Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-03-20
The New Playground.
GENERAL NEWS NOTES.

A walrus was seen at Coney Island last
week.
Lawrence, Kan. has prohibited the sale
of cigarettes or cigarette paper.
A Peoria, ILL.,, man has sold the mikado
mastiff.
The Buffalo Sons of the Revolution will
put George Washingtons portrait in every
public school in that city.
DR.. Blackwell Of Columbia, Mo-, en-
ployed for several years as translator in
the State Department. has been offered the
presidency of Robert College in Turkey.
President Andrews says in a magazine
article that the Tweed ring cost New York
s16o,oooooo, or four times what France
paid Germany in 1870.
An Amherst, Mass, man died last week
in the same house and bed in which he
was born ninety-three years ago.
Mrs. Elizabeth c. ALLEN, seventy. the
mother of the first girl born in Denver.
died there recently.
The daughter Of Mrs Dr. Slick. chews-
vile. Nd, carries her lunch to- school in a
basket owned by hef great-great-grand-
mother.
Bishop A. W. Wayman of the African
Methodist Episcopal Church will deliver
memorial address on 1.-The late Frederick
March q. =
Otto Cron of Chicago has married his
brothers widow The brother was lost on
the Elbe.
An Indiana man has begun suit to Secure
two pensions. one for service in the Next
can war and one for wound received in
the late war.
Secretary Gresham is trying to find
Elijah Buffenbargen, ninety-four years old,
heir to s16.OOO.OOO.
Ex-Congressman John H. Rice is to start
a daily paper at Sedalia, Mo.
The Maitland. Fla, school children drew
up In line and gave a flag salute when
Mrs. Grants train recently went by, but
they did not see her. Two days later came
nice little note from Mrs. Grant acknowl-
edging their compliment.
Lafcadio Hearn is still in japan and has
sent out another book on Japanese life.
E. S. Moore, dwarf hunchback, SEN
fenced to the Kentucky prison for life has
been pardoned on account of fatal illness.
Clerical circles in New York, Protestant,
Catholic and Jewish, were much Hurried
the other day by sudden inquiries cabled
is living on ranch in California
At a recent meeting Of the Academy of
Sciences in Stockholm the Swedish aero
naut, Andre, who has been successful in
steering balloon out of the direction of
the wind, declared he would make an at
tempt to reach the north pole in balloon
from Spitzbergen. He says the pole can
be reached in ten hours.
Leo Wheat at a concert at Roanoke the
other night, electrified his audience by
playing an organ and a piano at the same
time it is said, with brilliant effect
Mrs. Stonewall Jackson has become
editor of the Richmond magazine, "Wo-
man."
Venetian" beef is being sold about Bos-
Ton just now. his Is not beef raised
among the marble palaces of the Queen
of the Adriatic, but comes from the steam
er of that name, which sunk in Boston
harbor There have been brought up from
her 1874 sides of beef. and these have been
sold in Boston.
A team at Oyster Bay. r. l., was at
tackled by bulldog and both horses SO
badly torn they were shot The dog hung
to one Of the horses while the team ran a
quarter of mile. He held on until two
men with an iron bar broke his jaw
A Buena Vista, Ga, man, while denounc-
ing the Bible the other day and extolling
Bob Ingersoll, had his house struck by
lightning.
Pingree system Of having poor people
raise potatoes on vacant city lots.
The Connecticut legislature has repealed
the last old blue law on the statute book.
1t is the law under which a justice of the
peace could convict, upon his own knowl-
edge, any person of swearing, blasphemy.
Sabbath breaking or drunkenness.
His excellency, Nawab Imad Nawaz,
Judge Bahadner, prince Of the blood
royal of Hyderabad, of the district of
the Countess Kullman, are travelling in
this country, and now visiting Chicago.
A convict in the Ohio penitenriary
dreamed his arm was being amputated,
and the next day had his arm torn off in
the prison machinery -
A bill has been introduced In the Mis-
souri, legislature imposing tax on bache-
lors. Between thirty and thirty-five years
five to forty, SIS; from forty to forty-five,
$50; from forty-fye to fifty, $50; from fifty
to fifty-five, SIS; above sixty, one fourth of
the celibate's income.
A bill is before the German reichstag,
and likely to pass, putting ten marks duty
on refined cotton seed oil-an increase of
six marks. Such a duty will, be prohibi-
tory. - 80