The Butler Weekly Times Newspaper, November 12, 1890, Page 2

A CONVICT’S ESCAPE. Sabterfage by Which He Contrived to Get Away from a Prison Colony. i Mr. F. Ordinaire recently returned from a long sojourn in New Caledonia, the big islandin the Pacific to which several thousand French cri is have been transported for th country’s good. It is: ke, howev > sup- pose that ma: “36 convic spend their livesd vay behind prison y d walls. Ifthey be elves and do not try to escape they are in time per- | mitted to enjoy a good deal of liberty, live in cottages of their own outside the pris- | ons, marry female convicts, and acquire | more or less property. While in New Caledonia Mr. Ordinaire met a beautiful young French woman and her husband. They lived in good style, entertained him handsomely, and, as they w convicts, their guest was curious te know how it happened that they were living in such an out of the way part of the world, They satisfied his curiosity, and later he heard the story they told him from the French authorities on the island. About twenty years ago a wealthy Frenchman named Lamy was condemned to life imprisonment in New Caledonia. | It had been discovered that he cessively poisoned two legitimate wives, | and the public sentiment was that he was very lucky to save his head. His sentence was that he should be kept at hard labor. It happened, however, that in his new home, being far away from the French court that tried him, he was not confined very long in the prison gang, and gradually gained many privil- eges. Mr. Ordinaire hints that Lamy’s money was influential in making con- vict life easy and comfortable for him. At the end of ten years the wife poisoner was as free as any one could be who was not permitted to go anywhere he pleased. He wandered at will among the settlements of New Caledonia, bought property in Noumea, the chief town of the island, and started a ranch on which before long he had two thou- sand head of cattle. He had other busi- ness irons inthe fire, and enjoyed 9ll the privileges of a free colonist, except that he could not quit the island, where he had been condemned to perpetual exile. But, of course, the thing he most de- sired was the complete freedom that was denied him. In spite of his fortune and the comparative comfort be enjoyed, Lamy made up his mind to go back to Europe if he could get there. One day he went to Noumea, wearing a very lugubrious face, and told the Governor of the Penitentiary Adminis- tration that the climate was simply kil- ling him; if he did not have a change of air he would die. He begged for per- mission to spend six months in Sydney on account of his shattered health. Itis hinted that sympathy did not move the penitentiary authorities half so much as the gold which is capable of working miracles. A privilege that had never been extended to a prisoner on the island before was accorded to Lamy. He obtained permission to seek a change of air, and openly embarked for Austra- lia on a French steamer, buying the best accomodations the vessel provided. Lamy was now really a fugitive, for he had not the slightest intention of re- turning again to NewCaledonia. It did not take him long to discover that the Sydnoy air was not sufficiently curative, and he accordingly took passage upon one of the San Francisco steamers, crossed North America, and embarked from New York for Europe. A fow months after Lamy should have reappeared in New Caledonia his son and daughter-in-law, the young people who so handsomely entertained Mr. Ordi- naire, appeared on the scene. They were la with full powers to dispose ° wtp gipebed on the island, and they settled in one of their father’s houses and proceeded leisurely to realize upon the lands, houses, forests and herds of their parent. At last accounts he was still reposing from his adventures in a country bordering upon France.—N. Y Sun. MILLIONS OF STOCKINGS. Twelve Hundred Thousand Pairs Made Each Day. I was told recently by one of the prominent hosiery merchants that the production of seamless house in this country was about 100,000 dozen pairs daily, says the New York correspondent of the Washington Star. This seems incredible, and yet my informant is a man of wide and accurate knowledge of the trade. A daily production of 1,200,000 pairs of stockings would mean 7,000,000 pairs each working week or 350,000,000 pairs a year, an average of five pairs to each man, woman, child, bedridden invalid and pickaninny in the land. And this covers only one class of stockings, though probably the most numerous one. Of course, the bulk is of the cheapest qualities, those that sellin the trade for 50 cents a dozen and there- abouts. But how are they used, and where do they go? It is almost as deep a problem as the death and the future fe of the pin. These statistics throw @ strong light on the gigantic dimen- sions of the clothing trades. We Scarcely put hosiery and underwear @mong the important divisions of dry goods, and yet the transactions are be- aaa tho scope of an ordinary imagina- on. A few weeks ago a company of dealers Tepresenting the importing side of the trade alone gathered to confer on how best to protect their interests before Congress, and a rough computation of the capital represented by the houses that then joined in action gave the stupendous total of $600,000, 000. gia an Pest tt How to Smoke a Cigar. An old smoker says: Never cut of the end of the cigar nor chew it off while smoking. It isa vulgar habit, besides being mischievous. Three or four small holes made helf an inch from the end of the cigar will allow the exit of the smoke, while at the same time the stub of the cigar catches and holds the nico- tine, which is the injurious product of the smoke, especially to nervous people. A cigar should be smoked owly and should be lighted eve ’ Side of the cigar sh & ragged edge on necessary to re threugh the end will ign will burn reg fs a pleasur 5 i ® Fi ® leave is not Popular Vi How the . Maude F: poser, and b about me, but know. favo the im- Its dates from 1514, when practic t » of perial city on the blue Danube. world-wide fa the European congress met at Vienna, after the fi fall of Napoleon, and while the French Emperor was an exile at Elba. The Prince de Ligne, who represented Louis XVIII. of France at the congress, was out one night with Prince Metter- | nich, the all-powerful Prince, Minister of Austria, on an expedition which in New York would be call elephant,” and the two up by visiting the “‘Sperl a very famous dance There the Prince de real Viennese waltz dan time, and he was s0 that he t d “seeing the inces wound at that time in Vienna. gne saw the for the first ainment corps. so far had ane be once f. ionabl Other diplomats imitated the example of Prince de Ligne, and it took only a very short time before all the capitals of Europe had adopted the Vie dance. So impre d was the Prince de Ligne with of the dance and its slow ng movements that when the congress spent its time inendless debates withgut purpose he uttered the historical words: Le Congres ne marche pas; tl ralee, (The congress does not get ahead; it waltzes round and round.”’) During the first half of this century three composers, Lanner, Gungl and Johann Strauss, my father, all three Austrians, have impressed the artistic stamp on the waltz. nese he origin fascin they have failed to follow in the foot- steps of the pathfinders their works have been unsuccessful. Of the three sons of Johann Strauss, Johann, Joseph (who died in 1870) and myself, the youngest, pleased to say that we have inherited some of the artistic temperament of our We have certainly been indus- trious, for we have published nearly father. eight hundred pieces of dance music, the majority of which have become very popular. — Eduard Strauss, in N. Y. Journal. A VOLCANIC ISLAND. Vesuvius Dwarfed by Iceland's Terrible Lava Floods, There is no country in the known world where volcanic eruptions have been so numerous as in Iceland, or have been spread over so large a surface. No part of the isle is wholly free from the marks of volcanic agency, and it may be truly called the abode of subterrane- ous heat. Vesuvius is dwarfed into in- significance by the twenty volcanoes of Iceland, all of them larger. The lava flood at the last eruption in Iceland, in 1875, has been computed to contain 31,- 000,000,000 of cubic feet, while the largest eruption of Vesuvius on record, that of 1794, only threw out 730,000,000 of cubic feet of lava. Some of the Ice- landie lakes are studded with volcanic islos, miniature quiescent Strombolis, whose craters rise from bases green with a prolific growth of angelica and grasses. Even in the bosom of the sea, off the coast, there are hidden volcanoes. About the end of January, r observed rising from the se miles off Cape Re several months unt about thirty nes; they lasted * terrible eruption commenced 200 miles away in the interior, when they disappeared. A few years ago rocks s emerged from the sea in ‘ volcanic feature is ara valleys, plains studded wit number of low, cone-shaped hill from whose tops Jets of steam ascend. In other _ boiling mud issues from the to eight feet into the air, land. Standing on where literally fire and brims incessant action, having be eyes terrible proofs of what is going on beneath you, enveloped in vapors, your ears stunned with noises, is a strange sensation. As to the hot spri those in Reyk- jadal, though not the most magnificent, are perhaps the most curious among the numerous phenomena of this sort in Ice- land. On entering the valley you see columns of vapor ascending from differ- ent partsof it. There is a number of apertures in a sort of platform of rock. The water is at 212 degrees Fahrenheit, and itrises two or three feet into the air. Ariver tlows through the valley, inthe midstof which a jet of boiling Water issues with violence from a rock raised but a few feet above the icy-cold water of the river. Not far from this place is the grotto or cave of Surt, which is so large that no one bas penetrated to iteinner end. In forming these scenes nature seems to have deserted all her ordinary operations and to have worked only in combining the most terrific ex- tremes which her powers can command. Nor is she yet silent After the lapse of ages the fires of the valcano still burst out among the regions of eternal snow, and the, impetuous thundering of the geysers Continues to disturb the stillness of the surrounding solitude.— Murray's Magazine. ground six in New Zea- European Postal Statistics. Germany has 19,478 post-offices, En- gland 18,587, France only 7,846. Last Year 65,000,000 post-office orders, with a value of 4,800,000,000 francs, were for- warded in Germany, and 21,000,000 or- ders, the value of 658,000,000 francs, for- warded in France. The bad showing of France in postal statistics is in no small degree due to the fact thst the postal ties may found yearly only fRces, although ved with it | The number of their imitators is legion, but whenever the world is MISCELLANEOUS. —The fashionable London woman now dyes her hair a mahogany color. —Mulligan—**Take some of the medi- cine, Mary Ann. The doctor said it 1 kill or c without fail.” but ich will ne can casi bove state Vhere is your husband, Mrs. couldn't He has the rheumatism | | all over “Goodness me! And he’s | over six feet high.” od News. } —“I trust,” love-lorn young hed Hae: | I made ington Post. rmer near Los Angeles has forty-seven scres of corn and is willing to wager th 0 of the stalks are twenty-two f¢ which is higher than a man on horseback can reach. you to acre. m the food. and the s —Te vol ployer under ing the gr sir.” reat heavens, Pat- rick! 1 go straight to the hospital s Weekly. —Nathaniel Bailey’s ‘English Dic- tionary,” published in 1721, contains the word “honorificabilitudinity,” the definition being “honorableness.” That knocks completely out that familiar breath tester of the old-fashioned spell- ing schools—incomprehensibility.” —Two boys while hunting recently in Ojai Valley, Cal., were treed by a big bear, which kept them on their uncom- fortable perch for eighteen hours, de- vouring all their provisions in the meantime. and raised the siege with a bullet. —Mrs. Livermore says that her hus- band is a Republican, whileshe is a Pro- hibitionist; he isa protectionist, while she is a free trader: he has a pew in one church and she in another; he has one doctor, she another; and yet they are happy and harmonious and never dream of quarreling. —It is not generally known thats sing} mouse turned loose ina grocery Window will catch more flies ina single evening than fly paper catches all day. And, besides, he eats them and don’t leave them lying around loose. Don't grudge the mouse his little mischief; he is a good fly and roach exterminator. —The romance of diamond mining is all gone. It is nowa matter of excavat- ing vast beds of blue clay by machinery, ng it and sifting out the diamonds, which, after being roughly sorted for size, are sold in bulk by weight. The men who do the ual work are mere laborers, and their pay is proportion- small.—Boston Post. irst Auditor—“Who is that man sitting in the box over there?” Second Auditor—“He is the author of this comedy.” First Auditor — “Well, 1 should think he would have better taste than to laugh so uproariously."”. Second Auditor—“O, it's all right. He is the author of the play, but he never heard those jokes before. Those were put in by the comedians." —The wholesale destruction of forests in this country is attracting attention in Germany, and it is predicted that we shall in a few years be impoverished in tree property. A striking comparison is made of the two countries. While the United States has but 11 per cent. of its area c Li forests, the Empire of i per cent. of its en- tire ered. Criming!—“Hello! Jim; how j did you you get out of jail’ ‘Second Criminal—“T filed of a r “But how about y out First, Criminal— ir striped clothes?” “O, th vas allright. ng resort, t down to the beach took my conviet America. acrobat, see z in comparison with that of eorge Holloway, of New Albany, Ind. He was sent to the top of the large brick ch mney, ninety-five feet high, at the glass works, to tear down the structure. Hardly bad he reached the top when he slipped and fell into the stack, and ricochetting from side to side struck the bottom without a scratch. again in an hour. tarium at Clinton Springs, N. Y., who has become such a slave to chocolate herany. She has eaten so much of it that her skin has become the color of chocolate. Recently by a piece of de- ception, she was able to get two pounds | of the candy from a confectioner’s and ate it all at one sitting. She was seri- ously ill for a while, but is again ready for more chocolate. —Hard days are coming for those who love to crack and munch the savory pea- nut, and the small boy especially can Prepare for misory, for the price of the peanut is moving skyward. The high | price is due, it is said, to the short crops | of last year and the year before. The | best grade of Virginia hand-picked | peanuts is now selling at 91y cents a pound, and it is stated by dealers that soon the price will be 10 cents a pound. The peanuts coming to this market are | mostly from Virginia. 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