Kansas City daily journal., 1897-02-10
OF CURRENT INTEREST.

other side. and the mother intends going
back there next season with the reputation
this ball will give her. Another reason is
that the Vanderbilts are in mourning That
Is certainly remarkable reason why Mrs
Martin should spend $2JOOO0 on fancy
dress ball. but that seems to be the case.
Society here has its queens and its queens,
says the New York correspondent of the
P1ttsburg Dispatch. and the set in which
Mrs. Martin shines feebly is at daggers'
points with the Vanderbiits. The latter
can do nothing to eclipse this season. hence
along with that title-the fancy ball.
A good story is current in Berlin court
circles concerning Emperor William 1t
seems that the other day he was inspect-
ing number of newly Joined recruits for
the first regiment of foot guards, and in
accordance with his invariable custom,
was examining them as to what they
would do in this or that emergency Ad-
dressing one burly Pomeranian. he inquired
what he would say to man who an
noyed him while on sentry duty. Go to
the devil. Get out" your majesty" re-
sponded the recruit. "All right my friend.
exclaimed the emperor. laughing, "I'T get
out. but l won't go to the devil" and
with a laugh he turned to the next man
The king of Sweden in whom the people
of the United States have been interested
of late in connection with the AngIo-
American treaty. celebrated his 6sth birth
day on Thursday. His majesty succeeded
his brother, the late King Charles Nv. on
September Is, 1872. King Oscar married
Princess Sophie OF Nassau in 1851 and has
four sons. the oldest of whom is married
TO the daughter of the grand duke of Ea-
den. The second has borne the title of
Count of Wisborg since his marriage TO
Miss Ebba Munck, and the two younger
sons are unmarried.
General George Washington Gusts Lee
has resigned the active presidency of
Washington and Lee university. and at the
end of the current college year he will be-
come president emeritus. He is the eldest
son of General Robert E. Lee and Mary
Custis-at once the grandson of Light
Horse Harry" and the great-grandson of
Martha Washington. He was graduated
from West Point at the head of his class.
and entered the Confederate army. upon
the secession of Virginia but saw little of
active service, being attached to the per-
sonal staff of Jefferson Davis.
1t is designed in restoring the old home
of John and Abigail Adams, at Quincy.
Mass. TO preserve for future generations
a good example of the New England cot
tage of the last century. The house is a
little less than 200 years old. and in it more
than century ago John Adams and his
bride began their housekeeping John
Quincy Adams was born there in 1861
Everything in the house that was not there
originally has been removed as far as prac-
ticable, revealing the old smoke Drowned
joists, floor boarding etc
Professor Moses Colt Tyler. of Cornell.
said the other evening in a lecture that
while Washington's reputation as a SOL
der and statesman was safe. he was In
real danger from the humorists of the tut
ure. This was owing to the fact that
Washington. the real man, had never been
very well known, and is now almost for
gotten. having been replaced in the pop
lar mind by a myth type almost equally
compounded of the heroic, the priggish and
the statuesque.
The Green Bag tells this story of Judge
Wilson, of Ohio: Several lawyers gath
cred in Judge Wilson's room after adjourn-
ment of court and were discussing TIE re-
tirement of a member of the Tar. Among
them was one whose practise is worth S25,-
900 year. He said: I have been practic-
ing several years and am well fixed. / have
thought l should like to retire and devote
my remaining years to studies have reg
lected.' Study law, said Judge Wilson,"
The annual report of Secretary of Asri-
culture Morton. just issued. gives the
name of every Individual to whom the
100000 pounds of garden and flower seeds
distributed during the year were sent. This
enormous amount of seed. the secretary
says, would require seventy-nve mail cars
to carry it, and it has cost the postoffice
department no less than 100000 to trans
port it to the thousands of citizens to whom
It was sent.
Kendall county. Tex, which has a large
German population. voted for Mckinley al
most two to one. There are only two chat
tel mortgages on crops in the county, the
total amount of which Is $50, and last year
the county Jail had only sixrean inmates.
Delta county, in the same state, voted for
Bryan by a majority of more than iiye to
one and it had 100 mortgages on crops, the
total amount OF which was So, sd.
One of the latest devices for running n
sewing machine or other light machinery
In a series of gear wheels in a casing,
steel spring being coiled on the shaft of
the largest wheel, the winding being done
by means of lever extending in front OF
the machine on the end of which Is a
seat for the operator. the action of rising
and sitting down winding the spring. the
mechanism being controlled by brake on
the fiywheel.
Is it wrong to laugh In church? Is hu-
NOR out of place in the pulpit? The Rev.
DIR. Abbott says no to both propositions.
In this respect he seems to be following in
the path of his distinguished predecessor
in the Plymouth church pulpit. Rev. Henry
Ward Beecher. who used to make his con-
gregation smile oftener than he made them
weep.
The Cycle Club OF Brooklyn has a unique
class in what might be called hygienic cy-
cling. The pupils are given all the infor-
nation necessary to the health OF woman
cycIist-the best position to assume, the
best clothing to wear and the best nour-
ishment to take. Mrs. Paula Croy. of the
Royal gymnasium, Copenhagen, is the in
structor.
The pope's golden rose is destined this
year for the Duchess Maria Theresa, wife
of the crown prince of Wurtemberg. The
rose is an artistic creation in gold and pre-
cious stones, executed by the Vatican jew
eler. and is bestowed in mid-Lent on some
Catholic princess who has been conspicu-
Gus for her services TO the church.
Nine. Dieulafoy. wife OF the famous ex-
plorer and Orientalist, is one of the very
few women permitted by the French gov
ernment to wear masculine dress. Nine.
Dieulafoy accompanied her husband to the
Orient clad in boys attire for conven-
ience, and retained the garb when she re-
turned to civilization