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; Along Sleep.

Holland papers report that Mile. Maria
Colpkens has been sleeping for the last s41
days. She is fed by artificial means. The
paragraph leads the Staatsburger Zeitung to
say that the ''gFeatest sleeper of our time
is a French woman, Margaret BoyenvaH
who has been asleep for seventeen years in
Thenelles, Department of Aisne.'
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Relief for Armenian Missionaries.

A delegation of prominent ministers and
lawyers from New York, including Prof
White. Mr.. Orr. Mr.. James and Mr.. Everett.
had a long consultation with the President
and Secretary Olney al the White House this
afternoon in regard to the best methods
Of affording relief to the American mission
aries in Armenia and Turkey.
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QUERETARO. Mexico, May ia cave
in occurred at the opal mines near here
Wednesday, in which ten men were buried
with earth and stones. Word was brought
here from the scene of the accident that
foupof the miners were killed and several
others injured.
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Dashed by the Robbers.

HUNTINGTON, W. Va. May ia
crowd of masked men assembled at a wa
terlng tank near Nolan. on the Norfolk and
Western road. last midnight. to rob the
rorth-bound express train. The train crew
were notified. and passed at high rate of
speed
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Stabbed in Church.

Near Blountville, Ala, VIM Kyle, a
young farmer, whose wife had made him
Jealous, followed her to church and found
her with a young man who was objections
tle to him. He seized his wife by the hair,
dragged her to the door OF the church, and
before help could arrive he had twice stab
bed her to the heart. Kyle made to The
woods and Is still at large. Mrs. Kyle died
In the church door.
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QuintupIets Worried to Death.

MAYIELD, KY, May 1.-THE quintuplets
born in this city April % to Mrs Oscar
Lyons are all dead. The doctors think
death was the result of worry caused by
the enormous visiting crowds.
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TIPSON. Texas, May 15.-Rev. Mr..
Rhodes, living twelve miles east Of here,
while blowing fiis field, unearthed 10000
Mexican dollars Mr.. Rhodes bought the
place two years ago.
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Sent to Jail.

James Perkins, the colored man who
pleaded guilty several days ago to setting
up gaming table at the Morton Club was
sentenced by Chief Justice Bingham this
afternoon to thirty days in Jail.
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The President has accepted the resignation
of Judge Nelson of the United States district
court of the southern district of Minnesota.
and Will nominate his successor to the Sen
ate this afternoon.
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HAZLETON, Pa, May ia fire which
did damage amounting to over S70,Oo0 orig
mated in the big general store of A. j.
Haires today.
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ST. LOUIS. Mo-, May 15.-The city coun-
ell last night by a unanimous vote passed
the CT REV ordinance asked for by Col.
Hogeland, president of the National Boys
and Girls Home.
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FOUND FORTUNES,

PrOspcctOrs Discovered S75,OOO Worth
of Gold Dust.
DURANGO. Mexico. May 15.-An I'M
Known American gold miner who located
rear here twenty years ago and lived the
life of recluse in the Sierre Madre noun
tains. has been found dead in his cabin by
prospectors. In the building was found
gold dust aggregating $4,000 in value
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SARATOGA, n. Y, May 15.-BenjamIn
Harrison Mckee. who is ill with pneu-
monia, is improving.
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FINANCIAL AND COMMERCIAL.

The following are the opening, the highest
and the lowest and the closing prices OF the
New York stock market today as reported
by Corson Mccartney members New York
stock exchange. Correspondents Messrs
Moore Schley. No. 50 Broadway.
Open. High. Low. Close
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Their Execution Postnopal

KANSAS CITY. Mo-. May 15.-Pollard
and Harris. the negroes who were to have
been hanged here today. have been granted
a short stay.
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The annual outing Of the District bar
will take place tomorrow. when an excur-
sion to Marshall Hall will be made.
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Struck for More Wape..

HUNTINGTON. w. Va, May 15.-Two
hundred union car builders went out on a
strike at the Ensign car works at noon yes-
terday. They demand 81 more wages on a
car.
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WATERFOWL. N. Y. May 15.-Wooster
Sherman. banker, died at his home In this
city today. aged eighty-seyen years.
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Grain nnd Cotton Market.

Furnished by W. B. Hibbs & Co., 1921 f
street, members New York stock exchange
correspondents Messrs. Ladenburg, Thai
mann & Co., New York.
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1HE BETTER-HALF.

In the library Of the British Museum, in
London. there are copies of "Uucle Toms
Cabin" in 20 different languages.
81
The theater-hat legislation has taken on
funny phase down in New Orleans. The men
were bent on passing law against the women
wearing hats at the theater, but one legislator,
influenced by the women, succeeded in amend
ing the law TO allow the women to wear
opera bonnets and aigrets." Immediately
there arose commotion over the definition of
opera bonnet" The dictionaries were USE
less, and the mlliners of the town, being
pressed for decision as to the proper defui-
ton, declared that an "opera- bonnet" is q
brimless hat, and that its decor alton may be
as extensive as the owner chooses. Now there
is an effort to have the milliners establish a
standard" opera-hat-as though that were
possible. A woman will have her bonnet as
high and broad as she thinks is fashionable,
aud the only way to make her merciful to
theater- goers is either to educate her grand
MOTHER" or to pray to her humhly to move her
compassion; to be stern and rigorous and
command her TO heed others rights; or 10
fatter her bright hair and pretty ears; or use
some arguments or Establishments particularly
appropriate and seductive to the individual
woman. To mIliner's standard she never
will submit, nor will she let mere man criti-
else her beadgear. The way to bring about
this reform is to let the bonnets be, but work
on the feelings of the women
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reached Great Falls, as jolly as ever, she began
repairs-washed her hands and face, her hand
kerchisf, and the cuffs Of her shirtvaist Dor.
rowed a needle and thread aud sewed up the
rents IN her skirts, smoothed her hair, and
shook the dust from her skirts and hat She
went into the lnncheon-room as good tenn pered
and as much at ease as though she had not
bruised her knees, scratched her wrists, sun
burned her nose. spoiled her clothes, and
strained her muscles out of all comfort, She
made no complaints of being tired nor apollo
gies for being in disabled toilet She simply
took what punishments and rewards the fates
had given her with equal thanks"
ELSIE PoMERoY McELRoY.
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TEE NATIONAL TR1BuNE WASHINGTON g. THURSDAY

is not capable of stopping man, ana that Its
small bullet, or a number Of them, could pierce
him through and through and still not nmedi-
ately disable him. IL may turn out that the
caliber of the new gun is too small, and that
with all its enormous energy, fatness of trajec'
tory and lightpess OF ammunition 1t has not the
qualities of destruction that the old As caliber
Winchester and Remington possess. The bull
let of the new rife is no larger in diameter than
buckshot, but about half an inch long. 1t is
Of lead, coated with steel and pointed like the
old minie-bal1. 1t is said that its powerful
velocity gives it such motion that it will cut
small, smooth hole in man, no matter what
part of the anatomy it may strike, and even the
toughest bone of the human frame would be
pierced as though drilled with the finest steel
Such hole is not ragged and would produce
but little Inconvenience to man on the field
of battle. Eventually it might kill him, though
that is by no means certain il it did not hit a
vital spot.
Two very successful tests of rapid guns
have been made by the Ordnance Bureau of
the Navy Department. An army gatling gun
was tested to demonstrate the operation of its
feeding gear, which was pronounced satisfac-
tory. The Bureau then tested the Navy auto
matte gun. 1t fired 400 shots in 81 seconds
without break. In the heating test 1000
shots were fred continuously The barrel be-
came SO hot that it would char wood but the
effectiveness OF the gun ulSCHaTSc W'AS hoe
affected. The 1,4o0 shots from one barrel OF
the automatic gun did not heat it to such an
extent as did 1000 shots from 10 barrels of the
gatling gun.
Assistant Secretary McAdoo has practically
completed his annual inspection of the naval
militia organization Of the several States. and
has also received from Naval officers specially
assigned reports embodying the results of their
technical inspection of these organizations
while they were III camp or at sea In drills.
Mr. McAdao says that on the whole the annual
exercises were highly successful. Mr.. Mcadoo
was accompanied on his tour by Lieut.. Niblack,
who has been especially charged with the care
of naval militia affairs in the Navy Depart
ment. They went first to League 1sland and
carefully examined the old monitors Lard up
there with the purpose of selecting the best OF
them, one for the use Of the South Carolina
naval militia, and another for New Orleans
The selection was made, but the craft In
their present condition utterly unservIce-
able, the Department will Ire obliged to ask
Congress for an appropriation at the next ses-
sion wherewith to put them in order for usc
When these turned over the Department
will have assigned nine old naval VESSELS
mainly monitors, in such geographical positions
az to be of the greatest use i'll wartime.
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on as could stay without falling off. had n
pair of brogans that would help TO plsy
Fishers Hornpipe' when / danced. When
went for Miss Doan took au old horse. When
she was ready rode up to stump near the
cabin, she mounted the stump and spread her
under petticoat on Old lib behind me, secured
her calico dress to keep it clean, and then
mounted on behind me."-Clereland Leader.
Women seem to take bicycles more good
humoredly than anything else in life. One
tale of girl. who won for herself that desira-
BILE adjective. "nervy," shows an almost in
credible amount Of good temper. She was per-
suaded into starting on run to Great Falls,
distance of 16 or 20 miles from Washington.
She was not expert wheel-womau but she
loved fun, and she started off and through the
city bravely not a whit daunted by catching
her wheel a car-track and giving herself
Further out on the road she was caught in
rut and was forced to dismount suddenly. In
trying to mount again she lost control OF the
steering apparatus and ran into a picket-fence,
catching her wheel between two pckets. and
was thrown to the ground. She suffered al
most every known accident in the beginners
catal0g, including occasional terror spells, but
she would pull herself together every time and
go With the crowd. She had an impro-
vised bicycle costume that included lace
trimmed silk petticoat The lace soon became
torn and raveIled, and hung in festoons be-
meath her dress-hem. When they finally
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Where Work in Pleasant,
lNe,v York Weekly.

tIseW fOrf Weektyi
Neglected Wife-Why don't you 20 to
work?
Husband Ia ne'er-do-welD- II amt got no
tools
Neglected Wife-Deacon Smith offered
you So to fix up his fence, and you have a
saw and plane and hammer and nails.
What more do you want?
Husband-The saw amt no good, and I
amt got no file to sharpen it. Ole Smith
kin fix his fence hisself.
Same Husband 10 years later)-Hist
Say, wife, I've escaped from the penitentiary
Gimme some other clothes, so kin light out
agin.
Wife-My, my! How did you get out?
Husband-I dug 40 feet underground
with a two-tined fork, and then cut my way
through Two feet of stone wall and 10 inches
OF boiler iron with saw made out of tin
dinner plate.
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brand new campaign joke is being sprung
in Washington now. Some enthusiastic Re.
publican will declare to a friend of the opposite
party that he knows of city of over $4,000
Inhabitants whore Bryan will not receive a
single vote, and offers to back his statement
with two to one bet. When the rabid Bryanite
is duly landed and the money posted, the CAM
pagn bunco-steerer calmly cites Washington
as the place where, indeed, 10 votes will be cast
for any body, and gathers in the money.
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William j. Bryan has notified the Congress
siousl Committee here that they are not to
send out any more of the speech that won him
the nomination at Chicago. 1t needs revision,
he says, and no doubt lots Of other people think
50. too. The so-cailed boy orator says hs must.
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COMPLETE REPORT OF THE ST. LOUIS CONVENTION.
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TO which is added a Brief Sketch Of
CARRET A. HOBART,
Candidate for Vice-President.
BY BYRON ANDREWS,
Author Of the Life Of John A. Logan" etc., ete


with
Of
can National thus making not only American history but
The author Journalist of long and writes lucid and fhe
tyle o n he mo Language
lie
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too well known by those who have suf-
fered, but we will impress upon every
one that these are the Dever-failing
symptoms of serious womb trouble,
and unless relieved at once, life will
be forfeited.
Lydia E. Pinkham's Vegetable Conn
ing troubles above referred to; it has
held the faith of the women of America
for twenty years.
It gives tone to the womb, strength
ems The muscles, banishes backaehe
and relieves all pains incident to
women'S diseases.
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ARMY AND NAVY

The Secretary Of the Navy has disapproved
the proceedings, findings and sentence of dis
missal imposed By court-martial upon Passed
Assistant Paymaster Edwin b. Webster. lately
attached to the Yorktown. The officer WAS ac-
cused Of having retained a bond exacted from
his Pay Clerk, w. j. Tobin, after having dis
missed the clerk. The Secretary finds that
there were grave informalitics in the proceed
inas of the court, and. moreover, inclines TO the
belief hased principally npon the testimony Of
Chief Engineer Harrie Webster, brother officer
the Yorktown. that the money, amounting
TO 81, 500, placed in tho Paymaster's hands by
Tobin's mother, was technically loan and not
bond. For these reasons lie reverses the find
ings Of the court aud restores Webster to duty
but he takes occasion to say that the trans
ion, in any sense in which it may he viewed
is disgraceful to Paymaster Webster and to the
Navy.
It is possible that the Ordnance experts have
gone too far in the development Of the small
arm and nachine-gun and secured weupons
which, while representing the most advanced
stages of invention in this line Of work, are less
destructive than obsolete guns. There seems
to he little question that the Navy smaii-arm
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Injured Innocence.

Frederick Lemaitre, the wel1-known
actor, was afflicted with an abnormal
tendency TO pride and self esteem, even
for man of his profession. His des-
potic bearing towards the employees at
the theaters often led to an exchange OF
angry words. At the fiftieth perform
ance of play he would expect the mu-
sicians to exhibit the same eagernesS
to hear him as on the first night He
expressly forbade them to read their
papers In the orchestra during the inter-
walls of playing. as had been their GUS
tom from time immemorial. Frederick
pretended that the practice "fnterfered
with his play"
Now, the leading clarionet at one OF
the houses obstinately refused to sub
NIT to prohibition which he considered
no actor had the right to enforce, and
Went on reading as usual. Frederick
protested, swore. raved and asked the
name OF the recalcitrant clarionet
player. Just at that moment the musf-
clan passed through the green-room.
Is that you." cried Frederick. In
angry tones. who have had the audac-
ity to read in the orchestra during my
great love-scene?"
'I?" said the clarionet What foul
slander' You have been misinformed
NJ. Frederick was asleep."--Le Temps
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TRUSTEES SALE.

WHEREAS. F. w. BUCKLEY OF THE
county of Monterey, state of California,
made certain deed of trust to FRED NJ.
WEST and w. w. WESTBAY, dated Oc-
tober Is, 1895, and recorded October Is,
1895. in Book A. vol "a of Deeds of Trust.
page Ill and following, Records of San
Joaquin County, State OF California; and
of Trust Deeds and Agreements, page 2S5.
Records of Sacramento County, State of
California, said deed conveying the real
property hereinafter described for the pur-
pose of securing the payment of promis-
sorry note of the date of said deed of trust,
and whereas, default has been made in the
payment of the fntherest due on said
promissory note.
Now. therefore, under the authority
vested in Fred NJ. West and w. ". West
bay. trustees, by the said deed of trust
and upon application of the holder of said
note the undersigned as such trustees will
on SATURDAY, December 5. 1896. al
thirty minutes past twelve Q2) O'clock, in
the afternoon. a the ,Maln-street entrance
Stockton. County of San Joaquin. State Of
California, sell at public auction to the
highest bidder, for cash IN gold coin of the
lea. all of the real property described in
said deed of trust to wit: The pieces or
narceIs of land situated in the counties of
Sacramento ana san Joaquin; State of Cal
The east one-fourth Cd of section ten
f,in the west one-half 90 of section
eIeven dD the southwest quarter Is. W.
IS and the west half wv. ~ of the north
west ~ a. quarter On. w. "a of Section two "a.
ali in township five 90 north, range eight
1S9 east of Mount Diablo base and merid-
ian. containing 720 acres. and known as
Together with the Improvements and
appurtenances thereto belonging.
Stockton, Cal, November 2, 1896.
FRED. NJ WEST Trustee.
w w. WESTBAY. Trustee
nfs-td
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NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS.

SEALED BIDS WILL BE RECEIVED
by the Board of Supervisors of Sacramento
County, at their Office, on / street, between
sixth and Seventh streets, up to o'clock
p. M, on November IS, 1896, for the per-
formance Of work required on the upper
Stockton road extending from the Cosum-
nes River southerly about one mile The
work to consist In the grading up of a
roadway 16 feet in width and to a hight
of "a feet above high water mark, and in
full conformity to specifications on file
with the Clerk of the Board of Supervisors.
There will also be required about 229 lineal
feet OF trestlework as per specifications
on file. The grading will be contracted in
two sections, and separate bids will be re-
ceived for the trestlework. The estimated
amount of grading required is IS, 139 cubic
yards Of earth on the first section, and
14,6015 cubic yards of earth on the second
section.
Each bid must be accompanied by a GER
titled check payable to the order of the
Chairman of the Board Of Supervisors in
an amount equivalent to 10 per cent of the
aggregate amount Of the bid submitted. as
a guarantee of good faith. The board re-
serves the right to reject any or all bids.
By order OF the said board.
Attest: (SeaL) w. B. HAMILTON,
nS-10t CLARK
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WAS CONTENTED.
Had Heard of But One Man He'd
Change Places With.

WAL, no." drawled Mr.. Lafe Sunk
lands, a prominent citizen of Arkan-
saw, slowly removing the stem of his
corncob pipe from his mouth to reply
to the inquiry of the drummer from the
North, Il don't reckon I am discomfort
ed yere, an I don't know as l see any
reason why l should be. My land Is
kinder thin, an the old woman can tend
the crops as we'll as not. I'm sorter
ailin' the most of the time myself, an
SO she hain't got no excuse for alwers
pesterin' at me to work myself to death,
like some fellers' wives is. Gavin pone
an side-meat is good enough fer me,
an as long as l get plenty O them, an
my quinine an terbacker regular
hain't got no complaints to make.
Once in while the cars run over a
hawg or two fer me, an I git little
speck o. money. I've got so burcussed
many children that thar's alwers plenty
o the big ones to look out fer the little
ones an keep 'em from gittin' under
foot. l can whip my son-in-law, an
so he can't crow over me like a heap o
son-in-laws does. Wife, she usu'ly
scratches something together to sell to
git money enough fer us to take in the
circus. Right smart O a woman, my
wife is. An then thar's camp meetin'
an vandoos an linchin's every now an
then an they're all free. The fishin' Is
middlin' an the huntin' tolerable.
"Lawd, podner why shouldn't feller
be contented when he gifts what he
wants an don't give ding fer nothin'
mo-? If he's got all he keers fer he's as
rich as anybody, an I'm fixed 5eest
about that-a-way. I don't rickylec' that
l ever hankered to change places with
anybody but once. That was when l
heered a stranger, down yere at the
sto', readin' out of a newspaper that
thar was a man over in Rooshy that
owned $4,000 dawgs."-Harper's Bazar.