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The record-union., 1894-03-19
THREE PEOPLE DROWNED.
Two Women and Child Lose Their
Lives in San Francisco Bay.

Two Women and a Child Lose Their
Lives in San Francisco Bay.
SAN FRANCISCO. March 1S.-Mrs. Mol
lie Martin, wife of saloon-keeper, her
daughter Flora, aged g. and Miss Nellie
Mccarthy, who lived with the Martins,
were drowned in the bay to-day by the
capsizing of yawl. They were out on
pleasure trip with Peter Thornburg,
Swedish sailor. The latter gave the tiller
to Mrs. Martin while he adjusted the
sails. She was inexperienced, threw the
boat too close to the wind, and it turned
over All managed to hold on to the
overturned boat which drifted with the
ebb tide past the British ship Manydown.
Thornberg claims their cries for assist
ance were heard, but the officers refused
to lower boat, throwing out life buoy
instead. The women, exhausted, finally
loosened their holds and sank. Thorn
burg was rescued after being two hours
in the water.
The record-union., 1894-03-19
Races at San Francisco.

SAN FRANCISCO, March 1S.-The races
yesterday resulted as follows:
Peregal won, Jennie Dean second, In
ferno third. Time, 1:l44.
Half-mile, Lady Jane won, Lillian G.
second, silver third. Time, 0:491. This
was half-second faster than the Califor-
MIA record.
Six furlongs, Artist won, Carmel Sec
ond, Normandie third. Time, I:l4
Mile and one-sixteenth, Stronber won,
Blizzard second, Oakland third. Time,
1:4S4.
Steeplechase, short course, Temple
more won, Prince Idle second, Cascade
third. Time, 3:294. Guadalupe and Zam-
post fell at the last jump. but no one was
hurt.
The record-union., 1894-03-19
proclamation of the Commune of ParI

PARIS, March 1s.-Meetings in COM
memoration of the Commune of Paris
were held to-day. There was no disorder.
A large number of persons visited the
Cemetery of Pere La Chaise. There was
no attempt at demonstration.
The record-union., 1894-03-19
The Flag Was Hauled Down.

BAKER CITY (Or), March 1S.-The
hoisting of a long green streamer and the
placing hereunder Of the stars and stripes
yesterday morning by Henry Rust on
the flagstaff in front of his opera-house in
this city, revived the Indignation of a
large number of citizens, and few min
utes thereafter the street in front of the
pole was deGsely packed with an excited
crowd. Rust was visited by Mayor
Palmer, and refused to reverse the posi-
ton of the flags. After a brief council
the Mayor instructed the Chief of Police
to haul down the green streamer. 1t was
done at once and the crowd dispersed.
Rust is an old man.
The record-union., 1894-03-19

Seek a first class newspaper as
Record Union is such a paper.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
NATURAL GRACE.
A Beautiful Quality, But When Assumed
q DetrIment.

A Beautiful Quality, But When Assumed
DetrIment.
Gracefulness, when natural, is very
pretty accompaniment to youth and
beauty in women, but when it is as
sumed, or rather inita ted in an exag
Rerated form by women of mature
years for purposes of coquetry and
Irritation, it becomes most distasteful to
those possessed of any refinement.
Naturally graceful women in this coun-
try are by no means common nowadays.
Indeed, the compression of corsets
and the religious1y tight-fitting
tailor-made gown appear almost in
compatible with gracefulness. Grace
fulness belongs essentially to freedom
and nature, and. as a rule, it is easy to
discover when only acquired. Nice
manners are far preferabl BILE to acquired
gracefulness, which requires a contin-
ual effort to keep up. Doubtless much
Of the grace of the ancient Greek and
Roman women was due to their loose
style of dress, the corset being an un.
known infection of later years. How
ever this may be, certain it is that the
women of to-day do not possess the
gracefulness Of Helen of Troy or Cleo.
patra.-Chicago Post
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24

without wore manifested for a tia. -.
again fell into . doze. He vvaa aroused
by an exclamation from johanna, Who
was still in bed
'sMose" she screamed. 20 Nose!
Somethin a-pullin' of the kiver!'
Nose thrust . pine splinter into tho
embers, and whom it bfazed up he adj
vanced toward the bed Johanna was
on the side furthest from the wall. BY
the faring light they saw q huge ta,vny
paw thrust through q wide chink be-
TWEEN the logs, with its great claws
buried in the ragged quilt. Nose
looked hastily around for some kind of
Though he had been 1T first fright-
ened by the sounds of an uncompre-
hended danger the sight of visible
peril restored his nerve.
keep quiet, Johanna" he cautioned.
''The creatur can't do nothin' yet
awhile
Tho family spinning wheel was still
standing where their mother had Left
it that very morning, after. spinning
the ''fSllin'" of some jeans she intend
ed to weave.
Hardly realizing exactly what he
was doing Nose jerked the long head
post from its socket, with its trans
high, he brought 1t down with all ito
strength. The sharp point of the spin
die was driven through the yellow
paw, far into the log beneath. With q
snarl of pain and anger the beast strovo
to withdraw IT'S foot; but the upper
log. catching the head-post, 1T did not
succeed.
There was a Ratchet lying in the
crack above Nose seized it, and with
frantic strokes drove the spindle fur
ther into the log. At every blow the
animal without growled and whined
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24

Or. stoney'a Theory of Shining the sheIA
from Which Radiation Proceeds.
Theories as to what the sun is, AID
how it manages to supply such a mar
vellous quantity of light and heat, a
very small fraction of which suffices to
keep the earth a living planet, must
always command great interest when
they come from men of high standing
in science. If such theories do not
cover the whole truth, at least they
teach us something that we did not
know, or had not thought of before.
Recently DIR. G. tombstone Stoney has
restated some ideas of his about the sun
which were originally put forth more
than twenty-five years ago. He thinks
that late discoveries have tended to con-
firm his theory.
In his view the philosophers, which
is the shining shell of the sun that we
see, and from which most of its radia
ton proceeds, consists of sooty clouds
raised to temperature of incandes-
cence. These blazing clouds are on an
average two or three hundred miles
broad and several hundred long. Be
tween them is seen a less luminous
background producing the appearance
of pores, familiar to all who have looked
at the sun with a powerful telescope.
This darker background, according
to DR.. Stoney, may be second layer of
heated cloud composed of transparent
material which is capable of scattering
the light that falls upon it, while itself
radiating less abundantly than the
sooty clouds above, SO that it appears
darker by comparison. Or the dark
background may mark a level in the
sun where sudden increase of density
and an abrupt change from the trans
parent atmosphere above to a condition
of opacity beneath take place. This
would present the appearance of the
rejecting surface of a molten ocean.
Such an ocean would also radiate less
abundantly than the clouds above, thus
appearing darker. The dark centers of
sun-spots are, according to the theory.
parts of the same underlying ocean of
inconceivably hot vapor, or liquid,
which yet does not shine rs brilliantly
as the upper clouds.
This idea that the centers of sum
spots. which sometimes appear actually
black, are in fact only dark by COM
parison is not, of course, a new one.
We know, indeed, by experiment that
the darkest part of a sun-spot is really
brighter than a calcium light. Think,
then, of the blazing splendor of the
surrounding solar clouds which are
capable of making so radiant a bright
ness appear black as night!-Youth's
Companion.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
ORIENTAL PHILOSOPHY.

observation-disclosures of Life.
st. Paul's great declaration, ''the
things seen are temporal; the things
ly here by the pious. but regarded as
a mere phrase by the materialists-is
in India q commonplace OF daily GER
tainty. Nobody there doubts the con-
tinuity of life my more than he doubts
that the setting sun will rise again,
the same orb, tomorrow.
I have heard q Mahratta woman,
while Gliding her child for splitting
milk, exclailn: ''You must have been q
very bad girl in your past life!' The
popular reason why Hindoo widows do
not remarry is because the loss of q
betrothed or welded husband is looked
upon as the fatal expiration for some
extreme ofense in a previous existence.
to 4 be borne with patient con-
tinuance in this one; on which
condition the family of the
deceased husband will faithful
ly maintain the widow, as still belong
ing to the dead man, and to be surely
of the heroic though tragical custom of
''Sati," or widow burninR, one of the
grandest dedances ever flung by
human faith and love at the face of the
doctrine of humiliation.
The respect for tho animal world.
ties. is founded. with the tenet of
transmiRration, on the same fixed be-
lief in the endurance and evolving
advance of every individual being. No
spot is empty of life in the Indian
mind. A Deccani or Rengali laborer,
at his meal in the jungle, throws be-
hind him fragments of his chupatty for
the invisible Bhuts and Prets to eat.
In India, as in Japan, festivals (shrad-
dhas) are made for the dead with
scrupulous regularity, at which their
seats are duly set. The east is satur-
ated with the mental and social re-
suits of this universal acceptance OF
the notion that individual life is mex
tinguishahle. A dignified calm spreads
throughout the oriental populations, 4
permanent uninquirinR placidity, no.
ticeable by the most careless or pref
udiced eye.
The wisest Indian philosophy has
never boggled, like ours, over that silly
Supernatural" The Upanishad says:
"What is in the visible exists also in
the invisible, and what is in Brahms
world. that is also here" The
Ultimate, albeit Unreachable, is as
the Bhagavad-Gita Ariuna is acturally
finite. Indeed, it is rather this present
existence which India regards as the
illusion, the Maya. To see the stars
we must wait for night, and to live we
must die. Nor is lit r1ninteresting to
note in Hindoo classics how these large
and happy serenities of oriental view
have softened personificationso of death.
Sir Edwin Arnold, in Longman's
Maya zine.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
THE DINNER TABLE.

Attention to Every Detail Makes the
Whole Attractive.
Everyone can set a table, but every.
one can not set table that is at once
refined, sensible and dainty. AS a rule,
cheap articles are not a good invest
ment, but it is better to have mex
pensive linen and plenty of bright
glass and plated silver on your table
than none at all. The crystal salt
cellar and the silver pepper-box at
each place should be so bright and
shining as to ornament the ia BILE and
delight the eye. Unfortunately flowers
at certain times of the year are ex-
pensive. If you can get a bunch OF
chrysanthemums for twenty-five or
thirty cents it will pay to do it. With
care they last well, and flowers
are always charming addition
to dinner table. inexpensive
china which is not cracked or Clipped
is much more to be admired than wed
ding present" sets that have gone
through long sieges of Mary James
banging-slamming style of dishwash-
ing. Have fancy imitation cut-glass
dishes for olives, celery or pickles. If
you can not afford finer ones, but have
the proper thing for each article Of
food; don't substitute or use make
which should envelop the evening meal
as the most ceremonious one of tho
day. The children should be encour-
aged to dress for dinner, and every dish
should be, sif possible, garnished in
some way-the bread with q frinRed
dolly, the meat with watercress and
parsley, and the fruit with great green
leaves, which give it q fresh, country
look.-Chicago Times.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
nENEsls OF THE STEAMBOAT.

A1&1pnt Craft That FoFoshadowed the
a1odern Greyhounds OF the Sea.
The first steamboat was built by DEN
mis- ,Papin, who navigated it safely
down the Fulda as long ago as 1907.
Unfortunately this pioneer craft was
destroyed by jealous sailors, and even
the very memory of it was lost for
three-quarters of a century. In 1775
Perrier, another Frenchman, built an
experimental steam vessel at Paris
Eight years later. in 1888, Jouffroy took
up the idea that had been evolved by
Papin and Perrier and built q steam
boat which did good service for some
time on the Saone.
The first American to attempt to ap-
ply steam to navigation was John Fitch,
initial experiments in the year 17S5
To what extent Fitch was indebted to
the three illustrious French inventors
named above we are not informed, but
that his models were original there is
not the least doubt. In the first he en-
ployed a largepipe kettle for generating
the steam, the motive power being side
paddles working after the fashion of
oars on a common rowboat In the
the second Fitch craft the same mode
of propulsion YVES adopted, with the
exception that the paddles were made
to initiate a revolving wheel and were
fixed to the stern-clearly foreshadow-
ing the present sternwheeler.
This last mentioned boat was the
first American steam vessel that can be
pronounced success. 1t made its
first trip to Burlington in July, 1888.
But, after all, it was not until after the
opening of the present century that
steam navigation started into actual
life. In sO7 Robert Fulton (1vho every
school child knows was an American),
in conjunction with one Robert r. Liv-
ingston, built the Clermont and estab-
lished regular packet service between
New York and Albany.
The success of this undertaking was
SO satisfactory that four new boats
were huilt before the end of 1911, at
least two of them being designed for
service in other rivers.-St. Louis Re-
public.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
HUMOROUS.

"A plain dinner to-day is better than
banquet next week.-Truth.
The best remedy for self-conceit is
to be well introduced to yourself
Rams Horn.
Your neighbor appears to have
failed n good many times" ..Just
twenty-four times The next will be
his silver bankruptcy" - F1iegende
Blaetter.
How can you be certain that IL
was a. late as two o'clock when Harry
came in last night?" May-Because
he stumbled over a chair without
swearing out loud.
-''Stiggles says he doesn't care for
ublic.prominencea and is content to live
in lit tie world of his own That's
Stiggles all over. INCREASINGLY want
ing the earth. Buffalo Courier.
Postal Clerk-''This letter is too
heavy, Miss; you want to put another
t,vo-cent stamp on it, Miss Innocence
But won't that make it heavier
still?'-Raymond's Monthly.
Young Mani want an engage
ment ring Jeweler-''Yes, sir. About
what size?" Young Mani don't
know exactly, but she can twist me-
around her little finger. Tit Bits.
AT the Sa1on.-''Can you tell me
what that picture represents?' THAT
is Queen Cleopatra. Have you never
heard of her?'' ''Never in my life.
seldom read the papers"
sigeant-
81 wouldn't think marriage would
seem much like lottery to Catch.
many well, l would. He's been
married three times and each time .
fortune" 81 know, but >-ery time he
had to take a wife, too
-'T hear Parker has written .
novel" Yes" "Successful?" Very.
Whole edition sold in two hours. " In
decd! That's fine ''Oh no. His
father-in-law bought it in for his
dauaht er's sal<e.'-Harper's Bazaar.
Mushman-"Do you know that IL L
drink a single glass of that beer it goes
to my head?" Sharp-''Intelligent
beerc'' Mushman-s'Hovv's that?''
Sharp-''Why, it seems to know where
to find the most room."-Yokers Ca
zette.
Mrs. Nuwed-ssI want to confess
something to you, dearest. Ideceived
you about my age; it is more that I
told you.' Mr.. Nuyved-.sThen may
as, we'll reciprocate, darling. de-
ceived you about my incomes it II leo1
than told you. Bazaar.
-Dimling Ceiling his story wan.
sir, when reached the river, tho 1nees
ferry-boat was gone could 50 81
approaching the oppoeite side- % I:
sat down to think IL over. Totaang
with deep uterest) Aud dtd yoa 49,
coed in getting it back by that unet1odls
-Rroolklyn Life: & s ,ssss 3
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24

we'll as anger. The cry up the ravine
again rang out, nearer than before. Its
power and ferocity were quite start
ling The plaintiveness was not per-
ceptib1e except when mellowed by. dis
tance. Nose hastily barred the door.
HIS precaution was timely. for in a
moment more stealthy footsteps were
audible without, acco mpanied by fierce
breathings and q scratching sound
against the logs. The cur dog now
skunk under the bed, his bristles lower
Ing and his whines subsiding into shiv-
ering silence. Nose began to wish that
his mother was at home.
What is it?'' whispered johanna,
who had just walked mp
"Bears-or, mebbe hits a pant'r."
returned Nose. 81 wish we uns had
pap's old rifle"
The animal, whatever 1t was, after
snuffing at the door. circled slowly
round the house, shifting heavily be-
tween the cracks. The FIRE was now a
mere mass of embers. Nose, fearful of
the strength of the walls. crouched in
corner,s his heart beating heavily,
but as the minutes passed, and no
Dther si2ns OF the unknown presence
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
Rosottes In Fashion.

The touches of ribbon added 20
many kinds of fancy work now take tho
form of rosettes. Lnrge rosettes m ade
of loops of wide satin ribbon are seen
on new waste-paper baskets, and
smaller ones on worls-baskets. The
rosettes are often of different colors,
as one of yellow and one of pale pink.
They look like double hollyhocks-
Rosettes not as pretty have half q dozen
different colors in their makeup. For
lace-trimmed pin-cushions and pillows
and shades full pompons are made from
many loops Of baby ribbon.-St. Louis
Republic.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
HOW PAT TOOK THE PLEDGE
Bound Himself Not to Drink and Yet Left
Convenient Loopholes.

Convenient Loopholes.
Pat Cahill and Bridget, his wife,
were two well-lznown characters less
than a score of years ago in Lansing
burg. Both liked a ''>vee DROP at
times. and once in a great while Pat
would come home on Saturday night
decidedly the worse for wear.
This would scandalizc Bridget, but
her solicitude for her husbands habits
cond ition of intoXication as that she
was deprived from anyparticipati ton in
the conviviality.
At last one day came temperance
orator, who made great i'm pression
on the towns-people. The man was
somewhat more liberal in his views
than others who had preceded him,
and if he could not secure a pledge for
total abstinence would compromise
upon some other terms.
Among those who went to hear the
advocate one niS ht was Pat and his
wife. The former appeared much af-
fected by the arguments. and finally
pressed forward from his seat to sign
the pledge. His wife trailed on be-
hind.
Don't be afther making it too
sthrong, Pat" she whispered loud
enough for every one to hear.
Don't tempt me, Biddy,'' he re-
marked as he advanced to the plat
form.
write down there" said he to the
temperance man, that Pat Cahill
will not taste drop of liquor
''Write down there, as I tell YOU"
continued Pat, vavering a bit, ''that
Pat Cahill will not taste drop of
liquor except at christening, a we'd
ding or wake and when he meets a
friend.''
These terms were liberal enough to
satisfy Biddy, and Pat, too, for that
matter, but, strange to say, he ever
afterward boosted of taking the
pledge, but it did not prevent him hav-
ing many glorious spree without
ever olating his terms.-N. Y. Herald.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
PERSONAL AND LITERARY.

The new president elect Of the
Swiss federal council. who takes his
seat without any elaborate ceremony.
is well known to the Swiss colony Of
this country. Not only was he once
Swiss minister to the United States,
but he has relatives in both New York
and Chicago.
Miss Alice Stone Blackwell 10 de.
voting most of her time to the writing
of a biography of her famous mother.
the late Lucy Stone. Miss Blackwell is .
young woman of unusual force and
er's ways and purposes, and greatly In
terested in the cause of woman's SUI
frage.
The will of the late William I.
Coleman, the famous forty-niner-A
sketch of whose career appeared in the
papers not long ago-which has been
filed in San Francisco, shows that the
estate is worth eight hundred thou
sand dollars. With the exception Of
fifty thousand dollars each to his sons,
the testator leaves all his fortnue to
his widow.
Father Kenelm Vaughan, of ED
gland. a Catholic priest who spent
three years in a missionary journey
through South America, from Panama
to Patagonia, addressed the students
of John Hopkins university the other
day on the subject of his adventures
The journey was made on mulebaclk,
on the backs of Indians, in canoes, in
hammocks and on foot.
1T is said that Lady Jeune, who has
written so much on the ICON" side OF
the society question, can seldom stray
beyond the limits of short sentence
without endangering her grammar.
She has written a preface for q new
nately, suffers some of her worst liter
airy shipwrecl<s in trying to express her
appreciation for the work of women
authors and journalists.
The Princess Maud of Wales il
credited with original freak. A
little while ago she slipped away from
state and went to spend week with .
lady to whom she is much attached,
who had been in attendance ON her.
but since married. She preserved =
strict incognito as Miss Wells, and en-
joyed herself amazingly at tennis
tivitics. She was immensely popular.
The ''last will and testam ent'' of
Lord Byron was sold at auction in
London recently for SIS. At the same
sale characteristic letter of Carlyle
to Mrs. Austin brought $40. and a let
ter of Byron to Coleridge S35. A letter
of George Eliot, complaining of the lit
erary criticism of certain persons. was
sold for s25: a letter from Nelson to Sir
William Hamilton for $40, and a num-
her of letters written by American
presidents and statesmen for S125.
Capt. Ben Thompson, of Kenne-
bunkport, Me-, was one hundred years
old recently. The old skipper is living
in the house in which he was born
December 90, 1913. His oldest son il
seventy-one years old and lives with
him. He is erect and vigorous and ut
wrestling at side holds or ''arms'
length his son Evan to-day would be
no match for him. He shaves himself
regularly and during the first fall Of
snow this season he was engaged in
making repairs of tho road in payment
for his county tax. With the exc ep-
ton of extreme deafness all the cap
tain's faculties seem to be intact
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
BIBLICAL.

The other day I was told of a little
girl who attended a distribution OF
prizes given by the society for the pre-
vention of cruelty to animals. She
had won, you must know. book as 3
reward for writing the best essay or
the subject given, and with the other
successful children was undergoing .
viva voce examination.
'well. my DEAR said the gentleman
who had given away the prizes. lean
you tell me why it is cruel to dock
horses tails and trim dogs ears?"
Because answered the little girl.
what God has joined together let nc
man put asunder. Hour.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24
Millinery Shop Superstition.

The only remarkable superstition in
the millinery business is the suspicion
that gives the little black pin dignity.
With the exception of women in
mourning, customers would. rather go
uupinned than use black pin to
fasten a veil or a bonnet string. Black
pins are always to be found in the
cushions of fashionable shops, but so
strong is the aversion to them that
many women will refuse to take goods
that have been ordered if by any ac-
cident the ominous pin gets into loop
or rosette.-N. Y. World.
The Lafayette gazette. [volume] (Lafayette, La.) 1893-1921, 1894-02-24

Literally True. - your husband
comes home very late, doesn't he?''
asked n prying woman Of her neighbor.
ooh, no. ma.am, he's always in very
early" was the misleadiDG answer
Detroit Free Presa