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GHASTLY RELICS.
Novel Collection* in tlie Arm j* .TIedical
Museum at lVaithiiifflon*
There is one place in Washington that
very few sight-seers visit. It is a museum
with a ve y extensive and novel collection.
composed entirely of fragments of
dead people, and it occupies the old
Fold's theatre, on Tenth street, in which
Lincoln met his tragic death. The once
gay theatre is now associated witliskelc
tons and death. The lirst floor, where I
the pit was, is occupied by the clcrical I
force of ;he medical department of the |
army. The dress circle ccntains the '
library and a few articulated skeletons, j
while the peanut gallery, where the ;
street arabs used to assemble at night to :
applaud the acting and drop peanut hulls j
and orange peelings on the bald heads j
in the pit. is given up exclusively to the i
collection of fragments of dead men. |
There is seldom anybody in the museum j
except the attendant. At the entrance j
of the library a group of skeletons stand |
grinning a sepulchral welcome, those in j
front standing in a careless attitude, j
"too naked to be ashamed." while those j
behind jeer over tiieir shoulders with an
air c' familiarity that is offensive to a
person of delicate sensibilities.
Near the door is a sign and an index
finger, which tells the visitor that the
museum is up-stairs, and these grinning,
gibbering skeletons seem to feel a cyni- !
cal satisfaction in directing the way to j
the upper room where are collected the !
relies of ruined men. One tall, tine- j
looking feilow stands with his foot on a j
skull. The rest stand with their toes j
turned in and their long, bony fingers {
soread out at their sides or twisted
together. Some of them are young,
spry,dandified skeletons.with head erect
and polished white foreheads and a full
set of pure white teeth, while others are J
hollow-chested, snaggle-toothed, old j
creature.), and others again are black and j
shriveled up, like witches' imps. They
all have that offensive familiar grin,
which seems to say that they hope to !
know you better later on.
Up-stairs there are rows of glass cases j
all the way around the wall, and close !
together from cast to west around the j
room, there are large glass bottles, like
preserving jars. Some have human
hearts in them; some hold the lungs and
liver. Others hold kidneys, spleen,eyes,
noses, ears or lingers of men who have
been a long time dead. Among the
spleens is that of Guiteau, which is a
third larger than any of the rest. One
case is devoted to arms and legs that
have been amputated, and show how
nice and slick the surgeon's knife and
flttW V>C1IU cm II. vv'v/mu vi buv/u* i?4 v |
all lacerated and torn to pieces
by gunshot wounds?most of
the exhibits are the scraps of men
picked up olf the battlefield. One heart
has two big ounce bullets imbedded in
it. Another has a deep gash in it and j
near by is a dirk Knife. Another case is
devoted to h^;rib!e looking hands and
feet put up in glass jars. All are swelled
up and lacerated. Some have the flesh
torn away and the bone and sinews left
bare. A solitary thumb reposes in a
^ small bottle, while a little finger is i
crooked up in another. An eye torn j
from its socket by a musket ball is |
soaked in alcohol; odds and ends and
all sorts of fragments of dead people arc
collected'there like the scraps for a crazy
quilt.
But the chief part of the collection
consists of small fragments of bones.
There is the section of the backbone of
Booth in a glass case not many feet from
the spot where he shot Lincoln. There
are all sorts of human bones shattered
*>y shot and shell. Skulls with crreat
big lead balls sticking iu them; big
bones with fragmeuts of iron shells
crushing them into powder; joints
broken apart by musket balls; there are
skulls, ribs, legs, and arms shattered
and shivered by all sorts of missiles
of war, and in 8ome cases the lead
and the bone have become welded together.
There are over 9,000 specimens
of bones fractured in curious ways
by shot. There are plaster casts of
different cuts of the human body that
make the cases look like a butcher's
stall. Then there are more articulated
skeletons. There is the sjreat French ;
skeleton, a giant in proportions, every
bone as white as ivory, teeth all pirfcct
like pearls, toes turned out, and palms
of the hands extended with all the grace
of a dancing-master.
"Look at those teeth." siid one of the
attendants to the reporter, "lie is proud
of those teeth. None but a French skeleton
could have teeth like that. You
??" ?lmnwo fnll 1 T? ron pVi ma n hv that.
There's a Yankee. None at nil! Only
one canine, and half,J;he jaw rotted
away. That's because they use too much
tobacco. If Americans knew how it
* ruined their skeletons they wouldn't
chew so much. A Frenchman has a
right to be proud of his skeleton. I
should be ashamed to be a skeleton
without teeth. That's a mighty fine
looking woman there," and he dusted
the glass case that protected a set of delicately
fashioned bones. ''She's French.
See her teeth; like pearls. If you want
to make a gtood skeleton take care of
your teeth."
These articulated skeletons are the
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oniy aciors now on my Majje tutu, u?cu
to afford amusement to Abraham Lincoln,
and their bony fingers point out
the spot where he met his death.? Wus/tington,
Star.
One Mail's Work.
A traveler in Francc recently described
a settlement on the river Oise, which
might borrow the name of Rasselas'
Happy Valley. It is the work of one
man, M. Godin, who was born in extreme
poverty,and obliged to work when
a child from o o'clock in the morning
until 8 at night.
The oppression and misery of his
childhood gave him one fixed resolve?
to help the condition of the poor. By
means of several inventions, for which
he secured patents, he became a wealthy
man. He bought a tract of ground in
the valley of the Oise, and erected workshops
on one side of the river. On the
other side he built an immense house,
capable of accommodating 800 people,
lighted, aired and drained according to
the most advanced laws of sanitation.
The building contained a nursery,
schools, baths, laundries, library, gymnasium
and amusement-hall, lie has
enlarged it year by year until it will accommodate
1,400 inmates.
Five years a^o M. Godm formed all
his work-people into a vast partnership,
giving each a share in the workshop?,
buildings aud library. The rooms in the
home arc rented for less than the laborer
would pay for a hove!. The tenant
buys his fuel, provisions and other supplies
at a co-operative store, in which he
is an owner. His children are cared for
in the nursery, then promoted to the
kindergartens, and next to the school,
/.noli flio nrtn nf fiff-nnrt wVinn
11 LI Hi LU<J V icauu C*^v^ V4 -. -w? |
the boys are received into the shops, and |
the girls take part in the domestic work J
of the home. Each workman has free j
access to the library and gymnasium.
A pleasure garden of twenty-two acres
is cultivated, filled with fruit and
flowers.?Youth'1 s Companion. ,
MM VESSELS LOST.
Instruction of the Fishing Fleet
011 the Labrador Coast.
People's Houses Swept Away and
Numerous Persons Drowned.
Advices havo been received at Halifax,
Nova Scotia, of a terrific hurricane along
coast of Labrador. On October 10 the
win J was high. Dunng the night it increased
raj idly, and by 19 o'clock the following day
it was blowing a hurricane. The fishing fleet
in the neighborhood had no warning of the
storm's approach, and being taken almost
unprepared was almost entirely destroyed.
The vessels sought such shelter as the
inhospitable coast afforded, but vessel
after vessel was blown from its moorings
and driven ashore on the rocky reefs, there
to be dashed to pieces. Wreckage is strewn
along the coast for miles, and more of it is
coming ashore every hour. The full extent
of the damage cannot yet be estimated for
want of communication, but from what has
been learned so far from seventy to ninety
vessels have gone to pieces, and only a few of
their crcws had any chance to escape, as
far as estimated some one hundred fishermen
have lost their lives.
Tho people 011 the shore, mostly women
and children, are thus bereft of their sole support
at a tiim when the entire coast is suffering
from a dire famine. .Many of tho lost
vessels are from other localities, and this add9
to the difficulty in getting tho list of vossols
dasti oyed. The reason why this disaster is
particularly felt by tho inhabitants there is
due to the fact that the fisheries were a comp'ete
failure.
Every able-bodied man and boy had been
f/% fnl.-ii o/lnonforra of loro*A Qr?l innlc nf
mackerel which had suddenly appeared in
those waters. For the same reason the vessels
had all remained on the grounds somewhat
later in the season to makd up for their
jjast hard luck.
There are now fully 2,000 persons on
shore completel}' destitute. Their appeals
for aid made a few weeks ago upon the
strength of the fisheries have now become
doubly urgent. A steamer is fitting out to
go at once to their assistance with all the
necessaries needed and then it is hoped that
complete returns of the disaster can be obtained.
The Dominion parliament has been
called upon and a liberal donation is expected.
The damage done,according to the reports,
is not confined to the sea, but numbers of
dwellings, many of them little better than
huts,but still the only home and shelter these
unfortunate Dersons nossessed. were leveled
to the ground or washed away by the
tide, which is reported to have risen
to an unprecedented height within a few
hours. In many instances the people were
away from home, being down on the beach
assisting some unfortunate craft ashore, and
so, when the flood came they were not there
to remove their effects ani consequently lost
their all.
The many thus left homeless are subsisting
tli j best way they can either in the houses of
lriends, in the oil factories, or in temporary
shelters made up of old boats, pieces of canvas,
etc., in sheltered nooks. This Is having
a fatal effect on the many victims of the
dreaded scurvy which. made its appearance
some time ago.
A number of bodies have bean washed up,
s< me fifty being recovered so far, but so disfigured
are they from the action of the water,
or fivin having Oeen Deaten out or a'l human
resemble nee on the rocks, it was possible to
id nityonly a lew. They were buried in
hastiiy-mado graves as soon as recovered, the
inhabitants religiousiy accompanying each to
the grave and seeing ihat some burial service
was held.
So violent was the surf that only little
came ashoro from the wreck sufficiently intact
to be utilized. Tho vessels were most of
them small, so the loss in mone}- will hardly
reach over but it is th-j fishermen's
all.
A later dispatch from St. John's, Newfoutidland,
says: "A great storm raged off
the coast of Labrador on October 11, doing
immense damage among the fishing ileet
gathered there. Eighty vess?ls were
wrecked or driven ashore, and
at least seventy men from the
crews of the vessels lost their live3. Two
thousand persons are now ashore in a destitute
condition. The news created great excitement
here. Steamers will be immediately
dispatched to the scene of tho disaster with
provisions, clothing and other comforts for
the use of the castaways."
Latest Reports.
The Darkentine Nellie has arrived at St.
John's. N. F., from Labrador. She brings
terrible news of the hurricane that rocontly
ravaged the wave-washed shores of that
bleak and inhospitable country. Not
only have the fisheries tailed the sturdy
toilers of the sea, but the very elements
seem to have a particular spite against
them. With the beginning of the month the
weather grew bad and frequent storms prevailed.
On the 11th inst a hurricane came
011. It struck the coast quite unexpectedly,
and the fishing vessels suffered severely.
Many foundered at their anchors, and others
were dashed high on the rocks and became
total wrecks.
The loss of life was terrible. Some of the
passengers of the Nellie estimate the number
at three hundred. Several women perished
from exposure and starvation and others
were drowned.
At Esquimaux Point, out of n population
of lf>0 families, only twenty have supplies for
the winter. Thirty more hope to get enough
from the merchants who usually make advances
to them to pull them through. The
remaining 100 families have nothing
whatever with which to face the winter,
and it will be necessary either
to bring them oil tho coast or to send supplies
to them. The failure of the fisheries
was due to the action of the ice in tbo spring.
The fall fishing has been poor all over tho
gulf owing to rough weather. Prices of all
kinds of fish are low.
Over two thousand persons are destitute
an I stranded on the coast. Five steamers
have been dispatched to their assistance.
Tho worst is not yet known, but sufficient
information has come to hand
to make it fully known tnas aire
distress prevails on the coast. The hurricane
blew with such violence that many of the
rude huts of the fishermen were swept away.
Hundreds of families are deprived of a roof,
and seek shelter day and night under the
scanty protection afforded by wreckage and
tattered sails. Utiles* speedy succor reaches
them many must die of exposure and famine.
A HORRIBLE REVENGE
A Woman Throws a Bottle of Vitriol
in a Crowded Court-Iloom.
A I'aris dispatch says that a very startling
scene of vitriolic eloquence at the Palais de
Justice has caused a flutter of excitement in
the legal profession. The judge and advocates
were about to proceed with the trial of
a case concerning the seizure and sale
of a small cottago at ilontreuil belonging to
Mme. Laisier, a pretty widow. M. Galas, a
commission agent, had been deputed by a
group of Mme. Laisier's creditors to effect
a judicial sale of a cottage for the bene
fit of her creditors. M. Galas stood
in the left corner of the audience
chamber surrounded by several
lawyers, when Mme. Laisier suddenly walked
up to him, and opening a small basket that
she held in her hands, took from it a bottle
of concentrated vitriol and threw it at the
astonished commission agent.
M. Galas shrieked and yelled with agony,
and fell senseless on the floor. His face was
fearfully t urned and both eyes were destroyed.
His ciothes were so carbonized
by the fluid that they fell from
his body like burned paper. Maitre
Duclos, who stood next to M. Galas,
had bis right ear burned off. Seven other
lawyers were disfigured and the woodwork
of the audience chamber was covered with
the terrible liquid. M. Galas was carried to
tho Hotel-Dieu hospital.
Mme. Laisier was seized by gendarmes, who
found in her bosket another bottlo of vitriol
and a loaded revolver. Mme. Laisier managed
to seize the revolver and placed the muzzle in
her mouth, with the intention of committing
suicide, but the gendarmes were too quick, for
her and prevented her firing. Upon being
questioned by the judge, whoso clothes had
also been sprinkled with vitriol, she said:
"I determined since yesterday to vitriolizo
M. Galas, who was about to sell my cottage
and deprive me of my only home, although
ho has in his hands plenty of money to pay
all my creditors. I only regret tnat I didivt
kill him."
news summary, 'i
Famcrn and middle State*. b
Edward Kanlan, for many years America^
champion oarsman, lias just been easily ji
defeated at Albany, N. Y., in a three-mile a
boat-race by John Teemer, of Pittsburg ci
Penn. P
Ex-Goverxor Joiin B. Paok, of Ver
mont, died a few days ago at Rutland. He ir
was born in 1*20, and o.ected governor in a
18G7 ami 1SGS. ?
Five prisoners in the Wcllshoro (Penn.)
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jail took Kronen leave inrougu a nuit ^
Ihey had cut in the wall. ei
"Josrr Billings," the humorist, was r<
buried in Lanesborough, Mas.%, his native 11
town. P1
Ax engine ran into a coal train at Swartwood
Station, N. Y., and William Brown,
engineer, his fireman and a brakernan wero
killed.
Tex trackmen while being conveyed to
their work on a flat car were swept off near .
Oakdale, Alass., and all badly injured, one
dying soon after and several others losing a u*
log by amputation.
Mrs. Bridget Farley, born in Ireland bo
in 1781, has just died at Bridgeport Conn.,
leaving two children, twenty-five grandchildren
and twenty-one great-grandchil- hl
dren. w
A seat in the New York Stock exchange
has just been sold for $34,000,the highest price \\
on record.
Sarah Curry, aged nineteen years, a girl w
of Scotch-Irish parentage residing at Dover, *
N. H., has receive ! a cablegram announcing di
that by the recent death of an uncle in Scot- so
land she inherits ?1,000,000. 0f
A Connecticut life insuranca company j.0
took possession of the water works at Evansville
, Ind., on account of default in payment ^
of interest on bonds.
William J. Best,who has been prominent at
in New York business circles through his jj
connection with various broken institutions
as receiver, was arrested on a requisition of
the governor of Massachusetts and taken to H
Boston. He was charged with embezzling i in
$>75,000 of trust funds belonging to the Pa- W|
cific bank, of Boston, of which institution he
had been a trustee. The charge is denied by n(
Best. gi
Notwithstanding the hubbub of an exciting tli
election canvas the people of New York city
have been greatly interested in the
trial of Ferdinand Ward and the Jn
appearance on the witness stand of in
James D. Fish, late president of the nc
broken Marine bank, and now an inmate of
Auburn prison. Fish's testimony concerning
| the financial operations of his former partner tl(
t-t _ - ?...Ktt?no trA?*ir fJamntrittcr tfi fcfi
Ill neucillg lub puuuv; koj vi j (. .. .g?o ?
Ward. ac
Robert J. Cook, business manager of the
Philadelphia Press, bad his skull fractured
bv a hatchet blow struck by Stephen Mac- &?
pnerson, the colored janitor, whom he had re
just discharged. Macpherson was arrested, pi
and Cook,who is best known as a once famous ^
Yale college oarsman, was taken to a hospital.
Ferdinand Ward's trial in New York for
grand larceny ended in a verdict of guilty, *?
the testimony of Fish, the imprisoned ox- n<
president of the Marine bank, telling heavily cr
against the head of the once famous firm of
Grant & Ward.
Ur to recent date the Grant National Monument
fund had reached ${J2,500. 3
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South and West*
Mr. Parnell and other prominent Irish
home rulers will attend the convention of _
the Irish national league of America at ei
Chicago next January. n(
A AVicjuti Falls (Texas) telegram states Cc
that the Exchange bank, C. W. Israel &
Co., proprietors, and the firm's bank at Hen
rietta, have suspended, and great indigna- te
tion has been aroused among the numerous vx
depositors 0:1 account of alleged irregularities.
Rev. Alfred Coffee, a colored preacher,
beat his thirteen-year-old son to death at
Madison, Fla., and was arrested.
The first annual fair of the Mississippi
colored State Fair association has been .
opened at Jackson under favorable auspices.
The opening ceremonies consisted of a civic Pi
and military parade, and addresses by Gov- in
ernor Lowry, Congressman Barksdale and ti
Isaiah T. Montgomery, resident of the association.
Every part of the State is represented
at the fair by exhibits.
John Thompson, who murdered James C.
White, a merchant of Glen Alice, Tenn.,
was taken from Kingstown jail late at night .
by a mob of 100 men and hanged.
A bridge at East Saginaw, Mich., was SQ
filled with spectators watching a fire when a,
part of the structure gave way, throwing th
about sixty people into the deep river below. w
Une boy's ooay was recovereu, uuu oovciai m
other persons were reported missing. bi
The regular Democratic candidate for st
mayor of Baltimore was successful over the cc
fusion nominee in tha municipal election.
A. J. Brnnvs, of Chicago, shot and mor* "
tally wounded Mrs. Goode, a widow, and her *c
I sister, Miss Lillian Walters. The ladies had
; been employed as type writers in a Chicago ?J
mercantile "agency,and Burrus.also employed 8*
there, had been discharged when he refused
to apologize to Mrs. Goode for defaming her. cc
Burrus then took this blood-thirsty method fc
of "getting even."
Uanbin^ton* S!
Secretary Whitney has approved the
report of the naval board constituted to ex- ?!
amine the work and materials of thi unfin- j
ished cruisers Chicago, Boston and Atlanta, jV
and to ascertain and declare the fair market u
value thereof, including a reasonable and
customary margin of profit upon the work; j"
ani the naval advisory board has been .
? i. ot
ordered to go on wnn mo wuj k. ul *,uu?ui uution.
^
Thk President has appointed Oscar G. C(
Paisley postmaster at Wilmington, N. C. To n)
be United States, attorneys, Joseph W. House, p
for the eastern district of Arkansas.; Monti
H. Sandels, for the western district of Arkansas.
To be marshals, Thomas Fletcher, for ^
the eastern district of Arkansas; John Carroll,
for the western district of Arkansas. sjIt
is understood that Secretary Bayard se
does not contemplate making any changes in ol
the consular offices in the countries south of pi
the United States for [some time yet. It is in
the policy of the state department to cul- ai
tivate more friendly relations with P
Mexico and the South and Central American pj
neonle. and to extend our commercial inter- ai
course in that direction. For this reason the ce
consuls who have already secured the good ct
opinion of the people with whom they have m
to deal, it is thought by the secretary will be ij
of greater service just now than would new
men. cc
The court of commissioners of Alabama oi
claims, which will expire by limitation December
31, is making rapid progress with its
business. 1?
Additional appointments by the Prosi- "
dent: W. Lee Diukins, of Mississippi, to be
United States marshal for the southern district
of-Mississippi; Edmund B. Briggs. of
the District of Columbia, to be United States
consul at Santos, Brazil; Henry F. Weld, of
Massachusetts, to be assayer in charge of the H
assiy olHce at Boise City, Montana.
riiERE was received at the United States
treasury department the other day, in an envelope
postmarked Newark, N. J., a ?i300
Unite t States note marked "conscience 11
money." Some days ago a contribution of CI
?200 to the conscience fund was received a ]a
the department from a Washington clergy .
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fessional. fr
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Foreign* a
Smallpox, which has been epidemic at w
Montreal for s > many months ha; iinally p;
appeared in Toronto. At Montreal considerabio
'-e-iistanco is made against tho enforced w
isolation of patients. C;
Loun liOHXE, husband of Princess Louisa, hi
was delivering a campaign speech at Brant- d<
font, England, where he wa-5 running for 01
parliament, when lie was assaulted with at
rotten eggs, his liat snmlied over his hiiad, tc
and finally eompslle 1 to Ilea to the railway ai
station and depart for Lon ton.
Ax immense demonstration expressive of
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sympathy for Prime Minister JSstrupp, whose fc
assassination was recently attempted, has b?
been held in Copenhagen, the Danish capital. a
A forcf. of 0,000 Black Flags, Anamites and tli
Chineso deserters Ins b?en defeated with ai
heavy loss, after threo days of hard fighting, tc
by tho French under General de Courcey. tl
Hie French loss was cuirteen Kiueu miu u
wounded. tc
Mu. Hastings, proprietor of the Dublin
Irish Citizen, a loyalist newspaper, has been 'V
threatened with death, and his residenco has si
been partially burnod for caricaturing the
Panudlites. "
A tsiain collision near Savanno, Manitoba, ^
was followed by the burning of four loaded
freight tars, causing a loss of S10J,00X ^
BssinK smallpox, scarlet fover and diph- jsheria
have become eoidomic in the vicinity a
d
f Montreal. Many schools and church?
ave been closed.
THEempre?sofBrH7.i| is suffering from a
roken arm, received by falling down stairs.
M. Pasteur, the eminent scientist, has
jst furnished satisfactory proof to the French
eademy of sciences that inoculation was
asily practicable and had been successful in
roventing hydrophobia.
The GreatJEastern, the largest steamship
i the world, has just been sold at public
uction in England for ?20,200. She cost
00,000 in ISoS.
Spain has received an intimation from the
fifntac frnvommprit; tVlflt, if thfi fOl'm
:'s sovereignty of the Caroline islands is
;cognized lhe American Protestant mission
lust be respected and freedom of religion
srmittod.
LATER NEWS.
President Noah Pohteii, of Yale college
is resigned, his resignation to take effect
jxt.Tune.
The bodies of two more of the sixty porns
who fell through a bridge into the rivor
; East Saginaw, Mich., while watching u
e, wore re^ovareJ, miking three victim3,
ith a number of people still missing.
The President has appointed Frederick H.
lllSEOn, Ol Illinois, LU uc luaii^Loi luoiuwiiu
ul consul-general to Persia; William A*
ahoney, to bo collector of customs for tli9
strict of Fernanlina, Fla.; George A. Hesn,
to be surveyor of customs for the port
Memphis; Walter Goddard, to be collec*
r of customs for the district of Fairfield,
jnn.
Rear Admiral J. C. P. De Krafft died
his residence, in Washington, on the 29th.
e entered the service in 1841.
The annual report of Chief Signal Officer
azen. just published, says that tha courso of
struction for the officers who prepare
eather predictions has been enlarged, and
>w embraces lectures by the most distinlished
professors of meteorology in
e country. An increase of stations
the West and Northwest and
i. A ??? waiiM furfliar
UriWS II AIUCIIL'U IIUU1U lu.
lprove the service. Of 940 cold wave sigils
displayed during the year, 815 were jusfled.
The number of stations now in operajn
is 4S9. General Hazen asks that Lieunant
Greely, who is unable to e igage in
:tive cavalry service, bo made assistant to
e chief signal officer. Ho also asks that Sertant
Brainard, who with Lieut. Lockwood
ached the highest latitude yet attained, be
omoted, and that the other survivors of
ie Greely expedition receive government
nployment. The number of stations
r the display of cautionary sigils
on the lakes should be ineased.
The total expenditures during the
jar were $1,017,6'JS. The work of the ser
ce is performed by 21 officers, 3 professors,
junior professors, 5 JO enlisted men, and 14
vilian clorks.
A Corsican fired at a carriage containing
!. da Freycinet, the French minister of forgn
affairs, who was returning from a cabi;t
meeting. Before the would-be assassin
>uld fire again he was disarmed and arsted.
He asserted his motivo for the atmpted
assassination was revenge and ii>
jlitical. _______________
AT THE WHITE HOUSE
:ene? During'a Providential Reception?Cranky
Vlaltor*.
Below is an interesting account of a day'
)ings at the White House during one of
resident Cleveland's receptions. It is given
a Washington dispatch to the New York
erald:
The tri-weekly informal afternoon recepons
which have been instituted at the White
ouse by President Clovoland are now the
ost interesting and attractive entertainents
in Washington. The number who atnd
them increase every week. This afterDon
there were nearly two hundred perins
in the East room when the Presijnt
entered. Of this number more
lan one-half were ladies . Tho people
ho expect sensations to occur there are very
uch disappointed. Indeed, the idea which
is got abroad that the White House is con.
antly infest?d with cranks is far from being
irrect. ?
There were two visitors of this class at the
fhite House to-day. One of them wanted
> talk on shipbuilding. He said snipjilding
was more sacred than any
;her calling or occupation in which men eniged,
and that shipbuilders should hava
tqi'j possible protection that the government
>uld give them in the way of bounties and
swards. Bofore he had got very far be was
>ld to submit his idea in wilting to the seoitary
of the navy, who was just now investiiting
the subject. They got rid of him.
The other man wanted the government to
jrchase of him a quantity of small crocoles
which he said he could catch in a couple
: days in the lower Potomac, and place
lem in the basins of the fountains in public
irks. He thought the antics that young
id playful crocodiles would perform would
i more amusing to the children, as well as
,hers, than anything else. Ho said there
ere millions of crocodiles in the Potomac,
id that he possessed a secret by which he
>uld easily catch as many as might be
?eded. This gentleman was referred to the
ich ram mission.
The President makes all his visitors feel at
jme. He seems to make everyone think
lat he is specially glad to see them. Though
> the ordinary observer it looks as if ho
lakes the hands of all who present themilves
the same way, he does not, an I many
' them go away with the im ession
that they were speciilly favored
. the way their hand was shaken. Ladies
e always highly pleased with the way the
resident receives them. Ho never seems to
ly any attention to their attire or appear
ice, all, rich and poor, b?ing cordially relived,
though it has been notic-ed that in the
en ?f n ra,\ inrliftfl and indeed aged men, he
akes extra efforts to convince them that he
glad to receive their calls.
The members of the Utah commission spent
msiderable time with the President talking
rer the results of their labors. There is an
(ipression in some quarters that there will
3 a reorganization of this commission before
ng. At present it consists of two Ptepubliin
ex-Senator*, Ramsey and Paddock, and
le Democrat, Mr. Pettigrew.
A STBANGE DUEL
few a Toxcn and an Indian Kill.d
I nch Other.
The particulars of a rocent novel duel in
e Indian Territory have just been published,
lie affair come off at Tishamingo, in the
iioctaw nation. Tishamingo is a small vJlrrr>
whnm t-hn Tnrli<iTis rln their trading, and
the frequent resort of hard characters
oni Texas and other parts of the United
;ates. That region is full of outlaws. Among
dozen or more outlaws sitting in a saloon
as a tall Texan named Chalmers. An Indian
lice oflicer namxl Brown entered th'j saloon
ul Chalmers insisted on treating. As they
ere about to drink Brown managed to spiil
lialiners' liquor on the floor, telling him he
id enough. This enraged the Texan, who
miandcd blood, and pulled his revolver with
10 hand and his dirk with the other. Brown
so drew his weapon, and a light was about
i open, when tli3 spectators interfered and
ttomptcd to settle the matter.
Not hing would satisfy the wounded honor
Chalmers but blood, and so the other
hite men and Indians fixed up alight on the
illowing terms: Tho two men were to stand
" Jp" '-""l' Mm itiiddlo i\f Mlfi floOl*. At
U-'H. bU 1K(V tv m uuv iii>uv?.w
given signal each man was to run out of
10 room, the Indian through the front door
id the Texan by the back door. They were
> turn in the same direction after clearing
10 doors, and begin firing promiscuously,
otla principals agreed to these terms and
>ok their positions. The signal was given,
id both started from the house, pistols in
and. They faced each other on the north
de of the house and opened fire at almost
10 same instant. Three rounds were lired
i quick succession. Then the Indian began
> stagger, and, running toward Chalmers
ith a drawn knifo, plunged it into the Texti's
breast just a3 the latter fired his last
ullet, which penetrated the Indian's lir-art,
illing him instantly. Chalmers died halt
11 hour after his antagonist. Over fifty In*
ians and whites witnessed the duel.
t
"LITTLE MAC."
The Sudden Death of General
George B. McClellan.
A Sketch of his Career as a Soldier
and Civilian,
C4eneral George B. .McClellan died suddenly
at 3 o'clock a. m., on the 2Sth, at his couu;
try residence, St. Cloud, Orange Mountain,
| N. J. He was seriously troubled with neuralgia
for the first time about three weeks
previous. He complained of severe pains in
tho chest, which he attributed to cold, and
: for fivo days he was in bed, attended
daily by Dr. Seward, of Orange.
A week before his death he was
so far restored to his ordinary
\ health that he went out driving every day.
i Then he had some reminders of the former
trouble, and at Dr. Seward's advice remained
ndoors. On the evening of the 27th he was
so well that a dinner was given by the McClellans
to some of the neighbors, General
McClellan taking part and appearing to be
in his usual spirits. The day before his death
| he stayed in the house, reading by the fire
most of the day. During the evening he
was restless, but suffered no pain
until about 10 o'clock, when he began to
walk about the room, complaining of severe
rvn r\n ivi in 4 Anil ViAl*_
I UOJ UAJ OUiO KJL jjaIII XII II1U U'COU U1IU UCigliUUl ~
i hood of tho heart. As ho obtained no relief
I from tho remedies employed by Dr. Seward
I in treating the first attack, the physician was
sent for, arriving soon after 11 o'clock. By
! that time General McClellan was almost
j senseless with pain; opiates were ad1
ministered with a view to relieving
j the pain, and he sank into a comatose
state, which lasted until he died at o:10
o'clock a. m. Mrs. McC ellan and Miss May
McClellan, the only daughter, were at the
bedside with Dr. Seward when ho died. The
only son, a young manof twenty, astudentat
Princeton college, arrived at Orange at 1
o'clock. So far as Dr. Seward knows Genj
eral McClellan never was troubled with neu!
ralgia belore tho recent attack. Dr. Seward
thinks that, possibly, too much smoking may
have weakened the action of th.> h?art.
For the last sixteon years General McClellan
has lived in summer with his family on
the Orange mountain, overlooking tho town
! of Orange. His father-iu-law, General Marcy,
lives next door. General McClellan also
had a city residence in New York.
Sketch of His Career*
George Brinton McClellan was born in
Philadelphia. Decembers, 18U(J,his father being
Dr. McClellan,a celebrated member of the
faculty of the university of Pennsylvania med
??' A of t>lia T T?i
I AtV.U1 logc. ALICIX acuujlli^ av vao utarti.itv;
of Pennsylvania, he was appointed to the West
I Point Military academy, from which he was
j graduated in 184'i. ranking second in a class
i of fifty-nine members. Ho was then assigned
tor the corps of engineers as a brevet second
lieutenant. In the Mexican war ho served
with much credit, and was. attar being comI
missioned as second lieutenant, breveted first
lieutenant for gallant and meritorious conduct
in the battles of Contrerus and Churubusco,
and for similar conduct in the battles
of Molino del Rey and Chapultapec. At the
close of the war ho was detailed to duty
with the engine.-r troops at West Point, and
then, in 1851-52, was assistant engineer in the
construction of Fort Delaware. In 1S.V2
ho was engineer of the exploring
expedition to the soumw of the Red
river of Texas, and was also made Chief
engineer of the department of Texas, having
charge of the surveys of the rivers and harbors
on the gulf coast of that slate. He was
the engineer for the exploration and survey
: of the western division of the proposed
' Northern Pacific railroad through thj Casj
cade mountains in 185S- -4. and in the former
I vpnr was nrnmnfflfl to he first
i lieutenant. After special service in
j the collection of railroad statistics for
| the war department, he was made a captain
| in the First cavalry on March 3, 1855, and
| served in 1855-5(1 as a member of the military
| commission appointed by the United States
| government to visit the seat of war in the
| Crimea. His oliicial report of this \ i*it was
! published by order of Congre s in 1857, emj
bracing remarks upon the operations in the
Crimea, and upon the organization, instruc|
tion, and equipment of European armies. '
i On January 1(5, U57, Captain McClellan re*
| signed from tho army in order to accept 1 ho
i position of chief engineer of the Illinois Cani
t;*al railroad, of which he was made vicej
president in the year following. In 1SG0 he
i became president of the St. Louis and Cin!
einuati railroad, and he was holding thus of|
flee at the outbreak in 1861. On April ?5,1861,
I lie was commissioned major-general of Ohio
volunteers, and be was soon placed in com;
mand of the Department of the Ohio, which
i Included tbo States of Ohio, Indiana, and
| Illinois, with the westerly parts of Pennsyli
vania and Virginia. He was commissioned
| major-general of the regular army on May
: 14, 1801. In the following July he was
j engaged in the action of Rich mounI
tain, West Virginia, and by a forced
I march upon the Confederates compelled
! the surrender of General Pezrain near Bev
erly, in that State. The thanks of Congress
! were voted to General McClellan in the same
j month for "the stries of brilliant and de|
cisive victories" which his army had achieved
i "on the battle-fields of Western Virginia.''
: On July 22, 1801, the day after the
I Bull Run disaster, he was summoned
j to Washington, and a few days later
was placed in command of the Divii
sion of the Potomac. He was made comj
mander of the department of the Potomac on
i August 17, and of the army of the Potomac
i on August 20. Upon the retirement of
j General Scott, on November 1,1861, General
McClellan was appointed general-in-chief of
; the armies of the United . States.
, The young commander was very
; popular with his troops, and ho was
j compared to the young Napoleon. After the
i general advance upon Manassas in March,
! 1802, General McClellan was in personal comi
mand of tho Army of the Potomac during
the Virginia Peninsula campaign. Yorktown
having been besieged and evacuated,
and the Confederate forces defeated at
onil RnnnvflP CVllirt.-hnilfifl
j General McClellan took up a posij
tion on the Chickahominy and
I opened the campaign against Richmond.
I Finding his line too much extended, he
! changed his base to the James river, accomplishing
a difficult flank movement by coni
tinuous fighting for nearly a week. Among
I the more important battles in which his
forces were engaged were those of Fair Oaks
aud Malvern Hill. After General McClellan
had fallen back to Harrison's Landing, General
Halleck, who had meanwhile been
made commander-in-chief, ordered him
to return with his whole army to
I Fortress Monroe and Yorktown. After
! the defeat of General Pope, at the second
Bull Run in August, 1802, General McClellan
i was placed in command of the defences of
| Washington. .In the Maryland campaign
i from September 7 to November 10, 18i>2, ho
| was in ccminand of the Army of the Po
j tomic, being engagea in ine Dacnes or oouiu
) Mountain and Antfctam and in
! the march to Warrenton. His
victorj' over L?e at Antietam onded
I the Confederate invasion of Maryland, On
j November 7 General McClellan was superseded
by Gjn?rai Burnside, and placed on
I waiting orders.
General McClellan was not. afterward engaged
in the war. On August 31, 1801, the
i Democratic National convention nominated
! him for the presidency, and at the ensuing
election he was defeated bv President Linj
coin. He resigned his commission in the army
on the day of election, November 8, 1864,
and took up his residence in N. Y. city. A f
terward ho ma-le n visit to Ruropo, from
' which he returned in 1WS. Tie then engaged
I in practice as a civil flpijhoer. He had
j charge of the construction of the Steven;
1 floating battery at Hobok^n, N. J., and was
j superintendent of the construction of the
j railway bridge over the Hudson at Poughj
keepsie. He also served as chief engineor of
i the department of docks in this city, re
signing: in 1872.
t- 10-r 1 ir,-?P1alln? win tlin Demo
Ill 101 I uriiot Ui iuvviouuu ..^ -
cra'io canflidnte for governor of New Jersey,
j and wat elected by about 12,(^0 majority.
Since the expiration of his term as governor
> he has not held public office.
In addition to his report on "The Armies of
! Europe" (which was republished in Philadelphia
in ISfll), ho was the author of a transla
j tion from tho French of a "Manual of Bay'
onet Exercises,'' adopted for the use of
the United Stitos army, 1S52; a volI
umo of the government reports of the
| "Pacific Fiailroad Surveys,'* 1854: "Regulations
and Instructions for tho Field
| Servico of tho United States Cavalry in Time
\
* ^ ?
.. '7 i..or
war" "Europeancavalry,""Report on *dfl a
Organization and Campaigns of the Army ol
the'Potomac," 1804: and a recent contribution U
to the Century war papers. Between 1853
and 18^51 he was chosen a member of several
scientific associations. JJri
At the time of his death, General McClellan
was president of the Grant Belt Copper
company. He was also a governor of the
Soldiers' Home at Old Point Comfort, Va.
Ho married in Mav, 1860, a daughter of fjnr>
(rf?n. Rnndolnh B. Marcv. on whose
staff he had been, and who later served on I
his staff. For about twenty years Gsneral |
McClel'an has made his summer home on the
summit of Orange mountain,about two miles A
'rom the town of Orange, spending there a jj6W
o.irt of almost every year since that time.
In appearance General McClellan was a inter
nj&n who would attract attention anywhere, succi
lie was about five feet ei?ht inHie3 in height, ^hot
with very broad shoulders, which supported p u
a large r.eck and a well formed head. His 4*
arms were muscular and his hands as hard as dogs
a plowman's. The eyes wore gray, clear, and I'tsul
gave no signs of any emotion that might be haps
workiug witbin the man. He wore a mus- acad
tacke and * imperial of a sandy serib
color touched with silver, and his iron-gray rabb
ha r uas brushed back, revealing a prominent of a
forehead. He was very social and had many do?>friends,
whom he entertained pt times pied
royally in his Now York ai.d Orange resideuces.
man
The news of Goneral McClellan's death ond
was received with manifestation of sor- been
row everywhere. In Chicago, in Tren- latio
ton N. J., where he lived many last
years; in Wilkesbarre, Penn.; in than
Brooklyn, and in many other cities the flags "f
were placed at half-mast. la ixew i oris cuy *
the Veteran Association of the One Hundred duce
and Sixty-fifth .New York Volunteers (Second with
Duryea Zouaves) met and passed resalutions bottl
of sorrow, and Abraham Lincoln r'ost, No. man
13, G. A. R., appointed a committee to take the 1
appropriate steps. For
A Washington dispatch, dated in the after- oculj
noon after General McClellan's death, says: and
It is definitely learned to-day that Major- tissu
General McClellan came very near being days
made a member of President Cleveland's not(
cabinet; that he was tendered the Russian foun
mission and declined it because of busi- ease,
ness engagements, and that within the "A
past twenty-four hours the Presi- Meis
dent had concluded to offer him cami
an appointment as a member of the Civil Past
Service commission. Thn President has di- bitte
racted the flags to be displayed at half inast suffe
on all the executive buildings here until after took
the funeral. He has also sent a message oi a
sympathy to Mi's. McClellan. The war de- med;
partment, in a general order issued this after- doefr
noon, pays tin following tribute: "Tin name was
and fame of this distinguished soldier expe
and citizen is known and honored latio
throughout the republic. As the organizer piec<
of the Army of the Potomac he made it viru;
capable of accomplishing great deeds, the the
lessons he gave it wore never forgotten, and ~a n
the spirit with wbi3h he animated it con- Now
tinucd through all its erentful history. Sub- tor
seque.itly, as its leader,he reudered great ser- treal
I vices to his country. His pure and noble and
character, his un-elfiah devotion, ana cne Decn
duty he performed in the hour of r>eril will Alsa
cause his memory ever to be cherished with was
pride by the people of the United States. "j
ON THE BRINK OF WAB, rEt
' "J
PowLWiltf of a Collision Between sary
Kusaia and Aumria. bits
A dispatcb from Sofia states that "the '
Servians are invading Bulgaria, advancing Wf)U
by way of Klissura. They crossed the fron- adjo
tier at 0 o'clock to-night. A force oi Bui- ?^'at
garians is advancing to meet them. The ?'jj
Servians had been preparing for the inva- *v] '
sion for some time. The puolic is clamorous
for war." *
A London dispatch says: "The news that ,<(the
Servian army had passed the Bulgariun j tl
frontier furnished almost the sole topic of ij:
discussion in the political clubs to-night. ^
Much anxiety is expressed, and it is felt that ^
a great war is possibly impending between t
Russia and Austria. It is considered hardly j?.
credible that Austria would have al- ^
lowed King Milan to move without ^ '
reckoning the chances, and with- f ^ "
out being prepared to sustain his movement. [ '
An atiack on Bulgaria at this time can have L"
but one object?that of enlarging Servian *
territory at the expense of Bulgaria. If the
attack succeeds, the most fertile section of "rv?
Western Bulgaria will be added to Servia. J? ?
ThiS will rob Bulgaria, insult Russia, and ir"
cripple Turkey at one blow. It is believed
that Turkey will be too wary to .
interfere just now, because she * has "J"
invited the powers to a conference about the
general situation, and she would much rather
have the hardships and costs of war imposed
upon them than upon herself. If the 'clash
of resounding arms' is swept by a northern
breeze to the doors of the council chamber, it
may lead to a more hasty settlement of the ***<
question in order to localize the war.
"The attitude of Englaud is foreshadowed Tt
by the action of the cabinet council last Fri- pj.^
clay. At that meeting Lord Salisbury pro- ..
posed that the English representative tne I
should be instructed to support Prince
Alexander and Bulgarian unity as much
as possible, but to acquiesce in the de- Fc
cision reached by a majority of the con- thet
ference. This proposal was debated at some the
length and finally adopted. It indicates a the
purpose on the part of the present govern- of t
ment to steer clear of Eastern complicatians, subsi
and is in line with the waiting policy which has
has been indicated by Bismarck." gene
ence
THOMAN RETIRES, p'bi
? of t!
Another Civil Service Commissioner are'
lte^ls'im. bold:
Civil Service Commissioner Tiioman, in a ^
letter to the President tendering his resigna- jje c(
tion, says: . will
"While-thus asking release from so honor- a^ei
able a trust, I desire to record my gratiflca- en(*:
tion of the proved practicability and remedial Af
effectiveness of the reform procedure. Tried dent
veterans in political wurfaro view seek'
with amazement the facile, though On *
radical, departure from the fa- jnS
miliar methods of tho spoils system of in t
distributing patronage. Strenuous and sin- othei
cere argument, and also deliberate perversion, ness;
mark the opposition of different groups of 111
antagonists. And yet it must bo concluded m?re
that a majority of the political leaders in ?^.e'
either party is in accord with the Pondl-ton
law, if its original enactment and emphatiendorsement
by a subsequent Congress were
honest legislative expressions, and not the *?-rT
coercion of moral cowardice by popular senti- [J
mout nor partisan legerdemain. if *' *
Public appreciation of the fact that this re
form does not trench upon sturdy partisan- A
ship came late. It was sedulously maintained 50nS
that the civil service was to be composed of ' Pa1
men who should abjure certain rights oi'eiti- Euro;
zenship. With the gradual, but inevitable Italy,
refutation of this false view, the outlines of ^
the reform at last stood forth in clearness. f0rmi
It is a reform which views tho civil service a jjui
as a vast business agency; its search is for .
the beat obtainable merit. In business whi ^ ^
is not political ic enrorces no lasts ul i _l0?0
The President replied as follows: * | m
Executive Mansion, ) tr A*?3
Washington, Oct. 34, 1SS5. t ?.y?
Hon. Leroy D. Thoman, Civil Servian Commissioner.
.
My Dear Sir: I have received your letter "a f
tendering your resignation as a member of QOOfci
tho civil service commission, which is in An
furtherance of an inclination expressed by the p
trnn verxr snnn after mv inauguration occon
"as President. The resignation thus curac
tendered is hereby accopted, to Thi
take effect on the 1st da./ of No- adopt
vember next I congratulate you upon tb* 0f W1
I act that in the office which you relinquish into t
you have been able, by sincere and earnest arm3
work, and by a steady ^ev.tion to tho cause jtaud
tvhich you have in chai ge, to do so much in .
tbe interest of good government and ire- wujev
proved political methods. Yours sincerely, i?
Grovkr Cleveland. a"t3'
at rJri
* "? J00, b
A QUARRY COLLAPSES.'
TlaUy Lirc? Lowt hy tlio Sink ins of a . ?EI
Villa*? in France. *j?"so
Dispat.-hes from Porigueux, Franco, state fama
| that a frightful accident has occurred at the to pos
I Chancelade quarries, near that town.
While a large body of workmen were si0nal
engaged in taking out stone the quar- ?<h
rios suddenly fell in, destroying a village anms:
situated on the ground above the stone-pits mana
and killing a largo number of porsons. Many you t
were buried in the ruins, and it was doubtful to out
if any of them could be rescued in time to accun
save their lives. Troops were sent to the the a
scene of the disaster to aid in tlio work of re- there
lief. th'.-se,
Perigueux is the capital of the department ty, 15
" TX -J /vP TiVnn/ia Aflllnn
CH uoruogue, *11 IIIU suutuiranb ul i n*iiv.u, c*nv* wim?
is situated on tho i ight bank of tlxo isle, it ous li;
has a population of and itschipf edifice who t
is a cathedral of the fourth century. It has from
a college, a normal school and a library of ty-livi
20,000 volumes. It was tho capital of the old these
district of Perigord, and has Roman remains. ; in the
A
- .... - . . - :
llfii FOR HYDROPHOBIA
lliant Success of a French
Koipntififfi Prnanimanfa
Mvtviiiuu O JUApUl AIUVUbO?
ing a Boy who Had Been Bitten
by a Mad Dog.
special cablo dispatch from Paris to the
York Herald gives the subjoined most
esting account of Dr. Louis Pasteur'*
5ssful attempt to find a cure for hydro>ia:
fo more hydrophobia! No more mad
! Dr. Louis Pasteur's experiments havo
Itod in a most brilliant success. At perthe
most important sitting held by the
emy of sciences, Dr. Pasteur thus deied
the process of cure by means of a
it inoculated with the fragment.
tissue taken Irom the spine of a rabid*
Thfl ir?niiKnt.ii">n r?P tha rmicrm nnnn
fifteen days. As soon as the first rabbit
llated was" dead a portion from its spinal
row was in turn inoculated into a secrabbit,
and so on until :-ixty rabbits bad
inoculated. At each successive inocun
the virus increased in potency, and the
period of incubation did not occupy mora
i seven days.
laving ascertain: d that exposure to dried
liminished tho virus, and consequently red
its force. Dr. Pasteur supplied himself
a series or' bottles of dried air. In these
les he plated portions ot inoculated spinal
row at successive'dates, the oldest being
oast virulent and the latest the most so.
an operation Dr. Pasteur begins by initing
his subject with the oldest tissue,
finishes by the injection of a piece of
e whose bottling dates back only two
. and whose neriod of incubation would
ixceed one week. The subject is then
d to be absolutely proof against the disL
boy twelve years of age, named
ter, who had been bitten fourteen times,
3 from Alsace with his mother to see Dr.
eur. The autopsy of the dog which had
in the boy left no doubt as to its having
:red from hydrophobia. Dr. Pasteur
the celebrated Dr. Vulpian and
professor of the school oficme
to see the boy Meister. These two
ors came to ttie conclusion that the boyj*^
doomed to a painful death and might be^^
rimented upon. In thirteen days inocn^^
ns were male upon Meister with
33 of Spinal marrow containing
s of constantly increasing strength,
last being from the spine of
ibbit that died only the day before.
a hundred days have passed since Meisuiiderwent
the last inoculation. The
fcment has been thoroughly successful
tho boy is in perfect health. He had
bitten sixty hours and had traveled from.
ce to Paris before the first inoculation
performed.
i shepherd boy named Judith,aged fifteen,
bitten by a mad dog a fortnight ago and
low been a week under treatment. Dr.
ear is confident of curing him.
Dr. Pasteur said \ bat it was now necesto
provide an establishment where rabmight
always be kept inoculated with
lisease. In this way a constant supply
>inal tissues of old and recent inoculation
Id always be ready. Before the sitting was
umed Dr. Pasteur received an enthusiastic
ion, from bo li the academy itself and
inbiic who w.-re present. Among those
ant I noticed the Grand Duke Alexis,''
is a great dig fancier, and M. de Les,
who went to hear Dr. Pasteur's report
rsed by Dr. Yulpian.
)ne of the leading doctors present remarklat
the 'question was whether a man
d of hydrophobia could suffer from a
nd bite. In other words, whether
inoculation of virus was a guare
against hydrophobia. In answer
Pasteur states that the malady
ansmissible only by bite. If, therefore,
? ? ? 1 in^nnlnf mn rtf rir\fra
gSlltirttI UUIIlJIUirJUl J juumiaiiua VJL UVK?
;everal generations dogs bad been made
pable of hydrophobia, the malady would
5 disappeared and there would be no oc>n
to ask whether inoculation had a perent
effect or not. As to the origin of hydro)ia,
Dr. Pasteur says nobody in the world
explain its primal causes. As he re- .
kod?perhaps out of politeness?his theory
requiro study by the profession in order
uake it practical, but he emphatically
ni that the cure for hydrophobia bad
i found."
.'v
OFFICE SEEKERS.
i President Decline!* to See any
More ol Them*
le following has been promulgated by
ident Cleveland for the information of
rablic:
Executive .Mansion, I
Washington, Oct, 27, 1885. j
>r nearly eight months a large share of
;ime of the President has been devoted to
hearing of applications for office and
determination of appointment?. Much
;he time thu3 spent lias unaouDcecuy
srved the public good, some of it
been sacrificed to the indule
of the people in their natural insistupon
useless interviews, and some
t has been unjustifiably wasted. The
ic welfare and a due regard for the claims
hose whoso interests in the government
entirely disconnected with officeing
imperatively * demand that in
future the time of the Presishould
be differently occupied, and
mfidently expects that all good citizens
acquiesce i:i the propriety and reasonless
of the following plan adopted-to that
ter the first day of November the Prasi
will decline togrant interviews to mose
ns public positions or their advocates. londavs,
Wednesdays, and Fridaysdurthe
month, from 10 to 11 o'clock
he morning, ho will receive such
r persons as call on strictly public busiand
on the same days, at half-past one
ie afternoon, he will meet thos3 who
ily desire to pay their respects. On all
r days and times during that month he
receive only cabinet officers and heads
iDartments.
SICAL AND DRAMATIC.
nightingale that sings a charming
is a new $65 toy in Paris.
rri is soon to make an artistic tour of
pe, going as far south as Austria and
chorus ot fifty Russian singers, per- _
ing national songs, have just started on
opean trip.
authority on music says there are
000 professional and amateur piano
rs in the United States.
ere is only one theatre open in Monnnd
that ij a 10-eent show, patronized
sively by French Canadians.
bani recently sang before Queen Victond
received as a souvenir the queen's
''Some Leaves from the Highlands."
edon'do, Fin., has a musical prodigy in
erson of a four-year-old boy who is an
iplished pianist. He can play with acy
and precision any tune he hears,
e Paris Vaudeville theatre has just
> ; hi* moana
ed a very never m VCilwv-m, wj 1-| ,
lich each seat can be at once folded up
he thickn ?>s of three inches, rest for the
and all; likewise a hat stand and a cane
famous violoncello by Stradivarius,
i belonged to the two Servais, father
3n, the violoncellists, is offered for sale
ussels. It is rep rted that a bid. $12,as
been made by Herr von Mendels*
af Berlin, but that Mme. Servais has
the price at J,000.
itha Fuicke, one of the latest addito
the Abhott Opera company, is a 11af
Nashville, Tenn., where she won great
in amateur performances. She is said
isess a handsome stage presence and a
alto voice of wonderful purity and
ith. This is Miss Fricke's first professeason.
ave you any idea of the extent of the
jment business?" asked a well known
ger the other day. "It would surprise
o learn how many shows are out trying
lertain the public, aud at the same time
uilate the shekels. I have been polling
....?Eruj fi1Ki that
CU'UL-WUiia vi*
aro this week 370 organizations. Of
242 are dramatic, GO musical. 27 variemiustrel,
14 circus and eighteen mis.
eous. This does not include the numerp-t>y-nights
or the song-and-dance teams,
ravel in pairs. An organization has
a dozen to thirty, and sometimes sevenb
people. You can form some idea from
figures of the number of people engaged
show business."