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New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-23
DUPLICATE NUMBERS OF PIERS.

To the Editor OF The Tribune.
Sir: While on the subject OF street names and
house numbers. would It not be we'll to agl,ate the
REMEMBERING OF the ridiculous system OF duplicate
numbers for Nort.g River piers?
Why the present method has been long toll
era Ted Is inscrutable to the average man. ".
New-York March 49, 1886.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-23
THE INTELLIGENCE OF BARCELONA

To the Editor of The Tribune.
Sir: Having read your correspondents reply %
Spanish and American Outbreaks IN this morn
inss issue could not refrain from giving you
some OF my experiences with the intelligence Of
Barcelona" landed there in January. 1881, from
Marsei!les. 7 say landed" but We were really
taken ashore from the STEAMER in an open rowboat
in a drencltng rain. saw case OF pries',ridns.
BY Spanish soldier for simply exercising my right
to give not 20 give aims. ! could give other IN.
stances. I presume that the fifteen years WHICH
have elapsed have done nothing for 'resenera,ion,
but all for degeneration Of the community
New-York March l6. lssS PRlNCEION' ~
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-23
A BOY HURT IN A RUNAWAY.

A team Of horses attached to a milk wagon be-
longing to Thomas Lloyd ran away yesterday morn
ing at Far Rockaway. They turned into Central
ave. and there struck pony cart owned by James
Mimnaush, and driven by James Mimnaush, IT,. ten
years old The cart was upset and wrecked. The
boy received severe bruises and was cut about the
face. The pony was aso badly hurt The team was
stopped without further damage.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-23
HOTEL De LILLE ct O'ALB0M.

12S. Rue st. Honcre Paris.
Between the Tuileries Gardens. Place vendome
and New Opera. Advantageous arrangements for
families Beautiful Hail. La-se ORA wing Roomss
Electric Light. &c. Telegrams. "LiIlalblon.
Paris HENRY ABADIR
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-23
MxAys SAID no BE AGING FAST.

Victor L. Bedingneld. proprietor OF Flatbush
newspaper. is authority for the statement that
John Y. McKane Is rapidly showing sgns OF age
and that hia hair nlmos. gfow-white. MT.
Bedingfiesd recently Visited Sing Sing.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1896-03-23
Guropean advertisements

n UROPEANS AND TRAVELLERS will hnd
the London once Of The Tribune. rs Fleet Street.
f c.. convenient place their advertisements
and subscriptions for The Tribune
The morning times., 1896-07-12

brought them comfort look up to him as up
to heaven"
...The children shall BOT speak in bolster
GUS tones before lin, or the women cease
TO smile and look happy
HE shall have a son IN perpetuate the
monuments OF his ancestors, and he shall
take wives until that supreme ambition
is gratired.'
Upon his walls shall be rules OF de-
corum and seeing him look toward them,
all women shall bow upon the floor in
shame
"A wife may not spend her husbands 4
money in Thought even, taking the gowns
in gratitude, asking no more. II few. size
shall not deport herself In languid de-
meanor, but shall walk with energy, us
though well pleased" ..
These rules alone would, to American
ears. insure happiness in poverty as well
as in riches
Ii Hung Chang is always pictured with
! way through life. Underneath the smile
! lies plenty Of nowledge and ability, but
the great Chinaman has the art OF seeing
fun in trivial things. He is seventy-fIve
and was born in the same year as Gen
Grant He discovered an affinity to- our
warrior from this natal coincidence, and
also from the fact that Grants war he 10
was Lee. Lis name is pronounced Lee.
He is going to stop in this country, pre-
sumably to he wined and dned, but more
to learn the art of conducting our grea:
commercial enterprises. Given ten more
wears Of life. and lie WIN be q triliionaire.
While China Will be Il center or manufacture
and commerce.
The morning times., 1896-07-12
Steam Launch and Daha.
beah Used-HOw the
Sirdar of Egypt First
Got Word of Danger in
the SOudan.

there ~o- a look on his masters face
that he dare not disobey.
Cut loose. he shouted, "and they piung ed
forward in the night against the current
OF the Nile.
1t was the act of 4 madman-a dalIa.
beah in a sand storm under full sail
but that cry OF Yale, Yale hsd made
ss-nriiIet madman. fortunately tile
Nil,. takes n straight course for several
niles after it sweeps by Korosko; but as
MeheiDet grasped the tiller he cared not
whether it was ten miles of cataract He
saw the launch ahead, aud the thought
ruS;.ed through his mind to run it down.
But that couldn't be. Tie force of the
storm. on the large lateen sail, made ev.
cry timber in the boat creak and grUan.
The faces OF the crew had terrified look
with teeth clenched and lips compressed
Mehemet stood at the tiller, and the
bowling oftte wind, as they sped on through
the night, seemed to suit the pulsatious OF
his own heart. They were gaining on the
launch.
II only the storm held out they would
beat it-or get wrecked.
On and on they rushed. They were neck
and neck when the dahabea ran up nearly
amidships on Cne OF the hidden volcanic
rocks that fill certain portions of the Nile.
Yale, Yale" came the sneering cry from
the launch.
Swing her broadside,'' yelled Hassan.
let the current catch her The meh
were half paralyzed with terror. lat the
sweeps We're got out The great boat glided.
off.
The launch was now quarter OF n mile
ahead, and the lights i'll the Greek wine
shops of korosko could he seen in the dis
tance. The iiercencss OF the wind seemed
redoubied. AS the dahabeah swept by the
launch into the little natural harbor ut
korosko there again rose Il satirical yell
of"Yale, Yale But this time it came from.
the Egyptian craft and Mehcmet who had
rushed his boat half ashore. ran madly
through the dust-driven street into the
quaint old fort. and cried in imperfect
English, Il have got a telegram
That is how the Sirdar of Egypt and the
Anglo-Egyptian army first heard Of the
late outbreak.
The morning times., 1896-07-12
AWidea wake yyatchman.

The directors of an Australian bank had
engaged the services OF watcinau, who
came well recommended, but did rot seem
ovcr-eXperienced, says London Answers
The Chairman therefore sent for him TO
post him up''a bit, and began:
James, this is your first Job of this kind,
isn't it?"
"Yes, sir .'-
"Your duty mustbe to exercise vigilance. -
eyes, SIR
BE careful how strangers approach
you.''
~ will, SIR
mo stranger must be allowed to enter
the bank at night under any pretext what
ever i.
mo, SIR ..,.....
And our manager-he is a good man,
honest, reliable and trustworthy; but it
will be your duty to keep your eye on him. -
But it will be hard TO watch two men
and the bank at the same time
Two men, how?''
why, Sir, it was only yesterday that
the manager called me 10 for talk and lie
said you were one of the hest men in the
city, but 1T would be just as well to keep
Doth eyes OIL you aud letthe directors know
IL you hung about after hours
The morning times., 1896-07-12
HOT RACE WITH NEWS FROM
FAR UP THE EGYPTIAN NILE
fConyripht. saG. !,

Copyright, 1861
Yale sophom ore, an Egyptian, and n
sportsman-a curious comb nation, but
it existed in the person Of Hassan ell Neil.
1t was the long vacation. On the deck
years absence from his fathers roof-tree,
iowa rd his native la nd, was a beat, which
he looked at long and often, and with a
quiet smile on his clearcut Coptic face
thought Of the surprise that the modern
naph,ha would ausein The land Of Mum my
and the Moslem.''
A few weeks later. Mehemet Bey, the
governor Of Assiut, was sitting in the gar
den that surrounded his adobe palace,
when Il telegram from Lord Cromer, the
British ambassador at Cairo, informed him
of the defeat Of the Italians at Adowa, a Id
further that this defeat of The Europeans
in Abyssinia meant q fresh onslaught OF the
Arabs on the Egyptian outposts, and that
!, Kitchener ut KorOsko should be Imnedi-
ately Informed Of IL. The telegraph lines
| were down, and Mehemet Bey thought
hard and long as he gazed at the slip OF
paper in his hand. Eersed i'll all the i'll
| tricacies of Soudanese politics, he well un-
| Gerstood the significance OF the news. The
Ar:lb was at his Ia II ditch, the power Gf
| the Khalfa was trembling in the balance
| and he knew better, probably, than Lord
| Croiner, that the Soudan would be set
| aflame.
The governor stroked his beard and
| thought, The reis tas the ship captains
| of the Nile are called) were all affected
by the Mahdist fanaticism. He couldn't
trust them. He looked at his two sons,
who were iaZily playing doininoes in the
shadow of a palm tree. He knew, as does
every Oriental, the bitter jealousy that al
ways exists between brothers whose moth
ers have intrigued for years for the adj
vancement of their offspring. This ieal-
ousy was intensified by the fact that Has
san's ambitious Coptic mother had per
suaded her lord and master to send her
only son to farorf America to learn a wis
Com even more wonderful! than that of
her forefathers. the Coptics, the direct
desCenda nts of the ancient Egyptians.
Heartily. therefore, the half brother hated
the English speaking and American college
bred hoy.
Come here said the old nan. Il want
Il message sent to Korosko. One Of you
must takeit viii you go? Itmeans honor
and advancement to me if delivered at once.
1t means honor TO linn who delivers it,"
II Will gc.'' answered the lad whose
mother was tie scoff OF her fathers hdrem.
an eager look on his dusky face Il VIII
go,'' answered the Yale man; Il bave my
LAUNCH"
II have my dahabeah," cried his brother,
''the swiftest on tie river"
But the wind may fail" said tie gov
erpor. He thought for a moment. You
both may go. and the race is to the wiftest,
as the English say"
He ciapped his hands Copdc servant
The morning times., 1896-07-12
Fierce Contest Was Urged Between
the Rival Sons of an Arab Sheik

appeared. A few words We're rapidly die
tated. A slip of paper was handed each Of
his sons, and with characteristic Oriental
phlegm he simply said, "Go''-Ind he turned
to his Lookah.
Far away to the south, the English off
GERS of the Egyptian army little thought,
as they sipoed their coffee, thatthe greatest
battle OF this quarter of the century had
been fought beyond the Abyssianian hills,
and that the heart of the Soudan was in a
ferineDt. AT Korosko, the terminus of tie
great desert route, KitchHer, tie SirdIr-
that is, the commando Fin -chief-and his
staff never dreImt that the fanatiCal der
wishes, intoxicated with the news of IL
European defeat. were then pushing forward
toward Egyprs borders.
1t was the second night out from Assiut.
The north wind had proved faithful To
Mehemet, and the lateen sails of his
dahabeah had beiied to the warm, vet
northern wind from the Mediterrdn mean.
and his heart was glad within him. He
was miles ahead OF his American brother.
as hc contemptuOusly called Hassan. But
even the north wind of the Nile is treacher-
Gus. l I soughed. sighed, blew few ritrul
gusts, and soon there was not breath to
quiver the broad leaves OF the palms IN the
shore. And Kornsko was only ten miles
away. On the high poop of the dahabeah
he sat. and as the crescent moon rose high
in the heavens and illumined the mysteri-
Gus river, he saw approaching in midstTea",
the strange craft concerning which his
brother had said so much. and which he
couldn't understand. He was being beaten.
His whole intense Eastern nature went out
in a longing for victory. Anything to beat
the brother whom he hated with all the
latent savaeery of his nature. He thought
for n moment that he would run along the
shore-but that was mere folly. Oh. for
wind, He aged. as he had never prayed
before. to the God of Mahomet for a wind.
He paced 70 and fro in feverish restessness.
He ordered his men. who thought him moth
ing less than mad. to get out their sweeps:
but in a moment he saw their uselessness
Cainst the strong canvas. The lost ground,
and lad to tie up again. There was sa-
tirical cry of Yale. Yale" from the throat
of Hassan as the launch swept past.
But Mehemet's prayer was answered.
AT this season the wind of North Africa
seldom fails. 1t came. 1t came so sud-
denly and with such force that the daha.
beah was nearly dashed aground, and the
palm trees bent before the blast. The men
threw themselves flat on the deck.
'.Cnfurl the sail.'' yelled Mehemet.
.AIoft, you dog he cried to tile boy,
whose perilous duty 1t was 10 go 10 tie
extreme end of the slender yard-arIn.
Tue boy hcsitated, as we'll he might. but
The morning times., 1896-07-12
CENTENARIANs OF EUROPE.
Some of the Oldest People in the
World Are Found There.

World Are Found There.
A German statistician has studied the CEN
sus returns Of Europe To learn Il few things
about the centenarians Of tie old world.
He has found, for instance, that high CIVIL
zation does not favor the greatest length OF
life. The German empire with 5o 100000
populat ton, has but seventy-eight subjects
who are more than 100 years old. France.
with fewer than 40, ,O00 600. has 2l3 PER
sons who have pa sscd their one hundredth
birthdays England has I46. Ireland, 51S;
Scotland, 40; Denmark, 2: Belgium. ..
Sweden. 10: and Norway with 2,cUc,OuO
inhabitants, %. Switzerland does not boast
a single centenarian. tut Spain, with but
$4,000, 900 population, has4O1
The most amazing figures found by the
German statistician came from that frDu-
blesome and turbulent region known as
the Balkan Peninsula. Servia has SO
persons who have passed their one hun
dredth birthday and Bulgaria 3.eS3. In
other words, Bulgaria has centena-ian
for every 1000 inhabitants. and thus
holds the international record for old
inhabitants. In 1892 alone there died
in Bulgaria $50 persons OF more than 100
wears. In the Balkan Penins ula, more>
over. a person is not regarded as on the
verge of the grave the moment he be
comes a centenarian. For instance, i'll
Seryia there were In 1890 some 290 per-
sons between 106 and ll5 years, i23
between 1lb and l2o, and rs between
126 and 135. Three Were between l35
and 40.
Who is the oldest person in the world? The
German statistiCi.in does not credit the re-
cent story about Russian one hundred and
sixty years old. Russia has no census, lie
says and except in cases of special official
investigation the figures OF ages III Russia
must be mistrusted. The oldest man in the
world is then. in his opinion, Bruno CotFim,
a negro bora in Africa. and now resident in
Rio Janeiro. COtrim is one hundred aud
fifty years old. Next to him comes. prob
ably Il retired Moscow cabman. named Kus-
trim. who is in his one hundred aid fortiath
year. The statistician says the oldest
The morning times., 1896-07-12
II HUNG CHANG THE HAPPIEST
RICH MAN IN THE WORLD

he smiled with all Indulgence at the mis-
takes pf his sovereign.
When the jacket and the feather were
given back he rode out from Peking To his
home, ninety miles away, and frolicked IA
whole evening with his grandchildren i'll
the plain little home he occupies.
Since the war Ii Hung Chang has taken
up civilized, or, as he calls them, Western
customs, with zeal he never supposed
himself capable of before. He has tasted
Western cooking, and lie likes it. He has
had German soldiers in his Command, and
he finds them clearheaded. He has had
French workmen directing his factories
and never such work was turned out
before. His watches are equal To Geneva
works. He had tried searGen from England
and such sCainen Ire never sd W before. These
foreign predilectiurs have made him un-
popular at home, and it is doubtful If he
could now muster such personal calling
as used 10 lie his. Chinese Gordon wanted
Ii Hung Chang 10 head 4 rebellion and
overthrow the Chinese dynasty. Then lie
could have done il. Now 1t is doubtful.
great peculiarity about the old sta tes-
man who viii visit us is that he loves
The morning times., 1896-07-12
Tho rowns, Crooked Dividinc Line

There is ii reason Tor most everything,
said Cum herla nd county man. whenhe was
asked how in the world they came to have
such a crook ed line betwee mt woto WINS III his
county: there's reason for this crooked
line. You see, some of our towns estlb-
lished ~ pioneer times. when land was
abundant and people were few, had big
territory which was afterward sliced off
TO make new towns. 1t was so in the
case YOU mention. and when the cut off
was made people along the line of division
were of different minds as to which to wn
they wanted to te in. So the legislature
drew a straight line between the two parts,
and then provided that persons dwelling On
lands adjoining either side Ofthis line might
be in one town or the other, as they should
decide. within ninety days after passing
the act. Some went one way and some
the other. and the line was all skewed u
10 accommodate them.-Le on Ne. j our
nal
The morning times., 1896-07-12
Saws He "Made a Fortune
Out of America"-Got
Ideas From Gen. Grant
About Railroads and
Telephones.
downright, 1861

I A short time ago II periodical, search
Ing through the income taxes of the
world, discovered that Ii Hung Chang
was one OF the six richest men on the
globe. A dozen years ago Gen. Grant,
trav cling through China, as Ii Hung
Chang's guest, announced him the hap
piest man lie had ever known. Thus IN
history the great ChinamaD Will stand
forth Conspicuous for TWO widely uVerse
things, great wealth and great hap
pincssl He is Tie hapricst rich man I'D
the world.
This wealth, which, in time of peace,
is the first thing you hear of the eminent
Oriental statesman and warrior, was gath
cred by him in a most American way. He
founded new institutions and rearcd the
benefit OF them while bcnefiting his country
men. Where he scattered occupation among
100000, the 500 900 were working to
amass wealth for him.
BUILDING UP CHINA.
China, when Ii Hung Chang rose from
the masses ana attended a college, was an
unprogressive Country. 1t had neither rail
reads, teleP!iunes, nor hospitals. Now il
has all three, most Of them owned by Ii
Hung Cha Dg-
In China the fact that a man can re-
peat the 4C0, COO verses and can reCite
history admits him Ia any station of pre-
ferment. All the emperor's court would he
dra wn from such mCnif there were enough
of them To supply the demand. In the
sixties, when China had its embroslio,
Ii fought and was speedily raised from one
rank TO another. When the war ended he
was given Il white button and a black
feather. Thirty years later he got his
yellow jacket and his twu-eyed peacock
feather. That is the greatest example of
done by illustriuus ancestors. Ii Is from
the common people.
When Ii Hung Chang comes 10 this
country in a few days he steps foot uEon
a soil which it has been his long wish to
visit. When he first new America he was
o poor man, and this country enriched him.
He says: America is the only country that
can give anything to China He admires
our commerce, loves our factories, listens
with open mouth and ears to our institu-
tions, and absolutely worships our army
and navy. He says that Japan owes its
victory to US. Had it not been for the
American educat ion of its japanese colonies,
Japan could never have taken a foot OF
territory from China.
The special problem which Ii Hung Char NJ
comes to America to study is what TO do
with the surplus population Of China. He
knows we have great industries here and
he wantSto see how we ma na se them. He
and G ra mt greed, on Grant s visitto China,
that China would soon have to provide
means of support for its people to prevent
those awful annual famincs and Ii thinks.
he will find out here how it is done.
About the admission of the Chinese into
the United States he is enthusiastic. He
wants the Chinese to come here. ''Our
problem is ovcrcrowding," says he. You
have room to spare. Would that a thous-
and might come where one now finds
his way here. Just 50 much less to Starve
In crowded ChinaI''
Cur railroad system he is going o know
all about. During the war a year ago
IN American correspondent told Ii Hung
The morning times., 1896-07-12
SHE KNEW WHO TOLD HIM.
A Nice Little sunday School Story
Told by the superintendent


Ne,r York World.
AT a supper given at one of the uptown
clubs the other evening, a stag racket
after two or three of the members had done
their share of story telling, humber Of
those present called for story from Mr..
n, who had a fair reputation as a racou-
teur. y. is a good fellow, though not Of
the naInby- pamby sort, and he has recently
become superintendent of a large and
flourishing Sunday school Oh the West
Side. He rose and began:
'Gentleneu, as you well know, l have
lately, in measure, reformed, and have
turned over new leaf, SO to speak How
ever, you want a story and / will try
TO oblige you. Before l start, though,
may as well state that it is a Sunday school
story
Here arose cries of Put him outr'
Turn him down. etc. Finally the con,
fusion subsidized and he continued:
The other day down at the Parish House
our minister was coming down the stairs
when lie met little goldeU-ha lassie
He patted her on the head and remarked
My dear, L hear that you are in the
habit of using swear words. Is ittrue?'
on, no. SIR she protested, Il never
talk that way
m very glad of that. I only heard
1t and I wanted TO know if it was really
SO. I'm glad il ism - ....
He turned to go when the kid pulled his
coat-tail and piped:
WHO told you that used bad words?'
IA little bird told me-
oh, know with an air of oonvic-
tion. '1twas one of those damn sparrers' +"
The morning times., 1896-07-12
HAUNTED BY A VOICE.
A WOman's Screams Drive an Old
Soldier TO Death

Joseph knecht, seventy-three years old,
4 veteran Of the late war, was found lying
dead in Il barn. i few da Us ago lie pur-
chased 10 cents worth Of arsenic and said
he was going to kill himself, but nobody
believed him.
In connection with the circumstances OF
Knechts death it is said that W hen ne WAS a
soldier i'll the war for the Union rebel
shot one of kDecht's comrades. This &C
CURED near the rebels home, and KDecht
vowed revenge.
Going to the house with 4 loaded gun he
slew the rebel i'll the presence of his wife
and family. The woman screamed when
she W her husband killed, and her voice
had such an unearthly sound that Knecht
said it always haunted him. and he was
going 10 kill himself in order 10 get a way
from the result Uf his cruelty. y.-PhiIadelphiA
Inquirer
The morning times., 1896-07-12
Lies of Different Kinds.

One of Newfoundland's earlier chief juss
tices was Il delightful person, by name
Tremlett, renowned for his rough. uns werv-
ing honesty. In 1902 lie was made a sub
ject of formal complaint to the governor,
Admiral Duckworth. The latter had to
bring the complaints officially to his notice.
And this was the formal reply handed to
the admiral: To the first charge, your
eXcellency, l answer that it is a lie. To
the second charge l say that it is a ID
lie And to the third say thatitisad-d
Internal lie. Your excellenCy's obedent
servant, Thomas Tremlett. Chicago
Chronicle.
The morning times., 1896-07-12

Chinese personal customs. He will not
cut an inch from his queue, nor let Il fuZz
grow upon his yellow forehead. His meGi
cine is as Oriental as 1T was in the days
when the Chinese let a man with n broken
arm die because 1t was the will OF the
ancestors And his superstitions are
strong. When away from home he carries
the bit of red cloth religiously. His wor-
ship is to his fathers. and when his mother
died a few years ago he resigned every
thing. and mourDed in ashes for months, ac-
cording to his religion.
If some of the mot toes Of this the happiest
rich man in the world might be copied by
other rich men. trouble in homes of wealth
would he scarcer.
Let the family Of man who has
The morning times., 1896-07-12
Mad the nnarS I.anph

Mark Twain has achieved a difficult feat
in awakening laughter in the TransvaaI.
where men take themselves and their affairs
very seriously and spend more time crack
ing beads than jokes. The quaint humor cf
the famous American. however, appealed to
both Boer and Uitlander. and p resident X rue
ger. who has coined many epigrams in his
time, was greatly entertained. -.....