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WOMAN AND HOME.
STRAY BITS.
SATURDAY EVENING. APRIL 13,1889.
At 58 and 60 Market Street.
Official Journal of the City of Galveston.
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The reports of the prevalance of yellow
fever in Rio Janiero has admonished the
health authorities of not only this, but
every other city in the south, to inauger-
ate the most stringent and thorough
measures of sanitation.
Galveston will be full of congress-
men on the occasion of the semi-centen-
nial celebration, and visitors here may
expect to hear some oratory that will
make their ears tingle.
It would, perhaps, be interesting to
see what citizen Claiborne really had ac-
complished during the last session of the
senate.
is ten cents a number, $1.00 a year.
Lothrop Company, Boston, will send
sample (back) number at half price.
A WIFE’S POSSIBLE TROUBLES WITH
HOUSEHOLD FINANCES.
■Successor to Evening Record and Dally Print. En-
tered Galveston P. O. as Second Class Matter.
bra furnished with candles; orchids placed in
epergnes rise up to the ceiling. The queen
eats q, special bread, well cooked and of a
mastic color.—London Globe.
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The friends of Manager Levis are yet
betting that he will scare the club that
wins the pennant.
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Evening Tribune is betting that the
new city council will put the city in such
sanitary condition as will guarantee our
citizens immunity from epidemic dis-
eases during the coming summer.
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We stop the press to remark that
sanitation means safety for the approach-
ing summer.
Galveston is beginning to feel just a
little more satisfied with the base ball
prospects. Ii is almost too soon in the
season to get thoroughly discouraged.
Mrs. Hearst’s Boarding House.
Yesterday the wife of Senator Hearst called
ata stylish boarding house on Fourteenth
street, near I, to engage rooms for friends of
hers. She found a few vacant rooms and en-
gaged them at once, saying she hadn’t suffi-
cient accommodations at her own house.
“Is your house full?” asked the landlady.
“Yes, just crowded, or will be,” replied
Mrs. Hearst.
“Do you keep a boarding or lodging house?”
“How’s that?” asked Mrs. Hearst, doubt-
fully.
“Do you give room and board, or only let
rooms?”
“Oh, I give both board and room at my
house,” said Mrs. Hearst, cheerfully, as she
presented her card. “Please have the rooms
all ready. Good morning,” and she swept
away to her carriage, into which she was
shown by a liveried footman.—Washington
Post.
Women’s Hands.
A French savant has recently announced
his belief that women are increasing in size.
Certain it is that the hands of the average
woman are much larger now than formerly.
The happy change in public opinion which
enables women of all ranks to work with
their hands, and take pride in doing so, may
not be without effect in enlarging those
members.—Chicago News.
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Evening Tribune’s tow line has taken
a very firm twist around the proposed
refrigerator.
The Houston Post announces that the
legislature of Tennessee has made prize
fighting a felony, but fails to say what
the legislature of Tennessee makes duel-
ling.
Chapped Hands.
From those suffering from chapped hands,
or for those liable to them, nothing can excel
the healing qualities of mutton tallow. This
may be bought at the druggist’s or made at
home, and ought to be kept in every house.
Take the fat of mutton, usually that around
the kidney, and try out, strain, pour into a
cup and put aside to harden. If liked it can
be taken from the cup before it is very hard,
and worked into a ball, and in this shape is
much more convenient for use than if left re-
maining in the cup. To apply it, first hold
it before or over a fire until the surface near
the fire is soft, then rub this soft tallow to the
afflicted parts, working it gently into the
skin. It is very soothing and gives relief al-
most immediately. There are very few cases
of chapped hands, provided proper attention
is paid to washing and wiping them, that will
not yield readily to this treatment.—Cor.
Detroit Free Press.
Beaming to Talk.
The child’s first achievements in speech
consist of isolated words. He will say
“papa” and “mamma,” manage a paraphrase
of his own upon the names of his attendants
or of the members of the family, and gain
command over such monosyllables as dog,
horse, cat. The putting of words together
to make a coherent sentence is a later devel-
opment, and one that is said to come earlier
with girls than with boys. A girl child is
more precocious in nearly all respects than
her brother.
In Stray Leaves from a Baby’s Diary the
infant autobiographer complains piteously of
the confusion he underwent when what he
had been told was a dog was called a puppy,
a doggy, a bow wow and Carlo. A similar
experience followed with the cat, whom h&
Jieard described as a pussy, a puss, a kitty, a
kitten and Tabby. One is surprised that a
child should learn as rapidly as he does, re-
The Pig Pen Puzzle.
No house is complete now without its pig
pen and four little pigs. “Pigs in Clover” is
the latest toy and puzzle, and it is having a.
great run. Tho puzzle consists of a circular
block-of wood, with a pasteboard rim around
it, and three other paper rims in concentric
circles inside the outer one. Each of these
inner rings of cardboard has an opening in it
and the openings are on opposite sides. The
inside ring of all is two inches in diameter,
and is covered over. It is called the pen.
Four marbles are placed in the outer division
of the box. These are the pigs. The test of
skill is to get them all into the pen without
touching them with the fingers. The box is
manipulated in one or both hands, so that
the marbles roll one at a time through the
gates in the circular fences and finally into
the inner inclosure.
They act very much like pigs, inasmuch as
nobody can be sure of them until he has them
all in the pen. He may get three in, and,
while trying to put the fourth in, the others
will run out. Anybody who has ever driven
pigs will appreciate the toy, and if every-
body who appreciates it has driven pigs it
proves that there are thousands of pig drivers
in this city.—New York Sim.
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EVENING TRIBUNE, Galveston, Texas.
How will it sound to hear the whistle
of the Houston East and West Texas and
and the Aransas Pass locomotives rush-
ing into this city over the Galveston and
Western railroad franchise? This is not
only possible but altogether probable.
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The first act of the new council,when
elected in June,should be a liberal appro-
priation for putting the city in a thorough
sanitary condition. A leading phy-
sician remarked to Evening Tribune a
few days ago that with the city in a
thorough sanitary condition all manner
of epidemic diseases might pass through
the streets without the least jeopardy to
the lives of our citizens.
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The Pansy for April brightens our
table with its pretty cover. The con-
tents are even more interesting that usual.
Altogeter there are thirty-two pages of
reading matter and pictures, besides sev-
eral pages devoted to the Pansy Society,
letters from the children,1 etc. The price
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Bose Insects.
The insects most harmful to roses are the
green fly, red spider, rose hopper or thrips,
and the rose bug and the black slug. Now,
though these insects involves some little trou-
ble, yet success will attend all persistent ef-
forts. The green fly, the thrips and the black
slug can all be kept under by syringing the
plants with a solution of whale oil soap. One
pound of soap is sufficient for eight gallons of
water. Throw the water in a fine spray on
the under as well as the upper side of the
leaves. A syringe with a bent nozzle is the
best instrument with which to apply the
liquid to the lower sides of the leaves. The
red spider can be held in check by syringing
the leaves with clear water; in dry times this
should be done every day. If the rose bug
(melolontha subspinosa) makesitsappearance,
which is not very often, it can be destroyed
by the insect exterminator.—Vick’s Magazine.
Leland Stanford is worth $40,000,000.
Warner Miller is worth $5,000,000.
Secretary Windom is worth $5,000,000.
Wm. A. Rockefeller is worth $20,000,000.
P.T. "Barnum began poor and has $5,000,000.
Claus Sprenkles is rated as high as $20,000,-
000.
Jay Gould cannot be worth less than $75,-
000,000.
Russell Sage is 70 years old and worth $40,-
000,000.
Samuel A. Scott, Kansas City, has $10,-
000,000.
James McMillan, Detroit, has made $10,-
000,000.
Robert Bonner, New York, began poor and
has $6,000,000.
Charles Pratt, the Brooklyn oil man, is
worth $6,000,000.
Charles’McLure, St. Louis, made $5,000,000
in Granite Mountain.
Gen. Russell A. Alger, of Detroit, is worth
$5,000,000 and more.
Charles F. A. Henrichs began as a clerk
and now has $5,000,000.
John T. Davis, St. Louis, has made $15,000,-
000, mostly in dry goods.
John Wanamaker, the new postmaster gen-
eral, is worth $10,000,000.
Ex-Governor English, of Connecticut, has
an estate valued at $5,000,000.
The Astor heirs will inherit $200,000,000—
mostly in gilt edged real estate.
Senator James G. Fair kept a saloon for
miners, and is worth $20,000,000.
Ex-Senator Palmer, Michigan, married a
fortune, and is worth $6,000,000.
Philip Armour, Chicago, began life as a
in Paris there is one suicide to every 2,700
people.
In Saxony shere is one suicide to every 8,-
446 people.
In Russia there is one suicide to every 84,-
246 people.
In Sweden, there is one suicide to every
92,375 people.
In the United States there is one suicide to
every 15,000 people.
In London and St. Petersburg there is one
suicide to every 21,000.
Suicide is more frequent among males than
among females. It is apt to be hereditary.
same object is presented to him.
If a pare^f wishes her baby to learn quickly
to express Iris wants she must strive after
Ladies* Hair.
Long and thick hair is so scarce among
ladies that when one comes to have her head
washed who has a full suit she is always the
subject of remark and envy. Not more than
one in ten ladies have full suite. Some who
had long and thick hair as children have lost
most of it through carelessness. The hair
will fall out if not kept clean, and many find
that, after reaching a certain length, it breaks
off. However, if a lady has just enough hair
to hold a switch the hairdresser will do the
rest. Style, moreover, has favored the short
haired, for less and less hair has been worn
lately. From the immense waterfalls to the
present scanty head dress is a wonderful
change. Switches are universally worn, but
in constantly decreasing size. Still a woman
with long hair is to be envied, for her hair
will always look natural. A switch needs re-
freshing, because, without the natural oil of
the head to keep it bright, it will look differ-
ent from the wearer’s own hair. Some sleep
in their switches so that they may take the
oil from the head, but this is bad for the
scalp, making it too hot and causing the hair
to fall out. So many ladies wash their hair so
seldom that I do not wonder they lose it.- ■
St. Louis Globe-Democrat.
Beauty and Bathing.
So much has been said about bathing, per-
haps there is little new to be told. Yet, in
its connection with beauty, too much cannot
be said.
Bathe intelligently, bathe conscientiously.
We hear discussed the relative merits of cold
and warm baths. I think the warm bath,
properly taken, the greatest promoter of a
clear, soft, rosy skin. An eminent physician
recommends the warm bath to be taken twice
a week.
After carefully drying the body with soft
linen, apply rose water and pure glycerine,
using them in a mixture of equal parts well
shaken. Rub into the skin, then put on the
night robe warm. It is hoped that no one
desirous of -a beautifffl skin will wear any
garment a-t night that is worn during the
day. Allow no cold surface to come in con-
tact with the body after a warm bath, but
get immediately into bed. The good effect of
such a bath, followed by a night’s rest where-
in an even temperature is kept up for eight
or nine hours, will be felt at once. Add to
this formula a sweet temper and a mind at
peace with all th® world and the silken rose
petal may not outvie a woman’s skin.—Dress.
plate, and ; plete. The teble is lighted with gold-candela-
Ice In a Hurry.
Take a tall cylindrical jar—which of ne-
cessity must be earthenware. Pour into it
an ounce and three-quarters of water and
three and one-third ounces of the sulphuric
acid of commerce. Then add one ounce of
sulphate of soda in powder. In the center of
this mixture stand a small earthenware ves-
sel, and let it contain the water which it is
desired to freeze into ice. Cover the middle
vessel, and then, if possible, revolve the whole
affair by a gentle motion. In a few minutes
the inner vessel will contain a block of solid
ice, whilst the outer ingredients can be used a
second or even a third time to produce fur-
ther blocks of ice by pouring more fresh
water into the inner receptacle. Work in
a cool place. If greater bulk of ice is wanted
increase the mixture in the same proportion.
—Confectioners Union.
entered a convent. This secluded place she
left some time ago, being thereunto induced
by a young mystic and poet. Latterly she
reappeared on the stage at Cairo.—European
Colored diamonds combined with perfect
white ones is a fancy excessively indulged in
once more by high price purchasers.
Hair decorations of pleasing character are
filigree gold roses with a diamond in the
heart and a twisted stem of gold to pierce
the hair.
Now the silversmiths are utilizing the
horseshoe and clover leaf pattern as a garter
clasp, engraved with the inscription, Honi
soit qui mal y pense.
A pleasing queen chain pendant and an en-
tirely new one, is formed of three miniature
tree stumps in bright gold tied around with
two strands of gold wire rope.
Among necklace pendant novelties is one
in the shape of a diamond fleur-de-lys, with a
pale pink pearl on the upper part and a
smoky gray pearl on either side.
Extremely tasty and unique is a lacepin
composed of a hazel branch, the nuts being
represented by bright yellow diamonds, and
the leaves and stem in tiny rubies.
In the center of a trefoil of diamonds is a
large ruby, a pear shaped pearl of unusual
size suspended therefrom, and combining to
make a pendant of a very high order.
One of the most artistic and rich looking
brooches recently designed is a rosebud on a
flexible stem, on which are two green gold
leaves, one set with rubies and the other
with brflliants. The bud incloses a tiny
watch rimmed with diamonds.
Certainly one of the handsomest vinai
grettes that wealth can purchase is composed
Of rock crystal covered with a filigree gold
casing Diamond forget-me-nots are set on
the filigree, and to further heighten its beauty
a tiny gold watch rests in the top,—Jewelers’
Review
Fashionable Powder Rags.
“What is this? A handkerchief?” asked a
Madison avenue hostess, as she picked up
from the floor a three inch square of dainty
cambric, hemstitched and trimmed on the
edge with lace. It was a reception day, and
the guests had just left, but by some chance
the article in question had been left behind.
“Let’s see, mamma,” said the daughter.
“Oh, that -isn’t a handkerchief,” she con-
tinued, “that is a face dolly, or, to express it
less elegantly, a‘powder rag.’ All the girls
carry them."
These face dollies have become a feature of
fashionable walking or evening toilets. They
are carried in the center of the handkerchief,
and in order to make them secure they are
pinned in with small safety pins. The dolly
is well rubbed with lily white or any other
popular powder, and can be applied without
detection. When the owner feels that her
face will be more attractive by the use of
powder, she has only to bring her handker-
chief up to her face.
It is very amusing to witness the skill with
which this whitening process is accomplished,
and the dexterity with which complexion
cloths are managed. Some society ladies
carry both powder and rouge and apply it in
the very eyes of their escort without any
compunction of being detected in its use.
Any one standing in the lobby of a fashion-
able theatre cannot fail to notice how fre-
quently the handkerchief is brought into re-
quisition. In nine cases out of ten the sudden
uplifting of the handkerchief covers an ap-
plication of the cosmetic inside.—New York
Star.
Advertisers are hereby notified that
Evening Tribune has the exclusive privi-
lege of printing and circulating the
official programme on the grounds dur-
ing the encampment. The city is full
of persons soliciting advertisements for
an official programme. Remember, there
is to be but one official programme, and
that will be issued by Evening Tribune.
Mr. E. R. Raby is soliciting advertise -
ments for this, the only official pro-
gramme that will be published.
Just to think of it!
boom on already.
An epedemic, with ail the warnings we
have before us would be absolutely inex-
cusable.
■NTOTICE TO PATRONS—MR, EVERARD R.
_1_N Raby is connected with the advertising .de-
partment of Evening Tbibtjne. He is authorized
to make contracts for advertising, and the same
will be recognized at this office-
J. W. BURSON.
The American Girl.
A pleasing and constant topic of English
writers is the American girl, writes George
William Curtis in Harper’s Magazine. One
of the later commentators says of her:
“American girls have shown that they can
receive, travel and live without chaperons,
escorts or husbands, and are fast developing
a bright, clear, intelligent, self reliant, cour-
ageous and refreshing variety of the human
race.” And again, “Even if in future years
the slender Yankee belle is hidden behind the
ampler beauty of the English matron, we
may still hear from her lips the wit and
shrewdness, the accute accent, the intelligent
question, and the rapid repartee that pro-
claim her original nationality." The “so-
ciety” pictures in the papers and magazines
represent tho dismay of the British matron
with marriageable daughters as she surveys
the*avatar of the American divinity and
rival. The essential differences of society in
the two countries arc at once suggested, and
the alarm of the watchful parent is justified.
The passages that we have quoted appar-
ently describe, by contrast, which is a fact
which does not seem to have occurred to the
writer. Doubtless at heart he is loyal to the
English girl, and does not admit, even in
debate, that her supremacy of maidenhood
can be disputed. When he says that Ameri-
can girls have shown that they can receive,
travel and live without chaperons, escorts or
husbands, he seems io mean that they have
shown this distinctively as compared with
other girls.
When he adds that they are fast develop-
ing a bright, clear, intelligent, self reliant,
courageous and refreshing variety of the
human race, can he mean that it is a new
variety of girl, and that it is not perfectly
familiar in England. So in the other passage,
when, supposing the American girl trans-
formed into the British matron, he remarks,
with evident admiration, “We may still hear
from her lips the wit and shrewdness, the
acute accent, the intelligent question and the
rapid repartee that proclaim her original na-
tionality,” would he have us understand that
these are not the characteristics of the Brit-
ish matron of today ? Or does he intimate
only that the coming of the Americans will
but enlarge the number of these delightful
ladies?
The writer certainly seems to describe by
contrast, but he has wisely left a little cloud
in which to envelop his retreat in case of
emergency. Certainly we need not press him.
Whatever he may think or say of the Eng-
lish girl, he has spoken well and truly of her
American sister. His description applies to
the girl who grows up amid the average con-
ditions of American life, the gild who is por-
trayed in her more jejune condition in Henry
James’ Daisy Miller. The two chief qualities
of that young woman, as represented by the
shrewd and subtle artist, are self respect and
self reliance. The perplexity of the phenome-
non to the foreign reader lies in the fact that
she does what the European girl without self
respect does.
The Tables of Royalty.
In Italy the court dines around a table cov-
ered with a magnificent service in gold; it is
the only luxury; there are no flowers, and
the dishes of the country are invariably
served—above all, the fritto, composed of a
foundation of artichokes, liver, brains and
cocks’ combs. At the German court the finest
table is that of the grand duchess of Baden;
she has an excellent French cuisine and a Pa-
risian chef. The queen of Sweden has a very
tempting table and bill of fare—soups, al-
most always milk, and beefsteak; one of her
favorite dishes is composed of balls of mince-
meat cooked with oil and surrounded with a
garnishing-of poached eggs; then there is al-
A Strange Eventful History.
Mlle. Rousseil, the once celebrated actress,
is about to return to the scene of her first
triumphs. Her history is a strange one.
During the war she nursed the wounded sol-
diers, like many other actresses, and her fa-
miliarity with pain and death gave her a
gloomy view of life. She, however, con-
tinued her career, and created the role of
Caverlet in Emilie Augier’s play, but in the
Lent of 1876 Pere Didon preached at Notre
Dame, and his sermons imbued her afresh
with religious mania. She used to lacerate
her flesh like Saint Theresa, and looked upon
herself as a veritable Magdalen. She con-
ceived a violent disaster for her profession;
tried literature, but failed; and eventually
Hints to Housekeepers.
A hot flatiron with a fold of flannel over it
will relieve neuralgia very quickly.
For warming over dark meats use brown
sauces made from browned butter and flour,
for white meats cream sauces, which, of
course, can bo made from milk.
Take two large spools, drive large nails
through them in the wall about two inches
apart, hang your broom up, brush end up.
One or two potatoes left from dinner will
make a comfortable dish of Lyonnaise pota-
toes for breakfast.
Keep carbolic acid always convenient for
use. It is ono of the best disinfectants and
insect destroyers that can be used. A small
quantity need only be applied at a time.
Vinegar improves by keeping, therefore,
it is best to lay in a large supply.
Syrup made of brown sugar, with a pint
of hickory tea to three pounds of sugar, is a
good substitute for maple syrup.
Powdered rosin, according to H. Hager, is
liable to spontaneous combustion, owing to
oxidation by the air, and it should be kept in
tightly closed tin boxes.
To cleanse porcelain sauce pans fill them
half full of hot water and put in the water a
tablespoonful of powdered borax and let it
boil. If this does not remove all the stains,
scour well with a cloth rubbed with soap and
borax.
The following often acts satisfactorily in
removing old ink stains from polished ma-
hogany and cherry. Add a very few drops
of niter to a teaspoonful of water, dip $
feather into this mixture and touch the Ink
spots with it. When the stain disappears rub
the spot at once with a rag wet with clear
water, then dry and polish. This is to pfe-
vent a white mark coming hi place of the
stain.
The American Girl Compared with Her
English Sister—Points About the Toilet.
Teaching the Little Ones to Talk—Use-
ful Recipes for the Good Housewife.
Husband, loq.—I buy everything that is
needed in the house, and you have only to
speak to me if you are in want of pin money.
That doesn’t seem to be a great hardship.
I wouldn’t mind asking for money, if I was
sure of getting it without any further ex-
ertion.
Ahl wouldn’t you, good sir? Suppose your-
self in the place of a wife, who, however petted
and indulged,is expected to render a strict ac-
count of every trifle she buys, or rather fancy
yourself telling her, because compelled by the
necessity of the case, of every cent you spend
on personal luxuries? She may dip into her
purse for caramels, perfumes and flowers;
your cigars, luncheons and other marginal
expenses foot up a far larger bill.
First and last, in many otherwise happy
homes, there is a good deal of friction and
consequent discomfort with regard to the
management of the finances. Either there is
not money enough to warrant the style as-
sumed or attempted, or else husband and wife
do not agree perfectly about the spending of
it, or, again, there is a lack of openness about
the resources of the married partners.
Among wage earning classes this does not
so often occur, where the husband quite often
puts his week’s salary without reserve in the
hands of his wife, taking what she chooses to
give him for spending money, and leaving to
her the disposition of whatever his hard hand
labor has gained.
Where, however, there is a fluctuating in-
come, and a man desires that his home shall
present a brave front to the world, making,
for business reasons, or those of personal
pride, a goodly show in the eyes of his towns-
people and acquaintances, there is often great
injustice done to wives. Their extravagance
is taken for granted by the uninformed.
How shall the wife of a lawyer, doctor or
business man know precisely how to arrange
her expenses, if she is treated like a child or
petted dependent, told to buy whatever she
pleases and send the bills to her husband, she,
in the meanwhile, uncertain how far she may
go, till some day there is a mutter, a rumble
or a storm, when payment is asked; or, when
a crash comes, she finds that she has been
walking heedlessly on a lava crust, with ruin
seething under her feet.
Entire and candid explanation of the
finances of the business firm, in which hus-
band and wife are partners, and the manage-
ment of home affairs, according to business
methods and in a common sense way, would
relieve a great deal of embarrassment and
prevent no end of annoyance and pain. The
most considerate of husbands do not dream,
dear, generous souls, of the dislike which the
most trustful and loving wives feel when
obliged to ask for money, unless it ba directly
for purposes of household economy. It is the
exception that proves the rule, when, evbn
after years of happy marriage, a wife is found
who owns to no dread in this regard, is con-
scious of no reluctant aversion—feels about
her husband’s purse as she would about her
own.—Margaret E. Sangster in Once a Week.
It costs $7 to protest a note in Los Angeles
against $1.33 in the east.
Cuban brigands have murdered a man
tvhom they held for $2,000 ransom.
The richest man in Berlin rejoices in an
annual income of 2,760,000 marks ($1,190,000).
There are 3,500 watches manufactured in
the United States daily, at a cost of from $5
to $500 each.
The British record of football for 1889 shows
the appalling number of eight deaths and five
serious injuries.
A new fruit has been discovered in southern
California. It looks like the fruit of the pear
tree, but the pulp is soft and pasty, tasting
like claret.
A case containing representations of every
president of the United States in meerschaum
has just been completed and will be sent to
the Paris exhibition.
A New York policeman has been ordered
to appear before the commissioners on a
charge of dancing a can-can on the open
streets while on duty.
A small leasehold property in Worcester-
shire, England, is announced for sale by
auction, field “for the residue of term of 2,000
years created in the year 1600.”
Coney Island is fast being washed away by
the sea. Those who have enjoyed themselves
there will regret to learn that the old resort
is in danger of being totally destroyed.
A silver bell has been hung in a tower in
the village of Borki, where the railroad acci-
dent to the czar’s train happened, and it will
be tolled every day at the hour of the accident.
With much secrecy and difficulty the first
incineration has occurred in Paris, the body
which was reduced to ashes being that of a
boy 11 years old, the son of the Russian Dr.
Jacoby.
There are marriages still at famous Gretna
Green. One Willie Lang there takes the
place of the ancient blacksmith, and in the
public house splices a dozen or so of runaway
couples every year.
The United States government, as a reward
for his faithful services, has enrolled Wash-
akie, the head chief of the Shoshone Indians
in Wyoming, as a government scout, with
the pay of a regular soldier.
The tall female hat now so agitates the
minds of the male frequenters of the London
pits that it is proposed that the pit should be
divided like a Quaker meeting house, the men
sitting on one side and the women on the
other.
It is claimed that there are 5,000 tailors in
and near Boston out of work, because, as
alleged, the local clothing manufacturers
send their goods to New York city to be made
up by the cheap labor of the tenement house
districts.
Ash Wednesday no longer interferes with
theatrical performances in London. Whereas
all the theatres used to close on that day,
only two this year paid any attention to it,
and these merely announced that they would
keep open.
In a small garden attached to one of the
most frequented saloons in El Paso lies a
stone image of heroic size, which some twenty
years ago created an unbounded sensation,
not only among the public generally, but
also among scientists. It is the celebrated
Cardiff giant.
A sporting man in Chicago was so certain
that his dog would win a proposed fight that
he, mortgaged his cigar factory and all his
jewelry, and even persuaded his sweetheart
to put up all her loose cash. The other dog
won, and his factory was closed out and his
girl committed suicide.
The English have begun to bet on elections
in true American style. At the late Ken-
nington election odds were offered ranging
from 5 to 1 to 2 to 1 on the Conservative
candidate, afterward defeated, and the bet-
ting was heavy; 4 to 1 is still laid on the
Conservative candidate for Enfield.
The fine compact sand which gives such
firm footing upon ’the beach of Anastasia,
Fla., is scarcely half an inch in depth. Below
it lies a bed of loose, broken shell. Under
the microscope a pinch of this debris from
the ocean bottom is transformed into a
myriad of grottoes, towers and minarets,
built of glittering crystals and gems of every
hue.
William Verity died recently in Sacra-
mento, Cal., leaving a fortune of $11,000.
Immediately there appeared a Mrs. Verity,
living in New York, who had not seen her
liege lord since 1865. She had heard of his
whereabouts in 1883, had quietly investigated
his financial standing, and had “laid for
him.” She does not believe marriage to be
a failure.
The government of Japan desires to in-
crease its navy by building four or five first
class ships every year, in order to be pre-
pared for any emergency. Japan already
possesses a navy of thirty-five ships and
8,000 officers and men. A commission of
engineers are at present in America inspect-
ing our newest war ships, with a view of
building similar vessels in Japan.
The big raft that is to float from Puget
sound down to San Francisco will be made
of longer logs than were ever put into a raft
on Atlantic waters. It will have but 5,000
logs, as against the 25,000 in the big Joggins
raft of last year, but none will be less than
100 feet long, and the great size of the sticks,
it is thought, will bring the amount of
lumber up to the amount of the big eastern
raft.
calling uiidey how many different titles the most at each repast the national plate, salmon
same obiect is nresentefl tn preserved in eartlj. Queen Victoria’s favorite
wine is pale sherry, which she drinks from a
■ . ,. —— beautifully carved silver cup inherited from
simplicity in the vocabulary she bestows upon Queen Anne. The roval dinneris very cppi-
him. A pla®».should be called a p’-x- 1 ' - — .....- ■ -
not a digft OUg'lfayr the time and a j
other. The terms glass, tumbler and goblet
are also pqzz.ling to the baby intelligence.
His frock should be indicated to him as a
frock, a slip, or a dress, and not as every one
of the three. As he grows older this careful-
ness will become unnecessary, but its omis-
sion at the outset is a hindrance to his im-
provement.
Another thing that retards an infant’s pro-
gress in learning to express himself intelligibly
is the absurd .practice of addressing him in
the gibberish known as “baby talk.” There
is neither rhyme nor reason in mutilating
language beyond all recognition in order td
adapt it to baby comprehension. The prin-
ciple that leads a mother to chop her child’s
food into fine bits that it may demand less of
an effort from his digestive powers does not
apply to things linguistic. With those there
can be no mincing matters. The English
language is hard enough to acquire at best,
without doubling the task by insisting that
a child shall first learn a patois and then un-
learn it before he is able to express his
thoughts in a fashion to be understood by
ordinary mortals.—Harper’s Bazar.
If the press of the interior is to be
relied upon it is anxious to know-
why democrats in Galveston, or some of
them at least, are supporting N. W.
Cuney for collector of customs of this
port. Evening Tribune can say that
democrats in Galveston are not support-
ing N. W. Cuney for this or any other
office, but they have seized upon an op-
portunity to testify to Cuney’s intelli-
gence and integrity as a citizen, and so
far as we know, this is not a crime in
this country or any other.
SOME RICH AMERICAN CITIZENS.
butcher boy, and now has $25,000,000.
Marshall Field, Chicago, began as clerk in
Potter Palmer’s store, and has $15,000,000.
John J. Jennings, one of Chicago’s oldest
residents, has made $5,000,000 in real estate.
Vice President Morton is worth $10,000,000,
and did not have a large nest egg to start
with.
Collis P. Huntington, the railroad mag-
nate, was once a poor man, and is worth $40,-
000,000.
J. W. Mackay, $30,000,000, was a ship
builder at days’ wages before he was a gold
hunter.
David Sinton is the richest man in Cincin-
nati, born in a cabin in Ireland, and worth
now $5;000,000.
B. P. Hutchison, “Old Hutch” started life
at the shoemaker’s bench at Lynn, Mass. He
is worth $8,000,000.
Andrew Carnegie, the iron king, is worth
$40,000,000, and came to this country from
Scotland a poor man.
A. M. Cannon, Washington territory, ped-
dled sewing machines through Oregon, and is
now rated at $5,000,000.
John I. Blair, Blairstown, N. J., is worth
$40,000,000, and began business by selling
plug tobacco and notions.
Senator John P. Jones came to this coun-
try from Wales and went gold hunting in
1849. He is worth 15,000,000.
L. Z. Leiter, Washington, D. C., began
life poor and is new worth $40,000,000, made
mostly in dry goods in Chicago.
Sidney Dillon was at one time a brakeman,
and had no regular education. His fortune
is estimated at $15,000,000 to $20,000,000.
Henry A. Flagler, who built the Ponce de
Leon hotel, at St. Augustine, Fla., said to be
the finest hotel in the world, is worth $15,-
000,000.
George M. Pullman, the palace car man,
began life in a small furniture business in Al-
bion, N. V. He began with fifty dollars and
now has $5,000,000.
The four male members of the Vanderbilt
family are rated: Cornelius, $110,000,000;
William K., $85,000,000; Frederick. W., $16,-
000,000; George W., $15,000,000.
Cauldwell Cole, owner of the yaucht Daunt-
less, is a bachelor, 35, and worth $6,000,000.
Mr. Cole is one of the few rich men who
have inherited most of their fortune.
Montgomery Sears, Boston, inherited $9,-
000,000 from his father, but had to contest
the will to get it. He is believed to be worth
$12,000,000. His father began life poor.
John D. Rockefeller, New York, began life
as a bookkeeper in Cleveland, and is reported
to be worth $60,000,OCX). He is still a young
man, and one of the brainiest and most unas-
suming of America’s great financiers.
George Ehret, a New York beer king, is
but forty years old and worth $5,000,000. “He
was so poor a few years ago when he reached
this country that he could not speak the
English language,” is the way his financial
condition was expressed to the writer.
Here are seventy-two men-, all American
citizens, whose fortunes aggregate the big
total of $1,433,000,000. This exceeds by $33,-
000,000 the total moitey circulation of the
United States the first day of the present
month, according to the treasury statement.
A. J. Drexel, of Philadelphia, is worth
$20,000,000. He is the son of Francis Martin
Drexel, who was born in Austrian Tyrol,
1792, a portrait painter of merit, who came
to this country to avoid one of Napoleon’s
conscriptions. He engaged in the banking
business and his sons inherited a considerable
fortune.
James J. Hill, president of the Manitoba
railroad, who not many years ago paid Nor-
man W. Kittson $3,500,000 cash for one-fifth
interest in the road, began earning money by
working on the St. Paul levee for $50 a
month. He was afterwards agent at St. Paul
for a line of river steamers. Mr. Hill is now
worth $15,000,000.
Ten cottagers at Lenox last summer were
rated as follows: D. W. Bishop, $15,000,000;
George W. Westinghouse, $20,000,000; W. D.
.Sloane, $18,000,000; Charles Lanier, $15,000,-
000; G. G. Haven, $12,000,000; George S.
Crocker, $12,000,000; W. H. Bradford, $10,-
000,000; Anson P. Stokes, $8,000,000; Brayton
Ives, $6,000,000; CoL Auchmutty, $5,000,000.
George W. Childs, of Philadelphia, was an
errand boy in a book store, became clerk,
then a partner with R. E. Paterson, and later
with J. B. Lippincott in the publishing busi-
ness. Among the famous books issued by the
firm was Parson Brownlow’s “Reminiscen-
ces,” for which they paid the author $15,000
in royalties. Mr. Childs is worth not less than
$15,000,000.—Chicago Tribune.
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