The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-08-29
PEOPLE AND EVENTS.


funerals in thirty five years. He is
ST Louis hackman.
A pearl as large as marble, so it is
said, has been found in clam by a
Huntington, L. l., man.
Up to the end of last year Phila-
delphia's new city hall had cost $15,
500, 964. 81, and it is not quite finished
yet.
The League of American Wheelmen
imposes penalties upon riders who take
part in races wherein women compete.
Mr.. Gladstone has written such a
vast number of letters during his life
that his autographs bring only sixpence
in the English market.
Maitland Aykroyd, boat builder, of
Toronto, Ont, has rescued over forty
persons from drowning since 1878, and
recovered eight bodies from the bay.
A New York wheelman saved little
boy from being killed by trolley car
few days ago by riding fast Oh his
bicycle and knocking him down.
A Springfield, Mass. young man,
doing England on his wheel, reports
that he made the acquaintance of an
admiral in third-class railway car
riage.
A tanning concern in Seattle has re-
ceived in one consignment l Is bales OF
deer skins, weighing eighteen tons, and
representing, probably, several thou
sand dead deer.
Staid old Lewiston, Me-, has been
shocked and scandalized during the
past week or so by a bloomer girl who
smokes cigar while riding her bicycle
about the streets of the town.
Mrs. Mary WinslOw is travelling
through Western New York as proprie-
tor and operator of peripatetic photo
graph car. She wears a mans hat,
carries revolver, is tirst-class artist,
tend to.
Miss Kate Danahy, of Winsted,
Conn, fell into a barrel of pitch on
which she was standing picking
peaches last week. She was completely
covered with pitch, and over an hour
had elapsed before enough had been re-
moved from her person to enable her
to walk.
At Rome, Cavalry Lieutenant Blanc,
who maltreated private SO that death
ensued, has been sentenced to three
months imprisonment and to pay an
indemnity of $4,000 francs to the
parents of the victim. The case
dragged through two years, and the de-
Tense cost the lieutenant 80, 900 francs.
Mrs. H. G.. Cosgrove, of Joplin,
Mo-, has organized a lead-mining COM
pany known as the Helen Bar Mining
and Investment Company. All the
officers and stockholders are women.
The labor is done by men. One of the
mines being opearted by the company
is called 1.-THE New Woman"
Lady Dixie, who, by the way, was
the original of Dorothea in middle
march," as well of Rhoda Broughton' S
Belinda" specified through Sir
Charles canvass in the Forest of Dean,
and is said to have assured her hearers
that her husband was by all odds the
greatest and the ablest man in Eng
land.
The French president travels free
on the railways during his official
tours in France, but when the return
journey is concluded it is said that
his secretary calculates what the trip
would have cost if paid for at regular
rates, and this sum is handed over to
be distributed among the poorest paid
of the railway men.
The first girl to appear at Atchison,
Kas., wearing boomers was on her
way to Kansas City from st. Joseph,
and her bicycle was in the baggage
car. The chief of police interviewed
her while she was waiting for her
train. A local paper says that while
talking to the chief ''she leaned up
against the wall of the depot and
crossed her legs in true masculine
style. She carried pearl handled re-
volver in her belt, and seemed ready
to protect herself should any attempt
be made on her life"
General Coxey's daughter, who mar
ried Carl Browne, the lieutenant of the
commonweal army, announces that she
will assist him in the editing and pub
LEGATION of a Peoples party paper to be
called "Carls Cactus" Says Mr..
Browne of his paper: "It will be pub.
/ -, &l,o nf
pies party, in opposition to the pow
erful plutocratic press. Mrs. Browne
will be proprietor and attend to the
books and receipts, while | will car.
toon and cut to pieces the tools of mo.
nopoly."
A revival effort that reversed the
usual plan of operations was started in
church at Bradley, Mich, two Sun.
days ago. The same preacher has
been hammering at the congregation
for eight years without much of a re-
suit to show for his labors, and on the
Sunday mentioned a woman member
who had patiently listened for a like
period arose in her place and exhorted
the preacher to get religion, to get il
quick, and to get it good, and she had
exhorted for eight minutes before the
preacher recovered himself sufficiently
to suppress her.
Woman's Inconsistency.
Mrs. Gradley, (tearfully)-I don't
care who knows it. My husband has