. burning, drawing and quar-
tering were then accepted modes of ex-
ecution, and on more than one occasion
the young Christopher no doubt saw in
the street before the great Genoa
prison the carts containing the mangled
remains of state prisoners, while before
the CHASTITY tokens walked the masked
executioners, bearing on poles the heads
Of the condemned.
The days o. Columbus youth were
DAYS when the highest ladies of the land
rode in rude carts drawn by two horses,
as shown in the illustration. convey
ance then considered the height of re-
spectability; indeed, SO select was it
that ere his boyhood ended royal edicts
in France and Spain forbade the use of
such vehicles to any but members of the
royal family and of the highest ranks
of nobility. They were days when la
dies who from fatigue or overexertion
tainted were bled at once until they
tainted again, and were then sent home
on a cot placed on big horse and
little horse side by side, so that the i'm
proyised bed was in reclining position.
They were days when kings wore their
crowns all day long and every day, when
the most gorgeous costumes, made in
the most extravagant styles, and of the
most glazing colors were worn. They
were DAYS when the entrails OF serpents
were considered an infa)lible cure for
alimentary diseases, end when the hair
and hide of fox, burnt under the nose
of a patient was regarded as an excel
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lent specific for rheumatism, because
the fox was fleet, and burning his hair
in the presence of the slow paced rheu-
matte was coniectured to quicken his
steps. They were days when feuds
were settled by private battle, and
when the adjudication of q lawsuit
was determined by single COM
bat, under the idea that provi
dence would surely fight for
the right. They were days when Eu-
rope was ruled by q horde of petty des
pots, each in his own little castle OPP
pressing the poor and robbing the
stranger They were days when no
property was secure if either the noble
or the king wanted it for his service
when the king owned the property of
the nation and disposed of it as though
it were his own. They were days
when science was not yet born and
when ecclesiastics solemnly confuted
the statement that the earth was round
with the assertion that it must be
square, for the Bible spoke Of the four
corners of the earth With the story
how the boy outgrew the ideas and
prejudices of his youth-ideas and pref
udices which were the common prop
erty of his time-and by the sheer
force of reason solved the problem of q
new route to the east by the way Of the
west, the pages of history are filed.
But the old narrative gives us little idea
of the struggle that he must have
undergone before he finally succeeded
in bringing others to a belief in his own
sentiments, nor does it picture for us
the curious evolution of the man from
the unfavorable circumstances which
surrounded his bOyhOOd
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their lances to-day against the en-
ployers of yesterday, and the universal
desolation wrought by famine and the
Black Death. Europe had plenty Of sub
jects to talk about and gossip was
plentiful
The boyhood of Columbus antedated
even many of those monuments which
we are accustomed to regard as memen-
tos of a hoary antiquity, says the
Globe Democrat. When Columbus was
years old, Pope Nicholas, after long
bordering the subject and gravely con-
sidering the cost, determined on the
construction of a grand church at Rome,
church which should as much surpass
all the others of Christendom as Rome
in sanctity surpassed other cities. He
began by tearing away the ruins Of the
basilica of Constantine, but got out of
funds when the ground was ready for
the foundation, tho work stopped, and
in the boyhood Of Columbus the site of
ST. Peters was a large excavation in
the center of Rome. Thus it remained
during the whole life Of the discoverer,
and not until 1906, the year Of his
death, was the work resumed by the
laying of the first stone by julius ii.
st. PauPs, in London, was a homely
building, whose aisles were used as the
most convenient passageway across q
public square, and whose walls re-
sounded to the voices of the
buyer and seller, while the greater
portion of Paris was contained in
| the limits of the island where
now stands the Cathedral of Notre
Dame. The grand Cathedral Of st.
Adams, England, whose gates and doors
have for ages been the admiration of
architects and builders, was not then in
existence. A roomy and well-tilled
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CbiIdbood of Old Chris.

fl realize how great have been the
oros since the boyhood OF the dis
' 'D9 of the new world is matter of
WtIe difficulty 10 people of the pres
time Columbus was born in las,
~, and O half centuries ago, put since
u, time the world has moved so fast
n gone 50 far that, in point Of prog
L, the time OF Pericles is not further
roycd from our own. The boyhood
.be great navigator is, therefore, of
,mest to us, since the scenes he daily
.5old the topics he heard constantly
..,nssed, the cvonts of his period, the
toms of his contemporaries, are as
.,,rse as possible from those with
5,b we are familiar, and, by compar-
an the world of his youth is world
An which the general rea Ter is as
ME acquainted as he is with the pres
r state of learning in Timbuctoo.
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merciless corsairs of Morocco and Bar
barry, the wars of Christian kings
against each other and against their
own subjects, the never-ceasing con-
tests between rival noblemen, the pri-
vate feuds of free cities, the ravages Of
the plundering companies of knights
and retainers who hired their swords to
whomsoever could pay, and were ready,
at the promise of higher pay, to turn
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TIME OF COLUMBUS.

could not fail to near something OF the
great events which were then, in default
" newspapers, passed from mouth to
mouth along the quays and through the
Streets of the bustling city of Genoa.
ID those days the fleets of Genoa Gov
aeI the Mediterranean, and daily arrt-
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An Immense Ore Dock.

An immense ore dock is building
at Onesta, Mimi. The structure,
which, it is said, will be the largest
on the lakes. is to be $500 feet in
length, SO feet wide, and height
above mean water level 52} feet
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monastery stood hard by, the rich and
comfortable abbot OF which had more
than once received a sharp remon-
STRANGE from the King for not erecting
a church proportional to the wealth of
the community. At last, unable to re-
sist longer the Kings wishes, he, with
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WOOD OF COLU MBUS
ATS THAT OCCURRED DUR
va ING HIS YOUTH.

,,s Monuments that Were Begun I'm
= vouth-Thc Roses War and tho Turks
l.,e of Coustantinopie - Building of
IA. Bastiic.
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composed The con0ucrUr's army. Tales
ike this fasrlnate he hoys OF every
century, and olumhu5 VIZ probably no
exception to the rule that boys delight
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n u

much reluctance and some grumbling at
the cost, laid the foundations when CO.
lumbus was years old, and then the
gates were built round which, when
Columbus was 10, the Yorkists and
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with the wars of Christendom against
the Turks in the la-t, the Moors III
Spain, the continual artare that was
going on by sea and land against the
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..,,uds that gathered before the Pc sted
Ia q. the reigning pontiif,
, alling the world to arms Against me
cruel infidcls. 49,. -. 49,.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-03
SHORT METER TELEGRAMs.

Serious trouble is feared among the Mis-
souri, coal miners when negro wOrkmen
take the places OF the strikers
The officials who were responsible for
closing the worlds fair on Sunday were
fined q, 600 for contempt Of court in disc
beying the injunction.
A decision in the Behring sea arbitra-
ton matter is expected in about two weeks
Two-year-old Madeline Smith of 296
Smith street. Brooklyn. was run over and
killed by q trolley car in front of her
home.
Arthur johnson. 10 years old, of Airing
ton, Neb., deliberately shot and killed his
S-year-old sister.
The collector at the port of New York
has been instructed to be cautious about
Chinese immigrants.
Rev. H. D. Thomas, a colored paster of
Newark \. J., has been asked to resign,
because he introduced bogus Zulu prince
to his audience.
William Lofty, aged Is. was found dead
hanging in his fathers stable at ,S4S De
Kslb avenue, Brooklyn.
The report that Arch bishop Cor-igan had
secretly left for Rome was incorrect, for
he is still in New York.
Secretary of the Treasury John &. Car
Isle while at the Fifth Avenue hotel. New
York. saw numerous callers.
Waterbury evening Democrat., 1893-08-03

America has many curiosities, but not
many ruins, except moral ones, and no
patron saint at all. This last defect will
be remedied, however, in the course of a
few years. His holiness Pope Leo has
announced in this jubilee year of Amer
lea that he will canonize Christopher
Columbus, and Chris will thenceforth
be the patron saint of this new world.
He will be the newest saint Of any, con-
sidered in the light Of a patron, but he
will be just as good for all that as either
St. George or st. Patrick or any Of the
others. The pope has said that he will
shortly beatty Christopher. The proc,
ess of canonization will take place aft
erward. 1t is to be hoped that Pops
Leo, who likes America 50 well, will
live to complete the canonization. II
will be necessary to find new name fol
Columbus, there being already one st,
Christopher.