Evening Star Newspaper, January 8, 1889, Page 6

EMPEROR WILLIAW’S DEFORMITY How it Originated and How it fs Con- cealed from View. Cable Special to the New York Sun. In Paris two days ago I talked about Em- Peror William with a friend whose fame asa medical man is world wide and obtained for your readers most interesting and definite in- formation as to the young ruler’s physical con- dition. The information may be relied upon as exact beyond any question. “Young William was unlucky in the first place,” said my friend, in having a princess for a mother, and equally so in having been born a prince. Those two circumstances account for his unhappy deformity. The usually accepted accounts of its nature and origin are imagina- tive rubbish. The Crown Princess Frederick was, as is generally known, traveling in an out- of-way place at a very indiscreet period. The birth of the present German emperor was un- expected, and he was helped into the world by some obscure little doctor with an awe for royalty far in excess of his knowledge of surgery. If he had been allowed to think that his patient was simply an ordinary woman of stron: physique, all would probably have been well; but the fact was carefully impressed npon him ‘that he had in his hands the life of a fature queen, and the child would, perhaps be heir to the Prussian throne. This so demoralized the little doctor that he added the strength of his own muscles to the forces of nature and so severed all the muscles of the infant's left arm. When I was called to Windsor by Queen Victoria to attend the little boy I saw at once that his case was hopeless. If he had been a grocer’s son, some good doctor would have been called in, and some sound method of cure adopted and fol- lowed. As a prince, however, he had to be seen by every great doctor, no system was fol- lowed out, and the worst possible result of the accident ensued, namely, complete atrophy of the arm. AN ARTIFICIAL ARM. “It is wasted completely away, and is proba- bly smaller than when I examined him as a boy at Windsor. Fortunately, such wonderful skill has been shown by the German surgeons as to save him from the mortification of having it plainly seen that one of his arms is simply the withered arm of a child. The withered limb is padded out in a most lifelike fashion, and not only that, but within the padding is a most wonderfully clever machine—a series of strings and cords acting like the muscles of the arm. These artificial muscles are connected with the good muscles of the shoulder most adroitly, so that while ina natural condition he would be incapable of moving his withered arm, this most ingenious mechanism ena- bles him to impart to it movements that are almost lifelike. He can raise or lower his arti- ficial hand and use it sufficiently well to guide carefully trained and broken chargers which are selected for him.” THE KAISER'S EAR DISEASE. “The emperor's deformity,” said he, “is nothing except as it mortifies and irritates an extremely proud and sensitive man; but the disease in his head is one which may have most serious consequences for all Europe. It may drive the emperor to the most extrava- gant acts, or suddenly, by killing him, end the ulation as to what his career may be. can tell you positively that it already makes him insane at intervals. He was insane when he delivered certain speeches which his advisers were compelled to revise and inter- ret officially. He was mentally deranged by ‘is suffering and the direct effect of his malady upon the brain. All the skill of the doctors about him is concentrated to fight the disease that is growing in his head. Once already it has gone beyond the control of the doctors,and the emperor suffereda most dreadful attack. all knowledge of which was carefully keptfrom the public. When the disease reaches a cer- tain point, there will come an explosion, and the emperor will either die or become hope- lessly insane. “Just what the disease is I will not say. Its nature may be described as that of atumor and an abuormal growth within the brain. The skill of his physicians may fight off the final stages of the disease for a longer period than at present seems probable, but there is very little hope that they will be able to cure it. ‘The young emperor is a decidedly unlucky man. Old Emperor William suffered, which is not generally known, from a form of epilepsy, and his grandson, who has inherited the trouble, is also afilicted with fits epileptic in character.” = coo Centennial Thanksgiving. 4 FEATURE OF THE PROPOSED CELEBRATION OF WASHINGTON'S INAUGURATION. The committee of clergymen of various de- Bominations, who have been for some time as- sisting the executive committee of the centen- nial celebration of Washington's inauguration, have prepared an address to the ministers and churches throughout the country, stating that | on the morning of — 30, 1739, the bells at 9 o’clock summoned the people to the churches to implore the blessing of heaven on the nation and its chosen President, so universal was the religious sense of the importance of the occa- sion. “We respectfully and earnestly request of fellow-citizens of every name, race and color in this city and throughout the entire country, following the example of our fathers, to meet in their respective places of worship at 9 o'clock on the morning of April 30, 1849, and to hold such religious services of thanksgiving and praise as may seem suitable in view of what God has done for us and our land during the century which has elapsed since George Wash- ington took the chair of state. Religion and patriotism have been united among us asa people from the very beginning—may they so continue forever.” seo A Talk About Mules. From the New York Star. Mules were the subject of conversation. The topic became uppermost by General Wade Hampton remarking that a young man had called him out of the Senate chamber that day to ask him in what battle he lost his leg. “Are you guying me?” asked the Senator, “Certainly not,” replied the incipient news- Paper man. “I ask for information.” “Well.” replied the Senator, “you ought to know that I lost my leg as the result of a kick from a mule. “Which reminds me,” said General Chase Hooker, member of Congress from Mississippi, turning to Colonel William C. Oates, a member from Alabama, “that I once had an experience with a mule. I had always ridden a horse, but Inoticed that my colored man rode a trim- looking mule. and appeared to get on so easily that I fancied that I would like to do the same. So I said, ‘Sam. get down off that mule and let | me ride him.’ He did so and I mounted. The | road was perfectly smooth. withont a stone to | be seen. The mule trotted along for a while in | good style, when suddenly it stumbled and threw me headlong to the earth, nearly break- ing my neck. Iwent back to my horse con- tented,” “And this,” added Colonel Oates, “brings to my mind the fact that once. when I was prac- ticing law in Alabama, I tooka mule for pay- ment and thought I would lead it home to the plantation. I found it wouldn't lead, so I took the off my horse and put the mule to the wagon. It went well for a little while, when suddenly it bolted into the crotch of a Virginia or ‘worm’ fence. ting it out, but after mu: Thad Cap difficulty in get- c patting, &c., I succeeded. A little coaxing. pushing, farther on the same thing happened ain, and finally, when it bolted tl third time, I got mad. I took a pistol I had out of my pocket, and. laving it on the wagon seat, I ‘If you bolt again between here and the plantation I will blow your brains out.’ Well. sir, do you know, that mule took the bit between his teeth and’ headed for the plan- tation, going the whole distance at 1 good speed.” And then Gen. Hooker, who has lost his left arm, shook hands with Col. Oates, who has lost his right arm, and the two M. C.’s went their several ways. > IMPERIAL FEDERATION PUSHED. In reply to a letter the sccretary of the To- route branch of the imperial federation league to Hon. William E. Gladstone inquiring as to his views on the imperial federation move- ment, Mr. Gladstone writes: “In the WHEN YOUR HAIR DROPS OUT. All About the Wig You Wear and How it is Made. THE GERMAN PEASANT GIRLS FURNISH TEE HAIR AND GER TRINKETS IN RETURN—TO FASHION THE WIG REQUIRES DEFT FINGERS—REAL GOOD ‘WIGS COST MUCH MONEY. From the New York Sun. There is more poetry and romance woven into the history of an auburn wig, more tender sentiment twisted into the traditions of a blonde toupee, than the bald-headed man who wears them ever dreams of. The soft locks that shel- ter his poll from the draught that chills and the migratory fly that fain would choose his shiny pate for the scene of its revels and wan- derings once waved above the bright eyes of some fair German peasant maiden or saucy, sparkling Norman lassie who bartered them for a trinket of gold or silver for her Sabbath- day adorning. Just why these peasant women possess such abundant tresses has never yet been satisfactorily explained, but the foreign women, particularly the French and German who toil in the fields, shielded from the sun only by the small close cap which covers their hair but does not shade their faces, in- variably have beautiful fine soft hair, and it is from them that all the best hair in the market is obtained. in the following manner: Most of the women have too much hair to be covered entirely by the close cap without being so tightly braided or twisted as to be uncomforta- ble. Accordingly the itinerant hair buyer fills his pockets and pack with bright ribbons, fine caps. beads and trinkets, and wanders through the fields where the women work. When the noon-tide lunch has been eaten he spreads his tempting wares beneath some sheltering tree, and the shy, bright-eyed lassies steal up tim- idly and pick out the brooch or long earrings or pretty ribbons for their Sunday cap for which they long, then snatch off the littie caps from their hair, unbrait and shake out all its shining beauty for the peddler’s inspection, and when a bargain is made they lown on the ground while he carefully s out here and there a tress so cunningly that it is never missed. Usually a girl sells about half her hair, but if it be very heavy two-thirds of it is sometimes cut out. leaving the remainder long and smooth, to be braided up with no trouble and wound about her head. Pure white hair is most expensive, because extremely rare. A woman old enough to have white hair has usually very little left, and that is short, yellow at the ends, and split and broken. After this, the yellow blonde hair is most difficult to find, auburn hair, and what hair-dressers designate as drab shades, Occasionally poor women go into the hair- dresser’s establishments in this city and offer tresses for sale. but this seldom happens, for it is a lamentable fact that American women have leas hair than those of any other people. and that more bald men are found here than elsewhere. The cause for this is unknown, and if it could be discovered, together with a remedy for the same, the wig maker's occupa- tion would be gone, and the discoverer would know how it feels to be a millionaire. Among the lace makers in France, where women weave the rarest and most delicate frost-like laces on a cushion with pins and bobbi there is a guild of workers who wind their bobbins with fine white hair, instead of thread, and tossing it in and out r the pins, weave a web-like Brussels net of hair instead of flows. A piece of this beautiful material forms the parting and foundation of the wig, into which is tied the hair, a single hair ina mesh of the lace along the parting, and two or three hairs in a place all over the rest of the wig. It is a woman's deft, skillful fingers that do this fine work, of course, by means of a tiny needle no larger than the slimmest cam- bric needle for sewing, with an infinitesimal hook at the tip scarcely visible to the naked ye. A wig-maker has as many wooden block- heads as a shoemaker has lasts, and upon one of these the wig foundation is carefully fitted and fastened while the hair is tied in, and over this block a woman bends two whole weeks to make a single wig, with a tuft of h in her left hand, into which the needle flies, catch- ing invariably only the number of hairs re- quired, about one hundred times in an hour. The art of wig making is dignified with the most ancient of histories. There isa periwi in the British museum of Egyptian origin sup- posed to be 4,000 years old, and Xenophon mentions that Astyages wore an immense wig Roman emperors supplied the lack of natura! hair with artificial substitutes, the wig of the Emperor Commodus being highly perfumed and sprinkled with gold dust; and even the South Sea Islanders understand the art of wig making. After the decline of the popular fashion of Louis XIII’s establishment, that no gentleman could appear without a wig. wigs were rarely worn at all, because they were so crudely fashioned as to deceive no one as to their purpose, but Mr. Rouch- fuss, the oldest wig maker in the city, asserts that there is now a revival of the custom and a continually increasing demand for wigs and toupees, though this is not noticeable, because there are so many more bald-headed men than formerly that the per- centage of wig-wearers is small and wigs are so cunningly made as to defy detection. Phy- sicians frequently recommend the wearing of ey as a preventative of or cure for catarrh and neuralgia and influenza. “All kinds of eople wear them,” Mr. Rouchfuss asserts, ‘from the fastidious man of unlimited means, who buys a new wig costing $25 or $30 as often as once a month, to the man who only can afford oae once a yi and then takes a wig that some fussy man has discarded after once or twice wearing because the color didn’t please him or something in the style didn’t quite suit. These we sell cheaper, like the misfits in the tailors’ establishments; but we never make any real misfits.” “How often does any one needa new wig’ “Once in three or six months, according to the care they give it. People with wigs are just as they are with clothing. Some men will wear a suit and look dressed in it when you can see your face in the back of the coat and carry a Valise on the knees of the trousers. It isthe neat way they put it on, and the care they give it. Just so with a wig I havea customer out west, a military man, who is away there among the Indians, sleeping in a tent most of the time, and with most inconvenient arrangements for the care of his clothing and for toilet purposes. He buys a new wig about once a year, and even then the old one is as good as new, only that it has faded. That's because he takes care of it. Then I have cus- tomers here in the city, hurried business men, who jam on their wigs all in a twist, crackin the paper at the same time, and they come back in three months with them perfectly ruined. There's one class of customers that never get wigs in the wrong place or hurry too much in their adjustment, and they are women. Work or worry, fire or thieves, never hustle a woman into getting the parting of her wig crooked or a single hair in an unnatural place, but a man will stick a toupee on so that it will showa streak of baldness between that and his hair, just for the sake of catching a car five minutes earlier.and then come in here and wonder why it doesn't fit. “How do you fasten on toupees?” vith a peculiar preparation like paste, which comes in a long stick and is hard until small piece is broken off and worked in the fingers like putty. Three or four of these pieces will fasten ‘a toupee on so a blizzard can’t blow it off, but it loosens easily with the ngers when we wish to remove it.” “What is the most expensive wig made?” “A pure white ventilated wig costs #40 or $50, and a plain weft wig in a color comes as low as $15. Toupees run from #10 to $15. Of course, ladies’ wigs are more expensive, some- times going as high as $100, according to the length and color of the hair. But very few ladies wear wigs, for there are so many little | devices by which women conceal their nd a rangement of k of are cunning enough in the ar- the few tresses “There's very little difference. They are both hard to please at first. ‘They are eccus, tomed to seeing little or no hair, and anything we can make looks unnatural, Old ers have their particular hobbies, but easily satisfied. One of m: toupee that weighs four a pound, you see, when a wi weighs an ounce and a cause he wore it The tobacco association com organization at Sealer inet by electing THE SOCIETY COLUMN. Some Classes of People to Whom it Furnishes Intense Interest. From the Boston Gazette. Among the funny people to be met are the people who read society items with the deepest interest without knowing any of the society people. They form a little circle of acquaint- ances of these people in their minds, and smile over their frolics.and condole with them in their misfortunes as if with old and near friends. They rarely or never see these objects of their admiration, and draw on their imagination in a most remarkable manner without any found- ation whatever for some of the conclusions they arrive at regarding the personal appear- ance of these objects. There are certain wo- men they occasionally meet whom they feel certain must be Miss Groing-Tuff and Mrs. J. Tommy Crasher, and these women, though they may be plain Mrs. Jones and Smith, are ever after whirled through dinner parties and balls, gee = and receptions in a manner which would be most surprising to them if they knew of it. Some inoffensive young man from Roxbury or North Cambridge, per aps, with nothing to condemn him but a quick shine and a bouton- niere, is suspected of being the gay old bach, Top-Lofty, whom half the mammas of Boston are after for their daughters. Some disheveled- looking young mai Perhaps a dry-goodsclerk, who has used up half his nooning walking with his girl and is trying to dodge in somewhere for a ham sandwich to further sustain him un- til his dinner time—is taken for the talented oung Pen Pullet, who has recently written a ook, or some tired woman who doesn’t know a rondeau from an anthem, and has probably been buying cake pans and skewers at Walker's, is thought to be the poetess, Mrs. Slopping- Over. The announcement of any coming fes- tivity fills these outside observers with almost as much anticipation as if their own snowy in- vitation had just arrived. If the day turns out badly their sympathies are loud and fre- quent for ‘Poor Mrs. Patrician Puffer and her ball,” or “What an unpleasant day for the ” or This will be a nice evening for Miss wbury to have her coming-out party. ‘These outside observers can tell you (on newspaper authority) who has gone abroad or south, where every one is going for the sum- mer, who was at the last charity concert, and whose husbands are club men. In all their lives they may never mect these people or know them by sight, but they get far more —— from newspaper talk about them than rom the actual occurrences in the lives of their everyday friends about them. Some ob- scure young clerk in a dry goods palace, or perhaps Johnny, who comés to take the pro- vision order, fills out the fuller part of his life ae the items of a society which he can never hope to penetrate, He does not know of any great desire or ambition he has_to pe: trate it. It is to him only a never-ending novel, some words of which he has to skip, but on the whole finds mighty .interesting reading. He knows enough of the personages in it to give it all a real side. Miss Rosebud Newbury has often bought Fedora laces of him to make her sachet-bags of, or if he is a gentleman. in the rovision line, he has often taken an order ‘rom grand and lofty peopie whose exit from the store he has watched with open mouth and shining eyes. After seeing them daily, and fitting the names to the people nicely, he finds much enjoyment in accounts of their daily life. He is not quite positive that he knows what a musicale is, or a soiree dun- sante, but he feels sure it is something entirely different from the “assemblies” of Prof. Tip- toe, his dancing master. and he secretly dis- dains the latter and acquires a sort of blase air which Sarah Mulligan finds awfully wicked and fetching. Dressmakers who have these people for patrons eagerly seatch the society columns for bits of news which are often used for ndth- ing worse than a cud of reflection, though sometimes they are served up to madame as she tries on her dress, with a sauce that is all the dressmaker’s own. Tailors, milliners, shi makers, are all as familiar with the names of certain familes as they ere with those of their favorite novels, and can reel them off with a familiarity that is astonishing, and speak of their pleasures and pains as a matter they have very much at heart. In the bliss in which their ignorance keeps them, they see only the sunny side of the soiree dansante and the musicale, and, with no burnings of envy or thirstings for revenge, they are the ones who really enjoy the “‘society columns” the most. — coo Their First ‘Quarrel. From the Chicago Tribune. “Callithumpian, dear, are you ill?” With touching solicitude the young wife hung over her husband, a lovely pity beaming from her mild blue eyes, and her low, beau- tiful voice vibrating with tenderness and in- fluenza, “Not at all, Elfleda,” he replied, “I am per- fectly well. What makes you think anything is the matter with me this morning?” ‘Mrs. Magruder placed her hand soothingly on his forehead. Soar oe she persisted, as she felt his pulse and looked at her watch apprehen- ively, “show me your tongue.” “Nonsense, Elfleda! I tell you I am as well - I ever was in my life. Don’t be foolish, my love!” “Do you call it foolish, Callithumpian, for me to be concerned about your health?” “Certainly, Elfleda, when there is no cause for any concern.” “Is it nothing, my dear, that your hand seems to tremble, that your head is hot, and eer you drink a quart of water before break- rast?” jothing, my love. Every man is affected in that way once in a while. It only indicates —a kind ,of—um—ah—biliousness that passes away in a short time.” “But you ought to do something for it, Cal- lithumpian.” ‘I tell you, Elfleda, I don’t need anything. Don’t make such a fuss about nothing. Why, Ican see that your nose isa trifle redder than usual this morning, but it doesn’t alarm me. I'm not going to tear the house upside down it it.” “You are mistaken, Callithumpian—and it’s mean of you to say so, anyhow.” “If your nose isn’t any redder than it has been all along,” said the young husband, as he looked at it critically, “then all I've got to say is that you’ve been doing the most artistic wor! in calcimining it for the last six months that I ever knew a woman to do; and you have for- gotten to smear anything on it this morning.” “Mr. der, you—you're a heartless, in- sulting, deceitful” “Take care, Mrs. Magruder; don’t talk about deceit, if you please, Remember, when I was goin to see you there never was a time when could get toexamine your family Bible, and and you always claimed to be only twenty-two ‘ears—' “You talk about deceit, Mr. Magruder! Who was it hid that bottle labeled furniture polish peso, furniture polish at all in the wood- aa “Who was it, madam, that brought to the table a loaf of Boston cream bread she had made with her own fair hands, and it happened that her own fair hands had neglected to re- move the baker's os “Mr. Magruder!” exclaimed the young wite as she rose to her feet and looked at him with superb scorn, “after what has happened this morning it will be impossible, of course, to carry out our plans for the holiday season. It would bea mockery. Aunt Ann, as you may remember, sir, was coming to make us a visit | and stay five or six weeks. I shall write to her not to come.” Callithumpian W, Magruder threw himself at his wife’s feet. “Are you ering do that, Elfieda?” he lazing with uncontrollable gasped, his eyes “S1am, sie! she replied, firmly, coldly, “I am, sir! re- ge 7 EE nar “My m @ broken voice, as he buried his face in the folds of her dress, *f ! 1! Oni; keep ast hee and life will befall of joy & i site Magee ie A TRIO OF MILLIONAIRES. And Yet They Looked Hopelessly and Utterly Unhappy. New York Correspondence of the Phila. Press. A day or two ago I was in Delmonico’s when the youngest of the Astors entered and took his luncheon. His solemnity and sadness of mien was striking. He kept his eyes fixed religiously on the ground as he walked across the cafe, selected a distant and secluded table, turned his back upon the people and ate with an air of gentle and mournful self-abnegation. He is the heir of a hundred or two of mil- lions, and is probably the most desirable parti in New York. No one seemed to know him, and the waiter who attended to his wants was quite careless and indifferent. Had he known that it was the heir of the Astors that he was waiting upon he would probably have jumped 5 feet in the air with alacrity. fore this icular Astor had finished his luncheon his cousin, William Waldorf Astor, also drifted in and sat down near the door. His face had the same preternaturally grave and solemn look. Ido not snp; that the ex- minister to Italy is more than thirty-five or thirty-six years of age, and he has a magnificent physique: butthe general effect after a hasty look at his face is that of a man who has hada stormy life and is nearing his forty-eighth or forty-ninth year. He, too, was exceedingly simple in the matter of fare. He drank a cu, of tea with his luncheon, and when he hi finished he took an old book from the pocket of his overcoat and sat reading it quietly for half anhour. Then he paid his bill, got up and drifted out. Neither of the two Astors knew of the other’s presence. Probably the two men together will eventually represent 200,000,000. followed Mr. Astor out of the place, and as we stopped at the corner to allow a car to pass he stepped hastily past me and made a pro- found bow to a man across the street. The man nodded in return. It was a greeting between father and son, but it might have been the salutation of one ambassador to another. The ortly form of the elder Astor was clad in lack. His face was as heavily seamed as that of a tragedian, and he walked with a slow and ponderous tread. There was a heavy band of crepe on his hat. He passed mournfully along the street and strode slowly up toward his house at 5th avenue and 33d street. There are very few families in the world whose wealth is ‘more substantial, solid and ample than that of the Astors, and yet I do not thmk that I have ever seen three men who looked more hopelessly and utterly unhappy than the trio of millionaires that day. It seemed to show with a good deal of force that wealth does not always carry happiness with it. They Agreed to Die Together. A HAZLETON DENTIST SHOOTS HIS INVALID WIFE DEAD AND KILLS HIMSELF. A painful sensation has been caused at Hazleton, Pa., by the deliberate double-crime of Dr. J. N. Nyer, an old dentist, who shot his invalid wife and then shot himself. The death of both was instantaneous. The deed was evi- dently premeditated both by the doctor and his wife. The latter was an invalid for a num- ber of years and suffered considerably from an incurable disease. The doctor had a large practice, and all the money he made was spent in attempts to obtain relief for his wife from her malady. No children blessed their union, The affection of the couple was strong, and nothing was spared by the husband to add to the comfort of the wife. Last winter was spent in Florida with the hope of helping the wife’s health, and repeated visits have been made to physicians in nearly every part of the country to secure relief for her. “Last. Satur- y returned from one of these trips, and Mrs. Nyer had been confined to her bed since that time. Every circumstance points toa mutual understanding between the two that death could only end their trouble and her suffering. ‘The doctor went to his office yester- day morning and spent a few hours, He then returned to his residence, went to his bedroom, where his wife still lay in bed, locked the door and shot her in the head. He then took a position before a mirror and killed himself with the same weapon. A letter was found in the doctor’ ket ad- dressed to a friend, in which he said his wife's health and trouble with relatives had prompted them to end their existence, and that his wife was perfectly willing to die. Both of the vie- tims were attendants of the English Lutheran church, and Mrs. Nyer was prominent in church work. They resided in Hazelton for about sixteen years and had numerous friends, Old. John MeGuire’s Bones. JUDGE BEACH DECLINES TO ORDER THEIR BURIAL IN A CATHOLIC CEMETERY. Judge Beach, in the New York supreme court yesterday, refused to interfere with the action of the trustees of St. Patrick’s cathedral in declining to permit the body of old John McGuire to be buried in Calvary cemetery. He practically upholds the action of the church authorities and dismisses the complaint. He says that the matter is not one for judicial interference, but for appeal to the church authorities McGuire died while attending one of Dr. i-poverty meetings on the ‘y. Burial was refused him on the ground that he had not died in the faith, anette susie Mrs. Parnell’s Homestead. SHE SAYS SHE HAS DEEDED IT TO HER SON, WHO IS IN NEED OF FUNDS, Mrs. Delia 8. Pari who lectured in Phila~ delphia yesterday evening, afterward tolda New York Sun reporter that her homestead and property at Bordentown, N. J., had all been deeded over to her son, Charles Stewart Par- nell, of Ireland. Speaking further on the sub- ject, she said: have had this matter under consideration for a long time, and have at last conveyed the house, its furniture, and the other property over to my son, who, I have no doubt, will in the near future be in need of all the money that I can manage to give him. My reason for transferring my property to Charles is that he is without funds, and I believe that when the Parnell commission, which is now sitting in London will have finished their work, my son will be as poor as some of the people he is struggling to obtain liberty for. “The transfer of the property was recorded some months ago, and although at first Cherles was unaware of whatI had done, he is now fully acquainted with the facts, and when it is necessary for him to do so he will draw on the property for funds, The oldghomestead is the only thing I possess in the world, and in my declining years I feel that itcan be placed in no better hands than that of my son, InitI intend to pass the remainder of my life, if pos- sible, and at my death Charles can do as he pleases with it. “My son has large interests in Ireland in the shape of farm and other manufactures, but the income from them is mainly given up to the poor and his workmen, and what money he has 1s contributed by his American friends to help him pursue his labors in parliament for the benetit of the Irish.’ Mrs, Parnell said that she will endeavor to aid her son as far as possible in his ay against the commission, and will do all in her power to raise enough money to carry him through. “He will need all he can get,” she said, “for when the commission is finished he will be a ruined man financially.” Mrs. Morton’s Coachman. From the New York Sun. The handsome and fashionable wife of the Vice-President-elect is noted for the possession of a remarkable coachman. William White, who sits stiffly on the high driver's seat of Mrs, Morton's carriage, was once in the employ of the Prince of Wales, and was brought country by the marquis of Lorne while that aristocrat was a one of Canada. He has been in the service of Levi P. Morton four or five years, and is a sort of exampl other family coachmen of 5th avenue in deport- ment. The manner in which he tips his hat upon being questioned or aaswering, his stiff- backed pose on his his reins and whi ip—in ome i EDUCATIONAL. Sag reaerea 3 pan Siete BOUL S ot, ens coln, 1514 Het. Par Ene ree aOR cm es Brudio, Sa iw. Send fer aa 122. 15TH 8T. N. W. 35 Be! Ladies KERR'S School for Young and ‘The Second Term begins FRIDAY, Feb. 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