Lewiston teller. [volume] (Lewiston, North Idaho) 1878-1900, 1899-11-04

oi Jonh Drown around the grave OF their
leader at North Elba, in the Adirondacks,
was accomplished almost entirely through
the efforts of Miss Katherine McClelland
who is one of the greatest admirers of
the old Abolitionist
Capt. Albert S. Barker has been as
signed to command the Norfolk Navy
Yard, relieving Rear-Admiral Farquhar
who is to take command of the North
Atlantic station. Capt Barker will be-
come full rear-adniral within a month.
At present he is on waiting orders Capt.
Barker commanded the battleshp Ore
gon on her trip from New York to Ma
Mia i'll answer to Dewey's appeal, and
during the Spanish war was one of the
leading members of the War Board.
Ex-Secretary of State Sherman says
that when he was in the Cabinet prom
inent man applied to bin personally for
a consular post in China. The secretary
replied that he always wanted to appoint
men who spoke the language of the
country to which they were sent. "Now
you do not, l presume, speak Chinese
he concluded. Certainly l do" an
swered the applicant, task me something
in Chinese and I'll reply" 1t is needless
to say that Mr.. Sherman accepted the
Office seekers word without putting him
| to the test
Capt. Casper F. Goodrich, who did
such notable work in the blockading ser
vice during our war with Spain, is q
very short but very dignifed man. He
| tells how he was once in a Chinese por
and visited the perfect, who, belonging
to the ruling Manchu class, was natur
ally larger man than the lower classes
When Goodrich babe him good-by this
dignitary sail "Your Excellency,
now see how you, although little man
come to command a great warship. Wer'
you only little fatter you would be al
admiral
1t issaid that the superimposed turret:
of the battleships Kearsarge and Ken
lucky, credit for the invention of which
has generally been given to Admira
Sampson, were really devised by Lieut.
Joseph Strauss, young Virginian
whose knowledge of ordinance matter
generally is admitted to equal that o
any officer of the service. He was a,
ensign when the Kearsarge and III
Kentucky were being considered, anc
was then on duty in the Ordinanc
Bureau. He developed while at An
fnapolis a decided turn toward ordinance
and his inventions are now among tn
most valuable in use by the navy.
In connection with President McKir
ley's recent visit to Pittsburg the Post c
that city recalls that the most notabl
previous Presidential visit made to Pitts
burg was that of Andrew Johnson, whe
he was Swinging round the circle an
when a mob of intense Republican pal
tisans drove him from the balcony of tn
St. Charles Hotel, where he attempted
) address the people. The most stingn
rebuke of this incident came from tn
brave and chivalrous Farragut who, az
vancing to the platform as Presider
Johnson left it, denounced the conduct
the mob as disgraceful to American cit
zens in dishonoriug the Office OF Pres
dent aud insulting the Chief Magistra
personally He then abruptly turned h
hack on the vast asscmblage and r
l entered the hotel.
, 1t is estimated that during the last We
5000 ,ooo, 900 pieces of mail matter, /
Guiding all classes, were posted in Il
United States. OF this number 6,3I2,7
were sent to the dead-letter office, ma
ing an average receipt of about 40
letters and parcels for each working da
: During this period more than $50
pieces were dispatched either with ms,
!, ficient postage or none at all, $4,000 DO
no address whatever, $4,000 were nj
directed, 200, 900 were unclaimed at i
tells, and something more than the Ia
number were sent to fictitious address
And to these figures must be added 2,97
. ,S7 letters and circulars without encl'
ures of obvious value which could not
u returned to the senders and were {
stroyed. More than $4,000 letters &C
tanned money, amounting to 1855
. while 32472 included drafts, money
i ders, ETC., to the value of s945, 900, to s
nothing of 10000 with photographs.
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