Evening Star Newspaper, June 28, 1890, Page 9

—_—_—_~- a THE EVENING STAR: WASHINGTON. FOR THECHAMPIONSHIP Famous Oarsmen to Struggle on St. Louis Bay. -_ INTERNATIONAL REGATTA. —— ‘The Greatest squatic Event in Yearsto be Decided Next Month—Han + Teemer, Gaudaur, Hamm, Teneyck and Other Protessionals to Compete, — Gpecial Correspondence of the Evrxrno Star. Devru, June 25. LL the profes- sional oarsmen of the United States and Canada, to- gether with some of the famous scul- lers of England and Australia, are looking forward with a great deal of interest to the coming _interna- tional regatta to Le held in St. Louis bay next month, under the auspices of the three great amateur rowing associations of the wost—the Duiuth-Superior Regatta As- sociation, and the Mississippi Valley and Win- nipeg associations. The prizes to be wou on that oceasion will be the larcest in the aggre- gate ever oifered in any aquatic contest in this country. This fact, together with the knowl- edge that St. Louis bay is one of the finest sheets of water for racing purposes in the world, is already proving a strong attraction to the famous oarsmen. and al) tb tieutions point to a series of races embracing such an array of talent as has never before been got together onan American course. For nearly two m W. Pearson. Vie: and President } hs past Commodore H. modore H. J. Connor wis, with the regatta committee of the Du- luth erganization, have been busy preparing for the regatta week, hich will be from 21 to 26, and their is are now about A sum of seribed o defray the expenses of the mect- ing, and of this amount $12,500 will be ex- pended in prizes for the four great profes- sional events on the program. Heretofore the east has held the lead in aquatic matters Sand the great matches on the waters of Lakes George, Quinsagamond, Oneida and Saratoga have monopolized the at- tention of oarsmen and the sporting public who take an interest in rowing; but the west has now resolved to come to the front for the honor this year of giving the champions an op- tunity to measure their prowess on a course at experienced oarsmen claim fairly excela the finest of the eastern courses. St. Louis bay has for several seasons been regarded as the favorite racing ground of the Western associations. It is a magnificent stretch of water at the extreme southwestern end of Lake Superior, and its sheltered posi- tion, between this city and the town of Sup Fior, ina bay well pro- tected from rough winds by the headlands oneither side, makes it the ideal course, witha surface which in all save the stormiest weather scarcely chows aripple. The Missis-4 sippi Valley Association was the first to an- nounce its intention to hold its regattas at the head of the lakes. since TEEMER, which time—now several sensons ago—all the other associations have followed its example. Two of the associations whose members will articipate in the coming regattaare the largest the west, and their rolls coatain the nam of hundreds of wealthy amateurs from half a dozen states—many of them very clever oars- men, who have mare excellent records at singles and doubles, as well as working by crews, FOR THE CHAMPIONSHIP. But while the amateur part of the program will be safficiertly interesting, the chief inter- eet will center in the professional matches for the championship of the world. The first of these is tor singles, and will be Browed over # three-mile course, with a turn. There are four premiu in this class, the first be- ing $1.500, the second y=s00. the third $400 and the fourth €250, Then follows the professional double scuils over a one- and-s-balf-mile course, straightaway, the winner m which will receive Z 1,000, the second End the third $350. The “professional four-oared A. HADEN. race, which comes next. fe to be rowed over a three-mile course, with a turn, the premiums offered are $1 . @600 0. Last of the professional events is the quarter-mile dash, open to all comers, at Singles. the prizes in which are $250, $150, $75 and 250. WHO WILL COMPRIE, Among the many noted oarsmen who are al- Feady sunounced by Manager W. H. Robertson &s entered to compete for these tempting Purses are Ed. Hanian, Al Hamm, J. A. Teneyck, J. ad Jokn Me! f Halifax. John Teemer of McK Pa, les E. Rey of Union Sprin .¥., Fred Ross. George W. Lee, Peter Dempsey Of Syracuse and Wise o| Canada have also signi-/ fied their in entering events, such a gatheri . Bever been equaled, even at the great easterng Tegattas. 1t was at first’ >) expected that Bubear >> would come and also @. LEE. that Kemp, who claims the title of champion —_— of the world, would enter the lists. er i howeve ed to ra matta river, § hi has sent word that he ia with O'Connor on the Para- y. New South Wales. Lee, ‘o is now in Enciand training Psotta for the ‘diamond sculls” wrophy at the Henley regatia, will be back in time to take part in the matches. and will, it is believed, enter in all four, besides forming a crew for the four-oared Face. THE DOUBLES. Among professionals it is generally under- stood that when the champions arrive at Du- Iuth they will arrange to work together so as — to capture the money prizes. In the single seulls Gaudaur, Teemer, Hanian, Hosmer, McKay and Hamm will probably be the competitors. De- spite Hanian’s many vic~ sorties, and the fact that his speed in a shell at long or short distance we amazing, there are many who favor Gau- yiaur. who is known tobe this best in distances rom three to five miles, while the Canadian is dest at a mile and a half, style of rowiag, too, is very different | visible impetus at every | his recent sickness may from that of Gaudaur. He impels his shell with the rezularity of clock work and With little apparent effert, the sircke not being specially noticeable for its length, while Gaun- daur's blades take saa long sweep that gives a EUROPEAN CAUSERIE. The Uncrowned Kings and What They Demand in England. ES WORKINGMAN’S MILLENNIUM stroke. Should Teemer enter he will have many: backers, as he ix at his, best at three mjles, and the McKeesport boy is a’ good stxyer. Hosmer, ce who pulls a long, swift §\™, stroke, is a very fast oar at any distance, but The Coming Man—Romantic Suicides and Love Letters—Taking Off Lendon Seciety—Our Dear Friends—The Parity bar him from auy of the matches this year. Teneyek, who has been rowing since 1462, is quite fast for a mile, but could hardiy hold his own with the big~ fellows over @ three- mile course. He is a Lovo, June 15, Special Correspondence of THE EVENING Stan. HE term anarchist is becoming quite fashionable, Day by day the workman ba cives stronger intimation that he is “the oming man,” and thero is a growing rendency to keep on the right side of ‘The hour seems approaching when place He c. ¥. COURTNEY. light man, weighing about 135 pounds, and is about equal to Hosmer, who has stood at the head of the secondciass, McK: class and pulis a powerfal our with a long. dragzing stroke. Hamm, on tho ether hand, has a very quick recovery. FOR THE DOUBLES the teams will most likely be Hanlan and Wise, Gandaur and Hamm and Teemer and Hosmer, should the latter be in condition. Wise, be- fore his debut as a pro- fessional, was great ns an amatenr, and he and the " ian world make an almost “invincible, pair, er and Wallace should Hosmer fail, be a_ powerful Ross is a good . big and strong. and if in condition would make any of them row to keep up with him for a mile, ‘The four-oared race is still in doubt as to starters, A strong at St. Johns, N.B., to nd in that event Gaudaur, him, seekers and aspirants for favor will knock no more at the door of the savant, the rich finan- cier, or the aristocrat, but will arm himself with testimonials from the workingman, The parliaments of Europe are all engaged in the same occupation—bettering the lot of the workmen. By the name “workman” it would be quite wrong to understand the brave peasant, who keeps the same hours asthe sun, Good harvests or bad harvests, he makes no noise and no government troubles its head about him. A stranger to pleasures, @ stranger to political ambition, he asks but little of life, expects stiil less, and generally gets it, pat the workman of the town is quite an- other man, The unrest of the city life has taken holdupon him. Noi: discontented with ins lot, ambitious, turbulent, he is a complete contrast to his brother of the fields, whom he does not forget to pity and despise. The com- ing man expects a great deal, and, by the look come to Duluth, Tee ° oli ce q | Of affairs, means to have it. uitie a bill which embodics the following clause 1. That an employer shall not have a rightto dismiss a workman except for theft or an equa and another would make a most exeitiag race. In any event the champions will stand well together, and combine to captare the premiums in all four professional r ‘Yhe quarter-mile dash be an event for the water sprinters, Tecmer. Hamm and prob- sted will row. The s getting like the vet- — he ean still make a wonderfully fast mile. Hamin, who used to be known as the ‘Chat the workman's alary shall not be liable to be retained to pay bis debts, 3. That ho shall work but eight hours a day. he shat tein the profits of (No word about guaranteed to him by the state, as 6. That his employers shall indemnify him for any accidents that may happen to him in the discharge of his duty, even when those ac- | eidents happen throug bis own imprudence or drunkenness, 2 7. That he receive a pension after twenty-five years’ work, ADMIRABLE OPPORTUNITIES. It looks as if the question, “What shall we do with our sons?” was not likoly to puzzle the head of paterfamilias much longer. If this that quick, nervous of his at short . is likely to it. If O'Connor ere here, inst a, he wor iy give tL hot brush for the race, as he is noted forg/ his ' spurting Dill passes with all its clauses it will be hard to O'Connor, however. is (hs 1 days, a position Gis er not only a sprinter with a than that of the workman: | Short hours, perfect se apensiow for old rity for the morrow, » and rapidiy growing het hune he is a good man at an; lance and one of the best in this cou Charles E, Courtney, who is now training the Corneil crew, and who is reported to be in ver¥ fast form, is expeeted to enter in the sin sculls and n 80 in the doubles, He rowed in nea > leading regattas for the last two summers. Peter Dempsey of Syracuse, who rowed Courtney two years ago and x defeated in a very close finish. is alsoa hkely present tine, 3 © prominent professionals have sent their entries to Mau- ager Robertson. scullers de tely nur- continuous efforts, cannot ¢ ? Bot why ring © journeyman? Why leave out cicrks, shopmen, drivers, con- ductors, hard workers of all. kinds, especially the tillers of the soil? Wel, L suppose the workman is about to ocenpy the enviable position once held by the Polish refagees in France. When Iwas a smait boy all the favors of the government € showered upon those interesting people. It was suificient to be a Pole to obtain pi nearly everything a men wanted, ‘The C vaci hit off the stale of affairs in a Besides the _profes- sional part of the pro- gram there will be a ik jumber of other events | advertisement, which ran thus: “Wanted, by o interest the thirty | @ family man, h y edueated and respected, thousand odd spectators | ®-position as wee. @for whom accommodia-| 10 return to our workman, there seems only tionshave been provided | oe flaw that Isee in his program, aud that is the omission of a clause enacting that when he is not pleased with his employer he shall be able to dismiss him, SUICIDES IN FRANCE. For some time past there has been quite an epidemic of 1 les in France, The victims are generally young women, and the last cnse of this kind was a very touching one. A poor girl not having heard from or seen her sweetheart for several days goes to his apartments and, i him abs penetrates into his bed he roor rs traces of lis having upied it but a few hours before, and yet there upon the tabie he her three last letters to | him still unopened. In tiexe uuread missives she reads the explanation of his silence and and the knowledge is too much for she is found dead in her room, suffoo: ith the fumes from her charcoal stove. Balzac knew buinan nature, and he made certain of his heroes treat their sweethearts’ letters as this poor girl's lover treated her: It is a noticeable fact that women, expecially French women, have alw had a weakness for pouring out their fee in letters, never dreaming that they were doing 1 hief. A woman not only wants to kuow that she is loved und to see proofs of it; she wants to hear it, to have it constantly repeated to her. Judg- ing man by herself, she thinks to attuch him to her the more firmly by treating him as she loves to be treate But man is of a different mold. It gives him pleasure to know that he isloved, Love him then, mesdames. Butif you want to keep alive the fame that burns in his heart for you do not tell it him, and, above all, never write it; you will spoil every- thing it you do, LOVE LETTERS OF WOMEN. One might teil the whole history of love and its victims by merely compiling the love letters of women. Most women who have to com- } by the throe associa- tions. The Mississiy Valley and Winnipeg Association —_ regatt. which take place on same course, will rowed on the 23d and 24th of July. An Indian os race and » 1 squadron maneuvers, in ~-4which the United States W. Ross. revenue boats Andrew Johnson and Michigan will participate. will be followed by fireworks and the regatia week will conclude with a grend banquet, at which the victors in the professional contests will be appropriately entertained. At the conclusion of the regatta a challenge is expected from Hanlan to row any of the oarsmen: | sigs for the championship of the world and a purse of $5,000, to be raised by his backers for that event, ail the cham and other trophies, besides the atake the winner. soe HOW HE PLAYED STANLEY. Col. Ochiltree Posing as the Great African Explorer, From Lippincott’s Magazine. “Talking of Stanley,” said Col. Ochiltree, “I went over with important dispa from President Grant to Geneva in 1372, where tho conference was in session on the Alabama claims. When the President gave ms his let- ters of introduction he told me he would give me the dispatches also, as it would he!p me along in my travels. At Geneva I met John Russell Young. I came ou back to London and he went to Paris, My favorite resort in Lon- don was the Savage Club, where all tho writers, lien | Promptly transformed iato the most severe and | and the afuir passed off well. jand gather from the newspapers, royalists and | artist, instea: D.C. SATURDAY."JUNE 28, 1890—SIXTEEN PAGES. date mamma, the up-to-date dancing man, up- | te music, &c.. he proceeded to deseribe a meeting of his with a candid old friend. This friend. though living in a town where Mr, Gros- smith had had a very large audience the daj before, had not heard of it, supposed he h: had no one in the room, was quite overcome with the idea of people Paying to hear George Grossmith, and finished by wondering, sotto voce, what the public taste was coming to! . BLINDNESS OF FRIENDSHIP. This woke in me a chord that had often vi- brated. Nothing is more certain than that, when a man has lived on terms of perfect equality and familiarity with accrtain set of MAKING PAPER MONEY Plates Prepared in Anticipation of the Silver Bill’s Passage, THE WONDERFUL WORKSHOP. All Ready te Go Ahead and Print Nine rs Fresh Kinds of Cash—Hew the Bureau men, he can never hope tobe anything but “plain John” to them, though by his personal | Gets Up = New Note—What is Done efforts he may obtain the applause of the pub- | With the Wealth, lic. Did he not rub shoulders with them for e Years in the same walk of lite? Why these ravos? What was there in him more than in them? Even though they may have gone so far as to sinyle him out as a rather clever fellow while he was one of theirs, still the surprise at | the Nyt appreciation is nope the less keen, and his advance toward the front an unforgiy- | ESIGNS for an entirely new issue of United States paper money in nine dif- ‘erent denominations were submitted to the Secretary of the Treasury some days ago for his approval in anticipation of able cops I ee — ~ a early | the passage of a silver bill, For business ars of my life ii a en | ts yet I had no faintest ides of writing a hook | Tetons itis necessary that the government about John Bull, a young Englishman did me | Should always have the plates ready for print- ‘the honor to appreciate highly all my observa- | ing & fresh style of notes or certificates about tions upon British manners and customs and | as quickly asthe demand is made. Accord- urged me hard and often to jot down and make | in wing and Printi a book of them. After ten Years the book was | TS! the Bureau of Engraving ani 34 begun and was called “Jou Buil and His | DCVeF fails to be prepared in advance fora Isiand,” When it appeared and attracted some | Possible order with suitable engravings on public attention no one was more surprised | steel that can be put on the presses at short than this man, who, from a kind friend, was | notice, The patterns submitted as suggestions for the anticipated silver paper money, a Stan re- Porter was informed, were considered highly satisfactory by the Secretary of the Treasury. ‘They will not be especially elaborate, but chaste | in design, with a portrait in an oval at the | right end of the face of each. It has not yet been determined positively whose portraits will be thus displayed. A line of Secretaries of the Treasury was originally thought of— nine of them on the various denommations re- spectively—but Mr. Windom demurred to this ou the ground that some of his old-time pre- decessors are practically unknown to the pres- eat generation, Almost certainly a selection | | of men d.stinguished im varions ways wiil be “Woe be to them by whom offence cometh,” | made for the purpose, and two of them will said One whom they would fam cell Master. | probably be Gen. Sheridan and Senator Mor- Smee the P. V, A. bad their Istest field day I | rill, The notes will be black and white on the have purposely had a good look at the i E picture, which 1 had “never particularly 10- iced before. Vor the very life of me I canuot auy one can object to in this portrait of the young acrobat as she nightly appears at the Aquarium without shocking any one, even the purity vigilance people, I suppose, since it is not the performance, but the picture tuat distresses them. But it was ever #0. It is not so much the thing that offends the British tar- tuffss; it is the name, the reflection, the idea, Unhealthy minded themselves they dread a taint where there is and imagine in others a corruption which oniy in themselve: About a year ago L to make my appear- unfriendly of my critics, and went about saying that the book and the amount of public atten- tion bestowed upon it were both equally ridicu- us, THE PURITY VIGILANCE associations are rapidly becoming a nuisance in this country. Good heavens! if they arc not checked soon they will be objecting to our going into the street because under our clothes we carry our nudity. One must be filthy minded indeed to see harm in the Zoe's poster. ‘These wouid-be guardians of the public morals do incaiculable harm, for they suggest to han- dreds of pure young minds 2 hideous hint of | evil which, like “the pitted speck in garucred fruit, ever widoning siowly, molders all” te nies, fitties, one bu | dreds, five hundreds and one thousands. No | two of the nine desigus will be at all alike, as 4 precaution against counterfeiters, Already the plates for both backs and faces have been ) prepared, blanks having been left for putting | In such details of the legend as the word “bui- | lion,” or whatever else, depending upon the | Wording of the bill expected to be passed by Congress. HOW DESIGNS ARE PREPARED. Nothing could well be more interesting than the manner in which the design for a fresh ance before an afternoon audience at East-| style of United States note or certificate is got bourne, Not wishing to convey the idea of &) up, ‘To begin with, the chief artist of that de- serious discourse, my manager called the 0-| D.rsment has large collection of engravings rowan tall | rer nene, causerie. The room vas full | ou steel of all sorts of original patterns repre- Dutan old lady, Bie nertiaaetis Sh thing! | Senting different parts of possi who ie well known reece ce pings, or notes. When he and pean designers gid not putin en appearance. On boing esked | sro not otherwise busy they devote thelr’ tims he next day wh roth went saw | drawing fresh ideas in thia way for use at ou the truth, when i | Some future time when they may be wanted. | Drawings produced in this way are reproduced 4 : : upon steel by the engravers and littie proofs quite fit for me to hear.” Dear soul! printed from: the steel are pasted into a big TRE ORLEANS FAMILY. (scrap book. ‘Thus, if a design for a five-dollar By all that I hear from friends in France | bill, for instance, is wauted ina hurry the chief of having to start in at making patterns, simply looks over his scrap book to j See what he has in stock, It must be under- stood that none of these stock patterns has | ever becu used; it would not do to repeat de- |migns on Uncle Sam's money, because that ne I was afraid republicans are alike heartily glad that the lit- tle tragi-comedy at the Clairvaux prison is 01 The last act has been suiticiently tame. ‘th young “hopeful” who was the chief actor init has made a comic little effort to bring down | the curtain with a flourish by sending outa kind of manifesto, which, however, has only | been received with guffaws, and is looked | Upon as nothing more thrilling than an exhi- | bition of his bad taste. Nobody with two grains of common sense believes that this young, mild-looking. hair-parted-in- niddle and single- jassed young man isever go- ing to set the Seine on fire or his footon the steps of Louis Philippe’s throne, The Orleans family may rain manifestos, but thoy will never reign again over the French people. France has not forgotten, and 1s not likely to forget, that when she was down and ‘drained by the — Prus- sians in 1871, the first thing the @Orleans did, on re-entering the country, was to demand the restitution of property which | Napoleon IIL had confiscated. Much as it cost | to do so, M. Thiers gave them what they asked, well knowing that with it he was giving them their death blow. There is but one member of the family who is really a favorite with the na- i nd he is the Due d'Aumale, a man who rand mauy-sided, a man who docs not owe his greatness to his’ title and royal birth, If he had been onty a soldier he would have been all the same one of our greatest generals, If he had been only a literary man, a historian, he would been all the same one of the bright lights in French literature. ‘The rest have the reputation of being good family f very bourgeois talent for economy, mild expression. ‘There is an old story of the blind begger who used to stand just Cutside Chantilly station, near the family residence of the d'Orleaus, and who, when a penny was given him, used to “Thank you, monsieur,” but when his sensi- fingers felt a half penny put into them would give an extra pull to his cap and ejacu- late, *“fuunk you, monseigneur.” Max O'Retu. Written for Tae Evexixo Stan, The Su:nmer Girl. She's the jauntiest of creatures, she’s the daintiest of misses— With hor pretty patent leathers, or her alligator ties, With her eyes inviting glances, and her lips invit- ing kisses, As she wanders by the ocean, or strolls under country skies, She's a captivating dresser, and her parasols are actors and bohemians generally congregated. Toole, Irving, Sothern, the Collinses, Wilkie and Mortimer—indved, nearly evezybody who was anybody in literature, art or the drama— were to be fopnd there in the ‘wee short hours ayout the twal,’ Well, jast about this time Henry M. Stanley had returned from finding Livingstone. Young was to meet him in Paris plain of the neglect of their lovers have been the victims of their own over-demonstrative- n With a little diplomacy and much silence they would have kept the coveted heart warm. But when it had once shown signs of cooling, tie more the pen protested their love the more the evil grew, uutil, when reproaches followed upon pleadings, the last spark of tenderness in the truant expired. Some of the strongest-minded women have succumbed to this fatal impulsiveness in love matters. “You no longer love ne as much as 1 love you,” wrote Madame de Stael to Camiile Jordan, Camiile was adamant, and turned a deaf eur to the eloquent but useless cowplaint, Poor Madame de Stel! This was her second experience of the kind. She had long betore nned letters of the same stamp to Benjamin hg much the same result, He was ned, Even Rachel, the cool-headed, was betrayed by her pen into weakness, It is trae that his- tory says her undecipherable billets doux added @ certain attraction of mystery to the love which their author had inspired. Never- theless itis more than probabie that a too good acquaintance with the second of the three X's might have made an unhappy woman of the great tragedienne. Happily for her her style was laconic, ‘There were reasons for this, Orthography and caligraphy were not her strong points, andas time is short, eo were poor Ruchei’s epistolatory efforts, Lay aside the pen, ladies, while you are in love. Jf you want to see your Romco always dent and attentive take @ hint from Rachol, adopt the telegraphic style, and, if need be, the wire instead of the pen, No more long letters, full of sweet outpourings of the heart and longings for the next meeting, but an occa- sioual telegram, something in this style: “Busy and tired.” on't come.” “Call Friday.” “Health good, thanks.” Nous avons change tout cela, says Sganarelle, when his patient's father mildly remarks that he always thought the heart was on the left, Poor little feminine beak it would not be a (gy thing if ons could put it on the right » la Sganarelle; it suffered go long au the left! Ss TAKING OFF socteTy, The line which George Grossmith has taken up seems likely to lead him speedily to for- tune. There is nothing that English people enjoy more, when it is properly and good- naturedly done, than # skit upon their own manuers and foibles, The inimitable creator of Ko-Ko and many other funny roles in the Gilbert-Sullivan operas published bis anto- ’ biography about two years ago, left the Savoy stated it amounts to nearly $200,000,000, company soon afterward and has been travel- With this sum they could purchase 312 tous of | ing the country ever since, giving humorous gold aud have something left over, but they | recituls unaided except by oy mopar = couldn't bay two tons of galium, that rare | Ths rasay songs in which be: tukse eff coniety metal being worth $3,250 an ounce. With this | are of his own composition, and all who have metal the highest price is reached, and it may | seen him at the Savoy know what his by-play well be calied the rarest and most precious of is, A very large audience greeted the old metal . favorite in the St, James Hallafew days ago, ‘inum is worth $250 per ounce; indium, er to welcome him back to London and to ‘idium, #658 a pound; lanthanium, $175, joy the piquancy of seeing themselves and and lithium, $160 per ouace. Niobium costs | their society antics satirized by a bold hand $128 per ounce; asmium, palladium, platinum, | that put in the light and shade so deftly, left potassium and rhodium bring el hrf out none of the wrinkles, but drew a trait £640, $400, G10 and $512 per pound, | go droll that they couid but laugh at thea Strontium costs $128 an ounce; tantium, $144; | selves as seen through bis spectac! telurium, $9; thorium, $272; vanadium, $30; 86 Us about his arrival in London, so that we could get upa dinuer for bim on a Sunday at the Savage Club. Stephen Fiske, who went over with James Gordon ennett on his celebrated yacht race, was a leading mem- He was oue of the bright- est men I ever knew—then editor of the /ornet and an associate of Labouchere, Sala, Yates, Lemon and others of that ilk, most of whom used to meet at the club, Fiske agreed to get up the dinner. We finally found that there was not room in the club, so we resorted to @ place on Leicester Square called “The Globe,” kept by a little pudsy Frenchman. About 2 o'clock in the afternoon ot the day set for the dinuer we got a telegram from Young stating that Stanicy could not be there in time. Itwas a subscription dinner, two pounds apiece, and none of us had any cash to throw away. We didn’t know what to do. Fiske, a fellow of infinite resource, said we must give the dinner anyhow; everything was ordered and we mustn't let iz spoil. Sud- denly turning to me he suid, ‘Tom, how are you up on Stanley?’ { said, “I have been deeply interested in all his thrilling adventures and know them by heart.’ ‘Well,’ said he, ‘you must be Stanley for tonight and we will give the dinner to you.’ Well, [came and was re- ceived with great honors and put at the right- hand side of the presiding officer, who waa none other than Ed. Mtheru, doing the part of Sir Roderick Murchison, president of the Royal Geographical Society, Of course, I was cailed upou to sveak and they say I made the effort of my life; even old siazers who were in the plot wept at my pathetic description of my meeting with Livingstone. When I came out Lassure you that for squares the streets were crowded with people. I bowed to the right and lett most profoundiy, amid the cheers and huzzas of the vast multitude. The tue fat landiord had brought his wife ard five chil- dren for me to bless them. Next morning when Stanicy did arrive and heard of it he was furious.” e+ More Precious Than Gold. From the St. Louis Globe-Democrat. If the wealth of the Vanderbilts be not over- An acute observer of human nature is Mr, — 144, and zirconium $259 an ounce. ith. Nothing could be more true to lif ‘hus we see that the commonly received opin- t fila hee. renege 73 then the hy once 8 ie the want of most metals are qui sation successful man enco! preci q ‘eppreci ve unters: stunning; Her fads will take your breath away; her hats are dreams of style; She is not so very bookish, but with repartee and punning She can set the savants laughing and make even dudelers smile. Sho has no attacks of talent, she is not a stage- struck maiden; She is wholly free from hobbies and she dreams of no “caree: She is mostly gay and happy, never ead or care beladen, ‘Though she sometimes sighs @ little if s gentle- man is near, ‘Sh turdy little walker, and she braves all kinds of weather, And when the rain or fog or mist drives rival crimps @ wreck, Her fluffy hair goos curling ke @ kinked-up os- trich feather Around her ears and forehead and the white nape of her neck. She is like a fish in water, she oan handle reins and racket, From head to too and finger tips she is thoroughly alive. When she goes promenading in a most distracting jacket The rustle ’round her feet suggests how laum dresses may thrive. She can dare the wind and sunshine in the most bravado manner, : And after hours of sailing she has merely cheeks of rose. Old Sol himself scems smitten and st most will only tan her, ‘Though to everybody else he gives a danger- signal nose. giday whirl; But win her if you ean, sir, she may prove your life's salvation, For an angel masquerading oft is she—tho sum- mer girl, —ELLa WHEELER WiLcox. pe sais Scales That Will Weigh a Hair, Interview with a St, Louis Seale Dealer. The finest thing in the way of delicately ad- justed scales of which I have heard recently has just been turned out by 4 Philadelphia firm for the mint at New Orleans, and they are certainly marvels of mechanical invention and expert workmanship. There are two pairs, The larger has » capacity of 10,000 ces troy, or about 785 cele i irduy if and when loaded to its will indicate the variation of printed of an inch, The of pair is intended for lighter work. All ité bearings are of agate. This instra- ment is believed to be the most delicate in the world. It will give the precise weight of a human hair and is susceptible ta the slightest atmospheric c! A written ona card with an pencil will make a péer- ceptible difference in the weight of the card. —— 00 | chief artist first d: would render counterfeiters’ work easier. The Ws upon a sheet of paper # parailelogram precisely the size and shape of the note wanted, Then he looks in his scrap book and finds a pretty littke section of “border” that he thinks will do, with the word “five” running in and out in scroll work. Next he discovers a satisfactory pattern for each of the four corners, ornamental and elaborate, and ali different. These give him the outside edge of the €5 Dill. Later ona good- sized figure “five” can be cut out of each cor- ner piece on the steel plate, Now it 1s a ques- tion of finding asuitable viguette, Such aone ig readily obtained from another page of the scrap book, representing a historical subject, perhaps. ‘This will till up the left-hand end of the face of the note very nicely. A portrait is needed for the right-hand end, and it suuply a matter of choosing which distingnished man shall be put on out of a fairly large collection. It takes four or five months to engrave one of these portraits and considerably longer for a vignette; so it pays to have a few manufactured in ad- vance. The $5 bill is now pretty nearly planned out, 8o far as its face is concerned. One or two big figure fives are arranged for the corners and then it only remaius to determine what shall be the ttory of the note. PAPER MONEY STORIES, Fach such piece of paper money has what the engravers and designers call its “story,” which simply means the legend inscribed apon the note. A national bank note tells what in- stitution issued it and mentions the fact that it is a legal tender, &c. Ifa silver certificate were concerned its story wouldbe to the ef- fect that five dollars, payable to bearer, had been deposited in the United States ‘Treasury, and so forth. The words of paper money stories do uot vary very much, and all styles of engravings of various parts ‘of them are always kept in stock. From these any story desired is quickly made up. As for tho back of the note, it is chiefly geometrical lathe work, and is simply made ‘as complicated as possible to defeat the counterfeiters, Plenty of patterns for backs are always to be found in the scrap book, PREPARED IN SHORT ORDER, In this way the chief artist is able to compose an entirely fresh note or certificate within a few minutes, one might say, very likely with- out executing a bit of work in addition to what he has on hand. If any little addendim is wanted it will not take him long to draw it and place it in the hands of engravers for re- Production on the stecl. So far he has simply a lot of little patches of steel engravings, which, put together, make up the whole design. The rest, however, is merely # mechanical affair. ‘To begin with the little piece of steel on which is engraved the section of border chosen is hardened with fire and an impression otitmade upon a solid roller of soft steel, The roiler is then fire hardened and, under great pressure, run across a sheet of soft steel, upon which the original engraving is thereby reproduced, This sheet of steel is to be the plate for the note, and the scrap of border is the first ‘part of the engrav- ing for the note made upon it. The same border pattern is continued all around the edges of the parallelogram marked for the note on the steel, wherever it is wanted, by simply applying the roller with the engraved section on it again and again, The corner ieces are put on in precisely the same manner, Bang taken from hard steel stock pieces upon soft rollers and impressed upon by the rollers after hardening. Next the vignette is ready to be rolled on in the same way, in its proper place on the plate, and like- wise with the portrait, Finally the “story” is rolled on also—first an inscription in iarge letters on a scroll, reading “United States of i. so On. 8o in a America,” and comparatively brief time the whole face of the note, which would have taken more than @ year may be to engrave directly on the plate, has been finished. The back of the note is rolled off on another (aap from a stock spec- imen of geometrical lathe work and everything is ready to print off the new style of five-dollar Dill, or what not, as soon as the engravers have touched up tho plates alittle aud made any trifling additions or improvements they may think of. Fire is applied to harden the plates, the entire dosigus of which are taken pal posse soft rollers, From the rollers, when hardened, as many fresh engravings of the note as are de- sired can be rolled off on other plates to print from, This wonderful labor-saving method of reproducing engravings is an American inven- — To it api sag bp eet ngraving an nt the coun nabage een for the new silver paper money. The mak of certificates and notes for Uncle Sam is ateel nowadays, GEOMETRICAL LATHE WORK. In the making’ of bank notes and such things, where geometrical lathe work is tohe employed like that on the back of paper money, a device is made use of most wonderful to the novice in matters of the sort. It is principle of the kalei rectangular pieces of mirror edge to edge ndicularly le with other on a which has pre ge une g E| i Hi & The Bureau of Engraving and Printing will | Paying the Piper. not employ it to any extent, however, for | From Puck. money patterns, symmetry it pro- | duces imples a likeness of parts in the designs: which makes them easier to counterfeit. DESIGNS FOR POSTAL CARDS. The bureau has just completed its plates for the new postal cards and Mr. Wanamaker has accepted the designs. Within afew days the printing of thom will be begun. They are of two sizes—au idea of the Postmaster G eral's—the bigger ones, which ba aren of the present postal cards, being in- vended for business communications that can- not very well be crowded and for other pur- poses demanding space. Both kinds have iw the right-hand upper corner, instead of the representation of a stamp, a small portrait of Gen. Grant, which is regarded as the worst ever executed It is. poor likeness, morose of oapect and badiy done. The big card has “One Cent Postal Card; United States of Amer- ica” on it, and the little one has “Postal Card, One Cent,” instead. ATTEMPTS TO STEAL FROM THE BUREAU. Only one attempt was ever made to steal from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing. An employe engaged in printing €5 bills brought a sheet of lead foil with him one morning when he came to work and slid it through his press without putting any ink on the pinte that once. The impression that he | Kot of the plate was first-rate, but he was | uabbed before he got out of the building on | information by the girl assistant at his press, who saw him do the act, He was sent to the | Penitentiary, and a patent device was | promptly adopted for futuro protection, by | which each press registers every revolution of the cylinder that prints one sheet of notes. ‘The uumber of notes printed must correspond | exactly with the number of revolutions, or else there will be trouble, and ro lead foil or wax either can be slipped through without leaving an unexplained record of its passage. TT IS A GREAT #1onT to behold five hundred menand women in one huge room on the top floor of the bureau all engaged in printing paper money, At present they are turning ont chiefly ones and twos, but | they can and do make twenties and fifties just as fast, and for that matter ten-thousand-dollar notes. The presses used ure all hand presses, At cach press stands a man and awoman. The man bas an engraved plate for one side of a note, suy the face. He rubs it with black ink. | Perhaps you never noticed that the faces of | notes are printed merely in biack on the white | aper, though the backs may be green or rown. ‘This is because black does not blur so easily as colors aud will stand baudling better by the butcher and the baker. For this reason it lasts longer and is more difficult to counter- | feit. Green stands ute better than any other color and so it is more employed. HOW NOTES ARE PRINTED, The pressman rubs the plate first with a roller saturated with ink. Then he rubs | off all the superfluous ink with » rag, and finally he polishes the plate with his bare and | inky hand. When it has been thus made ready he places the plate under a roller, lays a sheet of fresh paper upon it, gives a twist to a big iron | wheel that communicates the hand power, and plate and paper pass under the roller, the sheet coming out with the faces of four perfect notes printed on it. Four notes are engraved on each plate, you see. As fast as the sheets are printed they are laid neatly in « pile by the young woman assistant, who puts a sheet of brown paper between each two sheets to | keep them fromrubbing., ‘This same perform- | ance 18 going on at more than 200 hand presses in the bigroom. Revenue and customs stamps for cigars, liquors and all such things are printed by some of the presses on bluish groeu Paper; but in money, notes aud certificates alone an average of one and a half millions of dollars is printed in this room daily. Ail of Uncle Sam's paper cash is manufactured there. The printers have to be such skilled men that they are paid from $6 to 3 a day by the piece system. After being printed on one side the sheets are printed in like manner on the other, though not by the same men. For safety’s sake no one person is allowed to make a note entirely, and by this and other checks stealing is rendered impossible, WHAT 18 DONE WITH THE SHEETS. The sheets thus completed are taken to an office off the big room. counted and put into wooden lock boxes on little trucks. Then the boxes are wheeled upon an elevator and con veyed by it to the examining room below. In the examining room they are taken out and counted by women. If their account tallies with the account above stairs the sheets are laid geross racks arranged in such a manner, stack shape, that dozens of layers of them can be placed one on top of the other. The rack stacks are piled upon trucks, which are run by mall railway across the floor into an oven bigger than ordinary-sized room, built of iron and heated by steam pipes. There the sheets are left until they are dry, when they are taken out apd again examine.’ »!! defect- “Now, Jack, I'm going to enjoy one of those | Perfectos.” ¥,me boy, that Perfecto smells like o shipyard atire, ive ones being thrown aside and charged up to the boss of the printing department. "He i allowed a percentage of 2 per cent of spoilage, but if he exceeds that he must pay for the labor lost. Next, the sheets are placed between oiled pasteboards and put in an hydraulic ess, Which subjects them to a pressure of .509 pounds to the square inch. This makes them smooth. After this they go to another room, where the sheets are clipped and the notes numbered by machines, Finally they are counted again and deposited in the great vault, which has sometimes bad in it as much as 400,000,000, HOW WEALTH I8 TRANSPORTED, Only the other day the vault keeper sent over to the Treasury a little package that you could have put comfortably into a hand bag and carried away containing €48,000,000 in $10,000 certificates for legal tender notes. In making such a transportation of weaith the sheets of money are put into a wooden lock box and shoved aboard a buge chilled-steel safe on wheels, which conveys the millions safely through the streets, The upper part of the big vault is lined with cupboards, each one of which bears the name of a state. The cup- boards are receptacles for the national bank notes of the various states. The notes and cer- tificates reach the Treasury in sheets of four— or three in the case of the bigger gold certifi- cates—and are there cut apart and stamped with the Treasury soal, When the Treasury wants money itsimply makes a requisition upon the vault Keeper of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for whatever it needs. Authori- ties in the department say that the greatest difficulty counterfeiters meet with in the imita- tion of United States Paper mouey is found in the proalier Paper used by the government. which has silk fibers running through it. You can pull these silk fibers out of one of Uncle Sam's notes out injuring it, bnt if you split a counterfeit in two you will find any wilk fibers that may be in it simply laid between the two films of paper, and they will not pull out atall, The making of this paper is a gov- comes sore and = conducted at Dalton, eR ea je eye of Tr ex] pnnced 3 ——_ A traveling mountain is found at the casvades THIS PARROT WAS A WONDER, | of the Columbia. I is a triple-peaked mass of dark brown basalt, six or eight miles in length She Spoke Many Longuages and Loved | where it fronts the river, and rises toa height to Get Wet. of almost 2,000 fect above the water, pecan That it is in motion is the last thought which A Pisineld, 35., coerempontontol the Wow! _ 121. tasty bo enggust teal to the mind a? York Times says: A parrot of much cultivation any one passing it; yet it is a well-established died of old age in Piainfields few days ago. | fact that this entire mountain is moving slowly The bird was brought from Brazil and was | but steadily down the river. as s —_ 4 presented to George Lissignolo, a New York | liberate purpose some time im the future js dam the Columbia and form a great lake from broker, fifteon years ago, At that time the | to cascades t0 the Dalles. ‘The Indian treal- kuowing aa oa gach in Spavish, | tions indicate immense movements of the Portuguese and Engli a native gibberish, of which no oné understood the meaning. In Mr. Lissignolo’s protty Plainfield home the bird soon became proficient in the French and “There's another quarter thrown away!” “Bay, Jack, we wronged that cigar.” = ‘so ss A Moving Mountain, mountains hereabouts long before white mea name of “traveling” or “sliding mountain.” In its forward and downward movement the forests along the base of the ridge have become submerged in the river. Large tree stubs cam be seen standing deep in the water on this shore. The railway cugineers and the brake- men find that the line of the railroad which skirts the foot of the mountain is beiug con- tinually forced out of place. At certain points the roadbed and rails have been pushed eight or ten feet out of line in « few yours. Geologists attribute this stran; tothe fact that the basult, whick constiedtes the bulk of the mountain, rests on « substra- tum of conglomerate, or of soft sandstone, which the deep, swift current of the mighty river is constantly wearing away, or that this softer subrock is of itself yielding at great depths ved enormous weight of the ve. f the children’s names was wonderfully clear, mab palace times were the little ones called ay eee name mother's voi ——__—+ee__-____ Joaquin Miller’s Lonely Home. the Philadelphis Press. All alone, witb himself as his only company, up among the high cliffs just outside the towm of Oakland, Cal., Joaquin Miller, the to attract one bere?” he recently friend who wanted to travel 2,000 “Nothing, absolutely nothing, ions and the a P