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MARCH 20, 1895-TWELVE PAGES. OOOO REL OL ELOLERL OPO COPORERREREPOLECES OEE: ‘OLD THINGS ARE BEST.” ones that were im use 100 years. ago. in a better combination of the same old remedies. Although Pharmacoepia has been very much advanced by the addition of many new remedies, yet it is hard to find any better specifics for certain complaints than the old About the only improvement possible to make is Ripans Tabules as a scientific com= PPPOE OL ELE ECE SESE POCO FOL O SH: 9 PERE OREREREEOECCOCCDCOCOLEEPOCCEREEE SES OOOOH OOONOOE RASPPPAADADAADEASAAADDDEDADD DE DDDDDADDADbbbDObDbDDDD : bination of old remedies is better than any one or two of the remedies of which it is composed. and Soda. Liver Trouble, ‘dred years, but it is in their combination as a whole in the one remedy ANS TABULES that we are enabled to see the best results. We believe that old and tried things are Ripans is the union of the old best. things.. We believe that in union there is strength. There is nothing in Ripans to be afraid of, there is nothing in it that you are The formula of Ripans is Rhubarb, Ipecac, Peppermint, Aloes, Nux Vomica The efficacy of these remedies taken singly for Constipation, Indigestion, Headache, Biliousness, Malaria, etc., has been an assured fact for a hun- not familiar with. That tired feeling, those sick headaches, liver complaints, constipation, all cured by-the one specific -Ripans. indigestion, etc., with which almost everybody is troubled in the Spring of the year are When we say “a specific for a certain disease,” we mean a remedy that is positively known by long experiment to be a never-failing cure for that disease. convince you. Ripans Tabules At All Druggists, 50 Cents Box. 12 2 Or by mail if the price (soc. box) is sent to the Ripans Chemical Co., 10 Spruce Street, New York. WHOLESALERS: aes SII SSIS SIS SSS ISS IF. RERAKREESAKEARARRKESES SIF S FF SESS ST SSS a S3s553333 ZEKKKI vat “P. 4. Tschiffely, 475 Pa. Ave., Wash., D.C. E. s. Leadbeater & Sons, Alexandria, Va. Ripans is a SPECIFIC for the above complaints. A trial will SILL ILVISy. pee paceceecsaanaueies SST Reeeneeeeens Sox52393 ons eeeeEsereeeeeESeeeRy ey ECe Ue OEECECEYOECSVEVCECEL SC CUSEE SY CUTTS THINGS HEARD AND SEEN One of the interesting sights that oc- curred recently was the wrestling with in- ternational law of Assistant District At- torney Mullowney, in charge of cases at the Police Court. It was the case of the ‘Argentine secretary Almagro, who was charged with embezzling $3,000 from the Argentine minister. The attorneys for the \ defense -had raised the question of no jurisdiction, claiming that Almagro was a part of the minister's household and was not subject to arrest and detention by the United States courts. Mr. Mullowney is at home in trying a dozen or more cases of different hues and colors that daily arise in the Police Court, but when a ques- tion arose which would have taken the foreign offices of a dozen governments, with ablest diplomats and lawyers of each country engaged, something like a year to decide, that was another matter. The ccurt finally sustained the plea and dis- gnissed Almagro. The Argentine case presents some phases which are puzzling. The complaint had ‘been made by the Argentine minister and the arrest followed. Almagro did not at- tempt to deny the charge, but claimed protection under the statute which ex- empts from arrest and detention foreign Ministers, their domestic servants and Others necessary to their service. It was a@ question which agitated the court for gome time whether Mr. Almagro was a domestic in the meaning of the statute, ut the judge finally held that it was clear- ly the intent to exempt all persons neces- sary to carry on the business of the lega- tion or who were a part of the official or domestic household. He said that it was ridiculous to think that the law would protect and exempt & minister's cook and would not exempt the secretary and translator of the lega- tion, this being Almagro’s official title. But another question arises: Suppose this official or some other had robbed an Amer- fean citizen? The presumption is in this case that the matter would be settled by the two governments, the government of which the attache doing the robbing was a subject having to make restitution. But in the case of Almagro he is a n&tive of Madrid, Spain. He came to this country and was naturalized in 1886. If the Ar- gentine minister desires to punish him he will have to send him home, as he would have to do in case one of the attaches should commit some offense against an American citizen. But suppose he should refuse to go? Suppose he should claim his American citizenship? These were ques- tions that were asked by Mr. Mullowney, when he was groping about for something to get hold of, with the innate feeling he possesses that no guilty man should escape. The young attorney for the ac- cused, Mr. McKenney, frankly acknowl- ¢dged that he had not considered that phase of the case and was emphatic in as- serting that it did not have anything to do with the case presented to the court. Mr. Mullowney thought it had a great deal to do with the case. However, if the matter should come up in that way and our legal and diplomatic lights should have to wresile with it, the probabilities are that the questions of Mr. Mullowney cannot be lightly thrust aside. The case of Almagro may yet become famous, and Mr. Mullowney be vindicated. es 8 e we There was a new girl at one of the fash- jonable boarding houses in this city, and one lady who thought she would make friends in order to secure civil treatment spoke to her when she entered the dining room for breakfast. “Good morning, Mary,” she remarked in her sweetest tone. “My name is Lucinda Juanita Johnsing,” said the new domestic, with haughtiness. “Ob, excuse me, I thought it was Mary,” said the lady, and not wishing to leave such a breach, added: “You are a wid I believe. You look young for a widow.’ “Yes'um. I'm just eighteen. My husband caught cole in a coal mine.” This without ® break to even disturb the monotony of her tone. we %_ “That was too bad,” said the lady, with ‘mpathy. “Yes'um, it was. And he weighed two hundred and fifty-one pounds and a half, Bnd was tall accordin’ ‘5 ee +, Marcus Daly of Anaconda, Mont., has been in Washington for several days, hav- ing business with officials here. Daly was one of the most prominent factors in the recent capital fight in that state. He is one of the largest owners of Anaconda property, and is the millionaire manager of the famous Anaconda mine. Large sto- ries have come out from Montana since the capital fight was settled, stories of how fabulous sums were spent in the effort of the two towns—Helena and Anaconda—to secure the permanent location of the state government. Mr. Daly does not relish these tales when he gets away from home, and he claims they are largely manufactured by men who talk about money they never saw nor knew about. He does not estimate the amount spent by Helena to have been more than $75,000,and he adds, with consider- able show of vingictiveness, ‘‘that the town is bankrupt,” showing his contempt for the place. Some people estimate that Mr. Daly spent a million and a half, but he laughs at this, and declares that outside of the Dayis estate, and perhaps one man, there is not a man worth a million in the state. “They did not spend much money, I tell you,” he said. “They did not have it. They could not get it. There was no way to spend it. How are you going to spend any large amounts of money?” he asked. “There are only 40,000 voters in the state. You can’t spend any great amount of money on them.” ce ee Senator Squire was discoursing upon the great waterways of Puget sound, while making an effort to secure some better legislation for that particular section of the country. He mentioned not only the sound, but the Columbia river, and, in fact, he mentioned everything else that could be thought of. . “But the salmon out there are no good,” said a fisherman of the Senate. “They will not rise to a fly.” The Washington Senator waved him aside, and said, in an eloquent and con- vincing manner: “‘Our salmon do not have to rise to a fly. The food is so abundant in the waters of Puget sound and its tribu- taries that the salmon get all they want to eat without searching for flies.” He got his appropriation. A youth who is yet classed as a small boy, in whose family there is a physician, came home recently from a visit to the M. “y D. and seemed to be full of knowledge. am not going to play games with kissin: he announced to his own family; “no more kissing games for me.” He was pressed for a reason. “Well,” he responded, with the air of a child having just made an import- ant discovery, “there is so much disease going around, ‘and most of it is caught by kissing; and who knows what the girls may have?” ———____ Gen. Dow’s Old Age. Neal Dow will be ninety-one years of age this week. He is still active in temperance work. Last summer he spoke for two hours at an outdoor meeting. He also addressed a great open air meeting in Portland, Me., attended a temperance meeting at Water- ville, twice visited Boston, speaking on both occasions, the last time welcoming Miss Willard on her return to this country. Five times this winter Gen. Dow left his home, in Portland, at an early hour in the merning, reached Augusta before the legis- lature was called to order, made on each occasion a long argument before the tem- perance committee and returned home in the afternoon. ‘ One of his neighbors writes that he has been as active with his pen the last twelve months as at almost any other period of his life, and his many newspaper articles have had the old vigorous ring. He is still as hard a fighter as ever, and does not decline a challenge to defend the great measure with which his fame is so closely identified. His newspaper letters written during the year would make a good-sized book. Gen. Dow’s interest in passing events is still as keen as ever. He reads at least a dozen of the leading newspapers of the country, and many books, drawing the line at novels. He has not aged in the year, his step is quick, his eyes have the old brilliant Icek and he is still in the swim. +o2—_____ Emperor William has forbidden the o™- cers and men of the Berfin garrison to smoke on the principal streets of the city because of irregularities in the salute of- fered royal personages. THE BOSTON LIBERATOR. The Famous Paper That William Lloyd Garrison Edited. In the history of the anti-slavery struggle no small or unimportant place has been given to the journal which for nearly forty years, with William Lfoyd Garrison at its head, waged war on the “institution.” This was the Boston Liberator, a copy of which was recently sent to The Star by ex- Speaker Galusha A. Grow, who took an hon- ored part in the struggle. The Liberator like the organs of woman suffrage or tem- perance nowadays, was the vehicle and re- ceptacle tor every piece of n@vs or expres- sion of opinion on the subject of slavery. Well printed and vigorously edited, the Lib- Louis, loses by choler&-and abolitionists $5,000 worth of slaves. In the same city fcur free rtegroes, not*having their pass- ports, are arrested, flogged and discharged. The Tone of the Paper. ‘The Liberator in 1855 was’a quarter of a century old, and it gives evidence of its large and earnest constituency. It speaks fearlessly ard aggressively in the spirit of that editorial now famous in our literature and familiar to every schoolboy in Amer- ica, which Garrison had written twenty- five years before in the first issue-of the Liberator: “I am aware that many object to the severity of my languags,but is there. not cause for severity? I will be as harsh as truth and as uncompromising as justice. On this subject I do not wish to think, or speak, or write with moderation. No! No! erator was patterned after the old-fash- foned weekly, now gone wholly into desue- tude. Surrounding the first page was the illustrated heading, which is copied here. This was the work of Alonzo Hartwell, the portrait painter, an artist long since for- gotten, who was at once draughtsman and wood ‘engraver. The illustration presents a telling picture of the contrast between slavery and freedom, and no doubt it ac- complished insensibly a great deal in the cause for which it was made. : Business Limited. Of advertising the Liberator had little, and that from business men identified with the anti-slavery movement. At the date of the copy received from Mr. Grow—July 20, 1855—it had a good deal to say of the sit- uation in Kansas, It was at the time Gov. Reeder had been assaulted by Stringfellow, the Missouri border ruffian. All parts of the country— Michigan, Ohio, Kansas, Illinois—seem to be contributing to the contents of the Liberator. Notices are numerous of meet- ings and conventions to be addressed by Sumner, Wendell Phillips, Garrison, Ste- phen Foster, Charles C. Burleigh and Dr. May. Among others appears a call for a woman suffrage convention, to be held at Saratoga Springs, August 15 and 16. To this call are signed the names of Mrs. Stanton, Wm. Hay, Dr. May, Mrs. Brown- Blackwell, Lydia Mott, Ernestine L. Rose and Susan B. Anthony, the New York woman’s rights committee. Among items not specially connected with great re- forms, which in some way got into the Liberator is mentioned of Lady Fulton’s fa- mous trot of twenty miles in 59:55 on the Centerville, L. I., course, for a purse of $5,000. It is also noted that Mr. Van Buren, ex-President, has just returned from Eu- rope on the steamer Pacific. Other Current News. The abolition of imprisonment for debt in Massachusetts is another fact chron- icled. There is little space given to such news, however. Most of the paper is filled with letters and comments on the great question of the day. A colored impostor named Marshall is making pro-slavery speeches in New York. He Is exposed. Half a column scathes the people of West Boylston, Mass., for not letting Stephen Foster speak there. Two columns of obit- uary do honor to a member of the British Anti-slavery Society. His name was Est- lin. In St. Louis a clique of merchants have had rival merchant prosecuted for giv- ing a pretty yellow girl forged free papers, and it is discovered to be a conspiracy to ruin the merchant and drive him out of business. At Augusta, Ga., a negro brick- layer sells for $1,200. In Cincinnati a negro militia company has been formed, also a brass band. In Montgomery county, Md., an attempt to kidnap a white boy and sell him fails. In Ohio the fusionists have nominated Salmon P. Chase for governor. A Page county, Va, man, going to St. Tell a man whose house is on fire to give @ moderate alarm; tell him moderately to. rescue his wife from the hands of the ravisher; tell the mother to gradually res- cue her babe from the fire into which it has fallen; but urge me not to be moderate in a cause like the present. I am in earn- est. I will Rot equivocate—I will not ex- cuse—I will not retreat a single inch—and I will be heard. —__—__ IMMORTALITY OF JOKES. Mark Twain Thinks Humor is the Great Thing. From the North American Review. Well, humor is the great thing, the sav- Ang thing, after all. The moment it crops up, aH cur hardnesses yield, all our irrita- tions and resentments fit away, and a sunny spirit takes thelr place. I remem- ber exploding its American counter-mine ence under that grand hero, Napoleon. He was only first consul then, and I was con- sul general—for the United States, of course; but we were very intimate, not- withstanding the difference:in rank, for I waived that. One day something offered the opening, and he gai: 2, “Well, general, I sypposerife can never get entirely dull to aniAmierican, because whenever he can’t btfike: fp any other way to put in his tind he an always get away with a few years trying to find out who his grandfather wast”) © I fairly shouted, for had’ never heard it sound better; and then T'was back at him as quick as a flash: “9 “Right, your excellency! But I reckon a Frenchman’s got his~Iittle stand-by for a dull time, too; because whén’ all other in- terests fail he can turn in!and see if he can’t find out who his, father was!” Well, you should e heard him just whoop and cackle anf éarry’dn! He reach- ed up and hit me-oné on thé*shoulder and says: oy oid “Land, but it’s good! It’s immensely good! I'George. I never heard it said so good in my life before!. Say it again!” So I said it again, aud he said his again, and I said mine again, and then he did, and then I did, and then he did, and we kept on doing it, and doing it, and I never had such a good time, and he said the same. In my opinion there isn’t anything that is as killing as one of those dear, old ripe pensioners if you know how to snatch it out in a kind of a fresh sort of original way. ——_ ~+e+____—_ A. O. U. W. Meeting. Delegates to the annual meeting of the Grand Lodge, Ancient Order United Work- men, jurisdiction of Maryland, assembled yesterday in Baltimore, and will conclude their deliberations today. About 100 mem- bers,representing sixty-two lodges in Mary- land, Virginia and the District of Columbia, are present, besides others from more dis- tant states. ABOUT ARGON, The Newly Discovered Constituent of the Atmosphere. From the Academy. ! January 31, 1895, will prove a memorable day in the annals of scientific progress. The large theater of London University was filled with an expectant and distin- guished audience when, at 4:30, the his- toric mace of the Royal Society was placed on the table and the president and secre- taries took their seats behind it. Three papers on 4 single subject were to be read and discussed. The discovery to which they referred had, indeed, been announced last summer at the meeting of the British As- sociation, but further and more exact de- tails were eagerly awaited. These were now furnished in the paper by Lord Ray- leigh and Prof. Ramsay, which was sup- plemented by Mr. W. Crooke’s account of the spectra of the new gas, and by the story of its liquefaction and solidification as told by Prof. Olszewski of Cracow. It was the occurrence of an apparently insignificant difference in density in nitro- gen from different sources which originat- ed the discovery of a new constituent in the atmosphere. For Lord Rayleigh found that nitrogen eliminated frcm chemical compounds was lighter than nitrogen pre- pared from atmospheric air by the removal of its other known compcnents. The dif- ference was slight, the weights of equal volumes standing in the ratio 230:231; but there it was, and in many comparative ex- periments it proved to be invariable. Sug- gested explanations of this difference had to be dismissed one after another, until it became evident that the purest nitrogen from atmospheric air was a mixture of what may be called true nitrogen with an- other and heavier gas. This mixture was then submitted to two distinct methods of treatment, by each of which the true ni- trogen present was removed in the form of compounds. Lord Rayleigh and Prof. Ram- say found in this way that there remained an unattackable and irreducible residuum, heavier than true nitrogen in the ratio 19.9:14. This inert gas had, it seems, been obtained so long ago as 1785 by Cavendish, who was not disinclined to admit that a very small part (not more than 1-120 of the “phlogisticated air” (-- nitrogen) of our at- mosphere might differ frcm the rest, and could not be reduced to nitrous acid. The nature of this heavy gas had next to be determined. From the methods by which it had been isolated, it was evident that it could not be, and could not contain, any of the known elements. It might be a new element, or a mixture of new elements, or possibly, but not probably, a compound of two new elements. No argument can be drawn from its chemical properties, for it has none—none, at least, save inertness has been as yet revealed. But the balance of evidence derived frum its physical behavior inclines in favor of the theory that argon is a simple elementary body. There is 4 definiteness, a consistency and a constancy in its characters which seems to connote an _element—as the term element is now understood. It would be strange, indeed, were argon to consist of two kinds of mat- ter, endowed with equal inertness, equal solubility in water and equal resistance to the heroic methods of purification adopted in its isolation. True, argon possesses two spectra, conveniently named the “red” and the “blue,” two bright-line spectra, obtain- able under different conditions of pressure and electric current; but the same state- ment may be made with regard to other gases, as to the elementary nature of which no doubt has yet been raised. Again, in ex- periments on the velocity of sound in ar- gon, it was found that it gave the ratio of 1:63 between the specific heat at con- stant pressure and the specific heat at con- stant volume. This result tends to indicate @ monatomic gas, and is parallel to that obtained with mercury vapor. It would be unwise to lay too much stress upon the constancy of the boiling and freezing points of argon, determined by Prof. Olszewski, as indictative of its simple nature, but such constancy is favorable to this view. In the immense diagram (nearly forty feet in length) of the two spectra of argon, exhibited on January 31, no less than 199 lines were laid down. Of these, 119 belong- ed to the “blue” spectrum and 80 to the “red.” There were 26 lines common to the twe spectra, but these were probably due to the imperfect separation of the two. Mr. Cookes assured the meeting that each line was laid own with an accuracy in position of one millimeter, and that there were no lines common to the sharp-line spectrum of nitrogen and to the spectra of argon. ‘The data for the discussion of the atomic weight of argon, assuming it to consist of a single element, are extremely meager. / With an atomic value of 19.9, argon might find a place between fluorine and sodium in the periodic sequence of the elements; but if it be a monatomic gas, its atomic weight must be doubled, and its position would lie between potassium and calcium. Any conclusion on this point must await the result of further and other lines of re- search, ‘The ascertained constantants of argon, not previously given in this brief note, may be thus summarized: It dissolves in water under the ordinary pressure and at a tem- perature of 14 degrees C., in the proportion of 4 volumes to 100. Its boiling point is 187 degrees, and its freezing point, 189.6 de- grees under the ordinary atmospheric pres- sure. The critical temperature, under a pressure of 50 atmospheres, is —121 degrees. The density of liquid argon proved to be about 1.5 at its boiling point. Solid argon is crystalline, and, like the liquid, colorless. The detection and isolation of this con- stituent of the atmosphere must rank with the-very greatest discoveries in chemica] science which have ever been made. In its inception and its conduct this research of Lord Rayleigh and Prof. Ramsay affords an example of the highest and rarest type of investigation. The difficulty of the work may be gauged in some measure by the fact that a constituent of the atmosphere which forths a hundred and twentieth part of its volume had eluded the severe scrutiny to which air has been subjected during many years by many expert experimenters. It in- deed redounds to the credit of Cavendish that, with the very imperfect apparatus and methods at his command more than a cen- tury ago, he should have come so near to a discovery which will render forever mem- orable the years 1894 and 1895. ee Bill Stumps, His Mark. From the Gentleman's Magazine. Mr. Pickwick’s pleasant incident of find- ing the stone at Cobham, with the Bill Stumps inscription, was, I have always Suspected, an actual incident that occur- red during the year 1836 or 1837. He says, indeed, that it was submitted to the Royal Antiquarian Society—or Society of Antiqua- ries. One of the same kind was described in Scott’s “Antiquary,” where Edie Ochil- tree explains the mystery of the letters. It is, however, a.“common form” of jest, and we find an instance in the memoirs of Bachaumont, which Dickens may have seen. There was once dug up in the quar- ries of Belleville, near Paris, a stone with these letters: Le L. Cc. H. E. M. LN. D. E. 8. A.N.E.S. It was taken to the academicians, who could make nothing of it. Savants were consulted without result. At last the bea- dle of Montmartre chanced to see it, and at once read it off. “Ici .le chemin des anes”—that is, the path for the donkeys who carried away the sacks of plaster from the quarries. ——-_-+e+-____ Walking Gloves for Spring. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. English walking gloves for spring are of finely dressed dogskin or Swedish kid, to wear with promenade costumes.” They are produced in most of the cloth shades for matching the suit. There are greens, gold- en tans, both light-and dark, browns in various handsome tones, deep copper dyes, olives, mahogany, dark Vandyke reds, and yellows from orange to pale corn color. ‘These fasten smoothly over the writ by four buttons, and are made with pique stitched seams, and embroidered on the back with stitchings of black silk or that From 'Tid-Bits. “Gentlemen, I can’t He about the horse; he is blind in one eye,” said the auctioneer. The horse was soon knocked down to a citizen who had been greatly struck by the auctioneer’s honesty, and after paying for the horse, he said: ‘Yow were honest enough to tell me that this animal was blind in one eye. Is there any other de- fects?” ‘Yes, sir; there is. He is also blind in the other eye,” was the prompt reply. —_____ +0 ___—_ The voters of Charles county, Md., will vote in June whether La Plata or Chapel Point will be the county seat.. The cam- paign has begun actively. THE FIRST POSTAL CAR. Railway Post Office System’s Growth From Single Car in 1863. From the Boston Globe. Charles Harper, whose face is familiar in this city, was in charge of the first rail- way péstal.car run between Boston and New York. Back in 1861, in the month of August, he was appointed route agent between New Haven and New York. At that time an ordinary baggage car was divided into three compartments, the center one being devoted to letters, papers and packages which bore the requisite number of gov- “Postal clerks were unki agen ostal clerks were conwn. The t had entire charge of the mails, and did a little sorting en route. Two years later the first postal car was started inthis country over the Erie road from New York to Dunkirk. Mr. Harper was its presiding genius. But one man was with him, whereas nowadays from si to ten clerks can be found in a single post office on wheels. The innovation came near proving a fail- ure. At one time it was thought best to take off the postal car because mail could be taken only at stations where stops were made, and the smaller towns secured no end a than before. ut ie introduction of “ which the bags could be coneatee KA along the line, even when the train was going at full speed, turned public opinion 2 a favor, and they .were not discon- inued. Mr. Harper spent four years on the Erie road. Then postal cars were put on be- tween Boston and New York, and he was transferred to the N. Haven line, jew York and New . Harper began his first from Boston to New York in the ‘midst of a raging November snow storm, and he has a A a. since on similar trips e and in rain—so! = oy eS fe ust charge of the car, on account of physical disabilities ‘which precluded his standing on his feet for six hours a day, he was appointed a through messenger, his duties being to take charge Sine registered pouches and do a little He resides in Brooklyn. He leaves Bos- ton at 4 p.m. and reaches Ni York at 10; P.m. one day, and on the next he leaves New York at 4 p.m. reac! ge Ce Pm. and hes Boston To Pro ce His Name. William A. Jones, editor of the Syracuse Post, recently addressed -a letter to M. Faure, president of France, “asking how his name was pronounced in as eee — ee er ee desirous of information. reply in French has \@en received from M. Bloure, chief private secretary of President Faure, cont the first authoritative pronunciation ever. given to the United States. é The Post prints a fac-simile of the French letter, a translation of which is as a: “Presidency of the Republic.—Paris, 19th of February, 1895.—Sir: In response to the desire you express in your letter of the 7th of this month, I have the honor to inform you that the exact pronunciation of the names of the president of the republic is as follows: “Felix should be pronounced Fel, as in fellow. Ix ag in ixion. ‘: “Faure exactly like the word for, “Accept, sir, the expression of my dis- tinguished consideration.” ——__ + 0+ _____ Stepped on the Csar’s Corn. A Milwaukee girl in a recently published letter states as an authentic fact that the Czar of Russia has corns. Then in explan- ation she says: “My knowledge of this skeleton in the imperial closet cafhe about in this manner: One morning at the Zoo in London I stood in front of the seal tank. A great seal came up to be fed. Receiving nothing from my empty hands he was about to flop back into the water with a great splash. Mind- ful of my best bib and tucker I jumped hastily back, landing upon the foot of a fine-looking gentleman, who, though evi- dently in pain, as indicated by his facial expression and by his raised foot, yet ac- cepted my apology with as much courtesy and grace as could be expected. His com- panion, who also looked somewhat dis- comfited, was immediately recognized by me ax the Prince of ‘Wales, and then learned that I had jumped upon the a1 corns of the autocrat of all the Russias.”