Historical Newspapers of South Carolina

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|{Damorous Department. Making Haste. It was just fifteen minutes before the train ^time. and the Big: Four conductor discovered that he had left his watch up at the little hotel where he lives. Now, a conductor without a timepiece is like an actress without a woolly dog. He had to have the watch. In a minute he had the hotel on the 'phone, and offered the colored bellboy $1 if he would get the watch to him before the train started. The bellboy broke into a gallop after the watch and then down toward the station. He was going to earn that dollar if the speed ordinances would do any good. He didn't even wait to trust the chronometer into his pocket, but raced down the street with the chain dangling from his hand. Yes, a cop saw him. The cop chased him, but the bellboy was one of those fleet ones. Still another cop joined in: also six or seven men, a number of small boys, and a dog. The bellbov's pursuers were almost upon him when he handed the timepiece through the iron fence to the conductor and took the crumpled dollar the conductor had for him. The cullud boy's explanation went with the cops after they had accompanied him back to the hotel, but it was three hours before his respiration and perspiration became normal again.?Cleveland Plain Dealer. First Horseless Carriage. "The first horseless carriage in Ohio was first seen down in my town," said C. A. Warren of Springfield, the other day. "Then," says Warren, "it went to Cleveland about ten years ago, and we never heard any more of it. Have you ever seen it up here? Flavius Danforth was the inventor of this first horseless carriage. He had a little milk route, but as he didn't own a horse, he hitched up his cow to a twowheeled cart. By this arrangement the cow was active in the departments of both production and transportation, for he delivered milk direct from the cow. There were no complaints about unsanitary milk bottles on his route. The customer would hand out a pitcher, x and the old man would milk the cow while the customer waited. "After a while a calf appeared, and the customers had to divide with it. But as soon as it got big enough it was taken into full partnership in the business, and was hitched up with the mother. I've often wondered what ever became of this first horseless carriage. The last I heard of it, it had gone to Cleveland."?Cleveland Plain Dealer. The Goi rmand.?George W. Rector, at the Lucullus Club's superb $20-aplate dinner in Xew York, said, during the terrapin course: "The gourmet is a connoisseur of foods and wines. The gourmand is a low glutton. "It was, for instance, a gourmand? a ormrmot who ronched his home at 3 o'clock one morning to find himself locked out. "He rang and rang, and at last his wife protruded her head from an upstairs window. " 'You can just go away,' she said. 'I'*n tired of this. You shan't get in tonight.' " 'But my dear,' hiccoughed the husband. I have brought home a broiled lobster and two bottles of champagne.' " 'Oh,' said the lady, in a mollified tone. And she came down and opened the door. " 'I'll make a light dear,' she said, leading the way through the dark hall toward the dining room. "And then she turned on the electric current and, looking at her husband, frowned. " 'But where,' she demanded, "is the lobster and champagne?' " 'Here,' said the man. with a coarse laugh, striking himself on the stomach."?Washington Star. Vr? M 1st a k f.?a Xew York uroduce commission house, which prides itself on filling all orders correctly, received a letter from a New Jersey customer recently saying: "Gentlemen, this is the first time we ever knew you to make a mistake In our order. You are well aware that we buy the very best country eggs. The last you sent are too poor for our trade'. What shall we do with them?" The fair fame of the house for never making an error seemed to be at stake, but the bright mind of the junior partner found a way out of it. He wrote: "Gentlemen: We are sorry to hear that our last shipment did not suit you. There was, however, no mistake on our part. We have looked up your original order and find that it reads as follows: 'Hush fifty crates eggs. We want them bad." "?Philadelphia Ledger. How He Shot Til km.?Down in Florida, where I spend the greater part of the winter." said the sunburned man, "they are not so particular about observing the game laws and the little niceties of hunting as we are up north. I had frequently seen water fowl shot without giving them a riao <'r?minc 11 ri t (1 Jackson ville a big German got on the train at Port Orange with a nice string of duck. He sat next me in the* smoker and 1 struck up a conversation with him. " "Nice lot of ducks you have there,' I said. "Yah.' he replied. "Where did you get them?" I asked. " "Down py de inlet up de creeks,' he said. " 'I suppose you shot them on the wing,' I ventured, remembering the trick of the pot hunters. " 'Yah,' he replied solemnly,' on de wing, und in de feet, und in de head, eferywhere. Dere dey are. You can oxamine dem und see for yourself.' " Too Wki.l Tkkatkp.?A landlord in the Highlands of Scotland had a "crofter" tenant, who paid him 10 shillings a year as rent for the little farm. At the end of the second year the tenant came to the landlord and said that he was not able to pay more than 5 shillings a year, as crops had been poor. The landlord agreed to this. At the end of the third year the tenant appeared before the landlord again and complained that things were going so poorly with him that he was not able to pay any rent. The landlord agreed to let him remain rent free. At the end of the fourth year the tenant once more appeared before the landlord. und said: "Colonel, if you don't build me a barn I'll have to move."?Philadelphia ledger. ittisccUanrous Reading. WITH NEIGHBORING EXCHANGES, News and Comment Gleaned From Within and About the Country. LANCASTER. News, April L"J: The contract recently made by the hoard of county commissioners with a Charleston firm 1 of civil engineers to survey the public roads of the county, the terms of which were published in The News at the time was formally executed Monday, and work will begin in a few days The old fiddlers' convention held here Friday night was, like the performance of the night previous, a decided success. 1 The old-time music was so much enjoyed by the community, it is hoped ' that the musicians will hold some more conventions in Lancaster. The prizes ' were awarded as follows: Mr. Dick Crenshaw, best violin player; Mr. T. J. Robinson, best banjo; Mr. T. R. Duren, best dancing: Mr. Samuel Powers, "booby." The handsome home of Dr. and Mrs. O. W. PooVey has been the scene of a most charming house party for the past few days, beginning Saturday and ending yesterday. Among the guests were Messrs. W. H. Richie, Lucius Hartsell, Lloyd McKay and Miss Elizabeth Propst of Concord. N. C.: Mr. S. W. Vanlandingham and I Miss Ethel Vanlandingham <>f Camden: Mrs. Martin Davis and little son of Charlotte, and Miss Marie Craig of Lancaster. CHESTER. Lantern, April 21: Miss Ell Gregory and Mr. Cleve Threat of Lancaster, were married at 10 o'clock Sabbath morning. April 19. at the home of the bride's parents, Mr. and Mrs. F. D. Gregory, on Dr. S. \V. Pryor's place, about three miles from town. The ceremony was performed by Rev. D. M. McLeod. Mr. and Mrs. Threat left yesterday morning for his home in Lancaster Miss Bessie Grayson. from near Manning, and Mr. William Dixon. Jr.. of Rlackstock R. F. D. No. 1. were married Wednesday, April 15. Mr. and Mrs. Dixon arrived at Blackslock Thursday afternoon and were given a reception that evening at the home of his parents. Mr. and Mrs. W. B. Dixon. Mr. Dixon was accompanied to Manning by his sister. Miss Minnie Heath Dixon, and Mr. Woodward, Mr. Leland Hall and Miss Sarah Hall of Winnsboro Mrs. J. K. Henry gave an Easter egg hunt to about a dozen little children in her neighbor hood Friday afternoon which was very much enjoyed by the children A meeting is to be held at the court house Friday afternoon in the interest of a new hotel in Chester on up to date plans and with the best approved accommodations. The need of such a hotel has been distinctly felt here, and traveling men say this is the one thing above all others needed to make Chester attractive to the traveling public, and about all that is lacking. Everybody is invited to attend the meeting. Wagener Curry, the 13-monthsold son of Mr. and Mrs. R. D. Cunningham. of this city, died Saturday afternoon. April 18. at the home of Mrs. Cunningham's parents in Charleston, where they had gone on a visit a few weeks ago At a meeting of the directors of the Telephone company Friday afternoon. Dr. <T. R. White declined re-election as president, secretary and treasurer, and resigned his place on the board of directors. ' Mr. R. R. Hafner was elected to fill the vacancy on the board and was also elected president and treasurer. Mr. R. R. Caldwell was elected secretary. Postmaster Dunnovnnt has at his office the drawings for the new public building mentioned in Friday's Dantern. They give the impression of a very handsome building, but those interested can see them. The main front. 70 feet, with an elevation of 40 feet, will face Main street. The Wylie street side will be .10 feet, at the rear of which will be the entrance for vehicles. The basement, with concrete and cement floor, will be for the heating plant, storage rooms, etc. The main floor will contain the lobby, offices, vault, mail boxes, working room. etc. There will be about every convenience that a building can have. JELLYFISH. One of the Peculiar Forms of the Animal Life of the Sea. Upon the sand at the water's edge there lies a particle of jellylike substances. inconspicuous and almost Invisible. Hut in early spring one moves in such a world of wonders, the merest atoms of tissue are seen to be informed with such varied and vivid life, that I lift the particle carefully upon a shell and drop it into a jar of water to see a strange unfoldment, a beautiful transformation. The central mass expands into a double chambered bell of pure and transparent vesture, and these gossamer globes begin to contract with regular rhythmic motion, lifting the creature upward and softly urging it forward by their quickly repeate<l pulsations, while from below four gradually lengthening tentacles trail backward with graceful undulations. This beautiful medusa, the Sarsio mirabilis. is the earliest of our jellyfishes to appear in spring1. By its pleasing and graceful form, by its eager and tireless movements, it seems t > visit our shores at this season almost like an Ariel of the deep, voiceless. it is true, but throbbing with its message that the ocean's submerged shores and its dark abysmal chasms are all alike awakening to the spirit that transforms the upper world. One is at a loss to comprehend these creatures. so different in form from any that we are wont to associate with animal life. for. although without a head, they are yet capable of sensing the light and auditory vibrations. Without hands, arms or antennae, they are yet responsive to tactile impressions and. although of such fragile and gossamer texture, are yet the vehicle of vivid and intensive life. The movements of the body and the contained impulses that prompt them seem one and indivisible. The desires of its being seem themselves to urge it forward. Like a thought it seems momentarily embodied or an emotion precipitated into the visible as it impulsively mounts upward in eager quest or in apparent disappointment relaxes its efforts and subsides with all its drifting appendages a-stream, only after a moment to palpitate again with refreshed intention and slowly pulse on its softly insistent way.?H. J. Shannon in Harper's Magazine. fctT Modeling in bread crumbs, which are soaked in liquids of various colors and are made elastic and almost unbreakable by a special process, is the curious new art of Suzanne Meyer, a French womun. WHEN JACK'S AT SEA. Extracts From the Diary of a Sailor In the United States Navy. For variety at sea, once when we had been practising with the six-inch guns and were "securing" for dinner hour we saw a big whale spouting off our starboard beam. We begged to take a shot at it. and tlie officer of the deck recognizing an impromptu target gave us leave. We fired two shots, and the expression "a sea of blood," which I have always looked upon as an extravagance of speech, became a reality. When we returned from mess the ocean for a mile surrounding the whale was as red?well, as red as blood. Periodically a tattoo fever breaks out on ship. Speaking of tattooing recalls the finest specimen I have ever seen. It was during the warm season when we were wont to go to Homoca. swimming. I saw a Japanese gentleman there whose whole body, excepting his head and hands, was completely incased, as it were, in the skin of a dragon. Sailors are restricted to two colors, red and blue, they being least to produce blood poisoning; but this man ( was done in so many colors that when , his body was wet and shining I could compare him to nothing else than a great satsuma jar with a human head. ",t thlAtmL'" h o c itu nnr IK )ll< U ttlllUllg lIllttOT una ivo I'U. allel in "honesty among sailors." I would unhesUtatingly put any amount of money in my diddy box in the presence of the whole crew, but the landsman is not always so safe, as was proved in the case of a bumboatman who had a silk neckerchief stolen from his pack when peddling on our ship more than a year ago in Yeddo Bay. The thief was detected and put into the hrig to await trial. f had quite for gotten the occurrence until we were piped "A-l-1 h-a-n-d-s to muster to hear the sentence of a thief. Do you hear that now?" Of the trial I am ignorant, but the sentence having been passed his bag and baggage, including full pay to the hour of his detection, were brought to him; a guard escorted him to the 1 port gangway; here the officer of the ' deck took his cap, and stripping it of its ribbon returned it to him. It is an indignity a sailor thief can never escape. With head bowed in shame he entered a boat and was rowed away to the shore. Our 8 inch guns are supposed to carry their projectiles eight miles, ! while the torpedo's distance is meas- 1 ured by feet. The moment a torpedo ! strikes the water it sinks to a level ! about six feet beneath the surface, the concussion awakening the infernal | machine inside of her. Like a flash of lightning away she goes. 1 Everybody knows what happens to ' the object that gets hit by a torpedo, ! i a a ? ?v?a /-V loo vn thaf \ n ( DUt li was new iu me iu nui >i iiiuv ... practice the battle head is shut up on ' board in the magazine and a dummy ! head substituted. ( The torpedo, whose machinery is ' driven by compressed air under pressure of 400 pounds to the square inch, travels under water for a distance of 800 yards or more, then with a p-f-f | that causes a splurt of the water it comes to the surface. A launch goes after and tows her back. She has the air chamber recharged and is fired again and again. Each one of these little toys cost our 1 good Uncle $2,500. The second one ( we fired balked, sunk clean out of sight and never came up. ' It was the opportunity for a diving ' drill. We are equipped with a full diving apparatus of six armors, the f wearing of which is non-compulsory. When the torpedo sank I was among the volunteers to go searching. 1 Some one sang, "Down in a diving 1 bell at the bottom of the sea," but ' there were none of the sights and 1 wonders Jules Verne depicted: just } mud and slime and a terrible bugaboo 1 feeling, especially when one gets un- ' derneath the ship. Of all the horrors ' the human mind can conjure none ' can compare with the feeling that 1 seizes one when he sees a man in div- 1 ing armor coming toward him down under the ship. It is like an onslaught from the Royal Goblin of the deep. Seeing one coming at me I signalled to be returned on deck, where I gracefully relinquished my suit to another eager volunteer, omitting to own that I had been frightened half out of my senses by a creature exactly like myself. One time in life when it was not well "to see ourselves as others see us." CROSSING THE OCEAN. Queer Things That Happen On Atlantic Liners. "Queer things continually happen during a voyage," said a veteran purser of an Atlantic liner. "As you are probably aware, almost the commonest occurrence during a voyage is the mysterious and sudden disappearance of a passenger. Seven times litis this happened while I have been following my profession, and in no single instance have we been able to satisfactorily account for the missing traveler. Most of them, of course, we put put down to suicide, but I feel bound to say that 1 think in some instances we have been wrong. Now, here is a case in point. Six years ago we had on board a young Australian, a handsome, well set up fellow, who seemed to have more money than would satisfy his wants and who told "me himself that he was going to the states to marry the prettiest and sweetest girl in all Pennsylvania. "He was the brightest fellow on ^ hoard, sang well, played well, was expert at all kinds of sport and a general favorite with everv one. He had a ' i cabin on the lower deck, a fine big room, where I smoked many a cigar with him. Well, on the fifth day out ^ lu* didn't come on deck. People asked | where he was, and the general impression seemed to be that he had been up ( rather late the night, before and was doubtless taking a few extra minutes between the sheets. But about noon ( the bedroom steward came to me and stated that he couldn't get in No. 27? the stateroom occupied by the popular , traveler. No one could get any response. so we sent for the carpenter. The door was smashed in, and the i room was found to be empty. The portholes were wide open, and all we j could assume was that he had crept out of one of these and met with a ! watery grave. Iteason? We never dis- ( covered any. but my belief is that he acted in his sleep. He was too happy 1 a man to take his own life. "(>n another occasion two ladies, sis- ] ters, disappeared. Both were charm- < ing and pretty, though some of the passengers afterward remarked that | they usually seemed somewhat sad and preoccupied. I had often conversed with them and regarded them c as the most attractive women on hoard. The night before we docked was a beautiful one, though intensely t dark, and it was evidently on this night that they left the ship. No one v saw them after 10 o'clock. The look- ^ out reported nothing. No splash was ^ heard, no cry. Rut in the morning j they had vanished as silently and mys- } teriously as tlie darkness, leaving no ^ word behind. s "A strange thing happened once when we werfc two days from New t York harbor. There was an American e on board who seemed to possess many friends and who apparently was extremely popular. He spent half his s time in the smoking room, standing v drinks to any one and every one and r imbibing rather more than was good f for himself. Well, about 4 o'clock in y the afternoon he was with several r other men on the promenade deck?the v weather was glorious and the sea with c scarcely a ripple?when, throwing off a his coat, he exclaimed, 'Here goes for g a swim!' and disappeared over the s side. (1 "There was a yell which almost put the wireless out of business, and the c captain, who had witnessed the affair, c stopped the ship almost in her own g length. P.oats were lowered, and will- j ing arms pulled to where the man was supposed to be fighting for his life. c Instead of any struggle, however, he s was taking long, easy strokes, and evl- v dently thoroughly enjoying himself, j When pulled into one of the boats he j ejaculated the single word. "Grand!" and almost immediately fell into a a kind of comatose state. He was put t to bed In hot blankets and soon re- f covered. After an interview with the jj captain he was allowed his liberty, though a strict watch was kept on him ,i during the rest of the voyage. "A tragic occurrence took place about r four years ago, the facts of which you <j will perhaps recall. It was during a ( voyage east, and we had among the jsecond cabin passengers a widow and sj her three young children?two boys a and a girl. The woman appeared to be ( much depressed, though the youngsters were as lively and merry as children ^ generally are on beard. The woman.it t] appears, spoke to none of the other passengers, and for her aloofness she c was regarded with some suspicion. 0 However, she was very quiet, and, as t she appeared to be reading' all day, not j much notice was taken of her. h "One morning she was standing with i( her children, looking over the side of n the vessel, when, with no warning, she t suddenly tossed them, one after the jither, into the sea and immediately ti followed them herself. It was all done v so expeditiously and quietly that those ^ who saw the tragedy were for a few p minutes too dazed to give the alarm, ti The ship was stopped in record time s *nd boats lowered, but the entire quartet had disappeared, as though 0 some invisible force had dragged them lown. After two hours the search was u ?iven up and the boats returned to the ship. Another secret had been be- f, queathed to the ocean's mighty bos- p >m."?London Tit-Bits. ^ ? o MAKING DESERTS BLOOM. a Is Experiments of the Government In ti Redeeming Land Once Useless. Forty-mile desert, occupying the bed ^' if ancient Lake Lahontan and, with ' :he exception of Death Valley, the most desolate and arid area on this continent, was selected for the site of he first and most important of the jreat government irrigation projects, ' says the Craftsman. The plan inwives the establishment of half a <->r foaw-vnirs in the iiDner foot -..w.c ... t| lills of the Sierra to store the floods hat sweep down the mountain sides, \\ ind also the building1 of dams in the /alleys to hold in check millions of :ons of water, to turn rivers back upon ^ themselves until huge artificial lakes J ire formed, or to divert them into iiore useful channels. Thus the en- ^ ire Truckee river is led through an normous duct, thirty miles in length. :o the sink which is the terminal of he Carson: thence the combined wa:ers will be carried out upon the plain n two canals, from which hundreds of riiles of laterals and ditches will radi- 11 ite over an area of 400,000 acres. Rut this will not exhaust the water esources of the "dryest state In the L'nion." As its population expands ind the demand for farmland in- . reases, the underflow of streams will )e utilized to add to the irrigable area, j Hydrogrnphers who are thoroughly familiar with the conditions believe that a water supply can be developed sufficient for the irrigation of fully 1,100,000 acres. ' The present project will cost $9,000. ? -I 1~! ? ~.i K.. J*. ...ill 11 IUU, DUl lilt? laud irtmnucu uy it nm . L>e worth at least $30,000,000. It would ^ tie a splendid Investment at that price, j Tor when fully cultivated this area will yield annually a crop worth consider- . A bl.v more than the cost of the project. ]Nor is this an unusual result of irriga- (. tion. The two principal canals in the Punjab. India, cost about $11,000,000 and the yearly crop from the land watered by them is valued at $13,000,000. But I'nele Sam's $30,000,000 farm is not for sale. It is to he parceled out in forty S0-aere tracts which are open to all citizens of the United States who have mt exhausted their homestead right. Great Ocean Lines. The oldest of the companies, the Hamburg-American, was founded in 1S47, with a capital of about $100,000, writes F. L. McVey in the World of roday. The company began business with sailing packets, making trips between Hamburg and New York. It was not until 1X53 that the company built two steamships in England, than hoine- no Herman shin yard able to construct a vessel of 2.1)00 tons. Beginning with the year 1SS0 the company has built steamship after steamship until the tonnage owned by this German corporation is the largest in the world. The beginnings of the second largest company, the Xorth German Loyd, are equally humble. In 1857 the Lloyd started with three small steamships, plying between Bremen and English ports. In the following year the company established a regular service between the home port and New York, using for the purpose English-built vessels. In 1859 the governments of the United States and England entrusted the mails to the company, which materially increased its business and prestige. Beginning with the year 1S7S the company has built fast steamships, which have been so successful that it continues to carry the mail of foreign governments and has been given the German mails for transportation. The company now has 27 steamship lines to all parts of the world. More remarkable than the growth of the two companies is the fact that neither one has received subsidies from the government. though they have been paid for postal services. STATESMEN QUICK TO FIGHT. lome Stirring Events at Washington Half a Century Ago. Sensational episodes happening at he national eapitol in which congressmen were the leading tlgures ras the topic in which a number of jentlemen participated, says the Vnshlngton Post, when an old inhahtant broke in with the remark that le considered the attack upon Senator lumner of Massachusetts by Repreentative Preston S. Brooks of South Carolina as the greatest incident of he character that was being disoussd that ever happened in any hall of egislation. "It was more than fifty years ago," aid the old gentleman, "when this inhappy circumstance occurred. To be nore exact it took place in the latter >art of the month of May, 1856. That vould make it fifty-two years ago text month. I remember the event ery well, for I was in the senate hamber soon after Brooks made his .ssault and saw pieces of the broken ;utta percha cane with which he truck the senator near Mr. Sumner's lesk. "Of course there was intense exitement and it extended all over the ivilized world. In many quarters rreat indignation was expressed, and larticularly in England where Mr. iumner, because of his well known hampionship of the abolition of lavery, was a great favorite. Brooks ras arrested and taken before Justice lollingshead, one of the most promnent of the Washington justices. "The district courts did take some ;ction, however. A short time after he assault Mr. Brooks was taken beore Judge Crawford, who fined him 11 the sum of $300. "The intense excitement did not lie out for some time. Mr. Sumner's olleugue in the senate, who was Heny Wilson, afterward vice-president luring the second administration of Jen. Grant, made a speech in which te characterized the attack upon Iumner as barbarous and ruflianiy nd used other language of a characer that induced Mr. Brooks to chalenge him to fight a duel. Wilson, lowever, was averse to the 'code' and leclined. "Anson Burlingame, also of Massahusetts made a speech in the house f representatives in which he cited he killing of Abel by Cain and said frooks smote .Sumner as Cain smote lis brother. This led Brooks to chalDitrlino>rimo ii'h a aolrl Via ii'All M CllhC *-* U 1 llllgUlllVf ? IIU Ottiu 1JC HUUIU rieet Brooks and 'negotiate' things on he Canada side of Niagara Falls, {rooks was ready to fight and willing o go, but several friends who were /filing that he should light did not hlnk he should go so far north for the urpose and lie was prevailed upon not 0 go. As 1 understand it, he was peruaded against his own will to follow he advice of his friends, and the end f this phase of the matter was that oth of these gentlemen were put nder heavy bonds not to fight. "This period of the year 1856 was ull or sensational incidents. It was 1 the same month that Brooks caned umner that Representative Herbert f California shot and killed a waiter t Willard's hotel whose name was [eating. There had been some sharp ilk between Keating and the conressman while the latter was breakisting and a conversation which was arried on in rather low tones at last roke forth in a violent and (certain/ on the part of the congressman) ndignified quarrel. Then there came scufHe and Herbert shot the waiter, le was of course arrested and tried, le had two trials, in fact, for the jury isagreed, but on the second trial he '?.s acquitted. I think a witness tesfied that Keating was holding Herert under the dining room table and as pounding him, and a case of ?If-defence was thereby created. At his time the American, or Know Nothing party was prominent in the mrl Vnu- k'ontinc u'.nq nn Irlskmnn nil a rather popular man. His lends attributed his killing to race atred and denounced Herbert and 11 his friends in unmeasured terms. "There was something akin to an iternational question that grew out f this tragic circumstance. It apeared that the testimony of the linister from The Hague, whose ame I do not now recall, was desired y the United States attorney for this istrict to testify in the case, but the linister declined to accede to the atirney's request. He had been a witess to tiie occurrence in the hotel dlnig room, and with the exception of a riend of Mr. Herbert was the only itness. However, the minister ,delined to go to the court and give evience on grounds of International law, lit he would go to the state departicnt, he said, and testify to the truth 1 the matter. Mr. Marcy, who was hen the secretary of state, did not ke the position taken by the minister **/! in/tApilino>l\f j*ori iioutprl thp imcrican minister at The Hague to efer it to the minister of foreign aflirs at that capital. All the memEngland S/ NO ALUM In Food I .1 1 M . A ancl strictly prohibits the sale of alum A baking powder? ^ So does France So does German; has been made illegal in Washin bia, and alum baking powders < iniunous- To protect) when orde i Sapplasnli ROW I and be very sure you get F Royal is the only Baking Po Cream of Tartar. It adds I 1 someness of the food. bers of the diplomatic corps In this city took sides with the minister from The Hague. The result of all the correspondence, &c., was that the minister did not testify in the case. "There came 'near being a duel between two well known lawyers of tills city during the course of proceedings in the Herbert trial. One of these gentlemen was Daniel Ratcliffe and the other Walter Lenox. Lenox at one time had been mayor of the city. Both were rather hotheaded and both favored the duello in certain circumstances. They had a war of words in the court room and the lie was passed. Now among a certain class of gentlemen In this community that meant a fight at that period. These prominent lawyers actually did have a collision in the court mom, but were separated. Before arrangements for a meeting on the field of honor, however, both were arrested and required to give bonds not to engage in a duel. "There were other sensational events about this time, one of which was a difficulty between Mr. Sherman, afterward Senator Sherman of Ohio, and a Mr. Wright of Tennessee, both distinguished members of the house of representatives. Sherman threw a batch of wafers into Wright's face and the Tennesseean made an attempt to strike his opponent. There were widespread rumors of a duel to be the outcome of this, but the reported meeting was a flash in the pan. In fact there was no challenge from either gentleman. "It was in this same year that President Pierce refused to recognize further Mr. Crampton as the British minister because, as it was declared, her majesty's government was endeavoring to recruit soldiers in the ^ United States for service in the war ? against Russia. There was naturally much excitement, but diplomacy man- I aged to settle the difficulty peacefully." FAMOUS SCHOLARS. So Men That Might Have Been Called Human Encyclopedias. It has been said of Macaulay that not only did he retain in his prodigious ' memory all that he had ever learned, but that he had learned all manner of things no other scholar would have retained. Aside from his astonishingly comprehensive grasp of many branches of human knowledge, he was specially St proud of the fact that he knew whole ye libraries b>T heart. It was his boast sp that in the event of a wholesale de- srr struction of certain classics he would ac be able to supply the deficiency out of ha his memory. It was claimed among en other things that he could recite "Par- pi adise Lost" without a moment's pause ac for refreshing his recollection and that he to reel off ail the plays of Shakespeare j)a was only child's play to him. tw Another English scholar of astonish- wi ing erudition was Lyulph Stanley, of pe< whom Lowell said, "He knows three 191 times as many facts as any man what- to ever had any business to know." Stanley is said to have had only one rival, Palgrave. the compiler of "The cej Golden Treasury." "It's an even chance which will return .alive," was St said when Stanley and Palgrave went on a trip together. When they did come back, it is related Palgrave was ? nnle omnciated silent. But Stanley seemed unmoved and more all knowIns: than ever. Another human encyclopedia was m Buckle, author of "The History of Civ- | illzation." One night, it is said, he \ was laying down the law on sundry jp topics with a pomposity that caused the table to quake. At last he put forth some statement about the burning of a witch, setting the date about K a century out of the way. Stanley, jx who was present, had borne some P preceding inaccuracies very well, with only a shaking of the head and a red dening of the face. But at this* juncture his self con- I trol gave way and he leaped to his j feet. Extending his hand, he piped I forth in a vigorous treble: "I beg your j pardon, sir. but the last witch was * burned at such and such a place, in such and such circumstances. And ji her name was So-and-so, and you will ? find all about it in a book to which I can easily refer you and which you evidently don't know." And so torrents of imprisoned 1 knowledge were poured on Buckie's n head until the historian of civilization | sat wrathful, extinguished, mute. But | in a little while he had his revenge. I Some one had mentioned a new die- j tionary as a good one. 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