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Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
Nor A MERL EIauaEnEAp,
Victoria Said to Take sn Active and Hen
 eficent Part in Public Affairs,

Victoria Said to rake sn Active and Hen
 eIioent Part in Public Affairs.
 A corner of the veil which screens the inner life of royalty from the com mon gaze was raised the other day by Mir Rentoul, Nj. F., at meeting of la dies in support of the women's suffrage movement, says the Westminster Ga 2ette. MT. Rentoul said his idea had always been that the queen was a merely ornamental sort of parsonage, who signed such documents as were submitted by her ministers, and wns restrained from doing any harm ty constitutional safeguards, He had, however, recently made the acquaint- ance of two lords in waiting, who have been in attendance on her ma ajesty for ,aany years, and the information he had obtained from this source had com pletcly altered his views as to the in tluence exercised by the queen in mat ters of domestic and foreign policy. iie had learned that she is proficient in
 even European languages, and that
 he has during the last four or five
 ears completely mastered EIindus- lanee, in which she converses with great correctness and fiuency with any of her Indian subjects who are pre- ented at court. Her majesty frequent y writes to every important sovereign in Europe, and her influence on the ,ide of peace is said to have been very beneficial, her knowledge of foreign af- fairs being most intimate and accurate At several critical stages in the rela- tions between European nations the queens personal influence has been suc- cessfully eXerted to prevent war. It is even alleged in court circles that her majesty would have been able to pre- vent the Franco-Prussian war if Emperor Louis Napoleon had not pre- cipitated hostilities on the Rhine be- fore any opportunity was afforded for mediation
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
SAVING TIMBER IN Mlsslsslppl
Stringent state Laws for the Preservation of Forests from Extinction.

Stringent state Laws for the Preservation
 of Forests from Extinction.
 Timber depredations, according to the New York Evening Post, have been stopped practically in Mississippi by a law which punishes offenders severely There are large areas of forest land there belonging either to the United States government or to the state, and the temptation to settlers in remote regions to enter upon them and help themselves to wood was often toc strong to be resisted. When drive from federal land by deputy Unitya States marshals, the timber thievt found refuge in the state forest which were not 80 well policed, and b, moving from the one territory to the other they contived to escape arrest. The federal officers finally became SO vigilant that timber stealing proved a dangerous business, and the thieves transferred all their operations to the state lands The legislature thereupon passed the law referred to, and it has improved Che morals of the people so much that some districts which former ly were the scene of wholesale depre- datlons arc now almost free from the raids of poaching woodmen. The stat ate imposes a fine of two dollars per acre for each acre in every forty-aere sub-disision of land upon which any srespass is committed. For the pro- lection of private owners it also pro yides that for every tree cut down without their consent fine of five dol lars shall be paid.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
Awed by a GIass Eve.

One of the many superstitious fears that render the laborers from sunny Italy so generally docile was recently taken advantage of by shrewd Irish foreman employed on public job. There was misunderstanding likely to result in a general strike, and he as- sembled the men together, listening patiently to their statement of griey- snces. When they concluded, he called to his side the boolSkeeper of the con tractor, man with penetrating dark eyes, one of them quite still because it was artificial The foreman stated with emphasis, the only terms upon which he would compromise, and the booklteeper kept his ''evil eye" fixed on the crowd. The terms were ac- cepted without a murmur, and the crowd hastily dispersed The book keeper was entirely unconscious of per forming any part in determining the cOntrOyerSv
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
The Chinese Sailor.

The Chinese sailor is not lover of dis cipline. He prefers perfect freedom, especially when the question of leave is concerned When Capt Lang had charge of the Chinese navy he discov- cred this weakness, and it gave him a considerable amount of trouble. He found ordinary methods of enforcing regularity utterly useless. Officers and men alike showed total indifference to his orders where leave of absence was concerned. Following the example of the emperor of Germany, he deter mined on a series of surprise visits, and on one of these occasions he found that many of the officers and men were on shore without leave. Determined to enforce discipline at any cost, he or dered all the delinquents to be placed under arrest when they returned. This was too much for the easy-going China men. That night every man jumped overheard and went home, utterly dis gusted with the service.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
CROPS.


 RUssIA'srye cropis 539, 900, 600 bushels.
 THE Kansas wheat crop is 7o,s31, ,OO0 bushels
 1uE total hog slaughter last year was 1s, 106, 530.
 INDIA has 27,000, GOO acres in rice, is,- 100000 in wheat, 75,000,0OO in other food grains, 100000 in sugar cane, 25toO0 in tea, 10.oo0 900 in cotton, l, o00,OOo in indigo, 300, 900 in tobacco.
 FRoM a bushel of corn a dealer gets four gallons of whisky, which retails for SIG. Of this the government gets S3G0, the retailer S7, the distiller S4, the railroads si and the farmer who raised the corn 40 cents.
 IT is estimated that Florida's crop of pineapples this year will aggregate 50OO0 crates, or fplly 2,3O0,0o0 pineap. ples The growers have been doing so well financially that the acreage set to pines is increasing very rapidly and it is expected that the crop of 1895 will amount to 100000 crates.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
Saturday November 3, 1894.
nAnY WAs MrLL pAP-NzeO.
stoiea fot tfe Purpose l,y Pioga Iiat pr.

 stoioa for the Purpose by Pioys But Pil.
 fetinE Guntenai, panWstics
 A San Franciseau travcibig through Central America with hij wife and young babe, rented furnished apart nentsin Guatemalaa and eugagcda 8 serv- ant Go set as nurse and general house. maid, says the San Francisco Argonaut She had been in their service less than a week when she inquired of the father II tho babe was baptized. He replied in the negative, whereupon she insisted that the child, girl, would be forever lost Within six weeks he had tried tour consecutive servants, but found that each one would pilfer small arti cles, and finally determined to get along without any help. One after noon, while sauntering lazily through the pSlza, he was accosted by servant No. l, who asked if the babe was yet baptized. "No,n replied the father
 Still unbaptizedn Well, she an- swered it is all right, as l stole her away one sunday, and the good padre baptized her, calling her Maria, so her soul will be savedn ''As it cannot Aurt her, and may help her, I am satis- fed, thought the parent and so dis missed the subject from his mind. The next day servant No. 2, with new charge bundled in the linen swath on her back, approached him at the mar Ike: place with the oft-repeated query; Did gou have the baby baptized2n and to his reply of No" she consoled him by explaining that she had taken tho little one to the cathedral and had it named Catarina, so her soul was saved a second time. Somewhat amused, the father hunted up and in- terviewed the succeeding servants, and discovered that the babe had been stolen to the church by each of them and quietly baptized Consequently the name ran Maria Catarina Margarita Cruz Eloisa Bcfugio, besides that Of Emily given by the parents,
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
oOrpaANK PRINCE elsMARcK.
A Frenehsnan Whose Head Was stronger

A French htnan Whose Head Was stronger
 Than the German Had Supposed.
 The orators of the French chamber of deputies are in the habit of slipping as they speak some sort of beverage which varies according to the tempera- ment of each one, says Harper's Week. ly, NJ. Floquet used to drink tepid sirup; M Ribot takes sweetened oof- fee; NJ Rouvier, seltzer water with lemon; M, de Nun, pure water; Nj. De- roulede, brandy. NJ, de Freyeinet and M. Constant never drink anything while speaking. M. Ponyer-Quertier, who was finance minister at the time of the national assembly and who pre- ferred the juice of the grape to every other beverage. drank Bordeaux wine in almost any quantity; he has been known to speak for three hours and to absorb eleven glasses of his favorite wine without the slightest inconven- fence. It was NJ. PouyeI-Quertier who settled with Prince Bismarck the con ditions for the payment of the five bil lion francs which France, after the war, had to pay over to Germany. The story is told that one day while the two plenipotentiaries were discussing at table the details of those conditions Prince Bismarck conceived the idea of trying to make M PouyerQuertier drink too much. The latter had scarcely emptied his glass when the prince replenished it, and the French plenipotentiary tossed it off immedi- ately. Prince Bismarck however, had to keep up with him and drink in his turn, so that after an hour the great chancellor felt his head grow rather heavy. He gave up the bout and said to M Pouyer-Quertier: q see that the wine has no great effect upon you.n '0h" replied the other, who had no- ticed BismarclS's attempt to fuddle him: II can absorb almost any quantity; can even swallow the glass itself. " And suiting the action to the word he ground Prince Bismarck's crystal glass between his teeth without even cutting his lipg
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
ON A CHERRY STONE.
A Talented Convict Carven His Petition
 for Pardon.

4 Talented Convict Carves His Petition
 for n Pardon.
 Gesa Berger, the actor and news paper man, has a picture in caligraphy that has a remarkable history. It is in size thirty by forty-tvo inches, and is She work of Joseph Loew, the most noted counterfeiter that the Austrian government ever knew
 When an application is made for 8 pardon in Austria the red tape policy of that country compsls the applicant to address the emperor with all his titles. Emperor Ferdinand had about forty titles. Loew engraved all of these names, together with his petition for pardon, on cherry stone.
 The letters were so fine that it re- quired the aid of powerful micro scope to decipher them. One day when the emperor visited the prison Loew in person presented a cherry stone to the emperor and told him what it contained. The emperor made an examination and was so amazed at the work that he gave him an uncon ditional pardon. Not only did he par don him, but gave him position as a detective Co trail down counterfeiters. Loew was well-informed man in all the arts and rascalities of counterfeit CTS, and in less than two years after his pardon he ran to earth almost every counteifeiter in Austria, and died a few years ago covered with detective honors, The picture, although made fifty years ago, is in a remarkable state of preservation
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
Hindu oeoupatlons.

The Hindus are curiously frank in specifying their occupations for the census reports, Among the accounts many of them give of their trades they designate themselves as debtors, living on loans, men of secret resources
 -or plainly thieves, village thieves or robbers. Others more modestly call themselves guests, visitors, story-tellers from house to house, dependents on relatives, supported by their son-in- law, or idlers; and one is without work because he is silly. Among the more serious occupations are declarer of oracles, cleaner of eyes, sorcerer, fore teller of storms and hail, player of the tomtom, or player, barber, doctor ac- cording to the Greek method, servant of a candidate, marriage broker of young domestics, marriage broker of his own daughters for money, etc.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
LORE OF rHE wooDpEckeR.
someaQuaint Notions Entertained in An-
 eiont Times RapnrdIng fhn I,ird

sOmesQuaiut Notions Entertained in An-
 eient Times Regarding tho Bird.
 The beliefs and convictions that con stitute the folklore of the woodpecller, or sapsucller, as it is sometimes CT roneoualy called--for it's boisterous op- erations occur solely in quest of in sects that lie concealed beneath the bark, and are never injurious to the trees--are, in fact, very many and va. ried, and many of them can be traced back to Q somewhat more venerable an tiquity than is usual in such matters. Probably, says an English journal, every one remembers having read or heard, at one time or another, the story of the transformation of the pagan god Pieus, the son of Saturnus. to the woodpeckcr by the witch god deas, Gree, in revenge for his coldness and nourequital of heY love- The tale of itself is of little importance, and is but one of the countless fairy legends that compose the lesser and and extremely poetic mythologies of the Greeks and Romans. But 1t hap oily serves the purpose of illustrating NA+- NNtAAfSSeA1AA tiAeN1 NFANAelAAlA GAAoNGNA in the Roman nind between birds and the supernatural and the unknown in general, And it would seem that tue relation in different forms was almost universal in ancient times, for the image of rhc bird which was used by the Romans to represent the perse- cUted deity already mentioned after whom the family is named incident ally, in ornithology and by the aug urs and priests of the city as sort of symbol in foreteIing coming events, abounds in many of the marvellous and complicated sculptures and carvings of Central America and peru, and has even been found in some of the South Sea islands ahd other parts of the world in the form of wooden charms and feticbes
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
LONG MATRIMONIAL CAREER.
4 Couple in Hungary Celebrate Their
 Hnnhredth AnnirersarY.

4 Couple in Hungary Celebrate Their
 Hnndredtb Anniversary
 We have al heard of tin weddings, celebrated after ten years of marriage; of crystal weddings, after fifteen years; of china weddings. afier twenty; of sil- yer weddings, after twenty-five; of gold, after fifty, and of diamond, after seventy-five, or, as some folks celebrate its after sixty years, says the philadel- phia Press But the scale of eelebra- ton does not seem to extend anS fur ther, and one wonders what precious thing would be selected to give its name to a wedding recently celebratd in Hungary--the one hundredth ami versary of the marriage of Szarthmary and his wife
 This appears to be a circumstanc,s which is entirely impossible But thi, marriage of this aged pair is duly and officially recorded as having taken place in May l704, at which time, ac- cording to the record, they were of mar riageable age. As in Hungary, at that time, a bridegroom must have reached the age of twenty and the bride that of fifteen, the pair must now be at least one hundred and twenty and one hum dred and fifteen years respeeuvely
 The one hundredth anniversary was celebrated at the town of Zsombolyi in the town of Banat, which has for long time allowed the venerable couple a pension in recognition of their great age and fidelity Co each other.
 Even the oldest residents of Zsom- bolyi have no other recollection of Jean Szarthmary and his wife than as old people. No one relation of either survives Their century of welded life is so well and officially attested that many notablcs and Hungarian of- fcials attended the anniversary eelc- bration and gave them many presents.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
sToRlEs oF NAPoLEoN.
With An ills Opportunities He Left the
 Throne a PRuper,

Throne P9uper,
 No man in the history of the world ever had such vast and varied opportu- mites for piling up personal fortune as those which fell to the lot of Napo- leon Bopaparte. Yet on the first ab- dication, when the allies robbed him of his wife and child and sent him to Elba he left the throne of the most powerful nation in Europe almost a pauper, says the New York Recorder
 The imperial treasures had been kept at Orleans. After the abdi- cation the provisional government, under the influence of Talleyraud, the most notorious self-seeker in these treasures than about the future of the nation, A decree of practical con hscation was drawn up and force of men under M Dudon was sent from Paris to Orleans to seize on everything that could be found.
 Napoleons personal treasury had at one time contained about il4, ,00O, 900 francs, Of this amount more than 100000, 900 francs had been used to equip the army of France for its final struggle with mouarchial Europe The
 mnant was seIzed as per programme by Talleyrand's minions. They took 100000 francs in gold and silver coin, 100000 francs in gold and silver plate, perhaps iOo,OOO francs worth of snuf boxes and rings, a good part of Napo- leou's wardrobe, and even his embroid- cred pocket handkerohiefs. There wasn't anything modest about NJ. Tal- leyrand. The Russian officers refused to interfere with this pillage, although appealed to,
 The loss of this money only ocea- stoned a moment of irritation to Napo- leon. The loss of his wife and child made him like caged lion at Elba, and, in his opinion, fully justified his dramatic return to France.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03

LIszTs great skill with the piano was in part due to his immense industry. For years he practiced ten hours a day.
 TIE Boolsman makes the astonishing announcement that no book of Mir. Rus kin's has ever been translated and pub. liahed in foreign language.
 AINE, BLANC says that Bret Hart is,. of all the American authors of the time, the most popular in France, and that Howells is not generally liked by tho French.
 X PARls journal says that the Ameri can artist, Mir. Thomas Shields-ClarlSe, at preseutresident in Paris, pursues five different branches of art in five differ ent studios
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
AMERICAN WOMEN or PUSH.

A COLLEGE-DRED woman and the lead ing florist of San Diego, Cal, distin- guishes Miss Kate Sessions.
 A ST Lotus girl, Miss Callie Frenes, is proud of recent appointment as United States pilot for vessels on the Mississippi.
 THE only woman to take and pass the examination of the state pharm,' ceuteal examining board of Pennsyl- vaaia this year was Miss M. F. Cain.
 TIE time of Beavenworth (Kan.( woman, Mrs. Eva. NJ. Blackburn, is oc- cupied in successfully performing the duties of police commissioner and ed. ii9r of u o0miist paper
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03

Aps the reason persons don't watch their tongues closer is because they can't see them.
 Mosr parrots are green, but they talk as good sense as lots of men who think themselves wonderfully smart.
 iT vanity is disease that makes q fool of man, there must be a great many men exposed to tho disease.
 I'm person who said lyon can'tcatch flies with vinegar never looked in the pickle castor in downtown restan- rant
 A DUDE should learn something in this life besides how to blow smoke through his nose and the art of stirnu- lating his idiooy with 8 rattan cane.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
ChIncse NIarIsnmen.

The accuracy of the Chinese marks man is marvellous when it is remem- bered the gunstock rests on the hip In this way he brings down with great facility birds on the wing, and even the snipe, whose zigzag course renders them difficult to spot with the western fowling piece. Tn addition, too, he uses no explosive cap, but fires it with lighted fuse.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
oda phn.s Of sun,trnks.

"A peculiar phase of sunstroke," :" said one of Philadelphia's most emi- nent physicians the other day, accord ing to the Record, lis that subject does not succumb to the attack until some hours after It occurs The onrv explanation that medical science car give is that a sunstroke consists in a diantegrahon of the blood eorpuscles, and considerable time elapses before the disintegrated blood reaches the aerye center in the brain which acts as governor on the heat system of the body The flow of the blood finally paralyzes the heat centers, and the heat runs riot, raising the temperature of the body to a fearful height within a few min Utes. As an instance of heat prostra- tion the doctor cited the statistics of the British army in India, whore the great majority of sunstrolxes take eff feet between seven and nine o'clock in the evening.
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03

A AA.4.-4LaG bird is said to have been stung to death by a bee at columbia, Wis. recently
 A YOUNG man of Paterson, N. J., re- gently snee1ed so hard that he jerlSed his shoulder out of joint.
 THOMAS EDISON, the inventor, has never carried watch in his life. He has never wanted to know the time.
 TnE vettest place in the world is Cherrapaugi, in Assam, where the average rainfall for fifteen years has been 493 inches. In 1861 1t was 9O5.
 A LADY at Maple Valley. N. r., is raising in cage an albino robin which she found in the grass under tree, Every feather is white and it's eyes are pink,
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03
OBSERVATIONS.


 HERE is something new, sign in a wine store window which reads; Gold claret punch, 20 cents quart
 A NEW ENGLAND dictionary offers the following definitions: Bicycle: Pleas ure's treadmill Ink: A black fluid often used to make black seem white. :"
 CAPT. MooRE, of the Mary Gibbs, is home from voyage to Africa with Q cargo of rum and missionaries from Boston. He called at thirteen ports to unload rum, which was received with wild enthusiasm. At the thirteenth port the missionaries went ashore un- invited.
 "THE laziest cigarette smoker have seen lately" said citizen, was a young man who crossed Broadway the other day with a cigarette in one hand and an unlighted match in the other; he held the sulphur end of the match against the rim of the wheel of wagon that was passing and let the wheel light it as it revoIved.n
Arizona silver belt., 1894-11-03

TRHe ere i5,o0o salaried employees on the lists of New York ty and the total expenditures of the city govern ment were 00o GOO for the year.
 THE worlds chief supply of platinum comes from the mines in the UraI noun taips The mines are being worked Co their fullest capacity with orders for
The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1894-06-27
Where Are You Going on the ourt2 sS% Sunday We

Every effort Is being made here to In
crease the strength OF the American
Railway Union, and SO far about 500 &C
cessions to the order have been made.
C1Nc1NNArI, June G.T r.,,. noon to-
colt were observed here. +. A. Phelan
who Is here representing President Debs
OF the American Railway Union. Is reti-
cent. He will not state anything. Pull
man cars were not moved In the tincin-
natl Hamilton and Dayton yards after
IL o'clock, and no immediate attempts
were made in the yards OF other roads.
The railway officials, are securing new
men, and propose to displace all disobey.
Ing orders. They state that they. will
know tonight the full purpose of the
boycott at this point, and act promptly
to intercept 1t.
DENVER. Col. June Glowing to the
Pullman boycott no through trains are
running on the Santa Fe Railroad to-day:
Five trains are held at Ration. n. NJ, and
one at La Junta, Col The officers OF the
Company are determined not to move the
trains without Pul.mans and can find no
trainmen who will handle these cars.