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ONE IMPRESSION OF IBSEN.
Liked q Glass OF Whiskey, Flowers and
American Women,

Ibsen. the son OF a Danish skipper who
retired from sea to keep a shop In Norway.
and Of a German mother. had the impulsive-
ness. says Truth. OF one whose forebears
had drunk deeply Of beer and ardent spirits.
He him self drank freely but not to the tip
ping deeree) Of whiskey gin and arog.
l saw him take In the coffee room Of the
Grand Hotel, where he held a daily levee.
what / may call q Scotch glass OF whiskey.
neat, and in about three-quarters OF an hour
a nip Of gin. Most Norwegians Of his years
would not have noticed these rotations. and
they did not affect the poets head in the least.
I dare say that a spirituous stimulant un-
loosed the ideas that had been collecting
in his head and enabled him to make q salts
factory start in writing. for he did not take
up his pen to answer letters until he had taken
the pick-me-up.
| noticed that he never took drinks with
Americans who had made his acquaintance
and that lie preferred conversing with fair
Americans. They generally brought flowers
TO present to him on being introduced or on
introducing themselves.
Ibsen had no mock modesty In receiving
these acts OF homage to his genius. Garden
flowers, such as tea and La France roses, are
not. to be had for the asking in Christiania
and / should fancy must be imported as cut
buds. Ibsen liked carnations which have the
perfume OF the Glove pink. On the day Of my
presentation l lOllOWeQ the american ldQleS In
offering up a bouquet on the altar Of genius
that is to say. on the little table behind which
he sat, at the far end of the coffee room of
the Grand Hotel.
As an hommc-pontif l thought him i'm
measurably below Victor Hugo. but still
extremely interesting. and somehow uncom-
mon and striking. though he might have
been a country lawyer. or a doctor. or a min
lister attentive to externals. carefully dressed
in superfne black cloth. with a buttoned up
coat, which gave his small figure a spruce
appearance. and a cravat, immaculate In its
Wilderness and tied in a perfect bow.
almost think he talked better than he
wrote. Speaking Of women, he said that In
a hidebound community they rose far higher
in mind and spirit than the male clods around
them. They had always some fresh or orig
inal ideas to bring out and were really more
inclined to heresy than attached to ortho-
doxy but were not prepared to fight for what
they preferred. Their worst enemy was
gentility. which perverted the moral sense
and placed morality where it did not exist.
The French appeared to him in a better
moral condition than the English. There
was less self-deeeption in France and a far
wider practice Of austere and stoical viture.
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A TANGLE OF CERTIFICATES.
Caused q French Girl no Enc OF Trouble
When She Wanted to Get Married.

From the Manchester Guardian.
Being DESTROYS Of getting married. q young
working girl Of Saint Etienne applied to the
Marie for the necessary papers a few days
ago. Having hunted through q register the
clerk told her GRUMPY that she had better
wait till her husband died before she tried
to marry another.
Stunned by the eccentricity OF this reply.
the maiden applied to the Marie Of her native
commune TO explain how the register could
announce her marriage without her ever
being married. His reply cleared up the
mystery but 1t put the young lady's sister
In doubt as to whether she was married or
not.
Having been called upon to supply the
elder sister with her birth certificate a couple
Of years ago so that she might marry. he
searched the register and finding no entry
he wrote her the following letter: Il cant
find trace Of your birth In the village. 1t 10
probable that your father declared you or
a Sunday morning after mass. when my
predecessor was at the cafe. The Marie
must have forgotten to insoribe you on the
register. send you the birth certificate Of
your sister. 1t will nave the same effect.
1t Is I that tell you so: fear nothing"
The elder girl was accordingly married
In the name Of her sister. After q long ju-
dioIal argument the Marie has been pardoned
his carelessn ess. the elder sister has been
declared legally married and the civil estate
Of the younger sister Is thoroughly rees-
tablished.
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Strange Work for Women.

From the Miluaukee Sentinel.
Girls are displscing men in walks OF life
undreamed OF only a decade ago.. said August
H. Kaems. deputy State factory inspector
Of sheboygan. up in my own city girls
have been working in the varnish rooms
Of the chair factories for almost twenty years
and within the last ten years many others
have found employment in one OF the foun-
dries enamelling kitchen utensils, Barring
the intense heat in the rooms, the work is
strang &c. to find women in %foundries.
The bottllng departments OF the breweries
the work being almost entirely automatic,
where other conditions are wholesome, little
criticism oan be made.
1T was not until / entered upon my present
duties that I learned that girls are also being
employed In tanneries. | am a tanner by
trade, so that IL was quite q surprise TO me
when I saw frsil women perform work which
fell to sturdy men in former years. These
girls are principally employed In the chrome
departments. In northern Wisconsin som
Of our inspectors have found women en-
ployed in the sawmills."
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Miscellaneous.

West iieth street. sold recently.
cent ns's sale g. Of ffhSsE Mr. rs xs' west ses N siateen III 's Street eet
for Patrick II. ouirk to the Abin sdon Re-
construGtiop Company.
of So. i III W Hssi'S se Se%tS ? i street ire Duy Ter
81 Wson s9 B H6 6S George r Cannon through
Joseph Fielschman. florist, has purchased
ten acres OF land at Cedarhurst, l.. T. facing
GeSsqS,iIsti a ana f9 Woyodmere a're Tbe between IStter
dorf and c. III. Wimchell. -.
The Interstate Park property. consisting Of
the Long Island Railroad between Hollis and
Adams 70 George ". cisney and. others, q
be handled by the Cisney Bros. OF Brooklyn.
T. ,sdiod| ns.1 the HP PHI TT Terrace TsS Pr9pep5itiy ysb nHw
station on The property with twenty.hvs
t srads e saSh has asy ta aelly; Tee hp pnSaPsdd'yf feet 's OF 81
improved road frontage.
The Manhattan new building plans filed
built for Sobel 4 Kean on Manhattan ave
nue.. two at the northeast corner OF losth
street and two at the southeast corner OF losth
flats for NJ. Levinkind on iO5th street. west
Of Madison avenue, to cost $40. 900; a six story
fat for H. Cohen at the, corner Of Second
avenue ana tCrty-elRntn street., 10 cosI
S35 900, and two six story flats for J. Weinstein
at Nos. APO and 431 West Forty-sixth street,
to cost $40 900.
The Manhattan alterations include the re-
modelling OF the five story private residence
at No. IL West Fortv-eighth street, owned by
Columbia College, the improvements to cost
SIC, 900, according to the estimate OF Clinton
4 Russell. the architects. and making over
the two Ave story loft and store buildings at
Nos. II to 10 Fourth street for the Dutch Re-
formed Church Corporation, as owner. the i'm
costing $50. 900. according to the
estimate OF the architects. Cleverdon d Put
eel.
The Bronx plans include a two story and at
Ito dwelling on Clinton place. to cost 81. 900,
and a one story stable, to cost IS 900.
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Sheep for Mountain Meadows.

From the Denrer Republican.
Thirty cars Of sheep went up to the top Of
Rollins Pass on Tuesday. numbering 5000 head.
These sheep have been sent into this country
by 8. Z, Burgess Of Oregon. who Is trying an
experiment in ranging. The slopes Of the
pass are in Government reserves, and the
owner pays six cents a head for the privilege
OF the range.
Mr.. Burgess has examined the hills care
fully and decided that there Is plenty OF good
grass at the high attitudes, especially for
sheep, which browse close. The cool nights
will also be excellent for them. and they should
that he figures. on might not occur to the
layman, and that is In, the wool. Sheep
pounds Of wool that is torn from them. On
that and the wool should also be clean and
free from dirt when shearing time comes.
An interesting feature was the way that
the sheep were unloaded on the pass Tuesday
night. There are no pens and rundowns
there, so the animals were made to jump out
OF the cars into. the big snow banks and were
then herded and driven down to the proposed
ranges,
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
Divorce Among the Burmese.

From the Lahore IT1oune.
The marriage customs Of the Burmese are
simple in the extreme. A man and woman
are married or are not married. according to
whether they live as husband and wife or
not. A man may have several wives. though
In practice he rarely has more than one
A woman may have only one husband.
Divorce is Q matter for the village elders.
No court Is necessary, no decree. no appeal
to legal, or ecclesiastical authority, Divorce
tains control Of all her property when mar
ried; she has a half share u al property &C;
she takes her own property and half that
Jointly acquired. There. 10 no blending OF
her authority with that Of her husband. She
may do what she will with her own.
There Is no rule OF primogeniture and no
power Of bequeathing property by tesla ment.
All the children inherit equally. No Buddhist
may make q will. Whatever a man OF, a woman
dies possessed Of must be divided, accord
ing TO the rules Of consangulnity., There is no
preferences. OF either sex. All children are
alike with the youn gest daughter.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
Matched Eyss In n Bee Hive.
From The Technical World.

In Ohio " the poultry raisers cannot afford
the double acting steam heated chicken
hatcht2s they make use of an thing whic a.,
Ia handy In place of the ordinary setting hen.
II has remained for Henry Decker. an old
farmer living near Rome, in the Buckeye
State. to use bee hives for this purpose. Mr..
Decker happened to have two or three empty
hives, and as his hens went on strike" and
refused to set on their nests he decided to
raise his chickens without their help,
the eggs in It. then covered them over with
a thick chair cushion, placed the eggs IN the
hive and awaited results. In a short time
into chirpinR chicks, Since then NJ. Decker
swears by the bee hive, and all he asks Of the
hens Ia 10 do the laying. and he will do the
rest.
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-
1t appears that Manhattan mas so far
made proportionately quite as large pro-
vision for increased population as it did
last year, when provision was made for an
increase Of $50 900 in this borough. The
tenements already planned this year will
provide for between 10000 and 5000 new
population. Recent statistics show that
OF all the boroughs Manhattan now has the
smallest percentage of the increase Of popu-
lation. Assuming that business and finan-
cial conditions continue to be as favorable
as they nave been for the last two or three
years, the suburbs must become built up
quite rapidly. In other words, the migra-
ton from Manhattan will be increasingly
great, but will be accelerated under favor
able circumstances. Next spring should
witness a remarkable building movement in
all tho outlying districts. Again, at inter-
walls for the next five years, beginning this
fall. the area Of accessibility will be steadily
widened. Obviously, all the great SUBJ
urban territory now being manipulated
cannot prosper equally. But all prosperity
must, more or less radically. Affect the
tenement districts Of Manhattan Island.
The purchasing of suburban lots, it is evil
dent, will for an indefinite period be an
increasingly important phase Of the real
estate market. The current overproduc-
ton Of tenements Is one Of the weakest
points Of the market.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
Singular Austrian Law.

From he N dVc h6sfer Guardian,
A few days ago the murderer Of MIR. Reid,
the Paisley man who mysteriously disap-
feared from Heidelberg last July. having been
arrested In Austria. was tried at Feldkirch
and was convicted and sentenced to twenty
years Imprisonment.
The case illustrates a singularity Of the
Austrian criminal law Generally speaking,
q premeditated murder is punishs BILE by death
In Austria. but In cases whore between the
has been punished for some other crime a SEN
tence of capital punishment cannot be passed
upon him.
In his case the murderer had served a
weeks Imprisonment for petty theft about
January OF this year, and to. this circu instance
alone he Is indebted for his life.
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
Fifty Years on Same Farm.

From thc KUnsds CitV Star.
Mr.. and Mrs. Carl Rieger, who live seven
miles west of Bonner Springs. Kan, cele-
brated their sixticth wedding anniversary
at their home yesterday. Nearly all Of their
ffty-five living descendants were present.
In 1850 they went to Lea venworth county.
and six years later they moved upon the
farm where they now live. Many Of the
years ago are still standing. An old log barn
built chiefly by Mr., Rieger's own hands now
serves = ess az a Snief Tt vac no1 aTst SET ahe en 1ld 9 3ndndd
nearly all the trees nave been replanted.
The first well sunk on. the farm still does
duty, We will never leave the old farm"
said Mr.. Rieger yesterday. Here we reared
our family; here mother and I have known
all oar Joys and SORROWS; and here We expect
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
Rainfall ana Tree Growth.

From the Poetic Commercial Advertiser.
A report has recently been published which
shows how closely the growth Of trees Is
dependent upon rainfall. Not only was
this seen In the case OF one and two year
old trees. but In an Investigation extending
over q period Of twelve years, during which
time the annual rings Of growth were care
fully examined.
With an annual precipitation OF from thirty
to thirty-five inches q width Of ring was pro-
duced varying from eleven to fifteen niche
IL, on the other hand. there was either an un-
usually large or email rainfall IN any given
year this was followed by a correspondent g
tree growth In the folio year.
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Poet Building His Own Tomb.

From the London EVENING STANDARD.
Nearing his eightieth year. Frederic Mistral,
the Provencal poet. Is still young In mind,
happily far removed yet from the sixth age
of Shakespeare. Nevertheless he Is preparing
his tomb,
1t will be put UP in the cemetery at Mail
lane. near his house, II 10 to be q COPY Of
at Baux. The care taken by the Provencal
poet TO make It beautiful will be remembered
for generations among the nelghboring
peasantry,
1T Is, after all, the tomb that IL the house
we live longest In; we munt have 1t beautlful,"
twitted him about his hobby, And he does
the work himself with no mean skill, refusing
The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1906-07-08
IN THE NEVADA DESERT.
Travellers a fYering From Heat n Thirst
-Brotherhe0d Among PROJECTORS.

TPAvalIapa 1r,R netn1 Proun Uaas and Thlrat
nmo,- p,osnno,or.
FROM me DehpeT hepuo0cd"'
The lessons about judging distances which
are learned In the clear air OF Colorado must
DO learned over when the race 10 turned west
ward from the Grand Canon. After spend
Ing half o generation In the shadows OF the
Rockies l Lost G bet that the distance from
rim TO rim OF the Grand Canon at Brlsht
Angel tran was not fourteen miles. IL was
impossible to believe It was half that Tar
until l ran out a base line and LOOK the angles
which proved the distance and cost me the
price OF a dinner.
One typical summer day with Q team and
wagon i started to cross q valley to q camp
at q water hole fifteen miles away. In plain
sight across an almost level sagebrush plain.
1t did not seem that the trip could last longer
than three hours, 90 the horses we're watered.
q small oanteen was flled for my W use
and no thought OF danger from thirst was
suggested. Why should there be anyf The
distance was email and the plain 30 level.
There are scores who have made that mistake.
while q wife. mother. sister or sweetheart
was waiting. hoping. looking and praying
Tor him who went out under the pitless sun
never to be heard Of more.
That fifteen miles over the roadless sage
brush plain was fifteen miles Of sand from
"nlcn the neat rose as from an oven, burning
and blistering the face. cooking one and
calling all tho time: Water. water. wateri The
sand wss so deep that the horses found 1t
hard work to drag the wagon. and progress
was very slow; they stopped frequently and
soon 1t was necessary to use the whip to make
them 60 at all. My canteen was soon empty.
I pitied the horses and got out to walk and
tighten their load. The sand burned the
feet and was unbearably hot and walking
ceased. The iron parts OF the wagon were
hot enough to blister the hand. 1 felt as II
I was drying into q mummy. The old truth
was remembered that the way to forget
troubles which cannot be avoided is to fasten
the mind upon something else, and l tried 1t.
I'D like to have told them to the Ice man.
The sur In the heavens stood still and the
water hole seemed to be going further away.
My mouth was so dry that a pebble put In 1t
showed no moisture and the ton que felt as II 1t
were growing thick. A lizard with a brilliant
head and neck sat In the shade OF a sagebush.
making q cannibalistic meal Of a small lizard
in it's mouth.
No thoughts could drive away the heat.
After six hours. and the lon gest ones that
ever passed. the horses staggered rather
than walked into camp at the water hole.
Had ! tried to make the trip on foot these
words would never have been written.
No one knows how many hundreds have
tried to make such trips. Few accounts are
ever given OF them. because few live to tell
the story. All that Is known Is that q man
went out and never came back.
1t Is not strange that the desert should
hava heen an many yeara in piyino I'm ita
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China Has Coal 10 Burn.

According to the American Manufacture
the coal deposits Of North America are estl-
mated to contain nearly rs much as those
OF Europe. or 8sI 900. 900. 900 tons.
Even this gigantic figure is completely
dwarfcd by Asia's wealth OF coal. az to which
II is at present impossible to make even an
appro innate estimate. China more especially
seems to possess nexhaustible supplies. and
q German scientist has put the coal deposits
Of the provinces Of shansi alone ct 200. 600, ooc,-
600 tons.
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Backgammon Boards Like Books.

From the Neu Orleans Times-Democrat.
Back CANNON boards are made to look
like books because Eudes. bishop of Sicily,
tried to stamp out backgammon In the A.
teenth century.
Eudes decided in 1857 that his clergy de-
voted more time to backgammon and chess
than was good for their spiritual welfare.
and therefore he ordered that all the back
CANNON and chess boards In the Sicillan
monasteries should be destroyed.
rhane h Willy m tSaIr b Sni yds pf re naM nc 70 obtey:
titles on their backs, and put them on the
boob shelves along with the monastio works.
Thus Eudes was satisfied and the monks
not deprived OF their innocent games, and
thus arose the custom Of constructing back
CANNON and chess boards to resemble folios.
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Private Sales.

i42D STREET. Joseph F.. Feist has sold
for Frederick P. Hummel and George A.
S%teinmuller No. $40 West 142d street, a
.fve story double fiat. on lot 25xo9,1l.
PARK AVENUE. Max Levenber has sold
No, 1883 Park avenue, a four story dwelling,
on lot 25x9i.
NINETY-sEyENTH STREET Plomsky 4
Bro. have bought from Charles B. Gumb
No. $50 East Ninety-seventh street, a five
story double fiat. on lot 26xl00. II.
SECOND AVENUE. Edward l.. King 4 Co.
have sold for the Peterson estate No. 1884
Second avenue a four story fiat, on lot
rs .sx1oo. at the northeast corner OF Eighty
second street.
Hath STREET. The Herman Realty Com
pany hasrsold Nos, 2Ss and $40 West il1th
street, two FIVE story triple flats. on plot
5Oxee II.
lO6TH STREET. M ulvihill 4 Scheibel have
sord TO. Fred .Dornberger the FIVE story
fiat at the northwest corner Of iOeth street
and Park avenue. on lot 25x7S.ll.
10TH STREET. The Hauben Realty Com
pany has sold the two Six story tenements
nearing completion on the south eide OF
10th street, between Second and Third
avenues. each on plot 4OxiOO.ii.
I2sTH. STREET. J.. r.. Jones has sold 10
Heilbrun A Calm No. 900 East 128th street,
q five story fiat, on1ot 25xso III.
SECOND AvENuE.-E- Kempner has sold to
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Ewing for q wife.

From the London World.
In many of the Greek islands diving for
sponRes forms a considerable part Of the occu-
patton Of the inhabitants. The natives make
it q trade to gather these. and their income
from this source is far from contemplate. =.
In one OF the Islands a girl Is not permitted
number Of spon ges and given proof Of her
skill by taking them from a certain depth;
reversed. The father Of a marriageable
daughter bestows her on the best diver among
her suitors. He who can stay lon gest In the
water and bring up the biggest cargo OF
spon ges marrles the maid. =
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Tilted suitor Sues Chicago.
From the Chicago Inter Ocean.

After thinking over the matter carefully
for something like seven yearB Erick Nord-
strom yesterday decided that the city owed
him the triflng sum Of "a. 900. because In
1899 he failed. to marry Mathilde Svenson.
p~lainant that Sergt. Cullinan used his Of
fcial position to spread stories rejecting on
the eligibility Of Nordstrom as a suitor to
the hand OF Miss Svenson. This action on
the part OF the paid guardian OF law and
order had the effect Of interfering with the
suit Of the complainant, and 80 great was the
handicap that when he got into his stride
the race was all over and Miss Svenson was
Mrs. Christanson.
Eordstrom Ia acting as his own attorney.
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good ct that. The average price was from
90 oents TO q and In France, where the
quality 10 uniform, II costs only about twice
- much % IL does In New York. 1t 10 really
the most serious item OF expense, but tho
cost Of Lying 10 90 much less and the charges
balance 10 really all in favor Of touring
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ENTIRE BL0CK-RIDaEW00D.
- LOTS.

"A LOTS.
WILL SELL ENTIRE OR ANY OF THE
FRONT WYCKOFF To ST. NICHOLASAH.
wHLOUGHBY Av. TO STARR ST.;
2OOxA2A.
Section built up; i've minutes from Broad
way and Flushing av.; convenient to hvo car
lines, near Irving Avenue School and City
Park. Terms, VIM. l.. Carey. Al Court ST.,
BROKERS PROTECTED.
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BOARD.

A.-SARAToGA SPRINGS. \. y New ,o,n,n'
him Hotel. opposite Congress Springs and CoN,ru.
d N Hall: terms, European, $3.50 daily. inclnahs
sltd: American. %.
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LOTS u TO RISE.

= F1atbush Ave ................a al Sl,l00
2 Az. @. mr.. Coney island Av.. 800. at 500
& Clifton Pl.. mr.. Classon Av.. at 2,6oO
10 and house. Coney IL. Az. 4 s.. l6.O0n
&c Bedford Az. and Butler. st. ...... 30, o0n
81 Between 18th and 18th Avs. at SOo
90 Rutland Road. mr.. Nostrand at 500
McNAUGHTON. lS0 Montague. Tel. 45s9 Main.
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I HAVE 1T.

Just the house you ARG looking for AZ 1885,
home that your son or daughter viii be proud
Brighton Beach l. Station: trimmed In different
hardwoods, beamed ceilings, paneled dining room.
ton hall. with colored windows and window seats
terms TO suit.
JUDSON H. PAIGE,
Tel. sos Flatbush. Cor. Ave. c and E. Eleventh ST.
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BATH REACH

Cool in Summer. Warm IN Winter.
Five nne two family brick houses. aox5o. lot l0s
=. I In: best location; near ! station or trolley
ments: electric light wiring; elegant chandeliers;
handsomely decorated: price, $3.50 and % $500: VIII
sell on easy terms II desired. open for inspection
every day, 18th ay, near seth st.