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PROMINENT PEOPLE.

JULES VERNE is sixty-five years old.
GOVERNOR PENEoYER, OF Oregon, is rich
man.
LOUIS KossUrH Is blind, as the result OF in
duenza. ....... .-. o..
REEDS picture has Just been hung up in
the Speakers corridor. -... ... e.
;Ds. HALL, the State geoiogist OF New Yo.k,
Is over eighty years OF age.
WILLIAM POTTER. the retiring United States
Minister at Rome. has given 1000 lire to the
poor Of that city.
The British Royal Astronomical Society has
conferred its gold medal on Professor s. W.
Burnham, an American astronomer.
IT is said that the King OF Siam has become
so addicted 10 the use OF stimu!ants that he
is practically 4 mental and physical wreck.
The Queen has conferred the dignity OF
knighthooi uoon William Lane Booker.
Cousul-Genaral OF Great Britain at New
YORK.
NJ. CAstMrR-PER1Ee, the new President OF
the Council OF Minister'S OF President Carnot,
OF France. is the third Of his name to fill that
high place.
CHIEF JrsTIcE WILLIAM PENN LYON, o. the
Wisconsin Supreme Court, has retired from
the bench after a continuous service OF
twenty-five years.
SAMUEL LAYcocE. the Lancashire dialect
post who died recently learned the trade OF
cotton spinner and got his education by read
ing after his work.
GOVERNOR ALTGELD. OF Illinois. fin ling
that he ''could not perform his social duties
while ignorant OF the art OF dancing" has
learned how to waltz.
SENATOR IsHAM G.. HARRIS. Of Tennessee,
is the only public man in Washington now
who was there when Galusha A. Grow first
went to Congress, in 1851.
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WOMEN OF EUROPE.

The celebrated man of letters, Paolo
Mantegazza, of Florence, is airing his
opinions through German newspaper
on the women of Europe, says the
Philadelphia Times. He givesthe palm
for beauty to the Spanish woman,
thereby showing keen discrimination
and judgment. His praise is not, how
ever, wholly unmixed. THE Spanish
woman," he says, sis bewitchingly
beautiful. She has small hands and
feet, and large eyes like the open win
dows of sunburnt marble palace. A
figure full of grace and life, and long,
wavy, dark hair. She svery religious,
very ignorant, very jealous, sensitive,
idle and proud. "
The English woman, he thinks, is
beauty itself. ''Her hair is like gold.
She has heavenly eyes, a peach-like
complexion, a delicately- formed nose
and good teeth. She is reserved, q
little hypochondriacal, very active and
generally slave to etiquette. But
the French woman is "a cat and SER
pent, q palm and a violet, aud even
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YOUNG GIRLS DRESSES.

Pretty styles for young girls dresses
are always most difficult to find and
dressmakers generally do not like to
make for girls younger than eighteen.
Two pretty dresses recently seen were
particularly natty and at the same time
comfortable and serviceable, two very
important points for growing girls.
The first was a gown of dark-colored
wooden stuff, it's yoke, belt and cuffs
braided with soutache. The skirt was
of straight breadths and gathered to
the yoke. The bodice had a itted lin
ing and full fronts and back ioinsd to
the lining with side seams. The dress
hooked behind, the opening being
concealed by the full folds of the stuff.
The sleeves had fitted lining and very
full puffs ending in long tight cuffs.
In the other dress the bodice was worn
inside the skirt and hooked in back.
It had fitted lining over which the
stuff was draped, and was trimmed
with two lace rufles, the lower one
ending at the armholes and each head
ed by narrow plated band of white
silk. The skirt was gored and trimmed
with three gathered bias rufies. The
skirt was made of half q breadth of
surah hemstitched at the edges and
hooked in back. The sleeves have big
puffs and lace epaulettes. The mate
rial used was a yellowish pink woolen
suiting.-New York World.
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Washington as a Singer Of Songs.

General Washington and Chief JUS!
tice Ellsworth, of Connecticut, were
intimate friends. On one occasion
Washington dined with Ellsworth at
his residence, in Windsor. During
his visit he was taken into the nursery,
where were wo,twin boys, afterward
Governor Ellsworth and the Hon.
Henry L. Ellsworth. He took one on
each knee, and sang to them this song,
the words of which are preserved, but,
unfortunately, not the music:
THE DERBY CDAaBy) nAa.
AS was going to Derby
Upon market day.
spled the biggest ram, sir,
That ever was fec on hay.
Tow de row de row,
Tow de row de da.
He had four feet to walk. sir,
He had four feet to stand,
And every foot he had. sir.
Covered an acre Of land.
Tow, etc.
The wool upon his back, Sir,
1t reached unto the SKY,
And eagles built their nests there,
For 1 heard their young ones cr..
Tow, etc.
The wool upon his tail, sir,
heard the weaver say,
Made three thousand yards OF cloth, sir,
For he wove 1t all in day.
Tow, etc.
It is not often that the Father OF his
his Country appears in this role; but
this anecdote was handed down in the
Ellsworth family, and is undoubtedly
authentic. THE Witness.
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THE LABOR WORLD.

BOSTON has flfty-three labor unions.
P1rrsBURa has trade school for girls.
TIE Federation claims 652, 800 members.
Ten trade organizations work eight hours.
OMAHA (Neb.) packing houses employ 1900.
The British miners strike cost $3.50, ,000,-
900.
MICHIGAN has 5000 union commercial drum
mers.
In Great Britain 1000 miners are killed an
nually.
CoRNELLsvrLLE, Penn. has 5000 coke ovens
running.
EUROPEAN laborers are emigrating from
America.
PARKER, Penn, Is to have cooperative
glass mill.
RAILROAD trainmen paid 81, ,243, zoo in bene
fits in decade.
MILAN, Italy, is to have an international
workingmen's congress.
TIE labor troubles in the Black Hills are
growing more and more serious.
WEAvERs held convention in New Bed
ford, Mass, to discuss proposed labor laws.
MArERNo (Spain) weavers' cooperative
society owns a mill, club house and fifty
houses.
MECHANICS at Mare Island (Cal.) Navy
Yard have had their pay cut from twenty-five
to flfty-six cents per day.
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when she is not pretty she is charm

when she is not pretty she is charm
ing. She is amiable, dreadful CO..
quette, and generally false" Tho
women of Germany are not graceful as
o race, but are strong and withstand
the rsvages of time. They are ''blonde,
blue.eyed, with white skin, and are
more suited to play the part OF wives
than lovers. They are naive, good
natured and industrious, and make
splendid housekeepers and mothers.
They are, on the whole, the best edu.
Gated women in Europe" The Rms
sian woman is an Oriental type which
has been prematurely transplanted to
Europe. SIN her are combined the
extraordinary charms of savage and
highly civilized woman. The italian
woman is fond of art, sentimental and
modest, but is generally ignorant and
and is often false. Two important
points in forming the character OF the
women of different Nations are, sc-
cording to Msntegazza, the religion
and the amount of freedom they en-
Joy. The greater the freedom allowed
the more virtue. This last will please
Americans. ..
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LUNATICSBURN TODEATH
a SCENE OF HORROR IN AN
IOWA MADHOUSE.

Eight Human Beings Perish Miser-
ably-Penned in Little Building
ona Poorfarm-The Flames Break
Out at Night While a Blizzard
Rages.
The building on the Boone Coun ty Iowa)
poorfarm used as an insane asylum was
burned, and eight OF the nine inmates lost
their lives. The fire started about 10 o clock
D. M, and when discovered was under such
headway that nothing could be done to save
the unfortunates in the building.
Six years ago Boone County decided to
take charge OF its incurable and harmless in
sane who had before been kept in the State
asylums. For that purpose two-story frame
building was erected on the poorfarm near
the poorhouse. In this building the insane
were kept. The steward Of the poor farm is
Henry Holcomb, who lived with his wife in
the poorhouse. =
They retired at about the usual time last
night and were asleep at 10 o'clock, when
they were awakened by Mrs. Hibbard, one
OF the nine insane persons, who came into
the house and said that the madhouse was
on fire.
MIR. Holcomb rushed to the burning build
ing, which he saw was aiame inside, and
burst in the door. He could not enter, ow-
ing to the intense heat, and no SOUND except
the cracking Of the flames was heard.
The unfortunates were ALREADY dead,
Ell. - suffocated before they aw oke or lack
ing intelligence to make their escape. Four
OF the poor creatures who were not consid-
cred perfectly safe were locked IN their
cells at night and could not have escaped IL
they would.
The tragedy was over in a half hour, when
the roof of the madhouse fell In. The vic
Tins we're seen in the Goals, burned beyond
recognition. The fire is supposed to have
been caused by the furnace, which was
overheated on account OF the intensely cold
weather.
Mrs. Hibbard. the only one who escaped,
Is uninjured, but Is not intelligent enough to
give an account OF the discovery of the fire.
The victims and their ages are
Thomas Leper, forty-fve; Joseph Craig.
eighty-one Sarah Scott, eighty-two Chris
tian Peterson, eighty-seyen Christiana
Anderson. twenty-eight Anna Sodderberg,
thirty-eight Johanna Briggs, thirty-fre I;
Nancy Tucker. forty-eight.
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SPRING TAILOR DRESSES.

A number of models for spring tailor
dresses show the back of the jacket cut
with haring basques and the fronts in
Eton shape open on a bengaline waist,
under the belt of which is an added
basque, which has somewhat the effect
of short overdress or tunic. This is
a style becoming to tall, slender wo-
men. On some gowns these basques
are sewed permanently to the belt, on
others it is adjustable and when added
converts house gown into street
costume. There is leaning toward
basaues, real or simulated by trim
ming, and while there is considerable
style about basque bodice it is not
youthful model, imparting always
severe, prim appearance to even the
graceful, youthful figure of sweet six
teen. A Russian blouse bodice, a
Princess May corsage, pointed waist,
Breton corsage, Spanish corselet, baby
bodice-any of these styles is far more
attractive. The basque bodice is said
to be pre-eminently suitable for state
", rather short women. This is not
&C; the arched hip seam of the basque
outlines and emphasizes the fullness
of the figure just here and besides
gives an ungraceful, short-waisted ap-
pearance. Even the slim-fgured ma
from looks better in another style OF
bodice. A closely gored skirt and a
deeply-pointed corsage is the very best
style of dress stout woman can select
for day costumes or evening toilets
with train.-St. Louis Republic.
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THE NEWS EPTTOMIzED.
Eastern and Middle States.

JOHN E. BUELER, disbarred lawyer who
was recently found guilty Of forging his
mothers mark 20 & deed. was sentenced. at
Boston. Mass,, to States prison for five
years.
JoHs, G.. JoAI:oN, at Long Island City.
N. Y. obtained verdict of $4,000 for the
death OF his son. who was killed in the acci
dent to the returning race train on the Long
Island Railroad. at The Parkville tunnel Oh
June 20 last.
HARVARD defe1ted Yele in the joint debate
at Cambridge. Mass.
The United States cruiser Montgomery, on
her trial run in Long Island Sound. made
nineteen knots an hour, two knots more than
her contract required, the builders will get
bonus OF 5000, 900.
SUPERIOR Court JUDGE CHARLES P. THoMp-
son. OF Gloucester, Mass, committed suicide
by shooting.
ARTHUR AND FLOYD GRIFFIN. aged eight
cen and sixteen respectively, sons OF Bur-
leigh Griffin. and also James, aged sixteen,
son of Aaron Pitcher. were drowned In Ot.
sego Lake, N. y, while skating.
SEVEN children dead with diphtheria is
the misfortune that has befallen the fam.
lily OF Andrew Albert, Of Delaware Water
Gap, Penn. The last to succumb was George
Albert, aged eighteen. One was young
woman Of twenty and bride Of two months.
THIEVES tried to wreck and burn train
and then plunder it on the New Jersey and
New York Railroad.
TIE steamer Andes, of the Atlas Line, was
stranded on the New jersey coast, and will
probably be q total loss.
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WOMAN'S WORLD.
PLEASANT LITERATURE FOE
FEMININE READERS.
A FAD FOR PHYsIoaNoMY.

Professor Annie Oppenheim seems
to be making quite good thing over
in London out of the proverbial Curl
osity which people feel about them
selves. She is a physiognomist, and
has "delineated" 5000 people in five
months, hundreds being turned away
because she had not time to read them.
Miss Oppenheim disclaims any con-
nection with palmistry or pretenslon
to psychical powers, and Gays her sys-
tenn Of face reading Is purely scientific.
New York Sun.
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The snathem annually pronounced against
the French since the invasion Of 1912 at the
Christmas mass In the st. Petersburg churches
was omitted last year on account OF the
Franco Russian entente.
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SUSAN B. ANTHoNY's SILKS AND IACEs.
If Susan B. Anthony has weakness
it is black silk, with point lace. The
memory Of this generation runs not as
far back as the time when this famous
lady took to wearing these costly, ele-
CANT textures. Although very busy
woman, she is quiet and restful. Her
clothes never wear out, and, as she
scorns to follow the fashion, her
dresses and rufaes and lace capes and
scarfs last forever. None Of her gowns
are trimmed, the expense for that item
being put in the material. As result,
some of the straight, round skirts are
made of satin and silk thick enough
and stiff enough to stand alone. She
wears nothing but black. When she
wishes to change the character OF her
toilet she changes the lace at her
wrists and throat and the little shawl
that drapes her shoulders. Miss An
thony reads no newspaper but the
marked copies sent her by her friends.
She alleges that Newspaper reading is
a great waste of time, and great
detriment to the mind, making sieve
of the memory and perverting the
literary taste. She depends on gossip
for the news, and upon her friends for
the advancement of thought. Detroit
Free Press.
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TIE Commissioner Of Patents has adopted
q plan of publishing each day list OF the
patents which expire on that date; hereto
fore this important information has neves
been made known to the public. $685..
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The English inhabitants of Canada do not
take kindly to Lord Aberdeen, their new
Goyernor-General. he is Scotchnan and
Is proud rather than ashamed Of the fact.
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CorroN has been picked in Arkansas.
Seventy-five per cent. OF the crop ofthe State
has been marketed. Not over 800 bales re-
main unsold in Little Rock. Indications
point to total crop not exceeding 1000. 200
bales.
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TIE New York State Federation of Labor
In session at Albany, by vote Of twenty
three to seventeen, adopted a resolution
thanking Governor Altgeld, of Illinois. for
pardoning the three Anarchists. Neebe
Fielden and Schwab, imprisoned for com.
plicity in the Haymareet dynamite massacre
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DYNAMITE IN a STOVE.
Two Persons Killed and Six Injured
on q Texas Train.

A stick OF dynamite which some person had
placed in the smoking car stove on the Mis-
souri,. Kansas and Texas Railroad at Marcos,
Texss, exploded as the train was leaving
that place.
Ed. Binding, travelling agent Of the City
Brewerr of San Antonio and J. G. Heidel-
man. u merchant OF Austin, were instantly
killed, and six other passengers in the car
seriously injured. &.
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THE HANDBAG.

That old-fashioned and dainty little
adjunct of q woman's dress has again
appeared, and to many whose dress
makers have proved obstinate in re-
gard to pockets it is boon and bless
ing. It is quaint looking, and when
prettily made is real establishment
to a handsome dress. A pretty one is
of rose silk, brocaded in cream and
gold. The shape at the bottom is tri-
angular, and old pink velvet is used to
bind it. The bows at the three corners
and the drswstrings are of rose ribbon
and the lining is of gold surah silk
New York Mail and Express.
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From The Baltimore Sun.
Wednesday, January 3, 1894.
1t is Chairman Wilson's inten-
ton to reach vote on the tariff
bill January IL.
Herbert Thomas fired a gun
loaded with fourteen inches of
powder in Carroll county and blew
hole through his hand.
Ex-senator Thomas G. Platt is
in full control of legislation at
Albany, and the old-time deals
with Tammany are in order.
Sportsmen in the Northern Neck
are paying their respects to deer
ard foxes, which are more numer-
GUS than for years past. Rabbits
and partridges are rarely, particu-
larry the latter. Not bird can be
seen during Il weeks hunt.
1t is generally accepted that an
assessment bill will be passed bv
the Legislature at its present ses-
sion. 1t is anticipated there will
be a good deal of legislation affect
ing insurance companies doing
business in Maryland, and insur.
ance Commissioner Rasin is EXPECT
ed to spend considerable portion
of his time at Annapolis during the
session. 1t is thought the free
book measure, if revived, will not
be seriously pressed.
Mail advices received from Kros-
che. in Russia, confirm the first re-
ports of the massacre of Catholics
at that place in November last. by
which at least twenty persons were
killed and nearly hundred wound
ed, Notwithstanding the official
statement that the affair was any
thing more than a disturbance in
which four policemen were hurt.
Details of the massacre show the
Cossacks 20 have been guilty of
savage atrocities.
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Mr.. YATES AND THE DUCKS.
Old Times in the Village Of Leonardtown,

| Many years ago, before the days of rail.
roads and when steamboat travel Was but
little known, what was termed country
landlord or country innkeeper was per-
sonage OF much note. Generally he was
j the most prominent man in the village,
/ and many little humorous incidents occur
red during his proprietorship, some of which
/ propose TO relate.
In the village of Laonardtown, in St.
Mary's county, situated on an arm of Brit
tain's bay when was small boy), there
was gentleman who kept the only hotel
in the place whose name was Yates. He
was man of fine physique, standing six
feet in his stockings and well proportioned.
He was man iull of humor and wit. and
always liked to indulge in practical Jokes.
AT that lime the social caste in Maryland
was very different from what it is now
We then had the old aristocracy composed
of prominent people, such as tl.e Keys,
Harrises, Blakistones, Thomases and 9TH
ers. That was an aristocracy Of "blue"
blood, of birth and intelligence, very diff.
ierent from the "shoddy" aristocracy of to-
day, which consists of money without
brains
But, to come back TO our landlord. The
lanes of those Ihave mentioned " ere very
fond OF engaging in suppers, especially
duck suppers," and Mr.. Yates besides be-
ing celebrated as a landlord and caterer.
was also noted For his steady marksman-
ship as gunner. and whenever he had to
furnish these suppers no would supply the
means with his gun, and has been known
to bring down five ducks on the wing out
of small flock Of six. His gun was an
old flint musket, but was never known to
fail him in an emergency, and he gave it
the name of "never fail"
On this particular occasion he was EN-.
ployed to get up "duck supper" laying
covers for thirty, which would require.
with other things and trimmings, about
twenty four ducks. In order to be ready,
Mr.. Yates began his cunning expedition
about week before tie supper. Thedu
were scarce, and morning and evening he
would take his rounds only to come back
without any game.
There was at the head Of this little bav.
perhaps quarter of mile from its source. |
a mill belonging to Mr.. Key, the most
prominent citizen in the village, and, by |
the bye, speaking of mills it may be neces-
sary TO state that in the county there were
many littS. streams upon which these little |
over shot mills Were worked and run with |
very little water power. What were known |
as mill races or dams were not often seen,
but any mill that was worth a "damn" |
was supplied with that Indispensable re-
quisite. This mill that speak of owned |
~ Mr.. Key was supplied with a splendid I
dam or race, which consisted Of earth en- !
bankmeuts thrown across the stream, which !
was furnished with what was called flaod-
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one of them holding a mans heart
dripping with blood.


one of them holding mans heart
dripping with blood.
"But the most horrible thing
was yet to-cOme. Ny eyes bulged
out of my head, which was as hot
as an oven; and the cold perspira-
tion dripped down all over my body.
Thus they stood for hours, as it
seemed to me, and then with 8
blood-curdling yell they threw the
heart at me. 1t fell by my side.
This made the blood rush to my
head so that | could see nothing
but red glare of light, which kept
getting brighter all the time until
it was like the sun. Then it began
to grow dea, and | knew no more.
CONSCIOUSNESS RECLAIMED.
"The next thing that | was con-
scious of ! was setting up in the
same place where / had been. The
two apparitions were standing by
the body of the dead man. One of
them had a skull in his hand, and
it was filed with blood. He drank
of it and handed it 10 the other,
who also drank and threw the skull
down.
"After d short time they lifted
the fiat stone to one side and dug a
hole under it. One of the devils
cut the dead man'r head off, and
taking it with him DISAPPEARED. The
other took the body in his arms,
carried it to the hole laid it in and
put the stone over it. After that
he DISAPPEARED, and | fell asleep.
"When | awoke it was broad day
light. l went to the stone and
there was no blood on it, nor had
it been moved. Then | looked for
the skull and found it, but it was
half buried in the dirt and had ev-
identity not been moved for years.
l then lifted the flat stone little
with my crowbar, which | had
brought with me, and looked I'M
der. There was a skeleton living in
the same position that the body
had been laid the night before, and
it had no head. | picked up the
skull and started to the post, intending to
report it to the commanding officer, but
when | got near the road remembered
that if l reported it would be tried for
absence without leave, so threw the skull
away and said nothing about it.
FOR some time l was greatly troubled
in my mind, as l thought what had seen
was perhaps hallucination of the brain.
1t worried NE nearly to death.
"Not until snearly year afterward did |
learn the history Of the gold mine. There
was q tradition that white man had
worked 1t at one time, until he was cap.
tured by q couple of Indians. The red
devils cut his heart out and otherwise mu-
tilated his body.
Although 1 was never very supersti-
tious, / must say that l felt better after I
heard the story, bat felt convinced then
that there was some foundation for what |
had witnessed. Baltimore Herald.