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A BIG SNAiE AT DfNltRP. Crude at a Faiornt -Dish, but Chicken Preferred. (From Lougman's Magazine.) It is not every one who has seen a python take a meal. It is usually averse to -dead food; but it is partial to a live rabbit or a chicken or a guinea pig or by preference a rat. The python seems to know that the rat will try to escape, and he gives it no time or quarter. With a rapidity that can hardly be conceived he seizes the rat with his month and the fatal coil passes around the cre.ture, squeezing all the life out of it and redu cing the body to the form of elongated ansage, which the snake lubricates with its own slime and swallows entire. If a fowl is put intoa python's cage the snake sometimes seems to take no notice, and the frightened bird, findind that no harm comes to it, begins to rufle its feathers and to peck about, occasionally trying its beak on the snake's skin. But after aphie the end of the python's tail may be seem to quiver with.a strange emotion, while the nall, black, beady eye is fixed upon the fowl. Suddenly there is a con vulsion. The snake has moved and the fowl has disapeared, and can only be discovered by the end of a feather or two protruding from the coils in the python's neck, which have crushed the bird's life out. in its natural state the python will eatesa.deer or a wild pig and crush it in the powerful fold8 of its neck. There is a well authenticated story of a large python having caught two wild sucking pigs simultaneously, crushing both with the same coil of its neck. In the cace of a python whieh was said to have been killed by the horts of the buck it had swallowed, the inake must have been able to break all the bones of the body, but the stag's horns were probably too sharp and pointed to be easily crushed, and the snake rashly took the chance of di gesting them in its stomach. No stories of apythonkilling a man ever came to my knowledge, but one of the keepersat the Calcutta Zoological Gardens had his arm ma h-is red oae morning by a python .oitingite1on it and sqeezing it severely before ttninan could be.rescued. FULLER TO BE CONFJRMED. Iudesead by Gresham, Lincoln and Other Re !pubilcans. WAaSEGToN, May 21.-The Senate aimmtee on the judiciary, after evading a direct issue ever since the nomination of Mr. Fuller to be Chief Justice of the United 8es,, Were today brought to a focus by a aiE movement by the Democratic mem bers. When the committee met it was evletythe intention of Senators Ed mund, 'Wilson, Evart; and Roar to maean report or to bring about a postponement until .December. The Democratic Senators, under the leadership of. Pugh aM" est, had anticipated this movement by obtaining from the President all the papers bearing upon the nomination. Although very voluminous, the committee asked the chairman to have them read. It was then discovered that among the strong est indorsements were letters from General Cham; Circuit Judge of the Illinois dis treedprominently--mentioned for the EpuBlian Bresidential nomination; Presi dent Arthur's War Secretary, Lincoln; Walker Bl aid I Drummond, ex-Sen atot Trnwnbull ad. the Bar of the entire ie" 6ffllnois; irrespective of parties Seonto Hoar made the first move, express tng his surprise at the character of these in dorsements, and after admitting that he bad int .nanadverse.to.delay, he was now in fvoz of acting upon the nomination. Senators Edmunds and Ingalls then mani fested an inclination to urge postponement. Senator Evarts indicated that, after listen ing to the indorsements of the,nomination, he was for disp~ibizigo! the ease at th'ls ses ' ur Aotion was made by Senator Vest l&'thebiomination be reported favorably. It .was, however, by way of compromise, a~aistedlrther consider and dispose * $ uoa =nr'nt-ythe regular meeting nextXnday. Por Cligefand aM4 the MWle ilu.. * PT~tEG M~ 22.-John Durnlap, one of theost ifluential and wealthy citizens of Pittsburg, who has been engaged in the tin industry for the past fifty years, and. who has one of thes most extensive estab liahments of the tiad~i -the country, has an open .letter, in which he un q dy indorses the Mills billmnow pend lgand erssyurges Congress to pass th a~ yg is will prove a blsmt the country. r. Dunlap has- bar's~e publican i pol athe-int wear thie e is tghe dahidn-t Redowner of -the stal -wirt Republican Commercial-Gazette. In his letter Mr. Dunlap states that he .hagiven the question of tariff a careful .atady,io& only as it affects-the tin business, buttha material interests of the country,' .and the resultof; his inquiry has converted . hiza-to the conviction that the tariff is a posiniv'e injury to the American people, and referring to President Cleveland's ad ministation he says: ~.-"Idid not vote for him, butI now wish tosay that I made a mistake in not doing so, sabe has given the best administration we have ever had. He dero .es the thanks -af the -whole country. If he is again a -andate Iwill-do all inmy power to elect The'Terrors of a Texas Tornado. CHIcaGo, .May 24-A dispatch from BoRan,. Ten-s, says: A destructive cy clone swept- over Brownton, twenty-five miles east of here yesterday evening, de stroying the Methodist, Baptist and Con gregational churches and. eight dwellings. One building was carried across a railroad track and crushed. Amanda Willis (col ored), who-had taken- refuge inside, was instantly killed. Eight parsons, including -the Sheriff and County Recorder, were fatally injured. The amage will exceed $12,000. -The path of the storm was three hundred yards wide and everything within those limits, crops, fences, barns, out houses and trees, was swept away. A terrible.rain, hail any lightning storm fol lowed. .- PIA58 AatD ORGANS. -We are prepared to sell Pianos and ~Organs of the beat make at factory -for Cash or , easy Instalments. -ino from $210 up; Organs from $24 up. The verdict of the people is that they can save the freight and twenty-five ercent. by buying of us. Instruments elivered to any depot on fifteen days' triaL We pay freight both ways if not ustafactory. Order and test in your own homes. Respectfully, N. W. TBUMP, * .Columbia, S. C. . DEA|R ME. Etro:-Won't you please tell your male readers that SS will buy a fine, strong and serviceable 'ai of t, mnade to oer bythe N. 1. Stan Pants Co., of 66 Unierit Place, New York city? By sending 6 cents in postage stamps to the above firm, they will-en~oeny address-25 .samples of elo~itd ooefroym, .a .fine linen tape a ! fulThefof scientific measure ment - nnmand other valuable informa -tion.. All goods are delivered by them through the U. S. Mails. A novel and -prantical idea. Advise your readers to try the firm. They are thoroughly re hiable. Yours truly, -* Wrr~mw VANzamRrLT. A tug is the only thing that has itsatoes behind. THE BLACK FLAG. Chinese Pirates Attack a Sinking Ship in the I Straights of Formosa. SAN FRANCISco. May 24.-The China steamer yesterday brought news of the ex- i traordinary wreck of the costly steamer San Pablo. which occurred April 24 on the reef off Turnabout Island in the Formosa straits of the China coast. Only brief cable 1 reports have been received of the disaster. The vessel struck a deep rock in a thick fog early in the morning. Every one was aroused and the captain soon saw that the vessel must be abandoned as she was filling fast and showed a tendency to capsize. Just before the lifeboats were ready to be 1 lowered a swarm of Chinese pirates came I from- the neighboring mainlands. They came in such overwhelming numbers that before any demonstration could be made on board the sinking vessel the pirates were climbing up the ship's sides heavily armed. Captain Reed passed revolvers and guns among the passengers and crew, and after a furious fusilade the coolies were beaten off. ' They made a second and more desperate attempt to board the San Pablo when Cap tain Reed brought the ship's hose pipesinto , requisition and the pirates were again put to flight. Ten were killed. Passengers and crew reached the main land and the t pirates sacked the vessel and burned her. She was valued at $500,000. The New Catholic Univeraity. WASHINGTON, May 24.-The corner stone of the Catholic t niversity was laid in the rain this afternoon by Cardinal Gib bons, aided by Archbishops William Corri gan, Ireland and Ryan, Bishops Spaulding, Kahe and others. The steady rain which fell dursing the day caused the abandon ment of the parade of the Catholic societies, but aside from this the programme was carried oat. President Cleveland, who returned from New York at 2 P. M , drove out to the grounds, which are 'T.o miles from the city, and was given a sent on the platform, between Cardinal- Gibbons and Bishop 2 Spaulding, His appearance was the signal for loud and prolonged cheering on the part of the crowd. He had braved the storm to witness the event. The opening anthem, by a large choir, supported by the Marine band, was fol lowed by the blessing of the site of the university by the Cardinal, the corner-stone laying ceremony, a procession of cardinal and clergy around the foundation of build ing, a sermon by Bishop Spaulding and the presentation of a gold medal, sent by the Pope, to Miss Caldwell, whose magniti cent gift of $300,000 was the nucleus of the fund by which the university has been founded and the professorship established. A large number of prominent officials, Congressmen, Cabinet officers and diplo mats were in attendance. The Seventh District Contest. t WASHuGTON, May 24.-The argument in the Elliott-Smalls contested election case closed today. Mr. Eppa Hunton pre sented Col. Elliott's side of the case to the committee, showing that Smalls was fairly and-souarely defeated The testimony in- I troduced shows that many colored men voted for Colonel Elliott in preference to t Smalls because the latter undertook to in- t timidate and threaten them if they cast e their votes for the white man. It was I shown that Smalls advised women to leave their husbands and sweethearts to forsake their lovers if they voted for Col. Elliot. The latter's popularity among the better r class of colored voters was fully established, C and altogether Gen. Hunton made out a clear case and demonstrated that Colonel Elliott is justly entitled to represent the Seventh South CarolinaDistrict in the pres-. ent Congress. The committee will not render its decision for two or three weeks, as another case is to be heard in the mean time. The reports in both cases will be made up at the same time. There seems to be no doubt in the minds of the Demo-i cratic members of the committee as to Col. f Elliott's election, but the Republicans are I expected to sustain Smalls as a muatter of party policy. A Floor Give. Way -with Serious Results.$ Nnw YoBE, May 23.-TShortly after 5 o'clock this evening the rear wall and floors of the building at the northeast corner of Broadway and John street fell in, killin;, one man and seriously'injuring fivC othersd who wrere at work tearing it down. TheC property is owned by ..knstin Corbin, who contempla'~teetitig a fine structure on the ame The men were at work on thet ~ro'irth floor when the accident occurre . They were digging away the debris whica had fallen in from the roof that was re moved several days ago, when suddenly the floor began to sink. The frightened work - men rushed toward the wall, but the fioor sank rapidly, and with its human load went t crushing, the nioors .below to the cellar. I The workmen were bured beneath the 1 debris. A gang of men were at duce puti to work. - The-groans of-the imprisoned men could be distinctly heard. Five of the men were taken out alive, but the foreman1 was dead. The contractor was arrested for crimindl negligence. TLe building had been unsafe for several days and a num- 2 ben of accidents had occurred there. Fatal Result of a Feud in .North Carolina. AsHEVILE, N. C., May 23.-A special a from Webster, Jackson counity, says that yesterday afternoon Allen B. Dills, a well known and highly respected farmer near e here, shot and killed William H. Bumgard ner and fatally wounded his father Wil- ti hiam Bumgarden. The difficulty arose I through a misunderstanding about a small I tract of land and is the termination of an S old feud. The Bumgardners had been at b work on the disputed land ~duiing the morning. While they were at dinner Dills went to the spot armed with a double barrelled gun and awaited their return. As they approached Dills said, "Don't ' come any further, or I'll shoot." They, however, continued to approach. Dillse :ischarged one barrel of his gun without doing any damage -: - attempted to fire again, but the cap snapped,; and as the elder Bumgardner continued to approach, f Dills drew a pistol and fired several shotst all of which took effect on the old man, who fell. The young man, who had a single barrel gun, then fired at Dills and ~ turned to run. Dills fired upon him, b striking him in the back, and he ran a short a distance and fell dead. Dills made his M escape and is still at large. The latest re. t port says old man Bumgardner has seven bullets in him and is expected to die at anyt moment. A Royal Wedding. BERUN, May 24.-The marriage cere- b mony of Prince Henry, the second son of ( Emperor Frederick, and Princess Irene; r the third daughter of Grand Duke Lud- c wig, of Hesse, was solemnized in the chapel of Charlottenburg Castle today. All the bells at Charlottenburg were rung . to announce that the ceremony; had com menced and a salute of thirty-six gns fired ~ t 12.30 announced that the bride and ~ bridegroom had exchanged rings. Both 4 Emperor Frederick and the Dowager Em- a press Augusta were present during the eremony. Prince 2enry and the CrownS Prince were dressed in naval uniform. Thousands of people were assembled out side the castle. When the aged General S Von Moltke arrived he was enthusiasti- se :ally greeted by the multitude. The bride is and bridegroom are first cousins and are p randchildren of Queen Victoria of Eng- b and. Princess Irene being the daughter of a: he late Princess Alice. ai The new spring overcoats are a good E eal like many of the young men who wear a them The ar alwys sort GENERAL NEWS NOTES. [tems of 'Interest Gathered from Various Quarters. Gen. Phil. Sheridan is reported as se 'iously ill. The senior Admiral of the British navy, ?ir Provo Wallis. is 100 years old. Every California county has had $1,000 roted it by the Legislature for advertising urposes. Aubertin. the man who shot Jules Perry, tas been declared insane and placed in an sylum. It is announced that Wm. R. Grace. ex Iayor of New York city, is in the field or gubernatorial honors. At Petersburg, Va., yesterday, after a juiet but most earnest contest, the Demo rats elected their entire city ticket. It is a wise provision of nature that a Tan can neither kick himself nor pat his >ack. One need not so much mind freckles now hat they are described in toilet parlance as 'golden spots." Yellow houses are coming into fashion, which may create a demand for yellow logs -o match them. A German doctor who has investigated he subject says that a man's heart is two quaie inches larger than a woman's. Col. John A. Fogg, one of the last sur iving officers of the Mexican War, died uddenly yesterday in Asheville. The street-car drivers' strike in Roches er, N. Y., for ten hours as a day's work or $2 continues. The men are quiet and )rderly. J. J. Shirkey, a dry goods merchant of unton, Va., has made an assignment. Liabilities between $25,000 and $30,000; iominal-assets $18,000. At the commencement celebration of rougaloo College, colored, near. Jackson, 1iss., yesterday, a riot is reported. No articulars received. Hicks Carmichael, the negro who, while -esisting arrest last Sunday morning, killed D. A. Shipe, deputy sheriff of Knox ounty, Tenn., has been captured. "Why do you call my elbow a waiter?" tsked a whisky-loving husband of his wife. Because you 'tip' it whenever you get a Chance," she replied. The man who drinks much should eat ieartily, says a medical authority. This s all very well, but the man who drinks nuch can't get anything to eat. Among the combinations and rings there s not one that can compare, as far as the welfare of the race is concerned, with the natrimonial combination and the wedding ing. Nobody but millionaires on this coast :an afford to heap coals of fire on their ene nics' heads. Nobody foresaw when that scriptural injunction was written that a orgiving disposition would ever cost six een dollars per ton. The Southern Presbyterian General As embly has postponed the further consid ration of Dr. Woodrow's case until after 1 he return of the delegates from Philadel )hia. The Pennsylvania Democratic Conven ion yesterday elected delegates at large to he St. Louis National Convention and en lorsed Cleveland's administration and the dills bill. The German Emperor and Empress rove through the streets of Berlin yester lay evening in a closed carriage. They eceived an immense ovation from the :rowds lining the streets. President Cleveland has so far but two - ,ngagements for the summer, outside of ashington. Decoration day he -will be a New York and Brooklyn, and June 21 te will attend the 250th anniyersary of the resbyteria Church at Germantown, Pa. Gary Owens, colored, a fireman in a< holesale house in Cleveland, Ohio, fell [own the elevator hatchway yesterday, our stories, striking on his head, killing im instantly. At Jackson, Miss., the Immigration Con ention which assembled yesterday was he largest ever held in that State, 365 elegates being present, representing sixty ix counties. The' "trust" for-med by the gas compa ies of Cnicago and vicinity is being inves igated, and shows a gigantic scheme to efraud the public by making $25,000,000 ut of nothing. It is reported in Springfield, Ill., that leneral John M. Palmer has consented to be use of his name before the Democratic tate Convention of Ohio as a candidate or Governor, and the belief is general that Le will be nominated. In the Sumter Bank case in the United tates Court the jury yesterday returnedi be following verdict: "We find for the ilaintiff the full amount of $10,000.~' The ndsmen will not appeal, but have asked dlgence till October. Mrs. McFarland, +he woman who was hot by her husband Wednesday, in Cleve ad, Ohio, died yesterday evening. The ttie girl, shot at the same time by the rutal father, died yesterday morning. fFarland will probably recover. . The residents of Beloil, Canada, have eer. thrown into great excitement over the act that a tract of land covering fifteen cres has sunk a .distance of forty feet. he land was plowed and ready for plant g. It belongedl to a farmer named Rob rs The -Illinois Deinocratic State Conven on~ nominated Gen. John M. Palmer, of eoria, Lieutenant Governor, and N. 0 ticks, of Christian county, Secretary of tate. Solid for Cleveland and the Mills ill. The House committee on elections began esterday the consideration of the South arolina contested election case of Sm11la s. Elliott. E. J. Ellis addressed the coin ittee in behalf of Smalls, the contestant, deavoring to show that there was no ach division in the Republican party ins malls's district as had been alleged. Yesterday morning, about 3 o'clock, a f reight train on the Rock Island Road went3 iroukbr albrfdge near .Mandolph ~Point,-( o.,- into a ravine twenty five -feet deep. Slttle while after a. freight train on the.c [annibal and St. Joseph went through the rdge which adjoined the' Rock d.,.n a nd which had been weakened by the first reck. Two engineers, one fireman ati4 svo tramps were killed... The Parliamentar'y election at Southamop yn- resulted in a victory for the Liberals. Er. Evans, the Liberal candidate, received I ,151 votes, and Mr. G~uest, Conservative I ominee. 4,266. The vacancy was caused: y the promotion-of Admiral Commerall, onservative, to the command at Ports touth. The news of the Liberal victory aused a sensation in London. The Macon, Ga., Telegraph gives a long c st of fine business houses built in Macon t the past twelve months. The aggregate p rpended in these improvements-was over 500,005. This is not the result of an at :mpt to boom the city, but is a-natural ad healthy growth. The Telegraph is >tident that the next twelve months will g iow a still more -decided increase in the . E aterial wealth of the city. . ; b Blakely !Iall cabled to the New York e un from Paris Tuesday, that he had just . s en Mr. Blaine at the Hotel Benda and "it jt impossible to imagine a more perfect -ir icture of mature, di'nified, genial and ro-| al ust manhoo-d than Sfr. Blaine presented it he stood near one of the big windows a nsedly watching a street incident on the te ilit Avenue de l'Opera below." Mr. b lane will come back to the United States 'I out the middle of July. He refused to h The North Carolina Republican Conven tion met at Raleigh yesterday and was dis- a orderly as usual. The Convention enthu siastically cheered every mention of the name of Blaine. Eighty-two counties were represented. The Hon. Oliver H. F Dockery, of Richmond county, was nomi- e aated- for Governor by acclamation. J. C. a Pritchard, of Madison county. was nomi- a hated for Lieutenant Governor, and Geo. W. Staunton, of Wilson, for Secretary of State. p President Cleveland attended the session if the Presbyterian Assembly in Philadel- C uielphia, and made a short, address con- i eluding- as follows: "I am here to greet t the delegates of the two General Assemblies f. >f the Presbyterian Church. One is called tl North' and the other 'South.' The sub- o ject is too deep and intricate for me, but I a cannot help wondering why this should be. a These words, so far as they denote separa- p tion and estrangement, should be obsolete. [n the .counsels of the pation and in the business of the country they no longer mean tl reproach and antagonism. Even.. the sol- tl :iers who fought for the North and the tl South-are restored to fraternity and unity This fraternity and unity is taught and en joined by our Church. When shall she a erself be united, with all the added fl Strength that harmony and union insure?" t< *The sticky Catcbtiy." A The Commissioner of Agriculture has re- ti ceived the following letter from the Bota- h nist of the National Department of Agri culture regarding the curious weed sent tl from Anderson county by Major A. S. of Todd. It will be remembered that Major a Todd lost several chickens who strayed too h near the weed, and- only saved others by n cutting their feathers loose from it after b they had adhered thereto: h "Your letter of the 19th inst., contain ing specimens pf a plant for identification, bas been duly received and' referred to the Botanist of the Department. who states a that the weed is .botanically.called 'silene sntirrhina.' or, in common langpage, the 0 sticky catchfly.' from the fact that small cl insects are caught in great numbers by the A sticky secretion of the stem and branches. ft [t has been a question as to what benefit f< could accrue to the plant from this arrange- g ent, and some have supposed that the in ects caught were in some way appropri- g sted to the nourishment of the plant. It a is, perhaps, more probable that it is an ar- b rangement for the dispersion of the plant snd its seeds, as some of the seeds may be t seen adhering to the sticky places. It is a common weed in waste places and in culti ated fields. Your correspondent says that h it does not bloom. This is a mistake, as h may be~ seen by a close examination, for d he flowering parts are very minute, and a require to be examined with a magnifier." fl --- - -- ---- tl The Sumter Bank. In the course of the trial of the case of h :he National Bank of Sumter against the fi ondsmen of Bartlett, the defaulting D: ashier, in the United States Court in it iharleston, Mr. John E. Philips, the re- Si ceiver of the bank, made the following g statement as to the present condition of a he affairs of the bank: [iabilities.............. $ 78;159 90 a Stock, surplus and undivided r profits..................... 60,774 01 Total......... .....$138,933 91 u a ASSETS. Excessof bonds over circulation. $1,250 00 t votes and county claims...... 46,276 32 p )ther assets................. 6,949 76 g --0 Total ....................$54,476 08 Mr. Philips then went on to explain that 1. he difference between the liabilities and h he assets, $84,457.83, represented the n tmount that the stockholders would have a o make good. Or, in other words, after o osing their stock and surplus, they would ave to put up $23,682.92 out of their in ividual pockets unless the bondsmen of Bartlett were maade to pay, in which event he amount would be reduced by $10,000. A Centennial Hotel Burned. A disastrous fire broke out in West Phil- P delphia yesterday morning which -totally C lestroyed the Old Congress Hall, on Elm o0 venue, below Forty-second street, and hi atterly occupied by. the Belmont Iron ir Works. The loss is upwards of $100,000. n1 An alarm was sounded Immediately after u he discovery, but the nearest fire station tl w'as a couple of miles away, and the fiames y, tad full sway before the engie arrived. ii L'he dwellings on Viola and Forty-eond c tret were in momentary danger of being a wept away by the flames. The greatest b xcitement prevailed among the workmen hi Lnd residents. The building burned rapidly and the -. iremen worked hard to prevent the flames ~ rom spreading. The loss of the Belmont Iron Company c2 s estimated at trom $80,000 to $100,000. ai )ne hundred and fity employes are thrown ri ut of work. The origin of the fire is a ar nystery. ai The loss to the surrounding buildings is cl tot over $2,000. Some of the residents tr >rocured all the garden hose in the neigh orhood, and attaching them to the wash aves, directed the slender streams against heir homes, which kept the bricks cool and greatly aided the firemen and lessened he chances of the fire spreading. The frame house of Mrs. John Neff,g hich adjoined the building, was damagedd o the extent of $800. -g The destruction of the building removes 1' nother relic of centennial times. During fi he centennial it was occupied as a hotel bl .nd known as.Congress Hall, and being sit Lated almost opposite the main exhibition ft uilding, had for its guests many of the di nost prominent visitors to the great exhi et ition.-Phil. Times, May 23. di Children as Boycotter.. tI The children of the little town of Rye, tc estchester county, have gone on a strike ft nd organized a boycott against the Epis- tI opal Sunday School connected with Christ C hurch, and declared in favor of the rival V stablishment of the Presbyterian persua The word has gone out among their com anions, with the result that last Sunday d Ir. A. J. Sherman, teacher in Christ ti hurch school, .had not a single scholar, l hile the other school across the street -was rowded. -1 For months past there has'been a rivalry, nd Mr. Sherman finally hit upon~the idea tI f presenting his sch-olars with beautifully T ngraved picture cards. He won their in- 02 ocent hearts and the Christ Church school r: rdspered. Two weeks ago the Presbyte- w ian Temple decided to "see" Mr. Episco- ie alian and "go him one better." They or resented their 'children with cards just c< wice as large as those df the rival Sunday la chool, and gotten up in gorgeous colors. se -he Presbyterian scholars were enraptured. v Mr. Sherman'sscholars demanded flamn- E g colors on their pictures, foo, or no Sun ay school. Mr. Sherman refused, a boy Ott followed and the children will not lift . be boycott. In the mieantimethe Episco-. G al school is closed.-New York Star. - The Pope and Archbisahop Walshi - Bosox, 3Iay 23.-The following cable- av ram has been received from -the Pilot's b ecial correspondept at Rome: "Arch-b ishop Walsh has been received today in w rivate audience by the Pope. The audi- biu ace lasted ninety minutes and was most Br tisfactory. The Irish cause has nothing bei fear from Leo XIII. Papal interference vnt Irish politics is impossible. All the i arming statements to the contrary are the wi iyention of malicious enemies-of a piece bit -ith their exaggerations and gratuitous in- sul rpretations of the Papal rescript. Arch- ble ishop Walsh leaves for Ireland this week. HE 'he Pope shows him a special mark of las anor by desiring his presence at the Al- he AM AMERICAN WOMAN'S STORY if What She Saw in Mexico-Character. A intics of the People. It is said of the Mexicans, as of the :ussians, that in repose a deep sadness is cc spressed in their eyes. The Mexicans in re good character readers, and especi- Si fly note the bearing of strangers. They l'f re very polite and hospitable, and very a roud. The higher classes of society in fexico are almost as exclusive as the >urt circles of Europe. A middle class growing up in Mexico. Mexican salu- a -ions are exceedingly cordial. "Men re il into each other's arms and remain ill ins for several minutes, patting each cc her on the shoulder and indulging in bl 11 sorts of endearing epithets." Another It dutation, even between friends of op- nc msite sex, is thus described: "In the TI uickest, most spirited manner, the arms E both parties are outstretched, th .ey rush togetler for a second, is eir breasts barely touch, and while of ie observer is watching for a kiss to tv )llow this ardent salute, they separate lis ml the abrazo is finished. The extreme -ankness accompanying it compels one admire the custom; for it means no ri' lore than hand shaking among the , mericans.' If friends meet twenty re rues a day they must pause to shake p; ands. so At the capital one day there was seen tir vo splendid carriages. each occupied by he 2e man. The carriages halted, both er Men alighted, "removed hats, shook ils, embraced, talked for a few foments, again embraced, shook hands, tr, >wed. took off hats, and each entered sh is carriage and went his way." The >ral salutation between women is a br p of the right hand on the left shoulder, tie 'd then a generous shake of the hand. di ouien who are intimate friends not ily tap the shoulder, but lay their leeks softly together for an instant. al lady traveler commends this sort of st ,minine salutation, and evidently pre- c rs it greatly to the American form of ce reeting on the lips. er The Mexican makes really as many te tures as a Frenchman, and has quite hi R extensive social sign language. Their er lowing of kisses from the fingers is a of raceful demonstration. A certain posi- 'I on of the thumb and forefinger signi es "stop a moment." One arm held 1\ alf upright, with the elbow in the other B and. means "he is too stingy to pay his hi ebts;" one hand rubbed across the fore- w rm, "he plays on the credulity of his P' iends;" the palm held outward, with t umb and forefinger forming a circle, a she is very rich ;" the fingers of one tr and closed, except the thumb and little ra nger, "lie's a sharper." Educated in [exican men are great skeptics in relig- pf us matters-except when they are very ck. The people are temperate. Young iris are called "pullets;" marriageable feu, "young or old roosters," and the reet arabs who ogle ladies are known w "-lizards." Angricans who have mar- se ed Mexican women find it necessary to ar ve in Mexico, for their wives are very j1 nhappy elsewhere. Mexican children bt re never struck. Corporal punishment at t schools is prohibited by law. Correc- is on takes the form of persuasion and ap- th al. The result is that in all classes a fu entle courtesy and consideration for to -hers prevail. W Hoodlum children are, unknown in [exico. A hoodlum child is one.who as been cuffed and abased until he aturally (that, is, according to the ex- R mples set him) begins to kick and pound fit :hers who are weaker than himself.: The pi ep from this to other deeds of violence SI short. ~.a: One cannot tell half of the graces and di >urtesies of the Mexican children. "In st xe alameda, with kindly deference, they di ill always yield to elderly and infirm is 3rsons their own cozy and shady seats. es n entering a sala, where there are few li many guests; these exquisitely polite in tle gentleme~n will go all around, shak- ex ghands with every one present. They p< aver break into the conversation, but w: hen addressed will modestly join it; N ten, wishing. to retire, will say, 'with >ur kind permission,' and, again shak .g hands, move gracefully from the >mpany. Girls are no lees imbued with i same spirit of courtesy. A Mexican It >y never thinks himself too near man- Ca >od to pay the compliment to his mother E 'kissing her hand every timee he comes fu~ to her presence." The Mexican flowers are very deeply >ored. "If red, it is the most glowing id intense;- if yellow or purple, the chest; if white or pink, the purest and it cst delicate." Fresh flowers are abund- Ci t and cheap throughout the year, in- g uding roses, pansies, sweet peas, helio- fu opes, camellias and magnificent poppies. Calla lilies, the size of a fan, bloom lux iant in every ditch,'' and the gera-X umns are as tall as a man. The most markable flower is the "tree of the le hands," a native of the colder i-e on. The bright red flowers are wellA fined miniature hands. It is slow of owth, not reaching full size in ) years. In the Valley of Mexico tv varieties of lilies, no two alike, oom on mountain, crag and plain. m The mortality of the City of Mexico g arful and half of -it is due to lung and arrheal diseases. The Mexican capital p~ n hardly be said to have any system of at ainage and sewerage. Catarrh is conm- Cl on among ..the Mexicans, - and when iey have colds they do not allow water >touch their faces. They have very .w nervous diseases. The cadence of eir lives is too measured for that. ncinnati Commercial Gazette Book Re ew. Source of Pnro Water.4 The best water is 'that which has gone epest in the earth, where there is the ghtest pressure, atmospheric and .tel rc. Continued and intensified filtra >n has refined it; but it is here, and not its open air exposure, before or after, tat the water gets effective oxidation. ie remarkable fact that water absorbs ygen in something like a geometrical tio to the increase of pressure, coupled ith the other equally important fact that der a certain pressure and temperature -anic germs cease to exist; both these nditions, protracted for the water by a ng detention in the depths of the earth, cure the rarest refinement and also talizaion of the element.-Sanitary The Irish giant (7 feet 5 inches) is dead. ni appropriate epitaph would seem to be: one to his long home. A Strange Uaae of Hydrophobla. Walter H. Warren, of No. 44 Ralph enue, Brooklyn, was taken to the Flat sh Avenue Hospital yesterday, suff-ering t what seems to be a case of hydropho- P .About a week ago Warren came to, ooklyn from New York, where he had n living, and on Monday was taken with lent frothing at the mouth and convul- T] e twitchings. Warren had had a fight th a shopmate some time ago, and was C tea on the thumb at the time. This is >posed to have caused the present trou .Warren is in a very critical condition. barks and raves almost continuously, of bing his head about on his pillow until ple has worn the skin off one side of his anl .- Y. Sar, May 24. & ( SOME QUEER WOMEN. Few Stories of What the Fair Sex Are Now Doing. Maggie Riddle, of Springdale, Ohio, mmitted suicide last week by jumping to a well attached to her father's farm. te arrayed herself in her new spring dress, rasol, gloves and all, and jumped into a well. which was fifty feet deep. )is pointnent in love was the cause. SITE hAD 1BEEN READING "OTTIf.T.,O." Pretty 17-year-old Katie McGrath disap ared from her beautiful home in Chicago out two weeks ago. On Sunday last she turned and informed her sorrowing fain that he had married "Shin" Watkins, a al-black negro, who makes his living by icking boots in the Chicago barber shops. is needless to say that Katie-s parents do t approve of her choice of a husband. [E MOTHER OF TWENTY-FIVE CIIILDIREN. Mrs. Robert Milligan, of Bridgeport, is e mother of twenty-tive children. She 48 years old and was married at the age 14. IIer children include five sets of ins, . Of twenty-five twenty-one are now ing. the oldest being 33 years old. A RIVAL OF THIC SALVATION ARMY. The Salvation Anmy hss chinger'us ,al in the person of a Scandinavian man, who has been leading a religious rival at 3Ienominee, Mich., for a month at. Her preaching has driven eight per as insane. It is proposed that the Salva >ists should capture this promising ex >rter and give her the rank of major gen 11. TILE TRAMP TOOE HER IN. Eliza Bliss, of Rehoboth, supplied a imp with a meal the other (lay. While e was preparing the food the tramp sang fearer my God, to Thee" in a way that ought tears to Eliza's eyes. At the same ne he stole her pocketbook and twenty 'e dollars from her bureau drawer. NO WoMEN BARBERS FoR THEMl. Mrs. Greenslade went to New York out a year ago from San Francisco and irted a barber shop, where she shaved stomers for the moderate sum' of five nts per head. The wives of her custom s became jealous of her success, and at Epted a plan of boycotting that has Lally proved successful. Her business is tirely broken up, and she has been liged to appeal to charity for her support. HEY WERE (4ON( TO FLOG THE MAYOR. Some time ago the inhabitants of a estern town elected a German named ecker for Mayor. His first act, to show s authority, was the refusal to pay the srrants of the street inspectors. The or men did not know what to do about e matter, but their wifes solved the ques ma by threatening to call on the Mayor in body, each armed with a cowhide, and ( to persuade his Honor to sign the war nts. Becker got some information of the tended visit and quickly signed the .pers. Seven Robber. Shot De d. DURANGO, Mexico, May 23.-William ulley, a wealthy land and cattle owner, is killed at his hacienda by robbers, ven of whom were captured by soldiers d. police. The party started for the dge of the town having jurisdiction, It as ordinary trials are long, cost money, d are not always either profitable or sat actory, the seven prisoners were given e short way to -justice by the "ley de eogo"-that is. they were allowed to try escape, and in this effort for freedom are all shot dead. A 16,000 Pound Towing Cable. Williamsport, May 19.-The Wire ape Company of this place is just about tishing an order for a cable which is obably the largest ever made in this ate. 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