The leader., 1897-05-05


AK entcrprising undertaken in Mis-
souri, city has embalmed the corpse of
an Afrc-American citizen in order to
stand it up in his show window as an
example of his high skill in the occult
science of mummifying.
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CHRIsTIANA BoUNEKEssEI- of Besse-
mcr. Mich, died the other day at the
age of 9syears. She left a snug little
fortune to her 18th hSsband, who is
young man, and who had lived with
his venerable bride only few months
AMERICAN manufacturers, encour-
aged by the fact that paper railroad
rails have been successfully introduced
in Germany and Russia, are expert
menting along the same lines Paper
car wheels have given satisfaction for
many years.
THE municipal authorities of Nor
folk, Va, recently considered an ordi-
nance to tax newspapers. Daily morn
ing newspapers, it was proposed, should
pay 500, afternoon papers $50 and
weekly newspapers SIS per year for
license to do publishing business.
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THOUGH the tomb of Gen. Grant is
now practically completed there yet
remains some work of ornamentation
to be done. 1t is intended to place up
on the cap of the pyramidical top of
the monument a colossal statue of
Peace. Gen. Porter says that provi-
sion has been made for the erection of
this statue and that work upon it will
soon begin.
AFTER the adjournment of the COM
ing postal congress in Washington 1t
is proposed to take the foreign dele
gates on a special train and show them
the United States. This, it is said,
will be the most representative body
of men ever assembled, for upwards of
100 countries will be represented by
$50 delegates 1t is likely the trip will
take in the country between the At
lantic and Pacific oceans, and the spe-
cial train which will be chartered for
the occasion will be equipped in a
manner for which this country is justly
famous.
MISS MAUD LANCASTER is said to be
.cxciting Great Britain by her seeming
ly marvellous powers of telepathy. She
relates that in London lady sent for
her, stating that she thought some of
her servants had stolen her jewels.
They were passed in review before
Miss Lancaster, but she was convinced
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Going into another room she saw the
lady's husband and she was immedi-
ately convinced that he was the thief
The news was broken quietly to the
wife, and the man afterwards con-
fessed that he had taken the missing
gems
THE United States, with a popula-
ton, according to the census of 1890,
of so, 500, $50, maintains 352,S10 tele-
phone stations, or one to every 1872 of
the population. The combined popu-
lation of Europe, according to the
census of 1890, is 354, 957, 776, and they
maintain 1856, O37 telephone stations, or
one to every $40 of the population. The
conversations over the telephone in the
United States amount to 757, 900, 600 per
year; in Europe they amount to 767,-
100, 1924. IL is generally admitted that
the telephone service of this country
is better than anywhere else in the
world.
A GOLD medal, concentrating the
completion of the Grant monument,
has been presented to Gen. Horace
Porter by the American Numismatic
and Archaeological society in New
] York. 1t is az inches in diameter,
and has raised likeness of Gen. Grant
on one side and a reproduction of the
monument on the other. Fac SMILES
have been struck off in silver and will
be presented to Mrs. Grant, President
Mckinley, Mayor Strong, Ii Hung
Chang, Queen Victoria, President
Faure of France, Pope Leo XIII. and
. the emperors of Germany, Russia and
Japan.
~. AT a church in South River, n. J..
recently the pastor allowed phono-
graph to go through the service. The
photograph started in with violin
solo, then a psalm was recited. Next
came the words Let us pray" and a
hearty prayer was turned out by the
instrument, but the congregation
smiled for they recognized the voice
of their pastor. Then the sermon was
given by the photograph, followed by
an orchestral rendition of chorus
from the Messiah" and, at the con-
clusion of this novel service, it was the
monograph and not the pastor that
gave the benediction.
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A MEMBER of the Buffalo bar esti-
mates that there are so, 900 lawyers in
the United States; while in New York
state, with tenth of the country's
population, there abide at least sixth
of this entire body of lawyers. In
every city east of the Mississippi there
are more lawyers than there are legiti-
mate cases in court for them to take
care of. In the smaller cities one can
count on the fingers of both hands the
lawyers who earn a good living in
come, but one cannot count the other
lawyers who are forced to exc out a
precarious income by playing second
fiddle to the more prosperous
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THE plan of Booth-Tucker to place
the poor of the cities in charge of large
tracts of arid lands of the west is an
interesting and hopeful scheme, at
tractive alike to the sociologist and
irrigationist. He is thoroughly con-
versant with the subject of irrigation
as practiced in India, where he was
located for a number of years, and is
probably the best living authority on
the subject of practical charity, having
gained his experience as the foremost
representative of the Salvation army,
which has done much to relieve the
distress and improve the morals of the
miserable classes in the cities.
FITZGERALD, Ga, is far from having
fallen into decay, as has been declared
to be the case. The place was colo
nized by Grand Army men about two
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