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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-27
4 STRANGE PICTURE or AMERICA.
OPINION OF A wELL-KNOwN SWISS WRITER
MIXTURE OF TRUTH AND FICTION.

OPINION OF A WELL-KNOWN SWISS WRITER-A
MIXTURE OF TRUTH AND FICTION.
wen-known Swiss writer who visited the
Worlds Fair and then forced TO remain here
for some time on account Of Illness. has Joined the
long list of foreigners for whom America" has
been a favorite subject for dissertation" In a
recent issue OF the "Neue Zuricher Zeitung." one
OF the most famous Swiss journals. under the head
line What is America he wrote: America is a
land compared with which Europe is only penin-
sula; the United States form country compared
with which the European kingdoms are pygTnies.
America Is the land Of unmeasured distances and
dimensions; the land Of dollars and electricity; the
land where the praires more extensive, the
rivers migh.ier the waterfalls deeper. the bridges
longer. the lightning expresses faster, the catas-
trophies more terrible than in any other country In
the world 1t Is the land where in single railroad
accident-and one occurs every few days-more PEG
PIE lose their lives than in Europe in whole year.
It is the land where the houses are higher, the
jailbirds more numerous, the rich richer, the poor
poorer the millions greater. the thieves more dar-
ing, the murderers more shameless. the educated
fewer the teeth more generally false, the corsets
narrower the diseases more deadly, corruption more
general. .. the summers warmer. me winters
colder, the fires hotter. the ice thicker time more
precious, the men more nervous. than In any c9un-
try in our pastoral Europe. IT Is the land Where
the old men are younger and the young men
oder, the negroes blacker, the whites more yell
low than in any other place. 1t Is the land or dm-
measurable natural wealth In short. II IS the land
Of extraordinary contrasts, OF strange extremes, OF
nonsenscal pride Of reckless mOney-hunting, Of
sensejess craze for gain-the land OF the colossal
and the pyramidal-of course, In the opinion or
Americans How many have gone from our peace
fortune and better life and have been lostether in
the cutters of the great cities or the sands Of the
prairies How many have been glad. when poor
and deserted and broken. n heart and SOUL to sail
back to their native land!
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-27
A BD7ND GIRL PRINTERS Skill.

Mason CITY, Iowa. May IA remarkable case Of
what can be done by blind person Is now being
exemplihed at Swaledale, near this city. Some
twelve weeks ago s. B.; Angel purchased THE
Swaledale Bee" and not having enough assistance,
his blind sister. Miss Hattie Angel prevailed upon
him 10 allow her TO go into the office and assist
I'm the work For the first few days she found
occupation in folding papers etc. and she soon be-
came so proficient IN that that she asked to be
allowed TO set type. and was given a 10 see
what she could do. In less than hour she had
the boxes learned and her first stckful OF type
WAS set in fifty minutes
What IL still remarkable. she can now
set al much type as the average compositOr and do
II with greater accuracy She experiences but lit
lie difficulty with her copy. She is expert I'm writ
ing the language of the blind. and matter Is die
tated TO her Writing IT down In her language she
goes 10 her case, and gliding her fingers over the
raised surface, she retains in her mind entire SEN
fences and accordingly can set with great rapid
INV In order 20 get the type right side up. her
middle finger is used in feeling the hicks and this
is dome while the type is being lifted into position
in the stick She has not yet attempted 10 dis,
tribute type put sno well Ms. 4ugem 70 very in
teiligent young woman and Is fine player on the
piano she has also achieved quite little fame as
"A
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-27
PROFESSOR BELLS EXPERIMENTS.
rom The washington Post.

From The Washington POST
Professor Alexander Graham Bell Is spending
these months his summer place in Nova Scotia
engaged in a series OF Investigations which will no
doubt have important and perhaps sensational re-
suits. His outdoor work Is devoted TO experiments
in aerial navigation, In connection with Professor
Langley, OF the Smithsonian Institution, while I'm
his laboratory he is endeavOring 10 demonstrate
problem to which he has given great deal Of
thought and In which he thoroughly believes Ii Is
to harness electricity 10 light II has been har
messed to sound, that peOpe may be able 10
a great distance just the telegraph enables them
TO write. and the telephone enables them TO speak
at a great distance
The principles involved in all three phenomena
are the same and Professor Bell firmly believes that
it will be possible some day to see from Washington
TO New-YOrk as easily as one can convey the sound
OF the voice that distance He insists that the fact
has already been demonstrated and that II only re-
mains 10 construct the apparatus necessary to bring
practical use This Is exceedingly difficult, but Pro-
lessor Bell Is confident that he will be abe to
discover diaphragm sufficiently sensitive 10 receive
the vibrations Of light, and produce the effect neces
sary 10 convey the Impressions TO the human vision.
Professor Bell has also been engaged some time In
n branch Of what has always been his fayOrite llne
OF study-that s furnishing the means for the deaf
10 hear He began life az teacher In an institution
for the deaf and dumb, his wife Is deaf mute and
II has been A personal interest TO him TO bring
within her experience the pleasures or which those
IA nothing more than the result OF vibrations OF
sound beating upon the drum Of the ear, which is
communicated to the brain by series OF nerves.
Deafness Is defect In this means OF communica-
tion person hear perfectly through his teeth.
as Ia commonly demonstrated by placing one end of
a pOcket-knlfe In the mouth and the other end a
waves 10 the brain through any other bony sub
stance-eyen the skull itself Therefore, Professor
Bell is constructing an apparatus which, attached
to the head, will gather In the sound waves like
they say TO the skull which Will convey the intor-
nation 10 the brain that lies beneath IT,
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-27
ONE-SIDED CABLE GRIPMEN.
From The Chicago Tribune.

From The Chicago Tribune.
"All the gripmen necessarily must be muscular,
said a big cable train driver on the Lincoln-ave.
line for the physical exertion Is great and weak
man could not stand the strain. It's sort Of one
sided trade though II fellow sticks to 1t long
ne gets bigger on the right side OF his body than
on the left for the pulling and pushing hauling
and Jerking are done mostly with that side. ! don I
know any man who's been at the work long enough
10 become really deformed by it,, but I've seen
many grpmen who were plainly larger. heavier.
more muscular the right side, especially in the
shoulder than on the other side. No; I've never
seen the phenomenal enlargement-the 'gripman 3
arm the boys call ton the left side, for the sim
pie reason that the builders OF grip don't take
left handed men into their calculations. There are
no eft-handed grip cars; consequently there are
no left-handed gripmen."
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-27
UNCLE sonoy CHASE EyrERrAIys SENATORS


From The Lewiston Journal
The temperance OF the picturesque figure OF
Uncle Scion In the Popust circles OF Maine has
put y. A. Doyle Of Bddeford into a reminiscent
mood.
II remember once when Senators Frye. Hale.
John d. Long, OF Massachusetts,; Dclamater, OK
illinois, and several others were at Turner fishing
and called on Uncle Solon." says Printer Doyle.
Hale. by the way. used TO go TO school To Chase
somewhere I'm that neghborhood. and Long
think, was born down there. Well. they all hap
pened TO call on Chase that day and he invited
them to his house for dinner. He had house
keeper whom We all called the hired girl She was
a strange old soul and subject u 'tantrums' Chase
called them. or course she managed 70 have a
'tantrum on this particular day. aud when Chase
got his company down 10 the house the hired girl
refused TO get dinner, and the only things eatable
In the house were baked beans and blueberrtes
But that didn't bother Scion very long. We set
the bluebcrres and the beans on the table and
then Chase made little speech OF welcome wind
ing up by saying. Gentlemen, | guess what's good
enough for me Is good enough for you. Let's eat
They did eat AID had fun enough over that meal
to make II digest WELL you bet"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-05-27
ALL At HER EXPENSE

From The indianapolis Journal
do you get of jokes at your mother-in-laws
Yes" humby confessed the humorist. in one
until succeed IN making living at the business
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22

Karrs Clover Root viii purify your blood,
clear your complexion, regulate your bowels
and make yosr head clear as bell. % and 80
cents. Sold by John H. Chiles, druggist
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
UNCLE BOB'S LESSON.
How an Old Negro Taught the Emperor's
Sister-in-Law Point on Etiquette.

How an Old Negro Taught the Emperor's
Sister-in-Law Point on Etiquette.
Nine. Betsey Patterson Bonaparte,
the sister-in-law of an emperor, was
born in Baltimore, and after living
many years abroad returned to her ma
tive land, where she passed the last
years of her life. She was a woman of
great beauty, but of an ungovernable
temper. A writer in the Boston Trans
cript tells how her sense of humor
once enabled her to accept reproof
graciously.
One of the old lady's crack stories in
her latter days was of lesson in ETH
quette given her by the black butler of
her host. At breakfast she motioned
to him and handed him her cup, wish
ing a second cup of tea. Uncle Bob,
instead of taking the cup to his mis-
tress at the head of the table, put it
down with a great flourish on the side
board.
"But wanted another cup of tea,"
said Nine. Bonaparte.
"Did you, mum?" blandly asked
Uncle Bob. "You see, mum, you put
your spoon in de saucer, an dat means
you doan' want no mo- tea. When you
wants some mo- tea de erect way is to
put de spoon in de cup-like dis heah,"
and Uncle Bob gravely illustrated the
"c'rect" method Of procedure.
The family were ON thorns, expect
ing an outbreak from the sister-in-law
of an emperor, although there is no
doubt that a black butler in his own
bal liwick could face an emperor him.
self; but Betsey was only amused, and
laughed heartily.
After fifty years of money getting
and money saving she realized in the
latter part of her life how futile it all
was, and exclaimed, grimly: "Once !
had everything but, money! Now !
have nothing but money"
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
AN OLD MURDER,
The Dallas Sheriff Works Up Murder Com
mitted Ten Years Ago.

mitted Ten Years Ago.
Special to The Statesman
DALLAS, Feb. 16.-Sheriff Ben Ca
hell today added another capture to
the list which is terror to evil doors,
and placed him to the front as one of
the most daring and successful officers
in the southwest. In 1883 Henry
Kirk, whose relatives now reside near
Forney, was employed on the old Bar
ley farm near Mesquite. One evening
he left the farm in company of one W.
F. Anderson, also young farm hand.
Anderson returned. Kirk was never
seen again. His friends searched high
and low for The missing man without
success. Time quieted their anxiety
and interest in the mysterious disap-
pearance finally died out seven or
eight years ago. W. Il. Anderson
moved away from the mesquite neigh
borhood. Strange as it may seem,
Anderson had always been alert to
keep suspicion from himself and it was
general thought that Henry Kirk, &C
tuated by some strange impulse, had
LOU Ill0 COuhOly' n nOnGu
ago on the. d Bagley
farm, in a deep thicket,
a skeleton was found. The grinning
skull had been perforated by a bullet,
and within the skull the leaden mis-.
sile was found. 1t was the skeleton of
Henry Kirk, the unfortunate farmer
who had been lured to death 10 years,
ago. Sheriff Cabell took the case in
hand and tonight received telegram
from the sheriff of Mullen county,
Arkansas, saying that W. +. Ander-
son was in Jail in that county and to
come and get him.
The sheriff has gathered mass of
evidence which he claims fastens the
crime upon Anderson beyond the per
adventure of a doubt. He was shot
to death in the thicket on the night
they were last seen together in 1883,
and the next morning the murderer
secured grubbing hoe, excavated a
shallow grave in the underbrush
and laid away tho body
of his victim. He afterward
secured Kinks gold watch and other
valuables. Armed with the necessary
papers an officer will go to Miller
county tomorrow night Or Monday and
return w. F. Anderson to the scene of
his crime, and thus the mystery sur
rounding another of Dallas terrible
murders has been cleared away.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
STATE FARMERS ALLIANCE.
The Dallvs Meeting Has Fair Attendance
and Is Working Harmoniously,

~AS ~eAAbS moelAnS las FAlr ATTENDANCE
and Is Working HarmoniousIy,
Special to The Statesman.
DALLAS, Feb. 16.-The state execu.
tive committee of the Populist party
met in the auditorium of the city hall
at 10 O'Clock this morning. Mayor
Barry delivered an ADDRESS of vel.
come AID Stump Ashby responded.
All members were present, as follows:
ID 5 Ashby, chairman, Smithfield;
Thomas Gaines, secretary, ComancAe;
Oh Jenkins, treasurer, Brown wood;
district l, R J Slsdge, Waller;
y w w Durham, Forest;
8, John O'Bryne, Gladewater;
4, w E Moore, Blossom; 5, s J Hamp-
ton, Bonham; Z, w f Douthit, Hol-
land; 6, j L w Loe, Dallas; 8, Thomas
Gaines, Comanche; 8, b 'Oatman,
Creedmoor; 10, b Gay, Columbus; II,
Q A Cone, Floresville; II, Charles
Mierow, San Antonie: Is, S Bradley,
Abilene; at large, c w Jenkins,
Brentwood.
The sessions were held behind clos
ed doors and SO, or 60 leading
Populists were present, including
Judge Thos l. Nugent, Capt Jim Ev.
ans and Jno Moore, of Fort Worth;
Harry Tracey, Milton Park, A Ii
Bristoe and w r Cole, of Dallas;
Methodist Jim Davis of Sulphur
Springs; Marion Martin and w d
Mollins, of Navarro, R V Bell of
Cooke, s hampton Of Lamar county;
G w White of Fannln county; w A
Denman of Dimmitt county; John w
King OF Dewitt county; Claud A Cone,
Z d Eael of Hunt, and many othe, g.
Stirring speeches were delivered
and 1t was stated that the Populists
are 81, 900 votes stronger in Texas to-
day than in 1892, With regard to
what was done behind closed doors
Col. r. j. 5ledge and others had but
little to say. They are worry boastful,
however. Nugent and Hearty are
the only names mentioned in connec-
ton with the gubsrnatorial nomina-
ton
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
SENSIBLE TALK.
A Practical Man Says Something About Aus.
tins Excellent Opportunities.

MAHoMET, Tex, Feb. II.
Editor Statesman:
While in the city few days ago L
noticed nearly all of the roses were
killed by the recent freeze, and yet
very few of them had been cut back.
Many of them that will otherwise die
may possibly be saved by cutting
back as far as theSwood seems to be
frozen. Even if not absolutely needed
severe pruning will ineure q more
shapely and more vigorous growth.
By all means let Austin have
semi centennial celebration at the
close of next year. There is large
per cent of the residents of Texas who
have never seen our capital who
would avail themselves of the oppOr.
tunity about the holidays if special
rates were offered them. Texas is fast
taking from the other Southern states
their prestige as resorts for Northern
tourists and Austin by COM
mencing now can give an attrac-
ton that will credtably introduce
her to thousands of Northern visitors
and thereby ever after enjoy that
share of health seekers and pleasure
seekers she is so naturally entitled to.
There is getting to be strong de.
mand over all the rural districts of
the state for grand state fair without
q race track 1 fact, / believe that
many experienced fair men say that,
considering the question from fioan-
cial standpoint, the two must soon be
separated Exhibitors would surely
endorse the new departure Why
can't Austin hold such fair next
year?
l make these remarks merely "a
suggestions, 10 be considered along
with the question of a celebration.
Being a native Texan and expect
ing soon to make Austin my perma-
nent homo, / claim the right to al
least say 81" on this question.
f. II RAMSEY.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
RAW OYSTERS.
A Much Relished Preprandial Dish of tho
Athenians and Romans.


Athenians and Romans.
Raw oysters were eaten at Athens
and Rome as predrandial whet. The
Romans coated their oysters with
honey and kept them until they were
slightly putrid. The simple and clumsy
methods of Apicius, the third celebrated
glutton of the name, for preserving
oysters was to wash them in vinegar
and pack them in vessels coated with
pitch. The oysters thus prepared, says
the. National Grocer, were sent from
Britain to Emperor Trajan when
in Parthia were considered "fresh"
and have been sufficient to entitle this
mans name to be handed down through
twenty centuries. If he is to be
deemed famous in direct proportion to
the nastiness of his invention, he
should be famous indeed. Brillat Sa-
varin's preprandial whet consis ted OF
three or four dozen oysters. Sieui
Laderte, whom he used to entertain
tete-a-tete at dinner, is said to have
complained because he could not get
his fill of oysters. Savarin determined
to give him satisfaction in this respect,
and let him go to his thirty
dozen, when Laperte turned his atten-
ton to the dinner with powers unem.
barrassed by his prelude.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
HOW TO RUN FAR AND FAST.
Keep the Knees Bent, Lean Forward and
Lift the Feet Very Slightly.

Keep the Knees Bent, Lean Forward and
Lift the Feet Very Slightly
Psychologists and lovers of athletics
may be interested in recent expert
ments and researches of French
artillery captain, M, de Raoul, who,
some fifteen years ago, began to try
and find out the most economical and
least trying way of walking. There
are many manners OF walking, says
the Popular Science News, some of
which are much devoid of grace, but
1t may be supposed that as far as eff
cheney is concerned one must be better
than the others. NJ. de Raoul has
come to the conclusion that, as far as
fast walking is concerned, the best
method is that which he calls marche
enfexion. The principle is to run
without leaping, to raise the body
above ground as little as possible, to
keep the knees bent, the upper pzS2 of
the body inclined forward, - that
practically you are always running
after your center of graviv. The feet
must be raised only very slightly. M.
de Raoul, who has now some years Of
experience, says that he can now take
any man between twenty and sixty
and teach him to run as long as his
legs can carry him without getting
out of breath. Some men can, on the
very first trial of the method, run seven
or eight miles without stopping, while,
with the ordinary tactics, they could
not have run over one mile. The first
kilometer "a kilometer is 6ve-eighths
of mile) is usually covered in seven
minutes and a quarter, the second in
six minutes, and the third in five min
utes and forty-five seconds. An inter
esting feature of NJ. de RaouIs re-
searches is that even aftera long run,
according to his method, stiff walk is
no trouble at all; the muscles which
work in both cases do not belong to
the same set, and while one exercise is
performed the muscles which minister
to the other rest.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
A FREAK.
a Child Born Without Either Arms or Legs.

A Child Born Without Either Arms or Legs,
Down below the city about three
miles there Is curiosity in the way
of q living freak that was born last
week. 1t is nothing more nor less
than child without either arms or
legs. From "a description given to a
STATESMAN reporter yesterday by
gentleman who had seen the child, it
is certainly an oddly. The head lie
as naturally developed as that of any
child, and the trunk OF the body is
also well developed, but there are
neither arms nor legs, nor is there
any sign of them.
The child was born about 10 days
ago and its parents are poor people OF
that section. 1t is apparently healthy
and certainly is possessed of pair OF
lungs, in as much as IL can cry as lus-
tily as the next one. But there the
matter ends. The well developed
head and trunk of the body is all
beyond that the freak Possesses
nothing that could possibly identify
il with either sex. The physicians
consulted on the subject say that the
case is not so unusual as may
at first be supposed. DR.. Bennett
has the picture Of man
who went through the country sew
eral years ago exhibiting himself as a
freak. He was afflicted like this
child, having neither arms nor legs
and was net much better than log
of wood, being perfectly helpless. He
had, however, lived to be man and
was at that time and ia still exhibit
ing himself.
The baby in question is living now
and bids fair to live Oh unless a kind
stroke of providence should end it's
existence on earth. The medical men
hereabouts, however, will doubtless
avail themselves of the opportunity to
study the freak.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
In British Prisons.

In the English compulsory labor
prisons the prisoners pass nine months
in solitary confinement and are then
assigned to the public works prisons
for hard labor. BY good behavior
they experience gradual ameliora-
ton in their condition. At first they
are not allowed to write or receive let
ters and may see no visitors. Then,
upon advancement, they may write
and receive one letter every six
months and see one visitor; then the
privilege is extended to once in four
months, then once in three.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
To CIeayo tho Wind.

Careful observers have noticed that
a fish hawk, after securing its prey,
will often rise very high in the air,
drop the fish, quickly swoop down
upon and seize it, and then fly home
ward. The object of this, as explained
by an old skipper in the Lower bay Of
New York, is to get the fish "head on,
as hawk will never fly with the tail
of its prey foremost. So, if it has
caught it that way, giving it a twirl it
drops it and seizes it again with the
head pointing in the right direction.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
Wanted the Mayors Scalp.
Special to the Statesman.

opeClhl W lue oldIebHlhu.
SAN ANTONIO. TEX, Feb. 16.-Adolf
Steinrich, a Young German Jew, today
visited the city hall and inquired for
Mayor Paschal. His appearance and
excited manner aroused suspicious and
he was asked what he wanted with the
mayor. Steinrich replied that he
wanted to kill him. He gave no rea-
son why he wanted to kill the mayor.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
AlleGed Ball Game.
Special to The Statesman

SBeCldl 10 me SJdleSmAn
SAN ANTONIO, Feb. 16.-The Boston
National League ball team en- route
East from California, defeated the
local team here today by a score of 90
to 3. They go from here to Galveston.
The Austin weekly statesman. (Austin, Tex.) 1883-1898, 1894-02-22
EPILEPSY OR FITS.

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