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Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-22
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CARTER HARRlsoNs BAD FRENCH.
He Wanted Mushrooms. but the Waiter
Brought Him AN Umbrella.

He Wanted Mushrooms, but the Waiter
Brought Him an Umbrella.
Some other Americans and myself had
been in the habit of dropping into the
Cafe Francois after leaving the Grand
Opera House.
None Of our party spoke French, and
the head waiter was the only one III the
cafe who spoke English He had long,
flowing, red mutton chop whiskers. As
soon as we would take our seats we
would be approached by "A waiter, where
upon we would begin pulling our own
phantoD mutton chops to make him
understand that we wanted the head
waiter.
"Oui, oui, " he would say, and in few
moments our bewhiskered friend, of
whom Major Handy is prototype,
would be bowling and smiling and work
ing graciously for tip.
We met Carter Harrison. He went to
the theater with our Parry, and after
ward we took him to the cafe Francois.
Carter Harrison was then, and may be
now, very fond of mushrooms. Before
going into the restaurant he inquired the
French name for them He was told
that they We're called 'champignons.
We soon were seated at our usual ia
BILE and one of the walters came to us.
We worked our imaginary mutton chops,
but We're given to understand that the
head waiter was absent. Harrison tried
to pronounce "champignon," but could
not. He thought he had it perfectly, but
his pronunciation was no more like the
French of 1t than my English is like the
Hindostanee. He couldn't make the
waiter understand, until an inspiration
came to him. He seized his pencil and
drew the picture of mushroom.
Carter pronounced the word again and
pointed at the picture. There it was,
plain AS day 10 us who knew what he
wanted-the stem and canOpylike top of
the vegetable. The waiter gazed at it in
profound study for a moment, then the
light Of comprehension spread over his
features
"Oui, oui, " he said, and trotted off
In a few moments he returned, and
bowling politely to Mr.. Harrison, handed
him an umbrella. We looked at the pic
ture of the mushroom. the waiter looked
at it, and then Carter. umbrella in hand
looked at it. Then he rose and said some
thing that every American could under
stand, but which, luckily for him, the
waiter did not. Carter ate no mush-
rooms that night Chicago Inter Ocean
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-22
Rules For Judging Rubber.

An investigation has been conducted
by Lieutenant l.. Eladimiroff at the St.
Petersburg Technical institute with a
view to establishing rules or tests where
by the quality Of yulcanized india rub
Der may he efficiently judged. 1t is a
notorious fact that no method of chem
ical analysis gives Il reliable result for
this substance Hence the tests applied
were chiefly of physical nature From
a lengthy series Of experiments the fol-
lowing conclusions were deduced:
India rubber should not give the least
sign of superficial cracking when bent
10 all angle of lsO degrees after five
hours of exposure in "A closed air bath TO
a temperature of l2j degrees centigrade
The test pieces should he six centimeters
thick.
Rubber that does not contain more
than half its weight Of metallic oxides
should stretch to five times its height
without breaking.
Caoutchouc, free from all foreign mat
ter except the sulphur used in vulcaniz-
ing it, should stretch at least seven times
its length before rupture.
The extension measured Immediately
after rupture has taken place should
not exceed II per cent Of the original
length of the test piece Of rubber The
test piece should be from TO ~ MILL
meters long, 3 centimeters wide and not
more than o millimeters thick
Softness may be determined by measur-
ing the percentage of ash formed ON in
cineration. 1t may form the basis for
deciding between different grades of rub
Der for certain purposes.
The vulcanized rubber should not hard
en- under the influence Of cold tempera-
Electrician.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-22

J. NJ. Grier, farmer living near
Mount Vernon, has divining rod which
he says will locate gold and silver. It
consists Of two strands of copper wire
twisted together to make a rod, which IS
bent, forming an angle, with a ring t
the apex, where the wire is wrapped
with cloth, with loadstono inside. Mr..
Grier says that this OWNING rod will in
dictate the location Of money, gold or sill
yer, buried in the ground. He has bur
led gold and silver aud allowed w. II.
Norman and W. q. Perkins, both farm
ers near him, 10 search for it. Both men
were successful. -Carthage (Mo.l Press.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-22
DIVINE LOVE.

The world is led by unseen power
Through darkness, fear and light;
Mems destiny is not obscure,
For God in man is right.
The inner life indeed reveals
The spirits sovereignty.
In every storm, IN error, sin,
Is Gods divinity.
A deeper love than earthly love
Stirs in the human soul;
II lights the stars; it rules the sea;
1t reigns from pole to pole.
o brother, live for II alone,
Nor be deceived by fate;
For fate is God, and God is love,
And love is heavens gate.
j. c. +. Grumbine in New York Sun.
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-22

Mamma" asked Willie, with much in
terest, don't men go TO heaven"
"Why, of course they do" replied man.
ma.
"Well, I've seen good many pictures Of
angels" s;lio Willie, "and 1 never saw
man among them. They're all women
Philadelphia Times
Fairhaven herald. [volume] (Fairhaven, Wash.) 1890-????, 1893-04-22

The following literary oddity can be
read in upward of 5000 different ways
by starting with the boldfaced G in the
center and taking the most zigzag course
to any of the four corners:
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st. Louis Republic.
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sides being interested in multitude of
inventions and other business schemes
He was also prominent as an advocate of
commercial union with Canada and lost
no opportunity to give that cause lift
in the public estimation.
Mr.. Wiman might be called an acci-
dental Canadian. He was born near To-
ronto about 50 years ago, but both his
parents were citizens of the United
States. His father was mechanic and
not able to give him many educational
advantages. Young Erast11s was anews-
boy and afterward became a printer,
reporter and editor, being commercial
editor of the Toronto Globe in 1856.
,W{hE Whep Fo1d,16 B 'ffeepfesg tsc SOON L,
was given charge of all their Canadian
business, and in 1865 he was made a
member Of the firm and called to New
York, where he has ever since lived.
Mr.. Wiman married an American wo-
man, and his large real estate holdings
were bought in her name. He never
forswore his allegiance to Queen Vic
toria, though his refusal to do SO created
some prejudice against him. There was
a rumor some years ago that he was to
be knighted by the queen, but it was
only a ru1nor. He was one of the found
ers of the Canadian club of New York
and was its president for some time and
an exceedingly liberal contributor to it's
finances, but when the English element
of the club changed its name to the St.
James he retired.
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MRS. P. T. BARNUM. Barnu1n was well
advanced in years and knew his fame as
the prince of showmen was not sufh-
cient to win the prize. In fact, that
fame might have hurt his suit rather than
help it, for Miss Fish greatly dislilked the
notoriety attached to the ''greatest show
on earth," and after she had married its
owner always managed to hold herself
aloof from the publicity her husband
loved so well. But the old showman's
knowledge of the English love for official
celebrity led him to play winning card
He had his photograph taken, with Wal
demere as background. The picture
represented him seated in snowy Ian
dau, harnessed to four beautiful black
horses, his coachman on the box and two
footmen up behind. Under the photo
graph were the words, ''Lord Mayor of
Bridgeport" Acopy Of this picture was
forwarded to Miss Fish, and Barnum
always thought it "did the business"
Mrs. Barnum probably never regret
ted if she ever knew tho little trick that
had been played on her. Life ct Waldo
mere became all gayety after her advent,
and there were coming and going of dis
tinguished people continually. Mr. Bar
NUNS will provided very iberally for
his widow. Besides an income Of $40, 1000
annually for life and s25, 900 in cash he
bequeathed to her Waldemere, the name
Of which she has changed to Marina, and
considerable other real estate. She thor
oughly enjoys her good fortune, spend
ing great deal of her time riding, driv-
ing and walking with all the fondness Of
an English woman for out of door life
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NEW DIPLOMATS.


Our Representatives In turkey, Brazil and
Colombia.
Alexander W. Terrell of Texas, the
new minister to Turkey, is native Of
Virginia and about Ga years of age. Els
family removed from Virginia to Mis-
souri, when he was an infant, and he was
educated and admitted to the bar in the
Muddy River State. He wentto Austin
IN 1858 and was elected judge Of
the second Judicial district in 1857.
Upon the expiration Of his term of office
he entered the Confederate army as a
lieutenant colonel and was afterward
made colonel. He was a brigade COM
mander when the war closed. He has
since then served two terms in the state
senate and made a reputation as an
orator Of brilliancy and force.
Thomas L. Thompson of California.
who has been appointed minister to Bra
zil, was born in Charleston, W. Va, May
81, 1888. He went to California in 1856
and started the Petaluma Journal, sub
sequently buying out the Santa Rosa
Democrat, which he has edited and pub
lished for more than 80 years. He was
elected secretary of state in 1882, and be-
fore his term Of office had expired was
elected to congress, in which body his
father and grandfather had served be-
fore him-his grandfather in the Seventh,
Eighth and Ninth congresses and his
father in the Thirtieth. In 1888 Mr.
Thompson was a candidate for re-elec
tion to congress, but was defeated
Since then he has devoted himself to ad-
vocating the cause Of tariff reform in the
columns of his paper, and he is said to
be largely responsible for the election of
a Democratic representative from his
district to both the Fifty-second and
Fifty-third congresses,
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in 1853, the great civil war in America,
tho Garibaldian wars in italy. Pruss;;,
and Austria's war with Denmark and
then with each other and finally the hor-
rlbly bloody German-French war Of
1870. Contemporary with these were
Mexican and South American revolutions
and wars, French intervention and de-
feat and unusually destructive wars with
savages in many places, and through it
all the great Tae Ping Wang war il
China was going on, with massacres too
frightful to describe, and it did not end
till it had cost 1000, 900 lives.
Instead Of being the end Of war, the
Crystal palace affair came to be looked
upon as festival to end the peace, the
longest western Europe had ever en-
joyed. Within few years after it
closed nearly all the nations had larger
armies, heavier ornaments and higher
tariffs than ever before in their history.
They have since, the United States and
possibly two or three others excepted,
vastly increased their ornaments, and
SO Tar as the human eye can see are get
ting ready for bloodier war than ever.
Despite the wars, England continued to
give great and notable exhibitions,
though on a smaller scale than the origi-
nal, till in 1862 the international exhibi
ton at Kensington again revived the
glories Of the famous Crystal palace.
The original was taken down, as Hyde
park was hardly suited for its perma-
nent place, but out Of the materials the
second was erected, which is still one Of
the sights of London
Fairs have been held as aforesaid from
time immemorial, and the name is de-
rived from the Latin ''feria," day of
rest or holiday but for obvious reasons
those held on the border of Asia and
Europe, convenient to natural routes,
have been most noted. OF all these,
none other can compare with the SO
called Peter and Paul fair at Nizhnee-
Novgorod, Russia. Until very recent
period it surpassed by far any other fair
in the world, and the traders present
during one fair often exceeded 100000.
From the bazaars for storing goods of a
delicate or perishable nature the govern
ment receives some 100000 during one
fair. and the sales seldom fall below
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AT VIENNA, 1878.

Louvre, including its central court, cov
ers 309, 1888 square feet "a fraction over
seven acres); st. Peters lat Ro1ne), 273,-
927; st. Paul's, 142,500; the Coliseum,
245, $40; the Cathedral Of Milan, 139, ,9GS;
the Tuileries, 10s,s64 and the famous
Notre Dame church at Paris, Sc, 100. It
may assist the reader who ''did not stay
long abroad" to remember that$the cap
itol at Washington covers 261 ,34S square
feet, and is, for this country, very
good basis for comparison. In Jackson
park the fair grounds cover 553 acres,
and there are 50 acres additional used in
the plaisance connecting with Washing
ton park.
To repeat the details of an affair so
well advertised as the present exposition,
or Of one SO familiar in history as the
centennial, would be indeed chestnut
ty," but few contrasts are really star
tling. In the main building in 1876 over
100000 feet of lumber We're used in the
mere finishing, as the structure above
the masonry was chiefly of iron and
glass, and the rolled iron roof trusses
and girders weighed over 100000
pounds. In the big building at Chicago
100000 feet of lumber We're used, five
carloads of nails were used in fastening
the flooring alone, the steel trusscs in
the central hall weighed 100000
pounds, and yet there is an open space
in the center, absolutely without col
umns, 1856 feet wide by .2a7;5 feet long.
Although this is by far the greatest
exposition ever held ON this earth, it is
to be hoped that no enthusiast will fix
up for himself so bitter u disappointment
as that suffered by millions of humani-
tarians after the London show Of 1851.
To read the papers Of that year raises a
laugh-soon followed by a sigh. All
sorts of peace societies and missionary
bodies broke out into rejoicings over the
reign of love which was beginning.
Economists declared that nations would
now see how much more ennobling was
the strife Of peace and commerce than
that of war. and many of the foremost
statesmen of England gave it as their
opinion that now the nations had once
convened in peace and found it SO pleas
ant national hatreds would cease. The
advanced free traders were especially
jubilant.
Details of what Immediately followed
would be ludicrous if they were not SO
painful. Every one Of the nations began
at once to prepare for mortal strife.
Tnen cams III QUICK s1tccess1un uno vr1-
mean war, the sepoy 1nutiny and war in
India, the French-Austrian war in Italy
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hall and the railway station and the
other at the east end of Midway plai-
sance The main hospital has 2 wards
for men, each containing 10 beds, and
2 wards for women, one Of 10 beds and
the other of 8. The subhospitals have 3
and beds each for men and the same
number for women.
On the main floor of the hospital be-
sides the wards there are offices for the
medical director, the resident physician
and the superintendent of nurses, a drug
room, operating rooms, a diet kitchen.
linen and clothes closets, a reception
room and two waiting rooms-one for
men and one for women. Up stairs there
are dormitories for physicians and
nurses. There are two resident physi-
clans at the hospital, q corps of attend
ing physicians, especially selected for
their experience and fitness, a hospital
steward, druggists, orderlies for stretch
er work and a corps Of trained nurses.
The ambulance service is very COM
plete and efficient, including four wag-
ons and an electric launch which pa
trolls the lagoons. Two of the ambu-
lances are stationed near the main hos
pital and one near each of the substa-
tions. There are about so invalid chairs
also available for transporting patients
to boat, hospital or station, and about
150 stretchers scattered about the vari-
Gus buildings, all plainly marked.
No patient is permitted to remain in
the hospital over night. AS soon as pos
sible after their cases are attended to
they are conveyed to their isssmes or else
where, as they or their 1ends direct.
The service is entirely free. but is in no
sense an exhibit, though it's methods are
certainly instructive. Besides caring
for the sick and injured. the bureau has
charge Of all sanitary matters about the
rra11rS9-
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AT PHILADELPHIA, 1876,

$100, 100000. Every known product Of
Europe and Asia is dealt in and every
nation and almost every tribe repre-
sented.
The great Hurdwar fair of India, on
the upper Ganges, has acquired an evil
reputation. Every year some 100000
traders and visitors are there, but every
twelfth year, which is the year Of tho
holy pilgrimage. the pilgrims are mum
bered by millions, and from there on that
year the cholera starts. It is, by the
way, an interesting fact that all tile old
world fairs of which the full history is
known originated in religious festivals.
In the dark ages, when all sorts of duties
and local imposts hindered the move
ment OF goods, it was the custom to ey-
empt from srlch taxes all goods on their
way to Il religious festival. The result
is easily seen. The festival soon became
MARKET ana lM's{fs Mh{fss ,ht6 At5rEfH Ehalhd tan @ ~
were soon held even in the churches and
cnurchyards. Now that the movement
9I goods is free, all these local fairs have
1o1s oAAa7r Importance
france has. 1,1;sbod +ba r,,,o e
fair evevy II years, and her exnos1rs,,s g
Of 1867, 1878 and 1889 We're maryelous]v
successful, each greatly outdoing its
predecessor. Vienna wasSvhouGht a fair
rival to Paris, being wondssi,,]lv rav
musical and cosmopolitan, but$yiernn,s
exposition of 1878 encountered ,,nnny
difficulties. To promote its succesethe
emperor gave up his ancient deer Pay
the Krisaal, and in clearing the grou11o
for the famous central rotundl the MANN
ayers left a small clump of green trees
in it's center with a very fine effect. One
point was most amply provided for. l.he
space occupied was five times as great as
that given to the Paris exposition of
1867. Before the world could make up
its mind about the success of Vienna
there came such Il terrific financial crash
that it WAS forgotten. Indeed the world
wide panic began at Vienna and during
the very height of the fairs progress, and
thus a dark shadow was thrown back
upon the affair.
In conclusion, one must say of these
great expositions. rs of almost all hui
man devices, that they rarely accom-
plish one-fourth what is expected Of
them. It is even questioned by many
shrewd observers whether they really
benefit the cities in which they are held.
Many thousands come, it is true. and
eat and drink and pay high prices for it,
but when the fair is over the non self sup
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Luther T. Mckinney Of New Hamp-
shire. appointed minister to Colombia,
boifnY fl 'tt}i6 afiU v,,J JEe
in 1861 when he was but 90 years old,
serving as sergeant in the First Ohio
cavalry until 1868, when he was dis
charged on account Of disability. After
the war be seeided II lows ioI tw,
years and then entered ST. Lawrence
university at Canton, N. Y, to prepare
for the ministry, graduating in 1870.
His first pastorate was in the state of
Maine, and from there he went to New
Hampshire in 1878. He ran for congress
in 1884 and was defeated, out was elect
ed in 1886, again defeated in 1888 and
once more elected in 1880. He was the
Democratic candidate for governor of
New Hampshire last year, but failed of
election
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HOW BARNUM WON HIS WIFE,

Figured rs ''Lord Mayor of Bridgeport az
Well as Prince of Ghownen.
Tho lato illustTious P. z. Barnum of
pleasant memory was certainly the
prince of humbugs. It is said to have
been settled theory with him that peo-
pie like to be humbugged, and if his ac-
QUESTION Of several distinct fortunes may
be taken as any indication the facts sus-
tain this theory. But few people would
imagine that even he could carry his
theory so far in his private life as he is
said to have done in securing for a wife
the estimable lady who is now his widow.
Barnum was mayor of Bridgeport and
widower. He was lonesome, and his
beautiful home, Waldemere, on the shore
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AT LONDON. 1862.

The world joined in that sincerest of
all approval-imitation. New York did
fairly we'll with her Crystal palace.
France has had three really great and
remarkable expositions. That of Vienna
in 1878 was a success despite the fnan-
cial convulsions of the year, and that at
Melbourne IN 1880 astonished the world
not so much by the excellence of the dis
play, indeed, but by the fact that Aus
tralia could organize an exposition at all,
The world knew in a general way that
the population of Australia had for 80
years or SO increased faster than that Of
any other country in the world, and that
mining and manufacturing were carried
on, but 1t was still a surprise to find
city almost as large and beautiful as
Baltimore as far south Of the equator as
Baltimore is north of it and making
quite as fine an exhibit of native prod
ucts.
Meanwhile, however, the great Cen
tennial exposition of 1876 had been held
at Philadelphia and eclipsed in many re-
spects all that went before it. General
Joseph R. Hawley, as president of the
commission. and Alfred T. Goshorn, as
director general of the work, had won
lasting honor, and a basis of comparison
had been made for all subsequent expo
sitions in America, especially for the
present Columbian exposition and the
Louisiana acquisition centennial of 1908.
which is now looked for as the next thing
in order. A few figures will sufficiently
present the basis for comparison.
r,,Jhe1 ijfub5gf Of
the main building covered 20 acres and
a few square feet over. Machinery hall
covered 1882 acres, or, strictly speak
ing, 558,440 square feet; Agricultural
hall, $500; Memorial hall, 76, $50. and
Horticultural hall, 1912. Now at Chi
cago the Manufactures and Liberal
Arts building covers 80. acres, and be-
sides its enormous galleries and minor
alcoves it has 10 acres Of central foo1
space for the general exposition. It is
Of course the largest exposition build
ing ever erected. The Agricultural
building with its annex covers a fraction
over IA acres. and other structures are
on q corresponding scale.
It is Of interest to compare both the
foregoing sets Of figures with the details
of noted buildings in the old world. The