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FOREIGN CENSUS FIGURES.

In Vienna the Jews number about
10 per cent. of the entire body of in
habitants.
EMIGRATION from European Russia
10 Siberia is on the increase and
reached 100, 900 in 1892.
The annual average of criminals
tried in Germany for all offenses is
e2o, 694; in Italy. 127.372; in Great Brit
ain. 7S,4Ss.
THE number of insane persons in
ireland has increased from 249 per
100. 900 population in 1880 to 500 per
TOO. 900 in 1892.
A PARLIAMENTARY blue book relating
10 the last census for England and
Wales shows that there were taken
s.716,S63 unmarried males and s, POS. 665
unmarried females, 4. S5l, 54s married
males. and 100000 married females.
asa, 800 widowers and / ,124. $40 widows.
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taken his bath and looked as comfort
able as was suggested by his greeting:
"Ah, what bath does for oner'
Returning to the subject Of play
making, Mr.. Howard said:
Gas l told you before, / spend the
frst six months Of DEMONSTRATION
in smoking and meditation. During
that time / make notes on anything
that. TO my mind. possesses dramatic
possibilities. 1t took me two years to
think out The Henrietta while the
writing Of it occupied but six months,
That is about my average division of
time in making play. If it were but
my object 10 create a play with an eff
fective plot, could think out tho yarn
in three hours. Tho Chinese puzzle
with me is to make the situations TT
the characters and develop the plot.
Il never allow myself, in the 'smok-
ing stage to write line! simply
take rambling notes Even what .hat
theme Is. to me. IL vague, oftentimeA
for weeks"
You have your six months work
with you?"
Branson Howard looked appealingly
at his bureau. There was tumble of
the things there such as would have
perplexed the heart of tidy house
wife But not the heart Of Howardl
His eye ranged slowly over cigars.
pencils. blotters. papers, collars. cuffs,
matches. small change. paper money.
keys. cuff buttons telegraph blanks.
and an Undesirable mixture of neck
ties. cigarette boxes and perfume
bottles. After much sorting and puz-
zling out he brought a small block Of
paper, the sheets In size about Ave by
eight inches; from this mass. he Sc
lected not more than Q dozer sheets,
saying. as he scru.inized them closely:
There. that represents three hun
dred cigars"
II was six moaths' work for the
dramatist Taking up the frs. sheet
and regarding Il carefully. be az
planned its significance, thus:
New. then. this is xnaeimA. Of
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It is a fact not generally known that
the United States government label
placed on every box of imported cigars
sold in this country bears q fine steel
plate engraving Of the steamer City of
Washington, . sister ship to tho i'll
efated City OF Boston, and noted IN her
day as an ocean flyer. In the year
1881 the City OF Washington, then ply
ing between New York and Liverpool.
covered tho passage to the westward.
in January, in fourteen days, fifteen
hours; April, twelve days, twenty-one
hours; May, thirteen days, twenty-one
hours; july, thirteen days; August.
thirteen days; September, thirteen
days, twenty hours, and December,
fifteen days, ten hours. In December,
1869, she made the trip from Sandy
Hook to Queenstown In what was then
the remarkably fast time of nine days,
nineteen hours and thirty seconds. The
City of London made several passages
to tho eastward in 1868 AMI 1854 in loss
than eleven days.
The Wichita daily eagle. [volume] (Wichita, Kan.) 1890-1906, 1893-12-15
A RACE OF TOOTHleSS MEN.
Coming Generations Will Have to Masti-
cate by Artificial Means.

Coming Generations Will Have to B1asti-
cate by Artificial Means.
There is reason to apprehend that
unless some cataciySm occurs to arrest
the progress of civilization our de-
Scendants will be as toothless as Eu
roptolemus, king of Cyprus, described
by the historian Pliny as reduced to
masticate his food with a structure of
solid bone, in lieu of teeth. This, at
any rate, in the opinion of the New
Y orl< Tribune, is the inference to be
deducted from the statistics recently
published by order of the British par
lament, demonstrating the alarming
lv small number of cases of in any way
sound deTtition among the English
people. OF 1000 children attending
the London public schools, there were
only 707 who had sound teeth; while
during a period of three months sos re-
cruits were rejected by tho medical de-
partment of the army for purely dem
tai reasons. OF course, part of this
state Of affairs is due TO neglect of the
digestion, and Of tho teeth themselves,
a fact demonstrated by the statement
that all the girls who entered domestic
service from the London public schools
last year ive-sixths had never even
heard of snch thing as a toothbrush
an assertion that has led the educa-
tional authorities to institute in many
of tho metropolitan schools what is
now known as the toothbrush drill"
Decay of teeth has always attended
the advance of civilization and each
barbaric invasion has been followed
by a recovery of sound teeth in the
old world. Under the circumstances it
might be worth while to consider
whether the repeal of the 6eary law
and the opening up of the United
States to pacific invasion on the part
of the Chinese might not go far to i'm
prove the American jaw, which. &C.
cording to medical experts, is in an
immeasurably worse condition than
that of the English-a fact probably
DE 90 our superior civilization.
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Nlll!l{|;l|f :agle
GLORY SURPRISING sotomoN's

Lsndeu's Lord Mayer Is . Gorgeous Crea-
ture While Arrayed n Ills Robes.
The fountainof municipal honor in
England, says the London Telegraph,
undoubtedly springs from the Guild
hall. London. which justly claims to be
accounted the most ancient of our
municipal halls. seeing that the lord
mayors of the last eight centuries are
with justice assumed to have proto-
types in the Roman project and the
Saxon fortreye or portgrave. For a
considerable number of years the robes
of the lord mayor, the court of alder
men and the common councillors have
been settled with precision that none,
save tho most reckless of innovators,
would presume to disturb. The lord
mayor himself has his gold" robe for
the ANIMAL Guildha1l banquet and for
tho times when he proceeds in state
either to the new law courts or to
the houses Of parliament. The alder
men have their scarlet gowns, the
shcIiffs their distinctive and very
handsome robes and chains, while the
common councillors rejoice in gowns
called ''mazarines," it being generally
understood that nazarine is term for
dark blue color, although, according
TO Some photographers, mazarine also
means . drinking vessel and an old
way Of dressing fowls Then. again.
when the sovereign comes into the city
the lord mayor is bound to don robe
of crimson or purple velvet, trimmed
with ermine. At the time of his in
vestiture, he wears a massive gold
chain, but when he is honored by re-
election at the expiration of his term
Of office he wears two chains. The
mace of silver gilt, surmounted by
royal crown and the imperial arms, is
carried before the mayor by the au-
thority of the charter of Edward I'LL;
while the city possesses no less than
four swords, one called the Pearl"
presented by Queen Bess when she
opened the first royal exchange, and
SO called from its being richly set with
pearls. This sword precedes the chief
magistrate on all occasions of rejoic-
ing and festivity. The sword of state
is carried before the lord mayor as an
emblem of his sovereignty within the
city proper: the ''black" sword is used
on fast days in Lent and at the death
of any member Of the royal family;
while the fourth sword is that placed
close to the lord mayors chair at the
central criminal court.
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PLAY WRITING.
Bronson Howard Says the Coming
Dramatist VIII Be a Mechanic.
The Evolution Of P1ay-He Docs Much
Of His Work In Bed, and Acknowl-
edges Some Obligation to To-
bacco Smoke.
icoPYRIGHT, 1888. ]

icoPYRIGHT, 1851
Bronson Howard, when not at his
literary labors. is on the wing all the
time. He is wanderer on the face of
the earth. He has been to many lands,
from Alaska to Mexico, and from Hon.
lulu to Russia. 1t is In consequence of
this Domadic life that it is impossible
to tell a connected narrative of the
home existence of the dramatist His
home is wherever beats a human heart.
His 1t is to appreciate, understand and
recognize the impulses of men and
women the world over. then to set
down his studies in imperishable plays.
think you would like Bronson How
ard If you could but meet him. In
this, though. the chances are against
you. You stroll over to the Lotus club
and ask his address; they respond that
"Mr. Howard is out west somewhere.
You drop in on Mr.. Low, his friend in
the steamboat business; he tells you:
well. the last heard from Mr.. How
ard he was out in-in Michigan, with
his wards, but when he is coming
back do not know; he may come this
very hour; then, again, be may not re-
turn for a year, You step around to
the depot, and are whirled out to that
charming suburban retreat, New Ro-
chelle, where at one time Mr.. Howard
lived in a snug home. why, isn't
Mr.. Howard in London?" suggests an
astonished friend at the depot, rs you
return to town disappointed. II I'M
derstood that he was in London, you
know"
In the face of this I think would be
justified in saying boldly. after tho
fashion Of the boil boy, who took up
my card-''Mr. Howard is in bed, but
he says como right up just the same!"
With many misgivings, slowly
mounted the red velvet carpeted stair,
considering dozen and one excuses
for the improperly Of meeting a man
in bed. Family I knocked at his door.
l almost wished that the rap would
not be heard.
''Come in!' cried lusty voice.
As entered the door my glance fell
upon the familiar face of the dranatist,
his head just raised from the pillows,
his arm extended, opening the door.
He was in bed He said:
Come right in! You know, I am an
old newspaper man myself. and am
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che ditna nxiu Eagle grIay orung. peeembr IS 1888.

fheme-there is only one instance Of q
novelist, of national reputation, who
ever produced even one enduring play
of SO high q rank as the fourth class!
That man is Bulwer Lytton. Now then,
if the geniuses in novelistic endeavor
have produced nothing in several hun
dred years gone by, what conclusion is
to be drawn?"
He paused and regarded me with an
earnestness that was almost fierce. then
proceeded:
Now, then, will tell you where all
the so-cailed lost dramatists' have
gone. A year ago as member of the
Prismatic club in Detroit, the CONVEX
sation turned on this very theme. On
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ever ready to meet my friends without
standing on ceremony"
And So as said, Howard was lying
in bed! There was box Of cigars on
the bureau, which suggested to me
what Mr.. Howard calls "the smoking
stage" of his work.
You are working on a play now, arc
you notP"
The dramatist rolled uneasily in his
bed, yawned softly behind his brown,
strong hand and replied:
Yes. am ae work ON a play; I have
been engaged in the effort for some
time past. But it is too early yet 30 say
just what sort of play it shall be-.
How SO? Well. l leave direct mention
of the character of the piece to the
managers. This is IN invariable rule
with me-"
What is the first process in evolving
one of your plays?"
1T is what call the smoking stage.
When decide to write a drama, 60
about it in a methodical manner. For
weeks, yes months, I smoke and make
notes. What the notes consist OF I
shall show you later. spent the sum-
Nor in Jackson, Mich. where went
to oversee my wards. moro by my pres
once than otherwise. I had a den
fitted up in one Of the public Office
buildings. where I went each day to
smoke and reflect on certain social con-
ditions in which l am deeply inter
estcd; they are in som> sort, not yet
determined. to become part Of the IN
written play"
Where are all our lost dramatists, ,
Mr.. Howard?" I asked
Where arc they-well, I will ask
You. where are they? l hear a great
deal about lost dramatists. Now.
these men are right down in front. so
TO speak: they have, we will assume,
the literary training necessary for the
dramatic art, or at least, something
nearly allied thereto. akin to it. But
they produce no playsl They produce
no plays
As Mr.. Howard said this I could see
by the steely light that kindled in his
deep-set, gray eyes that he was touched
by the inspiration of theme near and
dear to his heart. There is something
almost fierce about Bronson Towards
discourse at close range. 1t is difficult
20 warm him. but once his enthusiasm
is awakened, he betrays long associa-
ton with the stage and the drama by
the dramatic fervor with which he ad-
dresses himself to his subject Then
1t is that his voice rings in clear
orotund qualities; his eyes snap. the
lines of his face start and move In ex-
pressive mold, while. occasionally. one
OF hands will be stirred in nervous
gesture. You cannot escape noticing
that he at times sets his jaws with the
sternness of soldier. and then i. is
that you catch a fiee.ing glimpse of the
indomitable viii. the unvarying. tire
less persistence of this man. who was
content to wait some fifteen years for
recognition long Deferred Filled with
his subject. Bronson Howard, at this
moment. rises partly in his bed, draws
nearer to me, until he fairly glares in
my face. the while talking in slow, al
most labored sentences, thus:
Il tell you there are no lost drama
tistsl The fact that q man can write a
clever novel. or fine editorial, is, as
take it, the very reason why he cannot
produce play. In all English litera-
tnre-and l have closely studied this
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An OHended NouSrch.

Maharajah Dhuleep Singh, the India n
always chose to consider himself a
deeply injured man at the hands of
that country, though he had lived
there for many years and drew the
comfortable allowance of forty thou
sand pounds year from the govern
snent He formally claimed the koh-
moor from Queen Victoria. and wrote
famous letters denouncing the English
people He lived at Elvedon Hall for
q time, upon which he spent enormous
sums of money, and made the estate
,nto great game preserve, where he
would amuse himself by making the
biggest bags" on record-Chicago
Herald.
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JOHN HUBEEr GEEUsEL-

FIRST FemaIe-"N business are
you engaged in?' Second Female-'1
am a book agent" +. F--"What have
you TO do?" $ F.-''Nothing but talk :"
+. F.-''How delightful Cour-
Ter.
How was the prestidigitateur last
night, Hamley?" Wonderful. Why,
actually. Paxan- that fellow took a
dollar out OF old Skinfint's ear"
"Humph, Il would have been more
If he had succeeded in getting it out
OF Skinfiint's pocket Harper Bazaar.
Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1893-01-26
AIExAN DRI-A, VA
THURSDAY EVENING. JAN. &c, 1898

TIE PROPOSITION TO increase the tax
ON whisky and to reimpose that on
sugar. in order to meet the enormous
swindling demands of the pension bu-
reau. is. and must, from The very nature
of the case. he too vain for serious con-
sideration. An increased whisky tax
while not increasing therevenue, would
greatly increase the profits OF the whis-
XIV trust, and the people would aban-
don the party that would reimpose the
sugar tax. OF course the pension eX-
penditure should be reduced at least
one half, and even then some oft would
be fraudulent; but as the democratic
managers are afraid even to attempt
ANYTHING of that sort, money must be
raised to meet the demand, and there
could be no more available taxable OBJ
iect than the income of rich men, most
of whom. acquired their wealth either
by the war or by means of war legisia-
ton. That there could be no more
popular tax, goes without saying, as out
of every one hundred men, not more
than one would be subject to it, though
all the remaining ninety-nine would
like TO be. But the democratic man
ayers are afraid of that also.
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shooter, the porter changed his mind
There was no one in the bathrooms nj
the time, and the two men and their
two companions proceeded TO disrobe
NIr. Ewing Watterson. son of the Hon
Henry Watterson, who sleeps above
was notified, and he at once appeared
Oh the scene with a pistol as a compan.
ion. BY this time, it is said, the two
ladies were enjoying the plunge and
the two were relieving themselves Of
their clothing at the edge of the bic
basin when Watterson appeared.
Watterson and Sharpe had spirited
controversy, which resulted in the lat.
ter challenging the manager OF the
Crescent Bath Rooms to a duel. II i,
SAID that Watterson accepted and
Sharpe persisted that the duel should
take place at once. Heagreed 10 wait
until Watterson could 20 out and find
second. While Mr.. Sharpe was max.
inc. an effort to have the preliminaries
arranged the ladies come to the con.
clusion that they preferred a little fresh
air to the mildly tempered water Of the
plunge basin, and when telephone
message was sent to the Central police
station they decided on some definite
action.
Gathering their laces. hosiery and
other paraphcrnalia in their hands.
and, only wearing the covering nature
had provided them, they ran from the
building to the carriage that stood in
front. While the vehicle was speeding
up Walnut street they prepared their
toilets. Sergeant Hendricks and two
subordinates soon arrived and placed
Sharpe and Walker under arrest At
Central station they caves fictitious
names, and charge of disorierly con-
duct was registered against them.
They gave bond Of $50 for their ap.
pearance in court this morning, but tie
two gentlemen failed to appear, and it
was forfeited. Some of their friend,
succeeded in getting the matter fixed
without their presence in court Its
impossible TO learn who their compan.
ions were, but they are thoughtto have
been women of good standing who
were under the influence of drink and
were not accountable for their action.
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On n Lark.

A Louisville special says: Louisville
had genuine sensation few nights
since, but owing to the prominence of
the parties, they have succeeded in
getting it suppressed in the local pa
pers.
John Sharpe is the cashier of the
First National Bank, one of the largest
banking institutions of the city. He is
genial society favorite, and wears
his dress suit about six evenings each
week.
Stone Walker, of Richmond, KY, is
one of the best known politicians in the
State. He is Congressman McCreary's
chief lieutenant and has been doing
valiant service for him in the senate
rial race at Frankfort. That night
3lr. Sharpe and Mr.. Walker were out
for time. Between Kentucky staple
article and champagne they succeeded
in getting pretty well loaded" and
about midnight appeared at the Pen
dennis Club, the swell club Of the city,
of which Dir. Sharpe is member.
They were accompanied By two wo-
men but the condition of the quartette
was such that they were denied admit
lance. The Crescent bath rooms are
but half half square below the club,
and failing to gain admittance at the
Pendennis they proceeded TO the bath
rooms. Here they were met by the
colored porter. They told the porter
that they wished to take a plunge bath,
but the colored Waterman did not like
the idea and refused to let them in.
When Mr.. Sharpe, however, allowed
him 10 look into the muzzle of six
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Wells Exhausted in King G corge

4 correspondent of the Richmond
Dispatch writing from Comorn, Va,
saws: ''There is scarcity of drinking
water throughout many portions OF
King George and some sections of Stat
ford counties. A number Of wells have
totally failed since the latter part of
December, and the severe weather has
rendered it impossible to have them
dug deeper. This is the first time since
the summer OF 1854 that drinking
water has not been abundant here.
Professional well-diggers state that wa
ter is 20 feet further from the earth's
surface than was ever known in this
section during winter months, and
that this remarkable condition is
due to the fact that there has not been
an adequate rainfall here since October.
All springs and streams ofwater hither-
to replete all the year round now fur
nish but meagre supplies, and even the
limited quantity flowing from them Is
almost solid block of ice, so that they
cannot be utilized as n substitute for
the failing wells. The unenyiable con-
dition of the very poor people in many
country districts is now attracting the
attention and exciting the sympathies
of the more fortunate classes. The con-
tiuued hard weather has necessitated
the suspension of all departments of
business, and for this reason the labor
ing classes have been deprived of all
pecuniary resources since the Goth Of
last December.
''Some of the mercantile establish
ments in several counties of the North
ern Neck where there are no railroad
facilities are without supplies, and will
be unable to replcnish their stocks I'M
til navigation can be resumed on the
Potomac and Rappahannock. Some
have attempted to haul merchandise
from Fredericksburg in wagons to
points sixty miles distant, but this in
wolves such inconvenience and suffer
ing to teams and drivers that the mode
proves impossible.
s'AIallard ducks and other water fowl
are being killed in very large quantities
by the sportsmen of this section.
Last Tuesday two gentlemen from
Richmond county passed this place on
their way to Fredericksburg, carrying
four hundred and sixty mallard ducks
killed on the tributaries of the lower
Rappahannock.
pedestrians are crossing the Poto-
mac on ice at Colonial Beach, West
moreland county, and at points in this
county where the river is four miles
wide. They report the ice from ten to
nineteen inches thick and comparative
~ free from ''air-holes" from shore to
shore y
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Ir Is observable that while one of the
leaders of the New York anti-snappers
spoke at the democratic banquet at
Richmond last night, among all the
other speakers there the name OF not a
single member of the straightout New
York city democracy appears, though
the earnest and united support OF Mr..
Cleveland by that democracy, not only
carried New York for him, but inspired
the democrats of ali the other States to
increased cxertions to secure his cleo
ton. Some of them may have been IN
vitcd, but the fact that not one was
present, or heard from. while Mir. Far
child was, will strike the average reader
as rather strange.
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IFoNE of the Washington newspapers

IFoNE of the Washington newspapers
can be credited, society in that city must
be decidedly more liberal than high
toned, for, according to the paper re-
ferred to, Washington society has re-
Gently given Mr.. Crouch, the composer
of Kathleen Mavourneen' a hearty
greeting" Mr.. Crouch married negro
woman in this city. But Washington
society has also given the negro Fred
Douglass hearty greeting, though he
has white wife.