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Urls WHO GO ABROAD.
AMERICAN WOMEN IN DEMAND FOR
THEIR BEAUTY AND WIT.
Lavish Entertainments in Contemplation
for the Queens Jubilee-Trim "Angie"
Gerry and Her Swell Gowns-The
New Society-"How to Look Young"

Lavish Entertainments in Contemplation
for the Queens Jubilee-Trim "Angie"
Gerry and Her Swell Gowns-The
New Society-"How to Look Young"
Especial New York Letter.)
American women are much sought
after abroad because of their brilliant
conversational powers and natural wit.
1t is the perfect freedom with which the
fair daughters of Uncle Sam move that
has brought about the revolt of Eng
lands daughters. Societies called
"The Revolving Daughters" have
sprung up in great numbers, and to-
day the issue is still stirring one.
Entertainments of great splendor
will be given during the Diamond Ju-
bilee, headed by Consuelo, Duchess OF
Marlborough, who is the pet OF the
younger set, and by her intimates IS
called the "Geisha," because OF her
Japanese style of coiffure. Others
taking part will be Lady Terence
Blackwood, who was Miss Flora Davis
and is married to a younger son OF that
great statesman and diplomat, Lord
Dufferin; Lady Naylor Leland, who,
as Jennie Chamberlain, of Cleveland,
turned half the crowned heads of Eu-
rope by her exquisite pink and white
coloring and cameo-like beauty; the
Countess of Essex, who will be re-
membered as Miss Adele Grant; the
stately Mrs. George N. Curzen, wife
of The brilliant young Under-Secretary
for Foreign Affairs, who was Miss
Mary Letter, of Chicago; the Hon.
Mrs. Joseph Chamberlain, whose hus-
band is one Of the foremost men in Eu-
ropean politics to-day (she was Miss
Endicott, of New Haven), Lady Gray
Edgerton, who was Miss Cuyler, of
New Jersey, and Cornelia, Countess OF
Craven, Mr.. Bradley Martins daugh-
ter; to say nothing of the older set,
which includes LadyRandolph Church
ill. Mrs. Ronalds, Mrs. J. W. Mackay,
Lady William Beersford, Mrs. Ralph
Vivian formerly Mrs. Marshall 0.
Roberts) and host of others OF no
less social Importance.
All these have combined to show
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Modern iceboxes on wheels made up
into trains were sent northwsrd on
fast passenger train s'hedule. Chi
cago to-day is really receiving its
strawberries by fast mail, for the train
on which the Government transports
its North and South mails carries
berries by the thousand cases.
In the busiest part of the shipping
season the company runs a regular
strawberry train from the South. Cars
are picked up at all points where the
fruit is grown, made up into one train
and sent through to Chicago at the rate
of fifty miles an hour.
During the first months of the year a
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Big Price a Great Auk's Egg.

A considerable amount of interest at
tached to the sale by auction this after
noon at Messrs. J. G. Stevens rooms,
in King street, Covent Garden, of a
very fine and perfect specimen of an
egg of the great aux. There was a very
large attendance, and after spirited
competition the bidding, starting at a
hundred guineas, quickly rose by five
and ten guinea bids until tie sum of
2SO guineas (about $l4OO) was reached,
at which price the egg was knocked
down to Mr.. T. G.. Middlebrook, F. O..
S., of the Edinburgh Castle Free
Museum, Mornington Road, N. W.
London st. James's Gazette.
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new service was inaugurated by the
American Express Company, which
had not been attempted in other years.
Heretofore regular trains for berries
had not been put on until the crop was
we'll along in the season, the output
being handled by regular freight trains,
which, however, made fast time.
Recently George F. Nosler, formerly
connected with the American company
at New Orleans, was made general
agent of the company at Chicago. He
interested his people in the berry busi-
ness of his former neighbors, with the
result that special line of refrigerator
cars was put into the Southern berry
trade. The cars are of the most mod
ern type and fruit is packed in them
and delivered from them in Chicago at
the same temperature. Cars are left
at such towns as Hammond, Amite
City, Tick Faw, Ponehatonla and Inde-
pendence. A freight train gathers
them up and runs them to McComb
City, where the cars are retilled with
ice and then hooked on the Govern
ment fast mail. Berries picked on
Saturday morning may be on Chicago
breakfast tables on Monday morning.
Six twenty-four pint boxes of berries
weigh 100 pounds and it costs 50 to
transport the six cases by express to
the Nhicago market By freight the
tariff is less. The time by express is
twenty-four hours faster. Quite re-
Gently the express company has found
it necessary to charter Especial engine
and crew by which train of strawber
ries exclusively is rushed to Chicago at
high speed.
There are 250 people living in or
near Hammond who ship from one to
fifty cases of berries daily Patches
run from one to five acres, though ten
acre fields are not unknown. Ben and
''Raz" Rogers were the pioneer straw
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Birds as Ventriloquists.

When you are out for a country
walk, and hear the cuckoo's cry, just
endeavor, if be is not already in sight,
to place him by the sound. You simply
can't do it! It's been tried dozens of
times, and always unsuccessfully. And
if the cuckoo is calling quite near you
in thick wook, you will probably be
unable to tell even which side of you
he is Nor is the cuckoo the only bird
which possesses this queer power of
ventriloquism. The robin, and some
times the thrush will alter their notes
in such way as to completely puzzle
you whether they are twenty yards
away or nearer fifty. Above all the
''cat-bird," little gray native of
America, will make you fancy young
kitten is weakly miaouing in the road
under your feet, while all the time the
little chap is laughing at you from the
sumach-bush 100 feet away.-Answers.
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English society that, while their views
of political institutions are republican,
their social views are broad enough to
allow them to take a most active part
in helping to swell the bubbles, that
are so dear to Britons when COM
memorating any event that concerns
the Crown.
The season in London is over early,
and in July the capital is practically
empty. Our society leaders will make
a point of getting back in time for the
Newport Horse Show and the festivities
that are to follow it.
Miss Angelica Gerry, Elbridge T.
Gerry's daughter, will be an early
arrival at Narragansett Bay. She is
an expert swimmer, and takes to water
like a duck. I saw some of her sum-
mer outfit and was astonished by the
sensibleness of her gowns; though 1
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Remarkable Discoveries in Greece.

A remarkable bronze statue of Posei.
don, nearly life size and attributed to
the sixth century, has just been dis
covered by fisherman in the sea near
Mount Citharon. On being taken out
of the water the body of it was found
to have suffered good deal from rust,
but the head and beard are intact,
and the hands only are missing. A
magnificent marble pedestal was also
discovered, bearing an inscription
showing it to have stood in the temple
of Neptune. The statue has been
placed in the museum at Athens and
has caused much interest among
archaologists, who are inclined to
class it with the Jupiter Olympus OF
Delnhi
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with the most luscious fruit of the
South. Since last Christmas it has
been shipping strawberries to Chicago
and is now supplying the Northern
market with the pickings of the second
crop.
The great desideratum at the start
was to get the fruit to market quickly.
In this matter the corporation which
began fostering the town at the start
came to the relief of the berry growers
by inaugurating and finally perfecting
q refrigerator service that went far
toward filling the requirements.
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CURIOUS FACTS.

The Japanese are the politest people
on earth.
. Calcutta, India, is the hottest city in
the world.
Minnesota's forest region is $50 miles
long and 200 wide.
From Germany we get the custom of
celebrating gold and silver weddings.
In Mexico the school children who
have done best a-e allowed to smoke
cigars while pursuing their lessons.
The combined age of five couples
who recently celebrated their golden
weddings at Wazemmes. in Belgium,
was just 800 years.
All the railway stations in Sweden at
which meals are served are known by
sign bearing the suggestive emblem
of crossed knife and fork.
A cherry tree in Dayton, Oregon,
which was recently blown down by q
storm, bore ton of fruit in season.
1t was set out over forty-fve years ago.
In the year 100 B. @. Hepparchion
counted 1912 stars with the naked eye,
and Holemans 1922. First-class tele-
scopes of to-day reveal over 100, ,OOO,-
900. ..
Canada claims to have the oldest
newspaper in America. The Halifax
Gazette made its first appearance in
1852, and is still published under the
name of the Royal Gazette. "
A Partisan lamplighter makes his
rounds on bicycle, with a long torch
carried over his shoulder. He guides
the wheel with his left hand, and is so
expert that he lights the lamps with
out dismounting. ..
A Bath (Me.) gunner was over in the
Woolwich woods and wounded rab-
bit, and before the hound could bring
him down the little sprite had reached
the river and had swan over 100 feet
before a second shot had ended his
career.
In one of the Canary Islands there is
a tree that, as the evening come on,
quite frequently rains down a copious
shower of water from it's tufted foliage.
This forms a pool at the base of the
tree, which the natives use as drinking
water, it being absolutely pure and
fresh.
Dowestoft, seaside place of fashion
in England, is the chief seat of the her
ring industry-in fact it possesses the
largest market of its kind in the world.
The busiest time of the year is the
midsummer and autumn or home fish,
ing. Herrings are bought at so much
hundred"
One of the paying professions of Paris
is said to be that of a trunk-packer.
In many of the little trunk stores you
can hire a man who will pack your
trunk artistically, folding expensive
gowns and other garments in tissue
paper, and slowing away delicate bric-
a-brac in the safest way. .,
DR.. Carl Dandstriner, President of
the Vienna Society for the Protection
of Animals, says that in the large cities
of Italy "huge piles of nightingales,
larks, 6nches, and of late, even swal-
lows" are seen on the market stalls.
These little creatures are caught by
the wholesale in fowlers' nets during
the fall of the year, when the birds are
migrating to the south.
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berry growers and shippers at this
point. They began fifteen years ago
and acquired fortune in the business.
They had formerly been engaged IN
breeding goats. They were led by
chance to set out some strawberry
plants which produced a return COM
pared with which goattesh dropped
out of sight.
The venture of the Rogers brothers
was noted and followed until even poor
Billy's back yard range was turned up
and set out in plants. Where once the
combative William held sway among
discarded tinware and hoopskirts
million "NIitchell early's' bloom and
Weld in the greatest abundance. A
Ponchateula woman who ran a large
farm bought the goat herd and she, in
turn, finally disposed of them in favor
of strawberry growing at 81 case.
The acreage here probably exceeds
1900 and it is increasing yearly. A
single days shipment has reached as
high as five carloads and nearly the
entire output goes to Chicago.
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Man With a Patent Thumb.

Jere Kormeny recently lost thumb
in a planning mill. Mr.. Kormeny is
said to be the most skilful turner in
York, but the absence of the lost thumb
was considerable handicap upon him
in his work. he set about repairing
the defect in very practical way by
rigging on to his hand leather thumb
stuffed with cotton and hardened at
the end. The experiment proved .
big success and the leather member,
while not entirely replacing the
original thumb, is so thoroughly under
control that Mr.. Kormeny can largely
manipulate it at will and is working as
we'll as ever on the lathe.-York
PENN Gazette.
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The floor should be care

of the stone. The floor should be care
fully coated with concrete and cement
ed, and tile drain should be laid from
the lowest point to run off water that
may gather as a result of accident.
There should be windows on at least
two sides, in order that there may be
a draft through the cellar. In cottages
and detached houses there should be
windows on all sides. A door open
ing directly into the outer air is an
excellent feature. There should be
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Der to place under the rails while the
track was being surfaced near Benson
last summer after the washout. Mr..
Semonis accidently stuck splinter in
his right hand near the little finger,
which he paid but little attention to
for several days, and finally went to
see doctor in regard to extracting it.
The doctor made several incisions and
failing to find it began to poultice for
the little stick. This was continued
for seventy days, when finally the
splinter came out of it's own accord,
leaving the hand in bad condition,
for which he brought suit against the
road for the injury received, and the
jury gave him a verdict for $780,
Franklin (Ky.) Argus.
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A Chinese Giant.

At Yunan Foo Mr.. and Mrs. B.. D.
McIlrath, the wheeled correspondents
of the Chicago erOcean, who are
cycling through China on bicycle
tour around the world, met Chang, a
Chinese giant, who towers seven feet
nine inches in the air. The photo
graph taken of the party with the giant
in the centre shows his wonderful pro-
portions, MIR. McIlrath, although con-
siderably above the average height Of
men, being six feet and three-quarters
of an inch tall, sinking into insignif-
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RRIES IN THE SOUTH.
BUSINESS OF RAISING SMALL
(UlTS FOR NORTHERN MARKETS.

- Strawberry Enterprise in Louisiana
How the Early Berry Comes to Chi
cago at Cold-Storage temperatures
Glimpses of Berry Pickers at Work.
Less than a dozen years ago. says a
Hammond (La) letter to the Chicago
Record, little colony of Chicago and
Illinois people came down here to join
others from different sections of the
country in founding a new town.
Among the number who were active in
giving the place good start was j. F.
Merry, of the Illinois Central Railroad,
who offered every reasonable induce
ment to those who desired to take up
their abode in a warmer climate than
that of Chicago.
Early in its upward growth Ham
mopd began supplying Chicago tables
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Art for Week DAYS Only.

The picture galleries at South Kens-
ington Museum present rather curl
GUS appearance on Sundays, when 8
number of the paintings are concealed
behind green baize curtains. The e1-
planation of this phenomenon is that
the works so hidden from the public
gaze belong to the collection of MIR.
Ellison, who, in the deed of gift, ex-
pressly stipulated that they should not
be exhibited on Sundays.
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need not have been, as she is a girl
whose makeup is common sense. She
is as lithesome and graceful as fawn,
is a gymnast of skill and keeps herself
in acrobatic trim, as her whole appear
ance indicates.
But to describe her frocks: A
travelling dress of green tweed mixture
had perfectly plain skirt, and dainty
-fronted jacket was finished with
two fancy revers. Another stylish suit
of terra-cotta melton was made with an
English box coat which has lap seam
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A $4,000 SPLINTER,

A most remarkable judgment was
rendered by jury in our Circuit Court
on Tuesday afternoon. 1t was the
case of Semonis vs.. the L. and N.
Railroad Company, in which the plain
tiff asked for $4,000 damages for in
juries received on the defendants road
while helping to carry piece of tim
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This house can be built in the vicinity
of New York for S4250, not including
the heating apparatus, which would
would cost from $3.50 to $3.50 accord
ding to whether air or hot water was
used.
Copyright 1897.
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A Curious Graft.

Professor Baily, of Ithaca, N. Y,
has succeeded in grating tomato on
potato vines. In this case the toma-
toes grew to full size, but the potatoes
remained small.
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France has kept 200, 900 tons of coal
stored at Toulon since 1898, to be
ready in case war should break out.
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The pet bicycle world frequently attracts the
on of the residents West Philadelphia the Philadelphia
the little Adams brothers Lester Jesse and
Kenworth Whmen The wheel
Mershn member the club who greatly to
Oldest five and Six months DID, while
brothers years of age Lester is steersman.
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07
Notice of Forfeiture,
ToR. A. wooDBERY. JOHN l, PEARCE

| ls
 | William Pearce, and l. NJ Hartrey.
 You are hereby notified by the undersigned; your co owner in interest in the Sulphur Spring valley and Wild Rose mines, situated in the Turquois mining district il, the county ot Cochise. TerrSory of Arizona, that have expended the sum of one hundred dollars
 worth of labori upon each of said mines for
 the year Ise6. and you and each of you have failed to contribute your portion oi said expen'
 dture. or any portion therecS' Also, you and each of you have failed 10 co tribute
 10 the cost or any portion thereof of nons' menting and recording said mines. to-wit: the sum of five dollars each for each of said claims Therefore your co-owner demands that each o you pay 10 him yout portion of t'e labor ex' pe1ced as aforesaid. the sum of sl6 I2 for eacf of said mines and interest thereon from lan
 uary Ist, 1897. together with the cost of ihi' advertisement.
 SaiG labor was expended by me 10 hold ,hs possession oi said minee as required by the law.
 of the United States; title 32, chapter G. sect or 237,: and amendments thereto.
 Dated March D. 1897.
 Address EDWARD CARLYON. | m29- 3m Pearce. Cochise Co Arizona
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07
Notice Of Forfeiture.
TOR. A. VOODBERY.

lO N n. " OODbEhf I.
 You are hereby notified by the undersigned. your 90 oaner in interest in the Sierra Nevada and Mountain Rose mines. situate in the Tur- quisc mining district, Cochse county, territory of Ar.zona. That have expended the sum Of one hundred dollars worth of labor upon each of said mines for the year 1890 And you have failed to cort'ibute vour portion of said expen- dituTes or any portion thereof. Also. you have f'iled 10 contribute 10 the cot or any portion th' re of monumenting and recording said mines to-wit: the sum of five dollars tor each of said mines: Therefore your co-owner demands of you thatyou pay him for labor as aforesaid on the Sierra Nevada mine ;he sum of sIo I2: on the .Aioun.ain Rose mine the sum of s2I G. with interest thereon from the first day of Jaa- uary. 1897. together with the co.ts of this at- yertisenent
 Said labor vas expended by me 10 hold possession Of said mines as required by the law $ of the United States; ttle S2. chapter 6, section 2,2i and amendments thereto,
 Dated March 3i. 1897.
 Address EDWARD CARLYON, m29-3ra Pearce. Cochise Co.,. Anzona.
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07
A. & s. E. R. R. to.

The annual meeting of the stockholders of the Arizona and South Eastern Rail- road Co. for the election of Directors, and for the transac- ton of such other business as may be properly brought be- fore the meeti g, will be held at the office of the company at number go, John St., in the city of New York, on Tues day, July 9th, at o'clock P m.
 GEORGE NoTMAN,
 |, Secretary,
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07

Whether N. H. McCord is or is net confirmed as governor of Arizona, he will have received sufi icient amount si advertising during his candidacy to enable him to make c living ex- hibiting timself as the man who escaped alive from his friends.
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07

When an cid bstchelsr reads about
 the sensational elopement of Mrs. Col. Bradbury Of Los Angeles, with . penniless adventurer, he ehuckles te himself and counts the narrow es. capes he has had from being married
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07

The Bull Tick" law is having effect in Graham county; gives men . chance to "nse" their Deigbbors whom they don't like.
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07

The Washington barber who is Mark Hsnnas double ia now trying to find out what sin was committed by hie ancestors and is visited on him now.
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07
DRoPoSALs FOR FORAGE AND sTBAw

PROPOSALS FOR FoRAGEANDS STBAW | :-Ofice oi Chies Quartermsste., Denver, Colo, June, Isg7-Sealed proposals in tnphcaie. will be received here and at effice oi Quartermasier al each post below named until IT o'clock. A. M-. I2oth meridian time, Iuly z. 1897. and then opened for furnishing For. age and Straw. at Forts. Apache Grant. Huach. uca. sub-post of san Carlos and Whipp . Barracks. A. T.; Forts Bayard and Wingate N, NJ; Forts Douglas aud DuCh.sne, Utah and Fort Logan and Denver Colo. during the fiscal year ending June 30. Ises. Proposals for quantities less than the whole required. CT for delivery at points other than those named. ~iil be entertained The right is reserved 10 reject any or all proposals or any part thereof Information furnished on application here or at offees of respective post quartei masters. En. veiop-s 10 be marked 'Proposals for For age and Straw. l.. B ATWOOD 4 Major Chiei .. NJ.
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07
lrY AND COUNTY OFFICIAL PAPER

How easy it is for a man {, pray for his enemies when everything is coming his way.
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07
AUTHORIZED AGENTS.

L. P. FISHER. aI. Merchants Exchange Franciscs.
 G. H. KELLOGG. No. BIO Pine street, Room S7 and 5s, San Francisco. E. (. DAKE, room S. Merchant Exchange an Francisco.
 GEO. P. HOWELL. 10 Spruce St New ork-
 N. W. AVER $ SON. Philadelphia All transactions made by the above named persons will be complied with al the PROS RECTOR ofhce-
Tombstone prospector., 1897-07-07
PROBATE NOTICE.

ID tAr fFOudte Ooult, OOuiity Oi OOClIse, I CT ritory sf Arizona
 IT THE MATTER OF THE ESTATE OF Joseph S,rzehle. deceased;
 Notice of Application for order of sale. Notice is hereby given that Geo. Raun, Administrator. has filed with the Clerk of this Court a petition praying for an order of sale of ali real sad personal property of deceased asd tlat the s4th diy of. June. 1897, af o'clock ?. n. of said day being day sf regular term sf this court to wit. sf the April term. Ies7 ct the Coehiss county court house in Tsmb- sssne. county aforesaid. has been set for heariug said position, when and where any persoa inter essed may appear and show cause why the said seiuon should not be granted.
 W. BRADLEY.
 Exo2cie Clerk, sd May..syth, IeS7