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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18
EXCEPTION rOR DEAN or BhRNARD coLLEGE

An official reception was held yesterday afternoon
nv President and Mrs. Seth Low at their nome
70 20 East Sixty fourth-st, In honor OF Miss
Emily lanes Smith. the recently appointed dean
OF Barnard College which pracucahy' was her
first introduction In Ncw-forh' He'e'"' hu"'re"
asors were present during the hours OF the re-
Io,,,on Mrs Low received her guests In hand
some gown of golden brown satin. combined with
ivory and pink brocade Miss smith was 6eaat
With mos x velvet AMI white chiffon.
~ carried n bouquet OF g.adioli; The drawing
rooms decorated with giaoioh ~"a e"iysan-
themunls.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18
MARRIED.

n,.,pur p,rrEy-On November 10. at st. Lukes
~ t.i.i rn-N,na Wash by the Rev Preston Barr,
tia1a cr1ig laughter ~ the late Melbourne BAILEY
!, phfiadenha and William Vermiye BurriH OF New
York.
LYONS O'MEARA-On Wednesday. November IL; al -.
francis Xaver's church Brooklyn. By the KEY ra.eI
iI,~kev ia Veronica . Meara daughter OF Maurice
O'Meara l., William Thomas Lyons
Notices of marriages must be indorsed VIII"
full name and address.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18
5pefial Notices.
Fifth Avenue Art Galleries,
1865 Fifth Ave. near Bath st.
FREE VIEW DAY AND NIGHT.

ANTIQUITIES
DIRECT FROM CHINA:
Beautiful Blue and White Porceains.
Superb Single Color Vases.
Specimens Of Jade, Agate, Amethyst. and Amber.
Sung Yuar. Ming. Kanshe Keenung. and other perieo
represented.
SECOND SECTION OF THE COLLECTION
FORMED BY
A. S. FOBES, ESQ,
OF SHANGHAI
TO BE SOLD BY AUCTION
THURSDAY, FRIDAY AND SATURDAY
AFTERNOONS,
Nov 22d. 3d. and oath. at o'clock prompt.
ROBERT sOMERVILLE. ORTGIES ca
Auctioaeer Managers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18
Mr. EAfNES md THE PO0L BILL

NE VOTED WITH THE DEMOCRATS TO Lh"N''~f
GAMBLING.
rron The Mail and Express ,,.,,
Long John" Ranes whose deciding nnmocrats,
$40 ioined those OF sixteen mn, the
Senate Irinuitous Ives Pool law. Is now W., w
Pad,r candidate Tor the vacant e
XXEitn LIS That dIsgraceful law is now nanny
snnned BY new GonS''p ps.arn s to- the
hardy SIN who IL Responsible lor tnc WV
ne one ne hss wrought In the last eight years
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18

SOZODONT heads the list OF these;
II cannot be o'erthrown,
For teeth and gums and breath II stanos
Unrivalled and alone.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18
No AZ Beaver Street,

New-York. November 18th. 1874
Mr. Charles 8 Osborn retires firm on this da'e
Tn. business will be continued by the remaining mem-
hers Of the frm who have acquired his interest
JOHN OSBORN. SON e. CO.
De Pinna's suits for boys. p. TO IL years ,iddS
suits for Dancing School English Sailors. EtoA slooy'
cntawav and Tuxedos Stylish -Overcoas and Reefe,H
Great mains taken TO clothes becoming 70 tne
BOY Ladies patronzet us VIII De n,ue"
pleased with trial order DE PIMA. 3oi Fiftn-a'e''
MA
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18
A Precious Gift Destroyed.

Fine teeth among the most precious gifts OF Natue
But is easy to mar them and that beyond redempton
with any one OF the abrasive and corrosive
sen,ifrces sold sOZODoNT is only reliable tooth
preseryative
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18
Religions Notices.

ALL SOULS CHURCH. Madson-aye. and 68th-S.-
Rev. r. HEBER NEWTON will preach at II a. n
Evens0ng 1880 ..
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18

A SERVICE PARTICIPATED IN BY MORE THAN
900 Of singing and reci,aons IS heid
every sunday afternoon 800 to which the pubic
is invited In the Five Points Hon OF Industry, I'D
Worth-s Donations Of clothing and shoes solicited
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18

When you read in every paper
OF the worth of this or that.
Don't think that every word Is true.
And paste them in your hat"
The chances are It's all lie;
But that which time and change
Have left still young and altered not.
They'll never disarrange.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-11-18

AT SOUTH REFORMED CHURCH Madson-ave. cor.
ssth-st Rev. RODERICK TERRY n. d., Pastor.-Ser.
vices sunday at II and The Pastor will preach
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

tim snake-like coils made Of some NAL
leable metal, in use so arranged that
the arms Of the prisoner are thrust into
one set. After these are adjusted boil
ing water Is poured into them through
the mouths of the serpents, causing the
flesh Of the victim to burn and blister
In a horrible manner. This mode of
punishment Is almost exclusively used
on state prisoners. In the suspending
punishment the prisoner is either sus-
pended on a horizontal bar by one
hand and one foot or else by the
hands tied together at the back, and
also the feet. In either of these posi-
tons the pain, when the torture is
long continued, is so great that the vic
tim loses consciousness. Both hands
and the feet are frequently dislocated
in this manner.
The form Of torture known as fin
ger-squeezing is usually employed by
magistrates to extort confessions
The fingers on each hand of the pris-
oner are fixed between rods so ar
ranged that by pulling cord the fin
gers are squeezed between them. The
more the cord is pulled the tighter the
fingers are squeezed. So dreadful is
the pain caused by this torture that
after short time almost invariably
the prisoner is willing to confess al.
most anything his accuser desires.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

Miss Agnes Jones, Of Oklahoma, is
"the fittest," and that's how 1t happens
that she survives. She was better
shot than Sam Bartell, though he, be-
ing fourteen years older, must have
had more experience. She was not only
q better shot in the sense of accuracy,
but also in that Of readiness. Seeing
that the case had to be settled In that
way, Agnes fired without loss of time.
and when Sam at last fired the case had
gone against him. Agnes, 1t appears,
had a homestead in the Cherokee Strip
and a house on it, and she locked up
and went away, just as the Dusants
did, and Sam came along while she was
away and occupied her house. Upon
her return he brutally refused to leave.
Ordinarily this would have been a case
of the woman victim and the arrogant.
brutal, domineering man. But Agnes
knew the law, and fired promptly. In
presence of this new kind of woman
man will be improved by having his
attention called to the wisdom of be-
ing fair to women as well as to other
men.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

"Why did he dieY as howled dole
fully in one of Boucicaults plays, has
become comic type of the wall of be-
reavement; but in the case of the Car,
it is only legitimate inquiry. Did he
die because he had cancer or because
of the ordinary results of Bright's dis
ease? AS the cause was evidently suf-
ficient, whatever it was, curiosity may
be regarded as superfuous. And yet 1t
is of great interest with regard to re-
naming members of the same family.
If cancer is to be added to the other ills
Of life that Gar has to face, Gar
maybe would like to know 1t, and rs
they have had post norton, DR.. Ley
den can tell. But it is announced that
the results Of the post norton will not
be made public. 1t might not be pleas
ant all around to make it. certain that
cancer is an heirloom in the royal fam
lily; but if they have certain evidence
that there is no cancer, that ought to be
pleasant. Perhaps, therefore. the de-
cision against publicity means that
they have found cancer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

honorable the Supreme Court Of the
United States are admonished to draw
near and give attention, as the court Is
about to assemble. God bless the Unit
ed States and this honorable courtw
When the gavel first falls all those
within the bar of justice rise and re-
main standing until the justices, at a
signal from the chief justice, take their
seats. AS they sit down they bow to
the attorney general and the members
of the bar.
The black robes which 1t has become
the custom for the judges to wear
though why no one knows, for there
Is no law on the subject-have been
made by one woman for the last fifty
years. They cost the enormous price
Of 500. The justice wears his robe
only when the Supreme Court, as a
body, Is participating in some official
ceremony. He may go gowned to a
funeral, if 1t is an official funeral. He
wears it at the inauguration of a
President; but ordinarily he puts 1t on
in the robing-room in the morning and
takes it off in the robing-room at dusk.
He does not wear it even in the con-
sulting room; so there Is very little
wear and tear on 1t, and one robe will
outwear several suits of clothing.
Serving in the Supreme Court seems
conducive to longevity. Several JUS
tees have had terms of over thirty
years. The Oldest now on the bench
is Mr.. Field, who has already served
81 years, and hopes to make it "a,
which will equal Chief Justice Mar
shalls term, the longest on record.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29
Tote" Not a Negro Wcrd.

In nothing is the student of Amer
lean folk-speech so liable to error as
In assigning geographical limits TO a
word or phrase. The English local
dialects were pretty thoroughly
mixed. One gained a little more
dominance in one place, another in
another, but stray provincial term
is prone to turn up in places the most
unexpected. "Tote" has long been
regarded as word of African origin,
confined to certain regions where me-
groes abound. A few years ago Mr..
@. A. Stephens, in story, mentioned
an "old tote road" in Maine. wrote
to inquire, and he told me that GER
tain old portage roads, now aban-
doned, bore that name.
/ find the word used in "Remon-
STRANGE" from the people of Gloucester
County, Va, preserved In the Public
Record Office in London. This paper
bears date 1877, when there we're
four times as many white bond SER
wants as negroes in Virginia. Tote"
appears TO have been a well-under-
stood English word in the seventeenth
century. 1t meant then, as now, to
bear Burlesqne writer's who repre-
sent a negro as "toting a horse to
water" betray their ignorance. In
Virginia English che negro carries"
the hoIse TO water by making the
horse tote" him. The Century.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

The most dignified Of all our Govern
ment institutions is the Supreme Court,
which holds its sessions in Washington.
1t Is composed Of elderly men who are
very solemn and never in n hurry, and
who are as slow in their various pro-
ceedings as they can very well be. The
courts business, indeed, Is several
years behind, and there seems no like
lihOod that it will ever manage to
catch up to the present. Each justice
receives salary of $4,000 year, but
still their job can't be exactly called an
easy one. They are In court six days In
the week for four hours, and the out
side preparation Of their opinions re-
quires an immense expenditure of
time.
The court assemblies each day at noon,
and after putting on its black silk robes
marches in procession into the court
"oom. There is a theatrical touch to
The entrance. The black-robed figures
glide mysteriously behind the pillars,
and then, as though at prompter's sig
nal, appear at the spaces between the
pillars and move to their places. These
places are fixed, and If you know the
order which is invariably followed in
assigning them you can answer with
out hesitation any question as to the
chronological order of the associate
justices. The chief justice, of course,
sits in the middle.
When the justices enter the court
crier raps three times and says in a
sing-song tone: "Oyez, oyez, oyez!
All persons having business before the
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

Jailers-by magistrates for the purpose
Of eliciting confession of guilt, and by
jailers In order to extort money from
the prisoners. The methods of illegal
torture are numerous, and the pain
caused by them is often excruciating.
Many Of them receive their specific
names from the implement or appa-
ratus employed in the infection of
the torture. ~,
In the form known as the "cage" pun
ishment the offender is placed in n
cage, his head protruding through an
opening in the top, and the cage is so
adjusted as to allow the tips of his
toes only to touch the ground. The vic
tim is either obliged to stand thus or
be hung by the neck if he attempts to-
change his position. To stand long on
tiptoe is almost impossible, and the
wretched offender is thus made to suf-
fer intense pain. Persons are known
to have been placed in such cage in
public place and kept there until
death has come to their relief.
The 'snake" punishment consists in
twining around the body Of the vic
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29
70 Murders Every Week.


Two Murders Every Week.
During the past eighteen months
there has been an average of murder
q week, while of murderous assaults
with deadly weapons, many OF which
terminated fatally, the average has
been two or three week. And yet,
during all that time, there have been
only two convictions OF murder in the
first degree, and neither OF these was
Pole, a Slav or an Italian. There is
no longer any hope in police protec.
tion. The officers of the law, in fact,
have been literally paralyzed by the
rising tide of murder which has swept
over the region. Tens of thousands Of
dollars and weeks and months of time
have been spent in Efforts to bring just
very few of these red-handed butch
ers to justice, and yet not in two years
has one of them been hanged. 1t is
true that a few have been lodged in
the Ienitentiary, the notorious MUTT
gang of Italian assassins being a con-
spicuous instance of last years work
But where ten are caught and pun
ished, ninety are never eten appre-
hended. While probably there is no
re guar organization of murderers,
like the Mollie Maguires, the Mollies
themselves never worked more yea =
ously or more cunningly to conceal
their murderers and suppress all evil
dences of their crimes
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29
A Saw roota In "a rnroat.

In Texas sawmill recently one OF
the inserted tooth saws began shedding
It's teeth The saw was not stopped to
investigate matters, but the men simply
stood upon one side and let 1t shed.
Presently one of them was knocked
Town, with severe cut in the neck.
lie went to drug store and had the
wound dressed and kept on with his
work. A week or so after he had some
difficulty in swallowing, and doctor
70 whohi he applied said he thought
here was some hard substance in his
aeca. Upon looking further and lane
ng he discovered one of the saw teeth.
It was about the size of silver dollar
md weighed rs much, but a little thing
ike that does not matter in Texas
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

Every function has its own proper
sphere and natural limit, and can do it's
best work only within that sphere and
those limits. Nothing is gained, but
much lost, by encroachment. Whether
we have but q minute, day, a week,
or a month given us for decision, the
mind will act more vigorously, more
successfully If it be compelled to finish
its own work in its own time. Even
though no light seems to be shed upon
the subject, and when the time for ac-
ton has arrived, it is better to act than
to delay. The mistakes thus made will
be the best lessons for the future, and
the mind will thus be trained tc greater
swiftness and vigilance.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

eIendIsh Crusltaes 20 whieh Chinsss Psls-
onsn Are Subjected.
II the war between the Chinese and
Japanese should result In the success
Of the latter 1t is not unlikely that q
few reforms In China's government
may follow, as the japanese are rapid,
ly taking front rank among the edu-;
Gated and enlightened nations. One
Of the first results of such enforced
civilization would probably be the abo-
lition Of the Chinese system of torture.
The punishments now imposed ON
the Mongolian criminal or culprit in
China by Cinnamon exceed In cruelty,
not TO say barbarity, those of any other
civilized nation. The fact that such
cruelties are often inflicted for insig-
nificant crimes, or perhaps merely to
crafty the malice or within Of cap
tious mandarin, makes them doubly
heinous.
Modes of torture and punishment
In the celestial empire are of two kinds
legal and illegal. The latter are FREE
quently practiced by magistrates and
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

sort to any device to get dead or
dying man off their hands without ex-
pense.
But it is not so much their aborig-
inal ideas touching the decencies of
life, their filth and their bestial habits
which have made these wretched peo-
pie more and more abominable in the
eyes OF communities on which they
have been implanted like social ulcers.
In these respects, it is true, the Dig
ger Indians would figure to advantage
by comparison. But it is their Grim
inal pro ensities, their murderous
savagery. which have been steadily
growing, until they have seriously
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29
Stealing Electricity.

At recent meeting of the Board
of Electrical Control in New York, a
new device for evading the law as tc
overhead wires was reported by the
Secretary. 1t appears that during
the last few weeks wires have been
strung across Broadway and some
other down town streets without
permission of the Board, and it was
only with difficulty that they were
discovered. The offenders had Sc
cured fine wires, in some cases COW
cred with green silk, so that they
wero almost invisible against the
sky. Six specimens were shown tc
the Board. Although the owners oil
the wires could not be found in all
cases, some OF the wires were traced
to offices. Commissioner Storm was
empowered to consult tho District
Attorney as to the means of punish.
ing the offenders. IL Atlanta Consti'
tuition.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

d.. Miller, q retired Ashland Ohio
merchant and railroad protector, died
on his farm recently and left $500 in
order to secure Ingersoll to preach his
funeral sermon. This is money thrown
away. All that Mr.. Ingersoll has to say
on this subject he has said already. He
has already declared that after death
he is not certain whether he shall find
"a closed wall or an open door" SO far
as is known he has had no additional
information since he made that declar-
alton. His views were clearly set forth
on the occasion of his brothers death.
He has not gone any deeper into the
subject since that time. He has no
more authoritative information about
the other world now than he had then,
and he never will have any more. AS a
matter of economy, therefore, 1t would
have been much more sensible IL the
late Mr.. Miller had spent cents for the
little pamphlet which contains Mr.. In
gersolrs views and had nailed 1t up on
his barn where all passers-by could
read It, or had 1t posted up In the room
where his corpse was resting so thathis
friends could see 1t, and given the $500
to his heirs, who would have made as
good a use of 1t as Mr.. Ingersoll. The
late Mr.. Miller was not thrifty or a
sensible farmer.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

The petrified forests of Arizona are
Mt least 1000 acres in extent. They are
described as resembling IAN immense
logging camp, with huge trunks thrown
about" The largest Of these trunks
are ten feet in diameter, and, where
they have been broken by the action Of
the weather or by human agency, they
form "a mosaic of carnelian, agate, jas
per, topaz, onyx and amethyst" Much
of the petrified wood Is shipped away,
to be powdered as a substitute for
emery, and the preservation of these
unique forests by the Government is
called for
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

1t must be with wondrous thankful
ness that fond mothers read of the
grand work science is doing for the
lives of the little ones. Diphtheria and
Group are words of awful significance
in the maternal mind. And now science
brings the grateful news that success
full treatment has been discovered for
both the dreadful ailments. What does
the fame Of generals and potentates
amount 10 compared with the re-
searches of scientists who find the
means Of saving precious lives?
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29
A Poor Opinion Of Horse Sense.

The mental peculiarities Of the
horse, writes Professor Shaler in
Scribner, are much less character
istic than it's physical. It's, indeed
the common opinion, among those
who do not know the animal well,
that it is endowed with much sa.
gacity, but no experienced and care
full observer is likely to maintain this
opinion. All such students find
the intelligence Of the horse to be
very limited. Although some part
of this mental defect in the horse,
causing it's actions to be widely con
trasted with those Of the dog, may be
due to lack of deliberate training
and to breeding with reference to in.
tellectual accomplishment, we see
by comparing the creature with the
elephant. which practically has never
been bred in captivity, that the
equine mind is, from the point Of
view Of nationality, very feeble.
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29
Barbnrians in America.

Tho people OF the anthracite coal
counties OF Pennsylvania--LuZ
Carbon, / ackawanna and Schuylkill-
make up such an chronological crazy
quilt as hardly can be matched in any
district of corresponding size in the
world, says Wilkesbarre correspond
ent. Arabs, Turks, Greeks, Slavs,
Poles, Italians, negroes, Germans,
French, English, Irish, Scotch, Yam
KEGS bewildering composite of race,
color and creed are all crowded 20
gether in little territory as small as
many OF the continental principalities.
The confusion of tongues heard on a
Saturday nj hit on the streets of any
mining town OF the counties mentioned
is ike what a con- ersa lone might
have been at the base of the Tower of
Babel.
In the actual work OF mining the
Slavs, Poles and Italians are princi-
Ia ly engaged. With the downfall of
that organization OF murdcrou5 scoun-
drels, known as the Mollie Maguires.
came a series OF changes which event
ually resulted in the supplanting OF
Irish Welsh and Scotch labor in the
mines. Naturally it was from the very
lowest strata of society in these Euro
pean C untries that the ranks of the
new stock of miners were recruited.
When wretch had committed such
deeds of villainy that even the recesses
OF the Sicilian and Calabrian mountains
ceased to lie refuge for him, he ma !e
his way owe the seas and found n safe
haven in the anthracite region OF
Pennsylvania, screened and guarded
by his fellow-c untrymen. 1t was not
all done in day, but the era OF cut
threat terrorism and high wage:
opened by men Of knglish-speaking
races has at la absolutely given way
to an era which might almost be called
one of human vermin and low wages.
Live o. Filth and Nermin.
Human vermin hardly seems toe
strong term to ono who takes even a
cursory view Of the manner in which
they exist. An Italian b arding shanty
along the lines of railroads or that OF
the Croton viaduct in New York while
it was in course OF construction was
bad enough: but an Italian boarding
house of that variety is luxuriors COM
rared with one in the mountains. here,
such as the miners live in. The stories
told of the filth, the vice, the bruta ity
in these stews by those who have been
familiar with them for years are al
Crawford avalanche. (Grayling, Mich.) 1879-19??, 1894-11-29

Nature never gives to living thing
capacities not particularly meant for
itr benefit and use. If nature gives to
us capacities to believe that we have n
Creator whom we never saw, of whom
we have no direct poof, who is kind
and good and tender beyond all we
know of kindness and goodness and
tenderness on earth, 1t is because the
endowment Of capacities to. conceive
such a Being must be for our benefit
and use; it would not be for our benefit
and use if ii were n lie.