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The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-26
Fought Account of an Article
Which the Newspaper Man Had
in the Echo DE Paris.
EDITORS SHOULDER GOUGED
BLOOD AND FLESH on CHIMAY'S
BLADE WHEN WITHDRAWN.
The Runaway Princess Not Allowed to
bIe-Duchess of YOrk's Baby.

PARIS. April 25.-The outcome Of an ar
ticle by NJ. Clemenceau. in the Echo de
Paris. was a duel with swords this morn
ing between NJ. Clemenceau and Prince
Caraman de Chimay. Both were wounded
simultaneously. Clemenceau receiving
cash in the right arm and the prince
slight scratch on the shoulder.
NJ Clemenceau's article in the Echo de
Paris characterized the interference with
the right of the Princess de Chimay TO APP
pear at the Foles Bergere as shameful.
The writer said her fortune was entirely
spent before she was divorced. and that
the sixty pounds per night for which she
had been engaged would help to keep her
not merely from descending lower, but also
provide clothes, food and other comforts of
life.
What business" said the writer, had
the prefect of Paris or any higher person
age to prevent her from going on the stage
of the Foles Bergere? What was the honor
OF the Chimay family to them?"
The Prince de Chimay sent a challenge to
NJ. Clemenceau by Sobeig, the well-known
fencing master, and Nj. De Berda. NJ. Glenn
enceau's seconds were NJ. George Perrin and
NJ Ranc The Prince de Chimay refused to
allow the matter to be referred to an arbi-
traitor and insisted on an apology or a duel.
NJ. Clemenceau declined to apologize. The
fight was very lively, the Prince de Chimay
ripping a severe wound in the shoulder Of
his antagonist between the great pectoral
muscle and the deltoid. The flesh was torn
off on the point of the sword. but no serious
consequences are expected by the surgeons.
The Princess de Chimay is pictoriaIly rep
resented all over Paris in poses plastiques,
in every variety of dress and undress.
Crowds gather around the pictures.
Daughter Born to Duchess of York.
LONDON, April 25.-The Duchess of
York was safely delivered of daughter
at York cottage, Sandringham, at S:So
o'clock this afternoon. Mother and child
are both well. Yesterday a rumor regard
ing the sudden death of the Duchess of
York which had been carried from the
palace, was officially denied.
Stories of the sudden demise of the wife
of one of the Queens grandsons were cir
culated in London at an early hour and
spread with remarkable rapidity. Repeated
attempts were made at Marlborough
House and and st. James Palace to either
verify or disprove the rumor, but without
success. The report of her death was spread
throughout
citement Inquiries poured in from all the
shires but no satisfactory answer could
be given. After several hours of suspense
a bulletin was issued from Sandringham,
where the unexpected death of the duchess
was reported to have taken place, stating
that there was no truth in the report.
The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1897-04-26
Cincinnati Trains
C.,H, e. y, R'V,
TOLEDO AND DETROIT TRAINS,

c., n. O. nv.
Leave Arrive Arrive
Indianapolis: Toledo: Detroit:
elO:45 am. s6:40 pm. Hs:40 pm.
705 pm 400 am. els am.
Except Sunday.
Ticket Offices, Union Station and No. West
Washington street. corner Meridian.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
RUSH AFTER BEET SUGAR SEEDS
Farmers in All Parts of the Country
TO Experiment on New Industry.

The agricultural department is being
importuned from all parts of the coun-
try for beet sugar seed. In view of the
unsatisfactory prices received for staple
crops during the past few years and the
prospective increase in the duty on
sugar farmers in all sections of the
union evidently intend to experiment
with beet sugar culture. Heretofore
beet sugar growing has been confined
almost exclusively to Nebraska, Kan
sas and California. The agricultural
department has sent beet seeds this
spring to about thirty states and ter
ritories. The demand comes from Ohio.
Indiana, Illinois, Michigan, the Dakotas,
Texas, New Mexico, Iowa, Wisconsin,
Minnesota, Tennessee, Kentucky anG
Virginia. There have also been re-
quests from Pennsylvania and New
York. \ Nebraska sugar refining
company donated five tons of beet seed
to the department and the department
purchased two tons additional. The
supply is about exhausted, but the de.
mand continues. If successful the in
dustry probably will be developed in
many of the states in which expert
ments are made this year, supplanting
corn and wheat.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
STRANGER THAN FICTION
Erstwhile Lunatic Now Crowned
Ruler Over Syrian Chaldeans.
John Joseph NOuri. Once Confined in
Asylum in California. Now Show
cred with Honor and
Riches.

The strangeness of truth has often
been commented upon as exceeding the
most fancifu flights of fiction. An
illustration of this is furnished in the
career of John Joseph Nouri, who has
been crowned patriarch at the Chaldean
pontifcal cathedral at Trichur, Mala-
lar, and is ruler over Syrian Chaldeans.
Four years ago he was committed by
Judge Walter II. Levy to the asylum
for the inane at Napa and there he re-
manned until September, 1898, when by
the efforts of NJ. NJ. Foote, president of
the California Association for the Pro-
lection of Persons, he was restored to
liberty.
Rev. Chalmers Easton, formerly a
Presbyterian minister in San Francisco,
now of Washington, D. c., is credited with
having learned the facts in letter from
Rev. John H. BarroYs, of Chicago, who
is at present travelling in India.
On June 90, 1892. there arrived in San
Francisco from India. man who, by his
dress, his manner and his speech was
easily recognized as an Oriental re-
ligious student. Not less remarkable
than his appearance was the story he
told. He claimed to have discovered the
remains of Noah's ark. on the summit of
Mount Ararat.
When released from the asylum Nouri
claimed to have been robbed of four
medals studded with diamonds, valued
at 50, 500, the gift of the Chaldean Greek
church, of a negotiable note for $4,000
and of his credentials.
DR.. Chalmers Easton believed in him
and helped him in his journey eastward.
Later on he displayed his knowledge of
Greek and in Washington, at the Smith
sonian institute translated the hero
glyphics on some tablets there with
surprising ease. Intent on making his
journey around the world. he Travelled
on to London and from there came in
May, 1894, the story that he intended to
sue the United States government for
100000 damages for his ill-treatment
While on his sojourn here. Now comes
the climax to the story in the letter
from Rev. John II. Barrows. declaring
that John Joseph NOuri, the deposed
king of the Chaldeans. has been re-
stored, that his claims have been recog-
nized and that the man who was booked
as "unkempt and with the black luster
eye of lunatic" is living in splendor in
palace in Trichur.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14

An English poet tells of an inspector
of schools who was one day examining
a class of village school children, and
who asked what was meant by pilgrim.
A boy answered: ~ man who travels
from ore place to another" The inspec-
tor, with elaborate patience, hoping to
elucidate intelligence, said: well, but
I am a man who travels from one place
to another. Am Pilgrim" Where
upon the boy promptly exclaimed: "Oh,
but please, sir, l meant a good man."
The inspector enjoyed the Jest exceed
ingly.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
SOME FRENCH DUELS.
Girardin Killed Armand Carrel, n
POpuIcr Idol.

Popular Idol.
The most proSatc, the most bourgeois
of all eminent French statesmen and
historians. the late NJ. Adolphe Theirs,
fought Il duel when a young man with
the irate father of pretty girl whom
Theirs, while anxious to marry, did not
wed, because he was too poor 10 support
her, says the Cornhill Magazine. Shots
were exchanged without results and the
combatants embraced. The famous
journalist and litterateur, NJ. Emile de
Girardin, editor of La Presse, fought
four duels in 1894 with the editors of
other Partisan journals because, the
annual subscription of French daily
newspapers being at that time so francs,
he had reduced the price of La Presse
by one-half, with the result that the
circulation of his paper was enormously
increased. In the last of these duels he
had the misfortune to kill Armand Car
rel, a man of talent and popular idol.
Girardin, who was shot in the hip, had
fingered between life and death for
weeks before he recovered from his
wound, and never, in spite of repeated
provocations, could he be induced to
fight another duel. "Dueling," he said,
lis fault of our. education against
which our intelligence protests" But
in France you must have killed your
man to be able to say that.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
THE NORMANS.
All the Land They Once Owned Now
in Possession of the SRxOns.

Historians are constantly reminding
people that there is scarcely foot of
sod owned in England now by the de-
scendants of the Norman conqIerors,
all the property having gradually come
again into the possession of the SaXons,
who originally owned it. One of the
rare exceptions to this state Of things is
Trafrord Park, which until a year ago
remained in the possession of the same
family which has held it for over 800
years, the Traffords of Traf'ord. Ran
dolph, lord of Trafford, who lived in the
reigns of Canute and Edward the Con-
fessor, dying about 1850, was the head
of this ancient house. which for 800
years has employed an unbroken line
of male successors, and whose land has
not suffered alienation during all the
changes of this time. The old place is
one of the most romantic and pic
turesque spots in all England. and, ly-
ing as it does just without the city of
Manchester, it is greatly admired by
visitors. There are nearly 1000 acres
in the estate The hall will shortly be
turned into hotel and the grounds
converted into parks, golf links, race
courses, etc. \ considerable portion of
the fine old land will be devoted to ship
ping, as il lies along canals connecting
directly with the ocean. 1t was only
last year that the estate passed from
the hands of it's .old-time owners into
the possession of a company, which is
dividing it up and selling it to various
purchasers.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
CONVICT TRANSFER TROUBLES.
Contractors Mt Michigan City, Ind,
object to New Labor.

Contractors Mt Michigan City, Ind,
object to New Labor.
The transfer of convicts from the
Jeffersonville penitentiary is causing
the authorities of the prison at Michi-
gan City, Ind, lots of trouble. The
Allen Manufacturing company, makers
of bicycles, has refused 40 convicts ten
dered them by the warden on the
ground that they were not the grade
of convicts that their contract called
for, their contract calling for young,
able-bodied men. The contractors claim
that the young men were transferred
to Jacksonville and that the convicts
rendered them were old, bad of sight
and slow of tingers-that their works
have been damaged, and this at time
when they need the very best men, their
contracts having been made for the
season with the dealers. 1t looks as if
a suit for damages would be commenced
against the state by this company. A
protest was filed with the governor,
board of directors, wardens and state
officers the day the prisoners were
moved, which those in a position to
know believe was the first step toward
such a suit. The law has already been
declared unconstitutional by two of the
lower courts, but no steps have been
taken to appeal the matter to the courts
of last resort.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
High Art Posters in Paris

The fad of collecting high art post
ers" is receiving a checkin France, as
it deserves to wherever it involves van
dalism. On all the posters recently put
up in and about Paris may be found a
warning: Gas this poster can neither
be given nor sold, anyone found with it
in his possession will be prosecuted as
a receiver of stolen goods"
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
STREET CAR EMPLoYE IN LUCK.
Albert Mnrehn, of Toledo, Is Heir to
POrnerty in Germany.


One of the employees of the Toledo CO..
Traction company, named Albert
Marehn, has just been apprised of the
fact that he is a large beneficiary un-
der the will of late relative in. Ger
many, and he received his notification
in Il most novel manner.
A few days ago, before Mayor Major
turned over the keys of the city. to
Mayor Jones, he received a ponderous
looking Official document addressed to
His Honor, the Mayor of the City of
Toledo, Ohio, United States, North
America" Within was a beautifully
eLgrossed document bearing the same
address, but the body of the communi-
cation was in German. 1t was signed
with several imposing signatures and
official seals, and his honor, not under
standing German, was at a loss to know
its contents. He turned the letter over
TO newspaper man, who was unable to
get the gist of the letter, and the docu-
ment was returned to Mr.. Major while
on street car. Mr.. Major then passed
it on to a third gentleman for examina-
ton, and as he did 50 man at his elbow
exclaimed:
my name is in that letter, please let
me see it." The communication was
at once handed over to him, and as he
read the face of the German laborer
broadened and was wreathed in smiles
Finishing. he informed Mr.. Major that
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14

it was an official court inquiry from a
German court for information concern
ing the whereabouts of one Albert
Marehn, for whom the authorities had
been looking for six years. The letter
stated that Marehn had recently been
traced to Toledo, but it had been i'm
possible to locate him there. Marehn is
a worthy street car employe, living in a
modest cottage on Auburn avenue.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
Population of Canada,

The Canadian department of agricul-
ture estimates the population of the
dominion to be 5,125, Asa gain of
rather less than 100000 since the census
of 1891. In 1890 there were two states
of the union that exceeded Canada in
population-New York, with $685., 1875
inhabitants, and Pennsylvania, with
5,25S,O14.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
Rate for the brazilian Loan.

1t is stated that the recent loan of
s1,0o0,0oO made to the Brazilian gov
eminent by the new French bank estab-
lished at Rio de Janeiro was made at
the rather unusual rate of eight per
cent. per annum.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
American Cheese in Europe.

American cheese was known in iEu-
rope before 1851, but the product was
not so highly esteemed as the Eu-
ropean article, because being made by
the wives and daughters of American
farmers the quality was variable.
San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1897-05-14
Defective sight in Children.

An official examination shows that
about twenty-five per cent. of the pu-
pills in the public schools Of Minneapolis
have defective eyesight
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14
Telegraph Code For Deaf Mutes.
From the Boston Transcript.

A Texas doctor thinks it is time what
he terms 1.-The crazy-looking gesticula-
lions" of the old deaf-and-dumb system
should be discarded, and a clearer and
more intelligent method introduced. He
proposes that in all deaf-and-dumb insti-
tutions the training and education of the
scholars shall be based on telegraphic
system, without the voice, and, in great
measure, without gesticulation. AS a first
step the pupil IS to familiarze himself
with the symbols of the ordinary tele-
graph code. Instead of Instruments. how
ever he will use, in giving the indicating
signs, certain movements of the lips and
mouth and the index finger. In telegraphy
there are but three symbols-a dot and
two dashes of different lengths or small
dash and two long ones. Communications
in any civilized language can be expressed
by a combination of these symbols. In the
suggested system a pucker of the lips
would express a dot and a separation of
the lips to the required degree would in
dicate the dashes. At each end of a word
a slight movement Of the right hand or
right index finger is given; at the end of
each sentence touch of the lips with
the index finger. yes is implied by a
nod mo" by shake of the head, and 81
don't understand you" by a blink of the
eyes, etc. The preliminary training on this
system is first to give object-lessons, so
as to convey the true meaning OF each
word. After the pupil has made some pro-
gress a grammatical construction of the
language can be ventured upon The au-
thor Of the system contends that In this
way a pupil can be educated to a high
standard much more quickly than under
the old method. He believes II would not
take long TO make the system even grace
full. This practice of the muscles of the
face would not interfere with or mar the
expression Of the emotions. A smile or
a frown would retain It's natural meaning.
A communication could be given without
attracting special attention and the in
trinity OF the subject could often be con-
eealed. The system would virtually give
speech 10 the lips Of the deaf and dumb.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14

in the receptive condition the spathe "a
foot to eighteen inches long, will have
small drops of glutinous matter secreted
all over the surface and from the plant
is exhaled a most intensely disagreeable
odor like decaying animal matter This
odor is peculiarly adapted for the attrac-
ing of flies for flower fertilization.
A smilax, Ohe carrion fower) occurring
in our woods, exhales, when In full bloom,
a most disagreeable odor.
Flowers furnish many instances of or
gans developed, apparently, merely for the
attraction of insects--these organs having
no functional powers at all, but being
more shams.
The little narnassia, a saxifragaceous
plant bears a white flower, with ten sta
mens-five of which are at the base OF the
corolla and abortive, having no anthers
at all, but the tips Of their flaments are
very bright, looking exactly like so many
drops of glutinous liquid. possibly honey)
although the organs are perfectly dry.
Tt is undoubtedly the purpose of these to
attract insects with the expectation that
they will find honey secreted on these lit
tie apparent glands; but II Is altogether a
sham.
Flowers have certain colors particularly
attractive to insects of a certain kind for
instance, in the Scrophulara lobosa, the
color-a chocolate brown-is particularly
attractive 20 the different kinds of wasps,
and this plant Is fertilized entirely by the
insects of this group.
The evening prmrose-opening about
dusk-has a very light linen-yellow color
for the attraction of night-hying moths,
by which, almost entirely, II Is fortified,
although It remains open during the day
to some extent, and may at that time re-
ceive some visits from bees, but IL Is pc
culiarly adapted to fertilization by night
flying moths.
The other species of the primrose family
(so called are fortified by bees. which, Of
course, are day-fying.
The relationship Of insects to flowers is
a very interesting field OF study-there yet
remaining very many species OF which
there is nothing at all known from this
standpoint.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14
TRAIN swITcHISG IN NEW YORK.
Complicated Railroad Work mt the
Grand Central station

From the New York Evening Post.
There Is what may be lkened to a mon
ster bagatelle board to be seen from the
viaducts crossing the New York Centrars
tracks from Forty sixth street and at 9TH
er street intersections up town In New
York city. The tracks constitute the
board; the trains must be substituted for
the ball and the levers which work the
switches are the cues. Then. as the trains
move into their berths, winding In and
out II would seem at times that they
must fall into pitfalls-mlsplaced switches
but they never do so. so that invariably
they reach their destination, while the ball
IN the game Is frequently less lucky-in
this particular the figure Is misapplied. IL
ls indeed, a finely arranged system that
can be operated almost without hitch
when 400 trains, some outbound, others
coming In, can be received and Dispatch
ed without accident or trouble. And the
man or men--six individuals enjoy the
same title-responsible for Il are the dis
patchers.
In a tower at the train entrance OF the
station sit two dispatchers (while some
repairs are being made they have taken
up quarters In the switch tower. They
are on duty together for eight hours, when
another crew takes their places. and dur
ing their period OF duty absolute concen-
traitor upon the work in hand is demand
ed Of them. They signal the switch tower
10 operate the switches; they ring bells
In the waiting rooms to warn passengers
Of the starting Of their trains, and they
ring a gong near the engines which In
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14
STRANGE colon PHOTocRAPHs.
A Process I'm Which No Pigments or
COIored washes or Combinations
OF GInss Are Used.
From the London Times.

From the London Times.
A private exhibition was given day or
two ago Of some Of the results obtained
by the new process OF color photography
which has been devised by a Cornish gem
tleman, Mr. Bennetto. The methods and
indeed the principle employed, remain the
secret of the inventor, and IL IL intended
that they shall remain so until several
more details and applications OF the in
vention have been more fully worked out
All that As at present known is that the in
ventor who has been occupied with the
subject for the last eight years, claims 20
have discovered the first true and direct
system Of color photography by which
can be transferred 90 a Photographic mega
tive and thence printed on glass or paper
the exact natural colors Of the object to-
ward which the camera has. been directed.
lie employs no pigments, his plates have
not 10 be washed with various colored 90
lutions. and u " not necessary to v9w
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14

Mime. Tussaud" paid Or. Nansen S.
900 for the blubber-soaked suit he wore
when he met Mr.. Jackson on the ice OF
Franz Josef Land.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14

The Neckwear idea as ex-
plotted by us is to please
even the hypercritical. We Do IT.
No Neclkwear like ours. Our 500 and 75o
lines are transcendent beauties.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14

Our Quality, Our Vari-
ETY., Our Quantity, Our
Prices. Those are the
ice cutters.
The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1897-03-14

Have you seen our
pretty line of Ladies
Belts. The very latest
fads out.