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Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25

Row Dom Pedro Played Joke on a
Young American Engineer.
New York Herald.

NOW boh Psuro flayed Joke on q
Young American Engineer.
New York Herald.
The late Emperor of Brazil, Dom
Pedro, was man of most democratic
tastes and was progressive in all that he
did. When visiting this country during
the Centennial Exposition he won the
esteem of all with whom he came in
contact. His nature was sunny, and
many are the stories told OF his efforts
to better the condition of the people
who afterward sent him an exile from
the land he loved and had labored for.
One of the best of these stories relates
to the Emperor shortly after his return
to his native land from this country.
He had purchased and taken with him
several engines made by the Baldwin
Locomotive Company Of Philadelphia.
A young engineer requested an audi
ence with the Emperor, and showed
him an appliance for stopping railroad
engines quickly in case of an approach
ing accident. The Emperor was pleased
with the device and said -
"We will have practical test. You
get your engine ready by the day after
tomorrow. We will then attach my
private carriage to it. You may go at
full speed. | will ride in my private
car, and will give you the signal to stop
when you are least expecting it,"
The day came, and The Emperor was
in the car attached behind the engine.
The engineer pulled the throttle wide
open, and they sped along mile after
mile. Mo signal came from the Emperor,
and the young engineer began to think
that the Emperor had gone to sleep.
The train came to an abrupt curve
and sped around 1t. A large bowlder lay
across the track just ahead of them.
The engineer had presence of mind
sufficient to pull the handle of his brake,
and the train came to stop within
few feet of the obstruction.
The Emperor put his head out of
window Of his carriage and demanded
to know the cause of the delay. When
the engineer pointed to the obstruction
the Emperor laughed heartily. Push
it to one sidep he called to the engi-
neer, who stood beside the engine. The
engineer, confused and embarrassed, un-
consciously obeyed the order and gave
the bowlder push; 1t crumbled into
aust beneath his hand.
1t was block of starch which the
Emperor had ordered made and placed
upon the rails the night before.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
ALBANIAN AsrosIsurD.
The Old Man Was All There->And a
Little More.

l sat on the seat with the colored man
who drove me down to the railroad de-
pot with shacklety old wagon, and as
we left the hotel he said:
"Boss, if yo' kin dun say ober few
big words on de way down, de ole man
will be 'stremely disobleeged to yo'."
GLOW big words do you want?"
Cant git 'em too big, boss. TIE o
powerful hand to member big words
an git 'em off when q calamitous &C.
casion predominates.
DO you expect to find use for some
OF them this morning."
"Reckon does, sab. My son Abraham
works down to de depot, an whenever
Gums around he tries to show off ober
me an make me feel small. He'll try it
ON dis mawnin' fur suah, an jest want
to be dun fixed to paralyze his desir-
ability. Spit 'em right out, boss, an de
ole man wont forgit yo' when de water
lnlllyun scum Gums ag'in."
We had about half mile to go, and
before we reached the depot l gave him
a large and choice assortment Of Web
ster's longest, observes the Chicago
Times. When we drew up at the plat
form Abraham was there, and also a
dozen white people who were to go out
on the train. 1t was good opportunity
for the son to show off, and he realized
it, and came forward and waved his
arm and shouted:
"lo' dar, ole man, han't dun toled
yo' bout 400 times not to sagaciate dat
stupendous ole vehicle in de way of de
omnibus? Sum ole niggers doan seem
to have no mo- idea of de consequently
OF recititude dan squash"
"Was yo' spokin' to me, sab ?" stiffly
demanded the father, as he stood up and
glared at Abraham.
"Of co'se l was"
"Den, sab, l want yo' to distinctly
understand dat when de co-operashun
of de imperialism seems to assimilate
disreputable infringement of hereditary
avariciousness shall retract my in
dividuality, but not befo'-not befo'
sab |"
Abraham's eyes hung out, his COM
plexion became ash color, and his knees
bent under him as if the springs were
about to give way. 1t was long min
ute before he could utter sound, and
then he reached for my trunk with the
muttered observation:
"Befo' de Lawd, but things am gittin'
SO mixed up dat can'tdun tell whedder
I'm his son or his fader
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
THE MESS ENGER nor.

His Life is Not Happy One When
Things Are Taken Into Consideration.
Chicago Herald.
Taking one consideration with another
the messenger boys lot is not happy
one. They are rung up to do all sorts
of things at SO much an hour, but the
strangest adventure that ever befell one
of the boys had its location ON the west
side.
A woman came into the Office. She
was heavily yelled, as are all impetuous
females, and she carried baby. The
manager was out, but one of the boys
was there to attend TO business.
81 want you to take this baby TO -
Washington boulevard" she said.
write card, Teddy" said the boy.
"You write it,"
He received the baby and the woman
gave him an extra quarter. 1t WAS a
well-behaved infant and chuckled at
him as he danced it in his arms on the
way to the house in Washington boule-
ward.
A man came to the door. He seemed
surprised.
"Here's d. kid" said the boy.
"What kid ?" asked the man at the
door.
"D' kid the Teddy sent me with"
II don't know anything about it"
Here's de number in the book
II can't help that. The baby does
not belong here. We have nc babies
and never had any and l don't want
you to bring any around here"
The boy had become tired of shifting
his tiny burden and was about to lay il
on the doorstep when the man of the
house objected.
keep it," he said; stake it away"
wont you sign for itP"
'No, | should say not. Go on away,
now. / don'tcare to have my neighbors
see this"
The boy stood out in front for awhile
and then started back to the office. On
the way he was overtaken by two other
boys, who greeted him with yowls Of
derision.
"oh, chez where did y get it at?"
they asked him.
But he was too much worried to enter
into the fun of the thing. When he
reached the office the manager was
there.
"Here's kid" said he, placing the
O@cy Va WV SbuAuEl hOuiNl nave
dropped any other bundle. sd man
wouldn't sign for it,"
The baby began to kick and then let
out faint seuall.
"Pick it up" said the manager.
you'll have to take care of it until the
woman comes back. l don't want it."
The boy was sure he had gone to the
right number. He had not taken the
woman's name, however, and could give
no description of her except that she
wore dark dress and seemed to be call
right" Through the long afternoon he
cared for the infant. Sometimes he had
to carry it up and down the room or
jump it on his knee. The other boys
assisted in various ways to entertain the
small and blinking youngster. No
woman came. That evening the police
were summoned and they took the baby
that no one would sign for and put it in
a foundlings' home, and from there 1t
went to a West Side woman, who gave
it a good home. But they never learned
anything more about the yelled woman.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
ADVICE TAKEN.
A Practical Father Plans the Elopement
of His Own Daughter UnintentionaIIy.

A Practical Father Plans the Elopement
of His own Daughter UnintentionaIIy.
The proprietor of one of the principal
firms in Birmingham had remarked
that his head clerk, for whom he had
real liking, had for some reason fallen
into great melancholy, and, though he
tried his best, he could not find out what
was the matter with the young man,
says lid Bits, One day, at last, the
sufferer owned that he was in love.
"Well, marry her." said the chief.
ooh, but" here the young man nearly
broke down, "she belongs to one of the
best families in town-the parents will
never consent"
"Pooh your position is good, your
name honorable; they won't refuse. l
will demand the girl for you. Does she
love you2"
Eyes, but it's no use; her parents
won't listen"
'Well, then, elope with her. Do
know the girl?"
eyes, she will be at your ball next
Tuesday"
''Now listen to me-" said the en-
ployer. leave the ball quietly with
her. Joseph, my coachman, will wait
for you at the door, and drive you to the
station. He will ask no questions.
When you are out of the way l will see
the father and settle everything for
you."
SIS that really your advice2" glee-
fully exclaims' the youth. "Do you
want me to do that?"
eyes, l command you to do it. Now,
cheer up"
The next day the clerk proposed the
plan to his sweetheart, who made some
objections at first, but, overcome by his
reasons, she said at last:
well, if he really orders. it. must
obey
What was the general stupefaction
when, after the ball, the daughter of the
house was missing,
Mad fool that was" exclaimed the
enraged parent; sit was my own
daughterm
The next day he wrote: "Come back;
all will be forgiven
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25

CHICAGO, ILL.,, Jan. 19.-The Record
this morning says: Ex-senator Thomas
@! Platt Of New York, president of the
United States Express Company, was
in Chicago yesterday. Before he left, he
had consummated deal by which his
company will occupy the Chicago, Mil
waukee & St. Paul railway and all its
branches, retiring from the Chicago &
Northwestern railway in favor of the
American Express Company. This
practically shuts out the Adams Ex-
press Company, which has hitherto had
the st. Paul's business from the north
west, The Adams Express Company's
Offices in Milwaukee will be closed. The
agreement goes into effect about March
1at
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
OLD GU4RD's RECEPTION.
A Big Social AMIR In Which Governor
Reynolds and STAFF Participated.

Reynolds and stan Participated.
The 25th annual reception of the Old
Guard of New York, Thursday evening
in Madison Square Garden, was bril-
liant affair. The amphitheatre of the
garden was canopied in combination
of gold and delicate pale blue; clusters
of draperies in the same tints being sus-
pended from the ceiling, following the
centre or ridge line. The balconies and
galleries were curtained and drhped in
graceful folds of blue and gold, studded
with shields, flags, silk and sotin ban
ners, coats of arms and trophies of
ancient suits Of arms. The floor boxes
were draped in pure white, this to serve
as background for delicate tracery
Of natural vines.
The governors and mayors boxes
were distinguished by the respective
seals Of the State and city Of New York,
and Major Sloan's bog by distinctive
Old Guard decorations.
AT the Fourth avenue end Of the
anphitheatre an elaborate reception
tent was erected in pale blue and gold,
brilliantly illuminated by electric chan
deliers and surmounted by an electric
device reading "Old Guard" in letters
four feet high. The interior of this
marquee, in which the governor and
Major Sloan received, was fitted as a
drawing-room. The entire decoration,
except the groundwork of light blue
and gold, was in the American colors.
At 1880 Governor Flower, escorted by
Major Sloan, entered the hall, and, fol-
lowed by the Old Guard, marched to
the tent. Then, to the strains of 1.-THE
Star-spangled Banner, "Adiutant George
II. Wyatt, with the color guard, marched
to headquarters; the flag received the
governors salute, and the reception
proper began. In the reception room
Major Thomas e. Sloan, Governor
Flower, with Mrs. Sloan, Mrs. Flower
and others, received the guests of the
Old Guard until midnight.
The Aoor by the time the reception
had opened was we'll filled, and gay
with many colors. The music began to
attract more attention than the gold lace
and brass buttons, and the dance began.
At 10 O'clock sharp the grand march
took place, IN which all military and
naval guests participated.
Governor Reynolds and staff were in
attendance.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
rno Uanr rnANsrnRRENcE
An Experiment That Will Prove Inte
esting, If it Succeeds.

An Experiment That Will Prove Inter-
esting, If it Succeeds.
Morning oregonian.
"Close up your ears with some non
conductor Of sound "a little cotton will
do" says Mr.. +, /. McKenna, "place a
bandage over your eyes, draw it back
over your ears, and tie it back of your
head in such way as to completely
shut off your eyesight and hearing.
Then'with your left hand take firm
hold of the right hand of some one
willing to help you Ia making the
experiment, and also grasp his left
hand with your right. Ask your assist
ant to read slowly some lines unknown
to you. Your assistant should read the
lines without uttering the words; that
is, he should read them in his mind
with mouth closed. While your as
sistant is reading you must calm your
self as much as possible and place your
self in sort of state of expectancy,
looking for thoughts to come to you
rather than try to think. If you follow
the directions carefully the words of the
lines will appear before you as distinctly
as though you were actually looking
with your own eyes, and you can repeat
tiiNhA 40 iGbu1ly us you COulu IL your
eyes were not bandaged.
IF you fail on first attempt 1t will be
because you are skeptical and fail to
concentrate your mind properly. If
you fail after repeated efforts ON sue
cessive days, get two round pieces of
common zinc the size of half dollar,
and place between them a silver half
dollar and riyet the three pieces to-
gether with copper rivet Place one
OF these magnets in the palm of each
hand when you take the hand of your
assistant. If you still fail, place the
magnet on your forehead, close between
the eyes, and have your assistant hold
it with the palm of his left hand and
you hold the other on his forehead with
the palm of your left hand in the same
manner, and again have the assistant
rccite the lines as before. 1t NAV re.
quire little patience, but you will
surely succeed. The magnet is only
intended to help reduce your will to
subsection. 10 show the power OF the
magnet place it on your tongue, close
your mouth and eyes, click the magnet
against your teeth, and you will see
flash Of light.
The greatest difficulty you will have
to overcome is that you feel that you are
acknowledging yourself fool to even
try the experiment, and that feeling
Keeps you from being in earnest--a
thing necessary to success III any walk
Of life. Ii you once succeed you will
have no further trouble in the matter.
II will require only practice. Continue
BY holding one hand, then by placing
your hands on table near your assist
ant, then connect yourself by q silk
cord at considerable distance apart, but
when you want. to disconncct yourself
entirely aud send messages, you will,
perhaps, need to have further instruc-
tions. Any person Gun do it. There is
no extraordinary power of mind re-
quired. There is nothing supernatural
about it any more than it is supernatural
to see or hear. Young ladies and young
men can spend very enjoyable and
profitable evenings by congregating
together and experimenting on this
theory"
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25

Mayor Joe Rhinock of Covington last
evening related to his friends an anus
ing adventure Of the day before, says the
Cincinnati Commercial Gazette. A col
ored woman, burdened with lusty,
squalling baby, called at his office.
Gam dis de mayor?" she wanted to
know.
at am" responded the chief execu-
tive.
"Den jest you sit down and write me
a pass to Fruits, Kentucky" she Or
dered, without any palpable waste of
words.
His Honor explained that this was
not one of his prerogatives, and that
her request would have to be laid before
the Chairman of the Council Relief
Committee.
at does, Ell ?" asked madam. "I'se
got to catch dat Q o'clock train. Gimme
dat pass or leave de babyW She made
q motion to drop the pickaniny into Mr..
Rhinock's lap. That settled the argu-
ment. She got the pass.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
YASsAR YIANDS.
But She Had No Possible Use for Horse
radish.

But She Had No Possible Use for Horse
radish.
Detroit Free Press.
She was Vassar graduate, and didn't
know little bit about housekeeping
when she married her last beau and
settled down to domestic life.
Her first order at the grocer's was a
crusher, but that good man was used to
all sorts of people, and could interpret
Vassar as easily as plain English.
Il want 10 pounds of paralyzed SUI
gar" she said with business air.
"Yes'm. Anything else ?"
1.-TWO cans of condemned milk"
"Yes'm." He set down "pulverized
sug," CONDENSED milk"
"Anything more, ma'am?"
"a bag Of fresh salt-be sure that it
is fresh.''
"Yes'm. What next ?"
"A pound of desecrated Goldfish"
"Yes'm." He wrote glibly "desiccated
cod"
Nothing more, ma'am? Here's some
nice horseradish, just in"
"No," she said, with sad wabble to
her flexible voice; cit would be of no
use, as we don't keep horse"
Then the grocer sat down on a kit Of
mackerel and famed himself with
patent washboard. Vassar had taken
the cake.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
MOODS.


When violets fold their leaves about
The shadows of the yew,
Or star the grasses in and out
Beneath the April blue
| know not why, my heart is stirred
With sense of sudden pain,
For through the song of brook and bird
hear the winter rain,
The rain,
The bitter, beating rain
But when the skies arc wild and hash
Above the blackened hedge,
When north winds blow across the marsh,
To shake the struggling sedge,
When SHOWS are falling in the pine,
And birds forget to sing
All, then this hayward heart Of mine
Will only dream of Spring,
OF Spring,
OF laughter-loYing Spring
february LippincotPs.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
ID1E MEN ARE BANDITS.
Made Desperate by Hunger They Plundei
tho Districts Around Cadiz.

MADRID, Jan. 18.-Affairs in the
Cadi2 district are in an alarming condi-
ton, owing to the great number of men
out Of employment. These men have
been rendered desperate by hunger, and
the pillaging of shops and farm houses
is of frequent occurrence.
The Anarchists of Cadiz were for
merly we'll supplied with money, but
now their sources of supply have been
cut off by the suppression of the An
archist associations. 1t is thought that
most of the crime that has been perpe-
trated in the district is the work Of An
archists, who until they were thrown
out of employment depended on their
honest exertions for livelihood.
An armed band of men recently en-
tered the village of st. Emit and kid
mapped rich farmer, whom they held
for ransom. The same band also stopped
and robbed mail coach. Gems d'armes
are in pursuit of them.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25

ST. JosEPu, Mo-, Jan. 1S.--Train No.
ion the Kansas City ,St,Josoph g. Council
Bluffs railroad, was held up and robbed
1t 1890 o'clock this morning by five
masked men at Roy's Branch, just
above this city the scene of the attempted
iobbery of September 25th last.
The train was stopped by torpedo
placed on the tracks, and when the
engineer slowed up he and the firemen
were covered by revolvers and forced to
70 back to the express car and demand
ldmittance. The express messenger, G.
u. Baxter, was covered by revolvers in
The hands of the robbers and they pro-
;eeded to plumber the car.
The safe was opened and the contents
we're transferred to a sack which was
carried by one of the gang. The robbers
then assembled all the train crew in a
bunch, marched them about halfway
down the track, ordering them to stand
still, aud made their escape in westerly
direction through the dense willows
which line the track at that point
Tho robbers could not be all recog-
nized, but are supposed to be the same
gang that held up and robbed the Chi
cago fast train, the cell, on the Hanni-
bal just week ago tonight, when one
pf them used red lantern in signaling
The engineer. Two OF the men, tall
and short one, answer the description
given of two of the ELI" robbers.
Sheriff Carson and large posse of
deputies are hot on the trail of the
robbers and every available man has
been pressed into service. AS soon as
The robbers left the train it was backed
down into the city and the officials noti-
lied. Nothing can be ascertained in
regard to how much money the robbers
occurred, but coming on the heels Of the
last robbery, it has created intense cx-
element all over the city.
Roy's Branch, where the hold-up &C.
CURED, was the place where two train
robbers were killed and four captured,
September 25th, by dummy train sent
put by the officials Of the road, in place
Of train No. 3, the train that was at
lacked tonight.
ST. JOSEPH, Mo-, Jan. 19.-According
TO Manager Sanford of the Adams Ex-
press Company, that company has
ceased carrying very much money on
trains, and as q result the bandits who
looted the safe in the express car of the
north-bound Kansas City, St. Joseph g.
Chicago train, last Wednesday night,
secured only $500.
According to an officer of the Bur-
lington road the haul was very little
less than $50, 900 and the same authority
asserts that the two robberies which
have occurred within short time have
Melted the thieves nearly 100000, as
the two trains held up carried the bulk
of the valuable express matter out of
this city.
II is now known positively that the
men who did the job Wednesday night
are the same ones who held up the Bur-
lington "Eli" a few days ago. The rail-
road company is SO positive of this that
1t declines to offer any further reward
than the $4,000 now standing. The
men have been tracked to this city,
where all traces of them have been lost.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25

by local applications, as they cannot reach
the diseased portion of the ear. There is
only one way to cure Deafness, and that is
by constitutional remedies. Deafness is
caused by an inhamed condition of the
mucous lining of the Eustachian Tube.
When this tube gets infiamed you have n
rumbling sound or imperfect hearing, and
when it is entirely closed Deafness is the
result, and unless the inflammation can be
taken out and this tube restored to It's
normal condition, hearing will be de-
stroyed forever; nine cases out of ten are
caused by catarrh, which is nothing but an
infiammed condition Of the mucous sur
faces.
We will give One Hundred Dollars for
any case of Deafness Caused by catarrh)
that cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
Cure. Send for circulars, free.
+. J. CHENEY & CO., Toledo, o.
siSg@ Sold by druggists, 75c.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25

WAsHTNGToN, Jan. 18.-The light
house board gives notice that on or about
January 31st, a fixed white lens lantern
light will be established on the post of
the crib recently built on the north side
of N pier, S. feet from the outer end of
the channel face of the pier, mouth of
Christiana creek, Delaware river, Della.
ware. The light will be suspended at a
height of about 231 feet above mean
high water. On the same date tho
fourth-order fixed red light now on the
end of the pier, north side of the mouth
of Christiana creek, will be discontinued.
Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-01-25
saloon Keepers . sue ,he CIV.

BRIDGEToN, N. j., Jan. 19.-By the
advice of City Solicitor Trenchard, the
City Council, last night, refused to re-
fund to the county excise commission
saloon keepers the license moneys for
the time since the commission was de-
posed and the licenses rendered ineffec-
tive. The claims of the saloon keepers
aggregate $4,000. Ex-Assemhlyman
Vansycikel, in their behalf, will at
once bring suit against the city.