Evening Star Newspaper, June 4, 1892, Page 11

TWO NOTED OFFICIALS The Marked Differences Between the English and Americatt Speakers. THEIR PUBLIC DUTIES. ‘The Right Honorable Arthur Wellesley Peel and Speaker Crisp—Wherein They Are Alike and Wherein They Differ—An Inter- ‘esting Contrast in Public and Private Life. ‘Special Correspondence of The Evening Star. Loxpox, May 20, 1992. TRIBES OF SAVAGES. Mr. Blaine’s Exhibit Brought From the Forests of Peru. WILD PEOPLE OF THE SOUTH. at the Columbian Flosities Collected — Strange Tribes in Gorgeous Feather Dresses. are several its, not least bon ‘whose earlobes in diameter. in ‘these as makers "of the famous for tipping arrows and spears. FACE PaINnTHRs. poison MEN P SOME OLD LETTERS.|: The Memories of Their Writers Brought Forcibly Up. AST AND GONE. Eaitor, and Bring Up Interesting Incidents. ‘Witten for The Evening Star. HE AMERICAN MIN- A : “Mr. Bennett said | Coy! you, He is using his in- | fluence with Andy td keep McCollough im his | Race.” Am article the next morning in the National Intelligencer, howevet, dispelled that iden. Here is a letter from Thnrlow Weed, dated Albany, A 8, 1862, requesting me to come to New York in ‘the interest of the Na- tional Intelligencer. AN INCIDENT OF BANCROFT's ORATION. Thavean interesting letter from Sir Fred- erick Bruce desiring a correction of an edi- torial in the Repubii On or about the {pee KIMBERLEY DIAMOND MINES, AT have thus far placed on the market 2,500,000 | 4 Present the most productive in the world. carats of these precious stones. It is the poli of the company in charge of their consalidated | interests to restrict the production of the gems, 0 as not to make the supply exceed the market demand. Thus tt maintains the price of the carbon crystals. Inthe work there are em-| ployed about 1,300 Europeans and 5,700 natives. ‘Two of the excavations made in search of the bine clay, which fs the matrix of the diamonds, are | described by Lord Randolph Churchill as “probably the biggest holes that greedy man has ever dug into the earth,” the area of one of them being thirteen acres, with a depth of 800 11 FOUL PLAT wire rowrs. @ Flock of Two Hundred Chickens Suddenly Wiped Out. S67P\HE INCIDENT OF MY LIFE impressed my mind most ceeply wae calamity tha? betel ms immediate family du my carly boyhood,” said a government offic toa Stan reporter. “My father wasn th We kept chickens, about 200 in number, eget and tender progeny of which sent market and furnished a siderable free tion of the family income. It ix said that wellamanaged hen will produce # clear profit @2per annum. Sach an estimate fa trifle aggeraied, for no fowls wore ever more fally and ecomomicaliy bred, fed and cared f than ours, end we thunght that they did ex lently when they earned about €125 a yest] How far that sum went to supply necesmar ister to Persia, Mr.Trux- | 16th of February, 1866, Mr. Bancroft delivered | fet. The gem-bearing clay, when extracted, is | any one can imagine who has been brought HEN THE STORY OF * ton Beale, has added | ®” oration on the li «i services of Mr. | spread over an enormous pace of level ground, | to agricultural s the nineteenth century ¢ mie coln, by invitation of a joint committee of the | from which the @rass and bushes have been re- | “(na farm the “hen m: im the popular branch of svuaexn car. oe re seti- | two houses of C maress, to, which jn sone moved. obtained by the ale of og; A birds. s tural, other prod- | ministers were invit ey all attended with ‘ - tomarily regarded as belonging t the sore — peal pot fcsnpe pet or tess a ‘also aro the Canelos, who adorn themselves ucts of his state, Cali- | thé exception of the Marquis de Mouthoion, Sir | The ground is covered to the depth of about | foperily remanded _ shall have been writ J the name of Peel will be found in bold type beside those of Glad- nell, Parnell and other great parliamentarians who have therein fig- stone, Disraeli, O'Con- { have been exceptions. Speaker Reed domi- nated Congress perhaps more than any other Speaker has, but Blaine, Randall and Carlisle | each in his time exercised a powerful influence | upon législation. THE SPEAKER'S INFLUENCE. The President may, by the exercise of the veto power, prevent legislation, but he hus not of reciprocity, is to illus- trate by exhibits at the Colimbian xposition the various ‘tribes of savages in that part of with beantiful ‘of beetles’ wings en: in tufts of bright feathers, and with of recious toucan tails dang! lets. But most rising of all from another point of view are the Quichuas, who have ntiar method of communicating int , yy which ‘they have been known. to convey in- formation over a distance of 240 miles in I lees than two hours by taps of drams from hill to} fornia, by sending cut- tings of grape vines, melon seed, &o, In a letter dated Bombay, April 25, he writes: From Bushira I bave sent cuttings of the Frederick Bruce and Mr. Thurlow and Lady | Elmer were present. Mr. Bancroft in the course | of his oration discussed the conduct of England | and France toward thix country during the war | between the states, inflicting, as the Republican | said in its editorial, a severe castigation upon Great Britain for her unfriendly course toward | the government of the United s vg the | rebellion. That paper said: “Many expres- | farming than of mining, the clay being contin- one foot with the blue clay, which is simply Permitted to undergo the influence of sun and moisture. These have the effect of making it soft so that big chunks, which were ax hard as | ordinary sandstone when taken from the mipe, | soon begin to crumble, At this stage the gettin of the diamonds assumes the nature rather # bought clothe mother and my hit ing small luxuries also, and leaving each year goodty gum to be put away in along and m terious stocking. where ‘he famil\ savings we kept. Our flock of chickens was, in sha equivalent to a safe went in bonds, fry * could with certainty ton wHe to amniet taking care of them. It was my task to for bidden and surreptitious nests in the b and elsewhere, and aa soon as I wns big: eno Imade traps to capture the rats and © : ually harrowed to assist pulverization. After sions of surprise had been heard that Mr. Ban- | three months, this pert of ke guseuntbeoe: pg ha — eaog ~ — of | sidered complete, and the bine clay is carried it Frederick Bruce, who was there by courtesy, | te oat . and hence obliged to submit in silence.” The | chines me niee route and contly washing im the world. Most interesting of these groups of little-known aborigines are those found in Pera, from which country the special commissioner nearly the amount of affirmative influence that is possessed by Speaker Crisp. Speaker Crisp is aman of strong character, though amiabl and while he may never be accused of being ar! to hill top, a sort of in making the taps, like the dots an the telegraph grape vines -of all the ‘vine grapes grown in the famous wine province of Shiraz; some Is melon seeds; seeds of ured. In the first half half of this century one of the commanding figures in the house of com- lorse code bei: angle: of AS OAME HUNTERS Mons was that of Sir Robert Peel, and im the second half a central and equally commending figure is that of his youngest son, the Right Honorable Arthur Wellesley Peel, the present speaker, whose portrait, froma recent photo- fiapl by the London Stereoscopie Company, is ere given For many years before his election to the speakership in 1884, during Mr. Gladstone's trary, the mixture of firmness and kindliness in his disposition, together with his perfect under- standing of men, enables him to control a House which is so constituled as to be perhaps the most difficult to regulate that this country has known, DIFFERENCE IN APPEARANCE. In appearance there is a striking contrast be- tween Speaker Crisp and Speaker Peel, even Jeaving out of consideration the difference in sent by the Department of State, Ensign W. E. Safford of the navy, has just returned with » wonderful collection of costumes and curiosities of all sorts, He has also secured many photo- graphs of native types, thongh with no «mall ifficulty, the photographer being wounded so severely in the side by a warrior who threw his spear at the camera that he had to have a part of one of his ribs removed and is likely to die. FIERCE AND WARLIKE PEOPLE. these savages of Peru have certain arte of their own which are not, understood elsewhere in the world. They catch fish, upon which the migratory tribes chiefly depend for food, br‘hooting them with row 7 The smaller 5 ca yy throwing a poisonous root, mashed into & pulp into a stteans between two’ artificial dams. ft atupefies the Ashes, which presently rise to the surface and are readily gathered in. For killing birds they the Persian “‘unja,” which I believe to be noth- ing more than our clover, but as it is said they get six crops of its year in Persia, you might experiment with it in Kern county; cuttings of ‘an acacia tree, tings of a varie! peculiar to southern Persia; ont- iy of ‘fujub” tree, said to be peculiar to southern Persia and northern India; seeds of Sumatra tobacco, just imported into Persia; cuttings of the Chinuse “guava” tree; cuttings of a rapidly growing creeper, peculiar Republican said, however, that “Mr. Bancroft with characteristic politenest and friendly feel- ing and with becoming propriety, took ocea- sion to inform Sir Frederick Brace that he | should discuss the conduct of his country to- | ward the United States during the rebeilion, and assured him, if it would be unpleasant to | hear it, he would not interpret his absence as impolite toward or want of respect for himself.” | This suggestion, the Republicansavs, caused the French minister to absent himself. Sir chines, in which by means of runni precious stones are separated from the raw ma- terial. By this performance 100 loads of the clay are concentrated into one load of dia- mondiferous stuff. ‘This stuff, which in appearance is w mass of blue and dark-colored pebbies of all shapes, is passed over to another machine to get rid of more of the waste earth. Then it is placed in | large gobs on tables, where it is sorted while wet by white men and after it is dry by natives. water the vermin which preyed upon the pung o whon they could a si Vithout further preface let me say that summer. at the season when the fruit was ry mother made @ great quanuty of ‘cherr} bounce,’ for the brewing of which #he was mous. After completing the process she Teeted me to throw the refuse of fermen! cherries away and I did so, I threw the near the chicken houses, thinking that the fo might relish it, Later on we heard a good deal b | The gorters work with «mall trowels, and their | ¢Xcited squawking from that direc it second administration, Mr. Peel was one of the | 1+ “ ad i is ‘These remarkable wild peoples inhabit the | Utilize blow guns, ‘made out of’s species cf | t© northern India and southern Persia. Frederick Bruce was in China daring the rebel- | accuracy in separating the diamonds from the | ®0'psrticular attention to it. After ‘supper best known men ia {he hans of commons For Shake rere While exercising thelr official fane-| shores of the tributaries of the upper Maranon, palm, This sort of weapon is yout |», The government botanical garden of Bombay, | lion and proved himself one of our bestfriend. tances ia remarkable, inasmuch as the | ¥ent out, ax was my umual duty. to see that resented Warwich at Westminister. Three jears after his admission to the “Assembly of Great Thinkers,” as the Anglo Saxons called height, fuli-chested and broad-shouldered. with good deal of flesh distributed about his frame. His head is large and round and his face smooth ven. Instead of a curled wig coming down Among them are the fierce and warlike Jivaros, who are celebrated as the most beautifully dressed human beings in the world. The men wear coronets of exquisite feathers and tunics ten feet in length, the pith being removed from the stalk ana leaving ® sooth and polished bore. For arrows the leaf stalks of nother kind of palm are employed, each one and work 8, Thave mong the most: beautiful in the arranged with its euperintend- ent to send to your care, for Kern county, The Republi oration § Ba 3 t the conclusion of the Frederick Bruce walked up to Mr. | roft and offered his hand.” Of all of this | Sir Frederick Bruce in hix note to me_ sa; gems are comparatively dall in their natural and unent state. They occur in all shades from deep yellow to blue white, from deep brown to Poultry had gone to roost ail right for the 2 You can imagine my astonixhment and 4) all of the chickens—Qen 8: | light brown, and ina great variety of { the parliament of their day, Mr. Peel becwec a : ; - ay | a ed at the poigt and w: ‘about the | seeds and cuttings of all the cereals, trees, &c.,| ‘The fucta of the case at variance with the | hives snot inks. ‘The most valuable are the | “round the chicken houses, every one of pevtameniary conntany sedis Kone on sbeak bas sheelire, a ot ahead esiend- oe a. hi ear depen ment IY | middle with silk cotton tied ord & tree. | Peculiar to northern India he can ‘collet. In| statement of the article in the Republican are pare white’ snd dex orange. ood in IS73 he was appointed patronage secretary to the treasury, and for nine months in 1880 he Was under secretary to the home de To the reader unfamiliar with English institu- tions it may be necessary to state that » seat in the house of commons, instead of being incon- ith the holding of these positions, is nee to them, as in the case of cabinet officers, : tment. ‘THE SPEAKER'S SALARY. Attached to the speakership is a salary of $25,000.8 year and an official residence. De- tached from it, but shining in the distance, is the luster of a patent of nobility and a seat in the house of lords. besides a retiring pension of $20,000. vear. During bis term of office the speaker is the first commoner of the land, taki Precedence of others by custom and legislative of hair. Instead of a robe with menterie trimmings, with lace cuffs and two ends of lac hanging like an infant's bib from the collar in front, he wears no robe of office, but dresses in a plain dark suit with’a coat of Prince Albert cut. His only badge of office is the gavel with which he pounds on his desk for order. A momber' opportunity to ask for the consideration of a measure he is interested in depends upon his ability to catch the Speaker's eye, and it ia eel- dom caught except by appointment. DAILY CUSTOMS. ‘The Speaker usually gets to the Capitol about three-quarters of an hour before the time for the House to meet, and during that time is in his private office. It is then usually that the Preeram of the day's session is arranged. Dur- ing the morning hour, immediately after the reading of the journal, it is the custom to give members opportunity to ask unanimous consent that certain measures may be taken up and dis- posed of. Members having such requests to make see the Speaker in his-room before the House meets and arrange with him for recogni- tion. If the bill in question should happen. to be one which he regarded as antagonistic to the Policy of the House he would probably refuse Tecognition, and under those circumstances it would be very difficult to get it before the House unless it was rey from a committee feathers, fastened together at e breast with tusks of the jaguar. tumage for arti- cles of attirened sdornmentare obtained chiefly from the scarlet and tufted cock-of-the-rock, the “‘simani,” which is of a deep cobalt-blue tint, and @ species of toucan that bears in its tail feathers of brilliant orange and rose color. These —— are of great value, not even the royal feather mantles of Hawaiian monarchs com) ith them in loveliness. They are made ona foundation of bark cloth, the bark being soaked in water for several days and pounded into a kind of feit on a smooth stone, after which the pisces are sewn together with twine of agave fiber. BEADS FOR ORNAMENTS, The Jivaros further adorn themselves with armlets and legiets of monkeys’ teeth and beetles’ wings of prismatic hues. No dudes to be found anywhere on earth are so gorgeous as they. At the same time they are very ferocious, and es is they who ieaaied and ——_ =~ ex- traordinary art, peculiar to themselves, of pre- serving the beads of their enemies fbr ofa ments. For this purpose the head is cut squarely off, the scalp is split up the back to the crown and the skull is removed, the knife being ap- lied around the eyelids, ears and lips 60 as to leave them attached to the skin of the face. ‘Then the incision at the back is sewn up, and ‘The dart is introduced into the blow gun like a cartridge, filling up the bore, sala puff of breath sends it on its deadly mission. So great is the skill of these wild marksmen with this noiseless instrument that they will kill an en- tire flock of birds one after another without frightening them. CROCODILE HUNTIKG, A favorite sport in that part of the world is to slay the crocodile by stratagem. The mighty saurian, especially if a ‘man eater,” needs no er bait than is afforded by the hunter him- self, who in armed only with a stake sharpened at both ends. He decoys the huge reptile, leap- ing quickly aside when the latter makes & grab at him, and finally planting -the wiake between the jaws of his adversary, which is thus ren- dered helpless. A strong rope fastaned to the middle of the stake is then seized by the spec- tators, andthe, helpless monster is about in triumph until his persecnt that it is time for him to die. * The warlike Jivaros, who wear the gorgeous feather ornaments, have several very extraordi- nary customs besides those which have been mentioned. They commonly exchange their wives with one another, deeming unvaried domestic joys unsatisfactory. women, when about to be confined, go to the woods alone and there give birth to their offspring. consideration I have promised to send him in exchange seeds and cnttings of what flora are Peculiar to southern California. I hope some of these attempts at transplanting will. be suc- cessful. Some curious remults from attempts to transplant have been obtained in Persis. For instance, the Teheran have ay four feet in eight eucalyptus trees in the province of reached a height of three or years; whereas the Virginia tobacco plant has had a more vigorous growth ‘than in i native environment. In sonthern Persia it has grown to be twenty feet high, and has such strength that a man can climb it as he would a tree, a NEW BREED OF SHEEP. Thave imported tor the Agricultural Depart- ment a new bi reed of sheep and have told them that California would probably be the best place to start the breed in America. They could not li tempt to acclimatize the: ve in the eastern states, as an at- m in England wasa complete failure on account of the cold winters. If some one in Kern cared to ap; ply to the Agri- cultural Department no doubt a few of them could be obtained to. experiment with, Thi consignment to partment of Agriculture consist of thirteen sheep and three lambs, The sheep, whore hams in shay noted for fleeces, which are the tails are not unlike Westphalia re known as “fat tails” and are beauty and richness of their urest astrachan. Mr. as follows: Mr. Bancroft did not inform me it was his intention to discuss unpleasant subjects, nor assure me that he would not interpret my absence as “wanting in respect toward hin self.’ At the couclasion of the ceremony I left the hall with Mr. Thurlow and neither walked toward Mr. Bancroft nor shook hands with him. I was present in that hall out of respect for the dead, rather than the living, and on the written invitation of both houses of Congress. Even had Mr. Bancroft given me notice of his speech it would not have justified me in absent. ing myself from a national ceremonial of this peculiar characte DR, WELLING'S LETTERS. Ihave aletter from Dr. Welling inclosing from the Langham Hotel, London, June, 1866, the first of the series of those, charming tou: ist’s letters to the National Intelligencer, writ- ten by him from abroad. A half dozen from Judge Montgomery Blair on political affairs. From Reverdy Johnson are a dozen or more from here and from London while he was American minister at that court. What I valu re three or four from Mr. Gales note from Mr. Seaton written a day or two before his death, which caused the tears'to fill my eves as I remembered the sad | circumstances of his death. Richard and Au- gustus Schell’s fami They vary in ze from that of a pin’s head upward, the big- gest one yet found weighing 428 carats. It was cut and exhibited at the Paris exposition, weigh- ing after it was cut 228 carats After being sorted the diamonds are sent daily to the general office of the mines under an armed escort and are there delivered to the appraixera in charge. First they are cleaned by boiling in & mixture of nitrie and sulphuric acids, after which they are carefully sorted again in respect to size, color and The room in the company’ re they are then dis- layed offers most striking spectacle. It is lighted by large windows, underneath which runs a broad counter covered with white sheets of paper. Upon the latter are laid out ever #0 many glistening heaps of precious stones of in- describable variety. In this room are kept 60,000 | carats, the daily production of the mines being about 5,500 carats. On an average 100 tons of | blue clay will yield 100 carats of diamonds. When the diamonds have been valued they are sold in to local buyers, who represent | the leading diamond merchante of Europe. The size of a parcel varies from afew thousands to tens of thousands of carate. In one instance, three years ago, nearly a quarter of a million of | carate were sold in one lot to a.single purchaser. | The company sustains a loss of from 10 to 15 per cent of its production by stealing, it ix reckoned. Some loss is unavoidable where arti dl. need not dwell upon the consternation casioned in the family by this appalling musf tune. Two hundred fowls, which a short ti before had been apparently ex healthy ax poultry that ever scratched for worms ina yard: were stiffening in death. 1t was no time indulge in unprofitable grief, however. As her apron, the only thing te do was to them immediately and send them to market the morning. “With all hands busily we fini the job by 1 a.m., stacking up the it chickens on tables and in corners. it wee melancholy task, but we tried to console selves with the reflection that the money bronght for flesh and feathers would pure 4 fair nucleus for anew flock. So tired we that none of us woke up until after 6, is pretty late for farmers. I was the first to re. my amazement and be the results of our labors of the previous ing had vanished. Of the 200 neatly p fowls which we bad made ready for market The kitchen door, left dentally unfastened the nig) swung wide, opening through tue woodshed the garden, and showed how the robbers entered. ‘Just as I was on the point of givi alarm T heard @ familinr ‘cock-«~loudie-d ial pri E ‘and in in | Meanwhile the husband in each case takes to A . han. Mr. | 'iiden's and Dr. 4 's, | cles of such highly concentrated value are con- | #04 & most remarkable-looking creature, prin fa see a penenere i fled rith eral Sot crue. Thee ehceak ace | his bod, and the wits returning devotes herself Sued hheni ee eae, i rom | cerned, but in order to check it as far as possi- | I hesitated momentarily to identify as ® aecqgenel aden Joris of the Hi replaced again and again with others freshly | for eight days to waiting upon him, supplying | Wipe cymunee 32 about at Geir yp ing against the continu-| ble extraordinary precautions are resorted to. | }opped upon the threshold and crowed thrice The wool combiorstl on Uith’ the Speaioe tm | beated, and the led. 16 hung finally for n long | him with all possible dainties. Another strange aria te the resources of that county very office of the notorious Marcus Cicero | The natives are engaged fora period of three | 1 ran to the door of the wood shed and there, Mag a: daaging Gente riherh pore time in the smoke of a fire, the hair being | thing about the people of this tribe is that they | STeatly. ly, who, he says, is on the pay roll of the] months, during which time they are confined in | the garden, were all of our chickens—-200 b mapper cry wal time to spare | Protected from injury with ‘leaves wrapped | eat no salt. It Paper yep tog MEMORIES OF THE PasT. custom house and post office. Senator Doolittle, |» compound surrounded by ‘s high wall, them, plucked, but none the less alive—b it. from more important business. A bill not cal- culated to provoke discussion is apt to get the Speaker's consent,for consideration in its turn unless there is something particularly objec- tionable about it; but the fact remains that the ‘round ‘THE RESULT OF THIS PROCESS is to reduce the head of an adult man or woman to about one-quarter the size of an infant's times reduce their consorts to ‘a condition of idiocy by dosing them with an infusion of flori- ndia, made from the seeds of « plant allied to the “‘stramony,”” which was utilized by the ng at Delphi for producing the oracular house where Thave exhumed from that grave of so much forgotten matter of the past, a storage ware they have been interred, number of auto- for the last thirty years nearly Senator Dixon, Senator John P. Stockton and | Senator Norton. A POETICAL GREETING TO BRY. TUCKER. Here indeed are treasures trove. Elias Rec- returning from each day's work they are obliged to strip off all their clothes, which they hang on pegs inaebed. Stark naked, they then proceed to the searching room, where their mouths, their hair, their toes and’ their armpite—in fact, scratching up the vegetables. A family council] quickly summoned, found no difheulty analyzing the situation. Evideutly the had fed upon the fermented cherries, which had thrown where they could get them, t asa i onal graph letters, nearly all of which have outlived | tor's “petition to the President and Senate of | when we bad supposed them dead “they were [oo apaeeet repen dlewy et clr ccd =| Priraipmas Ysa <page rit ar fs abmcoenl teats seoee cule Oe Sele writers, They are “tthe flotsam and jet- | these United States,” written by Pike and Bur- | tlabarate exainnen. sublected 40 | reality dead drank. While we were : enactment. Washington ladies may be inter- | (cath Over most measures if he but el ©) Corner of Musoum, They are | fill his place, and instances are recorded where | ‘un’, Of tie old Intelligencer building when it | wet), and the copy engraved in fac simile of the | White men wonld never submit to such a| fecovered their sensor und walked: out of ian ested in the fact that the speaker's wife has no share in his official dignity, except that of duti- ful pride in her husband and the knowledge that by and by she will become a peeress. speaker is supposed to be politically emascu- Jated the moment he ascends the chair, and no doubt he generally is, though some English speskers have been quietly of as pronounced a type of partingnship as any we know in Waeh- ton. ith the English, Welsh and Scoteh parties, however, if not altogether with the Insh, duces sores. When the latter have healed the | wR bempster Teapleten whe jy {8nd from one Wm. M. Burwell containing a| ing. The precautions which are taken a fe Speaker Peel is looked upon as a cool, digni reserv. ir dead b; king, thus trans- | skin in thi ta is left white, owing to the|;." Pe a, , | poetical effusion to the “ and from P days before the natives leave the compound, and impartial officer. In the ease of the Irish Rernaly cas ccpeee as eee dudeuclion ot ha piguset Os teal. een fension a host, hogiring. ith aia: | with an additional verse to“*The Old Kentucky | their engagement being terminated, te tevoncy Sead de members it could hardly be that ough ity and ability and held only feiamataa anemia all the Stee aa tribe sre more or less Gomer William = Sullivan, | Home,” and, by the by, here are a half dozen | diamonds which they may have swallowed are rac mae. — if not tradition, wish dual! Af once be lepy ‘those. qualities which give © man acom-| Portraits of thie and other tribes of -strange | speckled. and individuals are frequently, seen entereah Sanese Neioks Cone from that great artist aatman Johnson, who Sai coaily ees han described. A Jew of | 667]VHE FINEST sepesingn rep a lis the ‘gentlemen i iti i . It who have become almost entirely white. It isa George i, Semmes 3 4 ini :. entucky e" rigor punishes diamend buy- are made out ” i below ‘the gangway” Mr. Peet's power of & Speaker to rewsed his friends’ att | ®¥eKe who people the forert regions of Peru | [0 ha pansion with them to weave oloth out of | Jontens Harty Jordag, John Brougham, Joseph “ie predecessors been guilty of that proverbial English un- fairness toward Ireland which it is claimed Mr. Gladstone will stamp out before he dies. Mr. Peel has not had to pass throngh the stormy seenes in the house i i THE ONLY OTHER OFFICE =k the Speaker holds by reason of his position in the House is that of chairman of the committee on rules, to which committee is referred all questions of the order of business. The Speaker usually dominates that committee, though, of course, he may be voted down by a majority of his four associates. He has no juisites of power beyond his sal- grotesquely horrible beyond description. It is impossible to realize that they are human, re- sembling as they do nothing but dolla, Although so shrunken the faces are perfectly preserved in form, without wrinkles, though as black as charcoal. To each one is attacl a luxuriant natural growth of long black hair. Acroas each diminutive countenance red stripes are painted, this being the final touch in the preparation of these trophies. As such they are used, bein, a year, can hold no other office punish his enemies in many ways, but though the contest which resdlted in 'Mr. 6 election was a hot one there have been no punishments for those who preferred another him, and the rewards ha’ hung around the neck of the warrior bya cor passed through the crowns. The Jivaros also some of ther the first likenesses of these na- tive types ever secured—have been brought back by Mr. Safford. Quite a number, done in oils, are admirablo works of art and will be the husband thus deprived of his mind has served his wife and her new lord as a slave. PECULIARITIES. Among these savages of Peru the women usu- ally carry their children slung upon their backs in shawls or otherwise. Those Who neither produce nor wear any textile fabrics convey their offspring about in their arms or astride their hips, One entire tribe ie afflicted with « very extraordinary skin disease which pro- the hair of their enemies, and belts of this ma- terial are worn around the waist for trophies. MUMMIED. Among other things brought back from Peru building and the additions made to the sui in 1870. ministers of Gen. Harrison and Mr. Tyler, Mi Fillmore, Mr. Pierce,from Mr. the time of tell rgpm for the present m at sion of the National In- Notes from the cabinet Ir. Webster, Mr. Corwin and others and from Mr. Bodisco, Lord Lyons, Sir John Crampton, Mr. Calderon de la = ‘and befoi Bishop, Jenn Jefferson, John 8. Owens, Miss Woffington and ang a Mrs. Terrill, enham previous to 1860. From re that date are letters from profes- ionals in almost eve ne. Madam Annie 7 Lind, Bareps, W. F. Brough, ke, Josh Silsbee, John Jean Davenport, whose Peg Adriene the actress have not ; Avonia Jones, Mrs. Gladstone, an English actress of the old poetical greeting sent to Bev. Tucker, then con- sul at Liverpool, from the “little’ room at Johnuy Coyle’s, where we were wont to dine and where we met today to eat your mutton and your game, which lately over that same brine a wel- come present came.” Of the twenty-two who sat at that dianer and whose familiar signatures were appended to each verse buttwo remain upon this mundane sphere, Col. James G. Berrit and myself. There are twenty from John W. Forney | anda half dozen from Dr. Shelton Mackenzie | | selected to be sent to the Paris exposition. He writes almost as well as he paints and his | letters are very interesting. He complains of the low prices pald for pictures at that time, 1861- ‘62-63. Things have changed since then, for he formance, says Lord Randolph Churchill, ut the native sustains the indignity with cheer- fal equanimity, feeling himself repaid by the high wages he earns. After passing through the searching room the workmen go, still state of nudity, to their apartments in. the cor pound, where they find blankets in which to wrap themselves for the night. Daring the evening the clothes which they have left be- hind them are carefully and minutely searched and are restored tb their owners in the morn- ig in South Africa. Under the statute the or- din xy presumption of the law in favor of the accu: disappears, the accused person having to prove his innocence in the clearest manner. Sentences of from five to fifteen years’ im- Happily, none of them seemed to be injured all by the process of placking they und gone. The hens kept on laying just #8 well the roosters were as proudas ever. In f ‘a|™y mother afterward «nid that the feati brought her a considerable profit and seemed to think that perhaps chickens wo {ield better returus asa matter of ord vusiness if they were deprived of their pli like sheep of their wool, at judicious iutervala. prtieanes ba “ GEMS MADE BY ART. Warhington dealer in mus stones to writer for Tue Stan. “The basis of the successful counterfeits of all kinds of gems is pure, very dense and highly transparent sort 0 oeun ae ak the Chicago fair, toget now gets $5,000 for a portrait. ‘Two or three | prisonment are frequently passed on persons | Hur’ whch a nnn ee a yeaeeny thneenal ne epi ey Amo famed ure, hate’ etensin, Seapont, bea | by Commlesioner Safford are seventeen mam. | shoo: Barney Williams end his accomplished | S°o'rfom Wrz. D. Washington, whose pictures ts | convicted of purtioting alateenna feng enkons | cise which bo aevyptatiraparieal jenry Brand, nor as speaker known any “ : the conclu sion of which Sir Lyon Playfair, then beg rd speaker. suspended every member of the {ri : ‘HIS DUTIES. home rule party. The political inftuence of the English speaker is infinitesimal compared to that wielded by the Speaker@f the United States Congress. Here the presiling officer never, or hardly ever, seeks to divert the course of legislation, nor does he name the committees of the Bouse. His duty is mainly to insist on a strict observance of the rules and to keep a clone eye on all those things which involve the “dignity of the house,” to which Englishmen attack such immense importance. For his peculiar duties Mr. Peel is well equipped. He posseases ® fine business aptitude, @ full knowledge of liamentary usages and s disposizion that can serene oF severe, urbane or austere, as cceasion demands the exercise of those es- sential qualities. He has also the physical qualifications of a sonorous voice and @ com- Ask the first twenty learned men you can find and not one of them will be able to tell you. The secret lies in the structure of the grain, which is very wonderful indeed. In the center of each grain of popcorn is the “germ” of the futare plant. It holds the vital element of the seed. What is it like? Well, it is about the size of a large pin head. Its outer coat is a membrane of woody matter, in- side of which is an oily substance containing nitrogen and phosphorus. Embedded in this oily substance is the “nucleus.” ‘The “nucleus” is the true germ—the essential life principle of the seed. It is chiefly com- posed of albumen, and is just big enough to be seen with the naked eye. ‘as it is it con- tains mystery which no man has ever solved or is ever likely to solve—the mighty secret of lustrating the different groups of aborigines. Most of these people are migratory in their habits, traveling up and down the rivers for the purpose of fishing and hunting. They have no form of government, dwelling o@ roving in scattered bands, which are summoned together for war by beating drums made of hollow logs. The chief motive for war with them is the caj must be performed being done by the women. ‘Their houses are thatched with palm leaves, the roofs being supported on poste, THE LORENZO8, It beauty unadorned is adorned the most the tribe of Lorenzos—save for their undeniable ugliness—would be justly considered better dressed than the usly clad Jivaros, For stall events the men, wear not a single ertheless, on occasions these peo- le decorate themselves with exquisite head- of bright-colored parrot feathers, Per- mies of ancient inhabitants. They were ob- tained by the accidental discovery of a subter- ranean chamber, in which the desiccated body of « female, doubtless dead for many centuries, was found seated ona throne-like platform: About her lay many utensils of various sorts. Ine h were the remains of some small fishes, and in an open bowl were several sea crabs’ perfectly preserved. There were also jars, whic bad presumabiy been filled with water originally, Grouped around this strange figure were the other mummies, their knees drawn up beneath their chins after the manner eculiar to the early Peruvian method of burial. The underground chamber, together. with fis Gruesome occupants and the objects referred to, will be reproduced exactly at Chicago. ‘A BEMARKABLE COLLECTION OF VASES. yas also secured, all of them of great an- tiquity and modeled in strange shapes. Some of them represent the heads of beasts and of human beings, while others have the forms of different fruits and vegetables, such as pump- wife, Hum} Daweor —_ notes, invitations, Hugh Tom Crittenden, Ji Johnson, and Before the war are s host Cay ‘Albert Bike. Kingman ton, t Pike, Kin, Ty en, Jim, Jackson, "Robe W. after the war commenced others. came letters to me = the lines from old friends who had cast thei side. lot on the southern BROUGHT THROUGH THE LIXES. Here is one from ex-Mayor Walter Lenox dated Richmond, November 10, 1862, brought to me bya lady, to whom I delivered the reply. One from Maj. W. H. Thomas dated Lexington, Ky., October 9, 1862, He tells that ho is on the staif of Gen.’ Kirby Smith with George Brent of Alexandria, who has, he says, just stadt, eral of Brig. ordered to Gen, Bragg as chief of ber oreo od assistant adjutant gen- i. mn Smith, “Bill Addi- eon of California, » Georgetown boy,” is_as- sistant ndjutant general on the staff of Gen. Alex Reynolds, “Frank Spencer, wi abuse “the four Bills” (Win, Hi, Wa used to , Wm. E. the Corcoran Gallery are so familiar, Alexan- der Dimitry says good-bye, as he leaves on his mission to Central America, and here is one which filled*me with sadness from poor Tsaac Y, Fowler, dated Tepic. Mexico, June 30, 1866. He wrote to obtain pardon upon repayment of amount due the government as postmaster of New York. He was connected with Barron, Forbes & Co. of the City of Mexico, and some ears after this date he returned rich and a hearty welcome awaited him, but be ai Chicago en route for his home, George Wi Kendall of the New Orleans Picayune writes me that he has arrived from ubroad and will see me ina few dava. Mr. George Wood, au- thor of “Peter Schemel,” whose remarkable and beantiful handwriting was so familiar in the days gone by, enclosing notice of the honor conferred on De: Welling of the degree of doe. tor of laws. I have overtaxed your space for the present. foun F. Coste. : —— —- —__ LOVE AND CHARITY. who have stolen them. - In that region « crime seems to be jed as about as bad as homicide. Nevertheless, as has been said, great numbers of the gems are stolen, the it outlet for such contraband stones being f soet-y the Transvaal to Natal. Most ingenious ruses are adopted by illicit dealers for conveying stolen diamonds out of Kimberley. The boundary of the Transvaal approaching within a few miles of Kimberley,thieves can quickly get across it and be safe. Iiscently one of them, = very i aon, was seen leaving Kimberley’ on Peck for the Transvaal” He wes acioed on sus. picion by the police on the ‘and was thoroughly vearched. Nothing was found on him, and he was perforce allowed to proceed. No sooner was he well acroes the boundary than, while vet under the eyes of the detectives, he deliberately shot and cut open his horse, tracted from its stomach a large parcel of ‘din- monds, which, before starting on the 8. been administered to in form of a bolus, ———_+e+_____ | dow panes are prodnced frum sea sand to false diamepds this glass is simply cut and ished in facets, while for imitating other such as rubies, emeralds, sapphires, &c., ic oxides are mixed with it, “In manufacturing glass for such the processes employed have to be condi with the utmost nicety. For making even Dest mirrors the necessary silica is ob from ordinary white quartz, while common large extent, but in this case rock crystal is stituted, ss about 50 per cent of the in. gredients of the paste, To it must be added 24 per cent of carbonate of and due propo tons ef calcined borax, saltpetre and red All of these things are redaced to the fi powder, mixed, fused together by beat in nd cooled slowly. ‘The density. transparency and beauty of paste depend upon the care taken in these pi cesses. ‘Thus made it is all ready to be cut into diamonds and prepared for market, > inal Roms % may be, however, that the manufacturer desi manding presence. His deak is née ‘kable thing about them is | yins, gourds, potatoes, ears of corn, Ac. Evi- | Spalding and Wm. H. Thomas), is commissary | L@¥yer Ricks’ Argument Secares an Acquit WOULDN'T ANSWER QUESTIONS. y * i battered like our 8 "a, for, ae tae, ka However, there are more things | their light complexion, which ig understood to | dentiy the latter were cast from the original ob- oa Tess brigade, “Ihave forgiven him for tal for His Client. = See sae ome at ster easely controls the house. ‘ Of interest to be noticed in the outer structure | be due toa mixture with the whites under ex- Jeots thoy were intonded to counterfeit. There | all that. He is a brave fellow; led his regiment | Yesterday in Judge Miller's court Lawyer| He Sald He Minded His Own Business and He sits with Jove- like serenity in his rich robes and when he rises it would be considered a grows breach of limentary good manners if any other mem- remained standing. of the popeorn grain. GATHERED AROUND THE GERM are granules of starch, arranged in layers and so 'y circumstances. Three centuries ago the Spaniards attempted to wipe them out by force of arms, but in one terrible conflict in are hollow statuettes alvo, representing with inful accuracy of detail men and women suf- ing from horrible diseases. One specimen is in the fight, and fought like a tiger.” ‘his brother, who was lieutenant of po- lice the under Capt. Goddard) is quartermaster of Ricks amused the jury by making a “love and charity” speech for about ten minutes, ‘Others Should Do So. An old colored man from Virginia, whose posing that he wants rubies, be fusos with thd paste a very emali quantity of peroxide Manganese and « trace of Cassius purple, whie ben is: ii wil) o color For the year 1599 they won a victory and destroyed | (°F) ‘han bebin fortytsixth Virginia. Here js.a end letter | "hich operated to the efit of his|name is given as Moses Johnson, says be is give the proper color. persons regularly placed as to resemble» crystalline | a Spanish settlement, carrying away all the So et nas eae eaters Le may dane. frisad. (Gea dances BF Jackaon, | client. Charlie Delavan was the vris-| a auinintor ‘of the goxpel and he” wante | employs ft like mats oxide of trom, and : — structure. In fact, like crystals, though they | women. Many m at this day nearly ap- | sacrites. f them wore presumably in-| dated “Camp Coyle, near Pittsburg Landing.|oner and Annie Curtis was everybody to understand that he attends |“?! sn... With the parliamentary officials Mr. Peel is *y | proach the Caucasian in appearance. teuled boidenedin date AEE tenets] Apel 14 SORT ee noe ee, iy “Topaz is easily formed in the erncible ‘very popular, and in private life he is said to be an amiable, high-minded, honorable country gentleman. He resides for the greater of the year at The Lodge, Sundy, Bodtordallire, of which county he is » deputy lieutenant and & justice of the peace. To his house is attached well-kept farm, in the operations of which be are not such, these granules the peculiar Beer tga” ght Senne te mi y have very beautiful forms. Between each two layers of them is a woody membrane, and covering the whole is the hard external envelope of the corn grain, comy of woody matter with a large ion of mineral substances, such as lime, silex, potash ONLY AN OOCABIONAL NECKLACE. When it comes to a question of nakedness the Caseivos of Poru are unrivaled in South Amer- ica. Very few tribes of savages in the world go entirely nude, but the men of this one wear ab- solutely nothing whatever, abjuring even orna- occasional they were used for religious and funeral pur- poses. They were made by the Chimus, who inhabited the coast of northern Peru before the conquest of the country by the Spaniards, Tradition says that they were ‘and fishes. Bill’ Nelson and whipped on Sunday, the 6th. and Tom Crittenden were in the ad- vance of Buell’sarmy and reached Pittebu Landing on of | during the night McCook morning had a ten hours’ fight. My dear robs" end the ai oon of Sunday an and force came uj our fellows ‘atiacked Prosecuting witness. Charlie, who is a young colored man, had been keeping company with Annie for two years and it was in evidence that he wanted to drop her. Mr. Mullowney suggested that he had better drop her by degrees and not injure her affec- tions so much, Annig claimed that she met to his own business and he desires other people to do the same. He was arrested Thursday afternoon by Policeman O'Brien of the third precinet, who found him wandering ubout the streets inquiring for Rachel Johnson. A charge of was preferred against the old. msn, and ‘upon’ | he mixing with 1,000 parte of the paste 4 parte glass of antimony and one pur! of Cassius ple. For manufacturing other kinds there are methods equally simple. Of co none of these imitation precious stones has 1 ical constitution, hardnews, specific of P ‘upon that charge ome ge ments,save for an. Johnny, it wus the d——st fight that has ever | Charlie on the strect and had a conversation | was arraigned in the Police Court yesterday. ingl: takes & —- —- to qualify him = ant "eras ty of ‘oecurred and I was ‘on the outskirts like a lonely | with him and he struck her. “Who yer talkin’ to?” he asked the clerk food is thus packed in a little of the embryo plant, which for the use absorbs the boy. Never mind, there will be within the next Charlie told a different ‘was a member of the Love a1 rr He eaid he Charity Society | when the latter read the charge the Judge had a plea of not Seed hee & ilty entered for him. agricul n i rom ii i hoephorus tained and that when he was on his way to the meetin policeman stated ease end then the Dentage Gia beet sever sl pete ee ee ee Prana pla ine the stopped him and told him that he shoulda’ | defendant was sworn in his own behalf, fe intended the erection in ons of the vilegeer fund op gotting ready to opeoat, 2; that he could not leave her to go tow meet-| | “From where did’ you come?” inquired the reading and recreation room for the la x HIS FaMILy. Mr, Peel's wife died in December, 1890, leay- ing him a family of four sons and three daugh- tera. Three of the former have dis ASD POPCORN. structure as a grain of ordinary corn. Itis simply a variety of the same species of plant. Why, then, will not common corn do #0, as you can find out for yor tribes of Peru are the Zaparos, famous for the cloth they make from the bark of the lanchama —_—>——_ ow Daxexaowzn's real estate excursion 8 und 9, . See special notices.— Adve. Go Jane a j Papacy meer every morning ani countermand the order in the i fae ] 2 f- pier it ievets ‘wants for Kane and tell! He pusheg her aside and left her. in arguing to the jury dwelt upon the fact that his client was a love and charity man. If, however, he ceskes to love, that is his ‘own In this instance, < vps de 2” he anaes aaa P “Wet part of Viegiala?” Hf £ 4 i i i q i { ! i i i si & i H H 74 E i Hid