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The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06
For n New Three-cen. piece.

Representative Berry's bin TO prescribe
a new form Of the 3-cent piece provides
that the S-cont nlelile piece provided in
section 3jl5. Revised Statutes. shall in
future weigh forty grains troy, and be Of
the same diameter as the 1-cent bronze
piece, but shall have round hole in The
centre one-quarter Of az inch In diameter
and upon II shall be the following devices
and legends: Upon one side there shall he
thirteen stars and the year of the coinage
and upon the reverse shall be the inscrip-
uon, United States Of America" and a
designation Of the value of the coin. pro-
vided that so much OF the act Of Congress
approved September 90. 1890. as prohibits
the coinage of the 3-cent niclde piece be.
and the same is hereby, repealed.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06
NEW EXAMINATION PLANS.
Changes Proposed in the Method o.
Civil Service Tests

The plan OF Chief Examiner Server for
remodeling the civil service with references
TO providing eligibles fer special or technl-
cal positions. has been favovably receive
by the Commissioners. few de,ai S only
are to be added to the plan before 1t is
officially reported, and these Will be com
pleted within the course Of the next lew
DAYS Some changes viii be recommended
in the next annual report. which Is Bow
ready for publication. and will be issued
about the beginning Of February.
The list Of regular examinations is con-
siderably enlarged, and viii embrace those
for all services in the Government
The examination for composilor in the
Government Printing Office and for railway
mail clerk. which we're omitted last yer.
viii be held in this city next fan. When
Mr.. Serven's plan has been thoroughly per
fected, the special and technical positions
will be described in separate pamphlet
issued by the Commission.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06
A HIGH COURT OF PATENTS.
Representative suffers Bill "a Es-
tablish Ncrr Judicial Body.

Mr.. Sulzer Of New York has introduced
bill to establish high court Of patents
trade marks and copyrights. This court,
under the bill, shall consist of one chief
justice and six associate justices, to be
appointed by the President OF the United
States. by and with the advice and consent
OF the Senate. and which shall be n court
of record with appellate jurisdiction, as is
hereafter limited and established. Such
court shall prescribe the form and style
of its seal and the form of writs and other
process and procedure as may be con-
formable TO the exercise OF its jurisdiction
as shall be conferred by law.
The court shall exercise appellate juris-
diction to review by appeal or writ OF error
final decisions in the district courts and
the existing circuit courts in all cases
arising under the patent laws. under the
copyright laws and in all cases involving
the ownership violation, and construction
of trade mark and the question of unfsi.
competition in trade.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06
FOR A MUNICIPAL BUILDING.
Commissioner Ross Report on the
senate Bill.

A favorable report on the bill introduced
In the Senate early this session to provide
for the erection OF municipal building
and court house in the District OF Columbia
to cost s.. SOC, goo was prepared yesterday By
Commissioner Ross aud will be submitted
today TO Senator Mcmillan. Chairman Of
the Senate District Committee. The report
OF Mr. Ross has been approved by his as
sociates on the Board Of District Commits
sioners. The report is a very clear and
concise statement OF the condition Of affairs
ct present. and Congress is urged to take
the necessary steps to have the bill become
a law as soon as possible Mr.. Ross says:
The District government, with regard 70 many
most important functions. is the right arm Of the
Federal Government By its police force it guards
The Executive Mansion. and occasionally the two
houses OF Congress from unwelc0me iatTuders. the
homes Of Senators aud Representatives in Congress,
and Of all Government employees. by night and
by day BY is Fire Department it seeks 10 pro-
ttct al Fodeml buildings from destruction by
fre. lis Health Department prevents the spread
OF contagious diseases among permanent and
tnnsent residents, and its public schools are free
60 all who may reside il the District even for
brief period Of time. When the municipality per
forms iis full duty, Il renders the city In which
The peoples servants perform their public duties
habiiabe, heahhfu, clean, Wel-liglited, orderly,
ard attractive.
In the year ISL the portion Of the City Hall
occupied by the municipal government was trans
ferTod to tine use Of the Federal courts. Since
that year the District government has continually
been housed IN rented quarters. II Is believed
that such a state Of affairs does not exist IN the
capital city Of any other st-class power in the
world. 10 other city Of the Republic, with q
population spproNimstng that Of the District, l.
without a municipal building
part Of the proposed building can
FIRST he erected snd completed. SO
as 20 accommodate the courts now occupy
ing the old structure which il to be vacated
and removed. The portion OF Tie new building
TO be assigned to The courts can De constructed
Is not 20 he directly accessible from the mum.
cipal portion TO fhose having business with the
District officials, and there need be no inierfer-
ence by such visitors with the quiet and orderly
conduct Of the courts The site proposed in the
bill has been approved IN the report IF the Com.
mitiee Public Buildings Of the Board Of Trade
annually during The past six years. While the
selection Of a site for pubic building leads to
q diversity u views and unfortunate Wrzug-
ling the people of the District aid the iunuen-
tial press oi Washington have almost without CA
ceptioa approved this site. TIE Commissioners
earnestly appeal TO the Congress 70 give to tia
Capital City u the United States this long-de-
layed and much.needed legislation.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06
THE BRIDE DISCHARGED.
4 Chnrgc of Larceny Against Mrs
Handy Dismissed.

Mrs Richard D. Bandy, a young bride.
appeared in the Police Court yesterday 10
answer a charge Of petit larceny preferred
by Wade Lowe. a waiter In local restau-
rant After examination Judge Kimball
dismissed the defendant
Lowe testified that be loaned Mrs. Ban
dy a ring, which she refused to return.
They were acquaintance. witness said, but
no engagement existed between them.
Mrs. Bandy. an attractive young woman,
who has only been married three days, told
the court that at one time she was engaged
TO be married 10 Lowe. That II was her
habit 20 wf.r his ring. They were TO have
been married In Baltimore, she said. but
few days before the ceremony she discov-
cred that Lowe was a married man. She
then took his ring and Dawned II. and used
the money to purchase wedding clothes for
her marriage with Bandy.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06
Millions Given AWAY

II Is certainly gratifying 10 tlle public TO know
Of one concern IA tie land who are not afraid 10
be generous 10 the needy and Tie suffering. Tie
Yroprietors Of DR.. Kings New Discovery Tor Con.
sumption, Coyghs, and Colds have given away over
ten million uial bottles % this great medicine.
and have the ,atsiaction Of knowing il has abso-
autely cured thousands Of hopeless cases. Asthma.
Bronchitis, Hoafseness, and all diseases OF the
Throat. Chest and Lungs are surely cured by il.
Call on Henry Eyans, Druggist, 93s i Street. and
get free trial bottle Regular sire. 30 cents and
a. Every bottle guaranteed price refunded.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06

Mr.. Mcmillan. Chairman Of the Senate
Committee on the District Of Columbia, in
troduced a joint resolution yesterday.
authorizing the committee 10 employ an
assistant clerk at a salary of $40 per an
mum during the Fifty-sixth Congress.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06

SHIFTS and Dressnakermade Wool Dresses,
Doahe Suits suits with inc
Black rams @
hghclass high-grade artistic
original tickets still on them and
the special prices on special
$1,000 and $3.50 Suits for. SOD
$3.50 and S14.50 Suits for. St49
$500 and $3.50 Suits for. S99S
$3.50 and $1,000 Suits for. .S129S
$3.50 and $500 Suits for. .......... .S1449
S27.00 and $1,000 Suits for .Sl99S.
$500 and $4,000 Suits for. .S249S.
The times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1897-1901, 1900-01-06

A game ot basketball win be played between
the y. NJ C. A. and the Central High Scliool
tonight at { O'Clock, NJ the Amory Of the
Washington Light Infantry.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-04-14
KNIFE EMBEDDED IN A TREE.
1t Is Supposed to he One That Killed
an Indian More Than
Century Ago.

The finding of a knife that killed an
Indian 115 years ago was recently
made under rather curious circum-
stances. While saving logs on the
Reynolds and Meter mill, at Hartman,
Randolph county, w. Va, the saw
came in contact with hard substance.
On examination it was found that the
saw had struck knife that was i'm
bedded in log to a depth of 115 years
growth, and which is supposed to have
been there 115 years.
Jackson Summerville, an aged citi-
zen of Hartman, says the knife is eX-
actly like the one which his father
often described to him when, as a
boy, he used to listen to him tell about
the narrow escape he had at the hands
of the Indians. His father was fleeing
from band of Indians one night, but
was overtaken by one of them on top
of mountain, when a terrific haud-to-
hand encounter ensued. Summerville
succeeded in killing the Indian with
knife. 1t was late at night, and, not
knowing which way to 90 for safety,
he stuck &he knife in a tree and hid IN
til morning, and then forgot the knife
until he had travelled a long distance.
The tree in which the knife was found
was taken from the mountain where
the Indian was killed.
The knife will be deposited with the
State Historical society, together with
a statement of the circumstances of
its discovery.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-04-14
THE QUEENS HINDUsTANL
'lc'oFia Has Mastered the DifHcult
Language After Many Years
OF study.

1t will be handed down to posterity.
says Pearson's Magazine. as one of the
most astounding proofs of Queen Vic
toria's vast intellectual attainments
that-in spite of all duties and respon-
sibiIities, in spite of the fact that she
has devoted so much time to the study
OF politics as to become one of the
greatest living authorities on the prao-
teal politics of Europe-she has yet so
completely mastered a most difficult
language that she has been able to
make it a custom to note the daily
events of her life in Hindustani, in a
diary kept for this special purpose, and
to speak the language with fluency.
For more than ten years it has been
the queens custom to devote a part of
every day to instruction in the chief
language of her Indian subjects and in
enriching her mind with the intellect
ual treasure of the east.
Her majesty has surprised many of
her Indian visitors by making unex-
pected observations in good TTindustani.
AS every one knows, she is almost in
Varlably attended upon, at home, by
one or more of her faithful, picturesque
and courteous Indian servants. But it
is not common knowledge that the
queen always speaks to her servants in
their native language. Nevertheless,
this is the case-however small the re-
mark. however important the com
mand, whether it is a simple request
for meal or a serious matter of state,
it is made in IIindustani.
Universal admiration has been eX-
pressed at the determination of the
queen, at an advanced age, not only to
learn to speak Hindustani, but also to
take an interest in the literature of In
dia, and 20 acquaint herself witk the
ideas wants and aspirations of her
oriental subjects in their own language,
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-04-14
SOUTHERN YANKEES.
The Industrial South Is Developing
characteristics of New Eng
land Type.

Every true Yankee should look with
a great deal of quiet, internal pride
upon the understanding south. That
an Englishman under a southern sun
should ever become a genuine Yankee
has often been despaired Of 1t is now
a swelling fact. When the Spania1ds
called Lee a Yankee a year ago, it
pleased the south, though there is as
yet IA comparatively small spot on the
southern map where the Yankee
sprung out of the very soil threatens
to Oustrip his own blood elsewhere.
The soil, says the Criterion, out of
which the southern Yankee is spring
ing with such robust energy extends
from Lynchburg, Va, on the east, and
Bristol. Tenn, on the west, to Eufaula
and Birmingham, Ala, on the south.
1t is about 500 miles in length, and
from 200 to 800 miles in breadth. 1t
embraces the iron, coal and cotton
mill site, and decidedly the most inter
esting phase of all this energy here is
the cotton mill, for this phase is the
latest and is developing more of the
genuine characteristics of the New
England Yankee in the southern man
than elsewhere in the country.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-04-14
THE SPENDTHRIFT.
What BefnlIs the One who Neg
Iects to Provide for the
"Rainy Day"

BY most men the rosy dreams of
youth are never realized. The work
men must always far outnumber the
employers, more than 100 to l.
The man who puts off the prac-
tice Of economy, waiting for time
when it will be easier for him to deprive
himself of certain pet luXuries, learns
when it is too late that he has passed
the point where he can demand of the
present that it shall help provide for
his future. Among all the acquant-
ances have had in the past 40 years, not
one spendthrift among them has retired
from business a successful man.
Possibly you may look upon that
word "spendthrift" as one that cannot
be applied to you. You may think it
applies only to one who foolishly
throws away a fortune. If you will
turn to your dictionary you will read
that he is a spendthrift who is i'm
provident or wasteful. The word APP
plies with equal force to the man earn
ing ten dollars a week and to him who
has thousands.
There are no miracles in business
career. The man who wins success has
toiled early and late with all his powers
of body and mind. He has been sub
servient to his ambition. He has pushed
aside, because it was the first step to-
ward success, every habit and desire
that stood between him and his goal.
No man was ever mum bered among the
successful ones unless he was waiting
and prepared for Fortune when she
knocked at his door. She has never
yet been known to wait for any man or
boy to prepare himself for her COM
pany. / know of no one habit that so
thoroughly mods the character of a
young man as the habit of economy. 1t
gives him strength of will. 1t teaches
him to look beyond an action to its
final result. 1t continually reminds
him that the pure, sweet, innocent
pleasures of life are almost to be had for
the asking, and that Satan is not only
a cruel but an expensive taskmaster.-
n. Y. Post.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-04-14

His State of Mind.-"Your bookkeep-
er is subject to fits of III humor, isn't
hep mo; but he has widely isolated
attacks of amiability."-Chicago Rec
ord.
Mother-"What are you doing with
papa's hair restorer, Ethel?" "Willie
and l are going to make your moth
eaten muff as good as new."-Golden
Days.
Wiggins-"Whose umbrella is this?
1t looks IKE one l lost" Higgins-"I
don't see how it can, for I scraped the
handle and altered it Ohio
State Journal.
Harold" said the dear girl, IAN I
the only girl?" Harold groaned inyol-
unfairly. 'Am the only girl you ever
told she was the only girl you ever told
she was the only girl you ever loved ?"
indianapolis Press.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-04-14
LONDON IN 1874.
There Were Many HiwhwUy men and
FoOtpnds on the TOAD Brass
Knockers stolen.

In17s4 NJ. La Combe published book
entitled ~. Picture of London in
which inter ALA he says: 'Ghe high
roads 80 or 40 miles round London are
filled with armed highVavmeu and
footpads." This was then pretty true.
though the expression filled is some
what of an eXaggeratlon. The medical
student of 40 or so years ago seems to
have been anticipated in 1854 for NJ.
La Combe tells us that ,,'thc brass
knockers of doors, which cost from
- to IS shillings, are stolen at night
if the maid forgets to uuscrew them
"A precautiOn which seems to have
gone out of fashion. THE arrival of
the mails" our author says, lis I'M
certain at all times of the year. Per-
sons Who frequently receive letters
should recommend their correspond
ents not to insert loose papers, nor to
put the letters in covers, because the
tax is sometimes treble, and always
arbitrary, though in a free country.
But rapacity and injustice are the del
ties of the English
NJ La Combe does not give us a fiat
tering character! "An Englishman,"
he says, considers a foreigner as an
enemy, whom he dares not offend open
ly. but whose society he fears; and he
attaches himself TO no one Perhaps
it was 50 in 1884. but such feelings have
nearly died out--at least among edu-
Gated people. NJ. La Combe. i'm another
part of his book. eXclaims: "Uow are
you changed. Londoners, Your women
are become bold. imperious and eXpen-
sive. Bankrupts and beggars, coiners,
spies and informers, robbers and pick
pockets abound; the baker mixes alum
in his bread; the brewer puts opium
and copper filings in his beer; the milk
woman spoils her milk with snails,"--
Gentleman's Magazine.
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-04-14
Carefully Addressed.

America is a good country" wrote a
Hungarian matchmaker to a friend at
his birthplace. 81 have only been six
months here, yet have established my
self in business. You will find my adj
dress on the card inclosed herein" A
few weeks later the Hungarian received
a letter, whose address read as follows:
"Signund Barnay. dealer in watches,
clocks, jewelry; watches repaired and
made better than new. Good prices for
old gold. Jewelry appraised almost for
nothing. Diamonds set. A large as
sortment of watch chains, finer than
Pullman herald. [volume] (Pullman, W.T. [Wash.]) 1888-1989, 1900-04-14
gold ones. Weekly installments taken.
No. - Avenue B, in The middle Of the
block"


In view. of the coming exposition and
the extra demand for iocal transporlo-
ton, a school for coachmen has bee,
opened in Paris. This schoo, turns out
from 100 to $50 per month. A born
Partisan can graduate in two weeks,
but an outsider is obliged to remain so
days.
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-07-04
Napoleon Had Dog Teeth.

'In the worlds history" said Charles
Roberts of Buffalo, at the Hotel Manhat-
tan, there are three characters who in
the popular mind stand pre-eminent-Al-
exander the Great, Caesar and Napoleon.
Napoleon lived so near our own time as
to be almost within the memory of liv-
ing men, and there are plenty of men
today in France who heard of Napoleon
from their fathers, who lived in the stir
ring times connected with his name.
There is curious fact in connection
with Napoleons personal appearance that
1 have never been able to find mention
of in any of the biographies, and that is
that two upper front teeth were very
long and Tapped over the lower ones to
an unusual extent, giving him most pc
culiar appearance when smiling. These
teeth-the two upper incisors, on either
side of the mesial plane ordinarily form
line that meets with the correspond
ing teeth in the lower jaw, but in Ma
poleon's case they over-lapped. This in
formation came to my father directly
from the son of Napoleon's dentist, who
made a memorandum of the fact. NEW
York Tribune
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-07-04
FORTUNE IN A WHEAT FIELD.
In Four Years an Oklahoma Family
Have Made 100000.

Four years ago without dollar and in
debt, today worth 100000 in cash. That
is the record made by one family in
embarrassing in Oklahoma. A fortune
of 100000 in four years. Half of that
money they have in cash in the bank
here. They will net the other half in
cash within two weeks for the 10000
bushels Of wheat they are now harvest
ing. The Miller family operates the
'1O1' ranch, nine miles southwest of
here. The ranch has 10000 acres of
land that is divided in two by the Salt
Fork river. OF this land 5000 acres is
in wheat, HOO in corn, 200 in oats, 600
in sorghum, 1900 in hay and 100 in
watermelons and muskmelons. There is
one wheat field Of 225U acres, three miles
long and two and a half miles broad,
without fence or road through it. The
harvest on this ranch began recently.
Twenty-Five reaping machines began at
once, working in a row. The first swath
cut was five miles long around one wheat
field. The reapers cut and bind 600 acres
a day. A harvest of 1000 bushels of
wheat will be gathered. 1t will be sold
from the thresher in the field for cash,
all except 5000 bushels, which has been
sold for seed at 30 cents a bushel more
than the regular market price of ordi-
nary wheat. Mr.. Miller contra cted Sat
urday to sell the first 10000 bushels
threshed at SO cents bushel, regardless
of uuality
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-07-04
What Ocean Travellers Eat.

Some idea of what big hotel trans
Atlantic liner is may be gained from the
following from Ainslee's Magazine:
Everything about the kitchen of great
steamship is on a most elaborate scale.
The range weighs many tons. The vari-
Gus soup caldrons are. constructed to
hold twenty gallons. Loaves are baked
by the hundred, joints roasted by the
dozen, each in a separate and specially
constructed compartment. TO serve the
meals thousands Of plates, pieces Of sill
yer, cups and saucers and napkins are
required and the average breakage in
the galley Of big ship amounts to
barrel G: china every day.
'"The amount; of stores required for
single voyage by great liner is com
parable only to the commissariat of an
army. Here are a few figures fur
nished by the chief steward of one of the
big German ships from the order sheet
for recent trip: Sixteen tons of fresh
beef, five tons of lamb and veal, $500
head of chickens ducks, geese and game,
four tons of salted meats, 1000 dozen
eggs, three tons of sugar, 100 barrels of
flour, 700 bushels of potatoes, two and
a half tons of butter, 1000 quarts of
The Washburn times. [volume] (Washburn, Wis.) 1896-1976, 1900-07-04
Eggs a la President Kruger.

Take hard-boiled eggs and slice off the
be taken out Season this with pepper
and salt, and stir in chopped truff1es and
put back into the whites Cover the
eggs with aspic jelly, tinted different col
ors-ylolet, yellow, pink blue, red and so
on: There are harmless preparations for
coloring purposes. The eggs will stand
up on plate, placed ON the end which
in which are few chopped trufHes. Or,
instead of using aspic jelly, roll the eggs
in a bowl in which are an egg or two
well beaten up with little cold milk;
then roll in fresh bread crumbs and fry
for few minutes in very hot fat. Take
them up with a skinner and serve hot.
Times.