The herald., 1897-07-18

| the legation one DAY last week, anu All
| talking with the minister the conversa-
| ton turned on the practice Of foot bind
| ing.
would you have your daughters foot
| bound?" asked ore of the women. The
min ister's face did not change expreS 81
sion in the slightest degree.
Madam" he said in the excellent Eng
| lish he speaks, madam, l have TO
| daughter
GRANTS GOODNESS
1t is related that when Grant was
lieutenant in the army and was counting
the lady whom he married, there &C.
Cured an event to which he never re-
verted without a shudder. When the
water is high in the Mississippi the
swift current abrades the banks. and
they frequently "cave in" for several
yards or rods at time. In early spring,
in one of their afternoon explorations,
Lieut.. Grant and the young lady were
riding along the bank of the river pass
ing from one cove or valley to the mouth
of another. Miss Dent was nearest the
water. The land was but a few feet
above the surface of the turbulent
stream.
sink. The earth had given way under
his hind feet. Grants horse was close
beside hers. In an instant he saw that
her horse was sinking into the awful
abyss!
Grants cool head and splendid horse
manship here had an opportunity to
display theselves. Quick as flash he
leaned over, threw his right arm around
Miss Dents waist and drew her to him
as her horse disappeared in the seethine
and murky edge that moment later
boiled and surged in angry tumult over
the place where bank and horse had van
ished from sight.
Fortunately the earth parted between
the two animals, leaving Grants horse
on solid ground. Lifting nd'firmly hold
ing Miss Dent and applying the spur to
his horse he was on safe ground in a
moment. Then he gently lowered her
to the earth-all this without word
from 1.-The silent man" or a scream or
murmur from her.
AS he FASTENED back to rescue her
horse she stood holding the bride of his
outwardly as composed as if nothing had
happened.
TRAVELLED LIKE A KING
The eccentric William L. Winan5, who
died recently in London, was son OF
the inventor and locomotive builder
Ross Winans of Baltimore. The father
made fortune from his great railway
supply works at Baltimore years ago
and his son found a gold mine in the
building of the st. Petersburg and Mos
COW railroad for the Russian govern
ment. William L. 8 narrow escape from
shipwreck on the way over TO Russia
frightened him so that he never return ed
home and he married and settled in Eng
land, where the sweep of his imperial
fortune, particularly in the requirement
and conduct of great game preserves
kept him we'll in the public eye. He new
er travelled except in a special train, an6
had no taste for singing other thar
PATHS. One of his hobbies was the in
vention and construction of various de-
signs of cigar shaped ships, on three Of
which he spent 100000 to no purpose
whatever. His was an example of greaI
wealth held to crafty only his own
whims and vanities.
CIRCLES HIS PERIODS
First Assistant Postmaster General P
S. Heath signs his name in a. way that
excites the curiosity of many who see
his autograph. After his name he al
ways places a period within a small cir
Gle.
The signature would not be complete
without his supplemental mark, and
the first assistants check would not be
honored at the bank if the circled peri
ODDS were omitted.
Members of the universal postal con-
grees, noticing this pecliarity were puz-
zled to know what American secret So
cety it indicated, as they regarded IL
as a mystic emblem known only to mem
bers of the order for which it stood.
The fact is Mr.. Heath has carried with
him mark learned as a printer, news
paper correspondent and editor AS a
writer and editor he was accustomed tt
circling his periods, and, he got in
the habit of doing it at the end of his
signature.
He formed the habit many years ago
and now the emblem Of the newspaper
office appears on every official document
Mr.. Heath signs as first assistant Oh
acting postmaster general.
NOT AFRAID OF THE COLD
After his return from Europe the late
Tolman Wiley of Boston one day came
into the courtroom to see James A. VIII
lard, and gave him a very entertaining
account of his travels, particularly il
England. He changed the topic quite
suddenly and asked if Mr. Willard hai
ever been in the provinces-in Annapo
lis, Nova Scotia. Mr.. Willard said HI
had. He ased if he had ever noticed {
certain fine property there, which HI
considered a gem. Mr.. Willard agreet
. with him. He said he was going dowi
there to buy it, and quit this disgusting
New England He said: while I wa.
negotiating for it gentleman said t
me: Mr.. Wiley, do you intend to liv,
here in winter?' Why not, sir?' I said
Why said he, the mercury goes dowi
here to ten degrees below zero. VIII
great contempt I said: Eth! Where
was born, sir, my father one Saturda,
too me into meeting house which sa
on four stone posts with no other under
pinning. I sat in that church and lis
tened to sermon on hell for sixty min
, ues, with the wind bowling underneath
the church and blowing forty miles al
minute, with no fire in the stove ant
the mercury forty degrees below zero
, don't you think can live here, sir? D,
you think was born in sugar box ant
nursed on heliotropes?'