Evening Star Newspaper, March 30, 1895, Page 19

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, MARCH 30, 1895-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. PLANCON SAYS: HAVE frequently used the genuine Johann Hoff’s Malt Extract in France, whenever I felt myself run down. I also use it in America and find @ it most excellent in clearing my voice. i “Yai employé souvent en France le veritable extrait de malt de Johann Hoff et, cha- que fois que je me sens affaibli, j’en fais usage ‘en Amérique, trou- vant cet extrait excellent me vox Beware of imitati yv ms. The genuine Fokaun Hoft’s Malt Extract has the signature ga on neck label. Sole Agents, New York. Eisner & MENDELSON Co., CARICATURES OF PUBLIC MEN. The President is Said Not to Take Kindly to Such Productions. From the New York Tribune. Bernhard Gillam of Judge says that most men like to be caricatured. en I want a man’s photograph I write to him and tell him I have nothing that is gcod to get his features from, and though he knows I'm going to use it against lim he almost always sends on the pic- ture. A cartoonist can make a politician by keeping him before the public. Most of them rather enjoy seeing themselves twisted out of shape. You kncw Mr. Gladstone knight- ed Tenniel after all Punch’s ridicule. I once caricatured George William Curtis * rather severely. A few days later I re- ceived a very pleasant note with a photo- graph, saying that from my work he judged my picture of him was very old and rather poor, and he wanted to give me a better chance in future. That was a man we were fighting and picturing in stays. “David B. Hill enjoys being caricatured. I once drew ‘im as a dog run mad with a tin pail, labeled ‘Presidential Aspirations,” tied to his tail. I was going up the coun- try. At the station I saw him, and, feeling a little delicate about the matter, I went through the train to my car to avoid meet- ing him on the platform. To my surprise he met me at the door, and, as ws spoke, asked why I had avoided nim. I told him frankly. He said, ‘My dear hoy, never feel that way. I don’t mind like it. The more you pound the better for me. If you keep drawing awful pictures of me, people all over the country will think i'm a gooi deal of a man.’ On the other hand, ex-Senator Hiscock doesn’t like to be caricatured. Neither does Mr. Cleve- land. He is quite sensitive. Some friends of mine who know him very well inet him in Washington a while ago. Le asked about us here, and if my friends ever came here. They said they did. Then he re- marked: ‘Gillam was all right while he was with Puck, but sinee then he has been all wrong.’ Once I drew him and Hill dancing together at some time when they were working in harmony. Hill laughca at it. "Phe paper was passed around in Mr. and Mrs. Cleveland’s presence at a dinner. She thought it funny, but when he examined it he looked solemn and threw the paper down. “You've heard of. Louis Philippe’s pear- shaped head. Mr. Cleveland has one also, which is most pronounced. We look for eircles and squares and animals in heads. William M. Evarts shows squares. Ani- mals are the easiest. Almost every face suggests something of the kind. It is so easy to make a bearded man with glasses, like Charles A. Dana, into an owl. But our work Is not so easy as it used to be. We'd like some striking men. Mr. Cleveland is ictured till we're tired of it. He has to ear the brunt of the administration cari- eature, Now that Bissell is gone, he has a eabinet that it’s hard to do anything with. ‘They are all ordinary-looking people. Car- Hsle is awful. Wilson is of little use. You ean’t make much of him but a country schcol teacher with his thin face and mus- teche. “We have to be simpler than the old en- gravers, who worked for a limited public, and our cartoons are more genera! in ap- plication. It doesn’t do to use Dante, splendid as he would be for suggesting themes. I once worked out a fine idea, a series founded on “The Ancient Mariner,’ but I had to give it up. 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Tales of Commercial Travelers De- scribing Railway Journeys. From the New York Herald. A group of commercial: travelers in a ho- tel one day last week were discussing the slow train service of a certain road in the south. Said one of the party: “The last timo I went over that road I noticed a man at one of the stations raise his hat and stand uncovered. This inter- ested me and, stepping off the cars, I asked him what he was doing. He told me it Was the custom in New Orleans, from which city he came, to salute a funeral Procession, and he had taken the train for a funeral cortege. After explaining to the man his mistake, I ran down the track, overtook the train, and eventually reached my destination.” ~After another round of refreshments, a second member of the party said: “I know that story is true. Unfortunate- ly the road can’t help the slow train serv- ice. It tried to correct it once, but failed. It was this way: Walter Hurley of New York, who represented Porter Bros. a few Years ago, was in that section of country, and some one made him a present of a fine dog. Hurley was going on to New Orleans and wanted to take the dog with him to give it to a woman there. “The train conductor would not let him take the dog in a passenger car, and he would not let it go in the baggage car. A Place Found for It. “ Bitch it on behiyd the train,’ said Hur- ley. ‘The train’s no good. The dog could run beside it, but, for fear°that something might attract its attention, you might as Well fasten it to the last car.’ “This rather hurt the conductor’s feel- ings, and he remarked that there wouldn't be much deg left when the train reached New Orleans. Hurley insisted, however, so the dog was tied to the last.car and the train started. “The conductor had given the tip to the engineer, who determined to strangle the dog and in this manner get even with the passenger for his criticism of the train. So he did not pay much attention to his schedule or spare his speed. About a half hour or so after starting the conductor passed through the train. ‘Well, how’s that dog?’ he said, with a malicious smile, When he reached Hurley. ‘Oh, all right, I imagine,’ replied Hurley, glancing up from his book. “The two then walked to the rear of the train, and there, sure enough, was the dog, the string loose, trotting along behind, like a coach dog following a butcher's wagon. Hurley smiled and the conductor laoked dazed. Unexpected Results. “The train leaped forward a few mo- ments later. It was a surprise to every- body on the road. It really went fast, that is, as compared with the schedule. The ears rocked and the locomotive sent forth clouds of soot and smoke, showing that the fire was blazing and the speed was at the extreme limit. “ ‘How is your dog now?’ asked the con- ductor of Hurley a little later. ‘I don’t know,’ replied Hurley; ‘let’s go and see. ‘Together they passed to the rear of the last car. The eord hung loose, the dog was not there. “ ‘I told you so,’ remarked the conductor, jubilantly. ‘I knew the dog couldn't keep up with the train.’ “Don't be too sure of that,’ answered Hurley. ‘Maybe he’s gone on ahead.” “And so he had. When the train reached New Orleans, there sat the dog on the platform. The train had been too slow for him. He had gnawed the rope and run on before to await*his master’s arrival.” ——_—+oo—. Something Lacking. From the Philadelphia Call. A men went into a drug store and asked for a certain headache cure. The druggist @id not keep it. “But we have something better than that,” said the clerk. “We warrant it to eure, too.” : “What do you call it?” asked the pros- pective customer. w The clerk gave him the name. “Never heard of it,” said the mfan with the headache. “If it’s good, why don’t you advertise it? Then I would know about "ied “well,” said the clerk, “a great many people do know of it and buy it. You'd be surprised how many of the headache powders we sell.” “Perhaps; and you'd be surprised how many more you'd sell ff you’d advertise them.” And ‘the man with an ache under his hat walked out. The writer is willing to make an affidavit to the truth of this story. ———_+ee_____ v How Could She? From the Indianapolis Journal. _ “Oh, it was just lovely,” she was heard saying as the electric motor’s hum sub- sided. : “Did she make such a lovely corpse?” asked the other girl, and all the women in the car pulled their cloaks away from their ears. “Oh, no; it wasn’t that,” said the first girl, with a little dry sob. “Even though we oughtn’t to say anything but good of those gone b2fore, I can’t stand to say that she ever did look lovely. But the way it was arranged was the touching thing. You know thcse four young men she was en- gaged to last summer? ‘Well, by her spe- cial request they all acted as pallbearers. Oh, it was too lovely for anything, though fe youninit do such a thing to save my e.”” “I don’t see how you could,” said the other girl, and the car rotled on, hile a small boy trying to steal a ride rolled off. ——_+o+—_____ ‘Wanted the Most Money. From Life. “I have learned the whole of the 119th Psalm by heart,” said Benny Bloobumper to his father’s visitor. “What is that for, Benny? So that peo- ple ee give you a quarter to hear you re- cite it?” ee So that people will give me 50 cents not to.” This dog is named “March,” because when he comes in he is like a licn, but when ke goes out he is lik, Life. PENSION SHARPERS Methods Adopted to Cheat the Ig- norant and Unwary. WRONGED BY UNSCRUPULOUS PERSONS Some Interesting Glimpses Into the Pension Office Rogue Gallery. THE PENALTIES OF THE LAW: — Se Waltten for The Evening Star. OME OF THE Gree of frauds at- tempted on the pen- sion bureau are veri- table romances. Not long ago there was.a man in a small coun- try town in Indiana who kept a general “store” and was held in good esteem by his neighbors. He had a half-imbectle moth- er. In the county poorhouse near by Was a woman who had applied for a pen- sion. She was the widow of a Union sol- dier. Her claim had got so far along that vouchers were ready to be issued for it. Having ascertained these facts the mer~ chant went to the woman and persuaded her to come and live at his home, on the care of his mother. At the same time, acting in her behalf, he wrote to the pen- sion office, requesting that the money for the widow's pension be sent to his address. She executed the necessary pa- pers under his direction, and in due time a check for $1,200 arrived. He forged -her indorsement, collected the money, put It in his pocket and said nothing about it. After awhile the fact leaked out that the woman had not received her pension. She complained on the subject to neigh- bors. Inquiry followed and the truth be- came known. People began to look askance at the merchant, who was unable to make the sum good. His credit was impaired and legal proceedings were threatened. Anxiety drove him insane, and one night he solved thé whole problem by setting fire to his house and burning up his mother and the defrauded widow, himself swallowing at {the same time a fatal dose of Paris green. In another story of tragedy figures an apothecary of New Albany, Ind. He was acquainted with a widow in Louisville, Ky., who had a claim for a pension. She had confidence in him, inasmuch as he was a man of excellent ‘repute and quite promi- nent in local politics. He helped her to prepare the evidence in her case and for- warded the documents for her to the pen- sion office at Washington. It was arranged that her check should be sent to his ad- dress. Nevertheless, months elapsed and it did not arrive. She became clamorous on the subject, but he continued to declare that he had heard nething. As a matter of fact, however, he had received the check, forged her indorsement and pocket- ed the cash, which amounted to $1,700. Now, ft happened that the widow had a son: He addressed an inquiry to the near- the check had been forwarded to New Albany some time previously. An investi- gation followed. Tho delinquent apothe- cary took the matter somewhat coolly at first, apparently relying somewhat upon his political influence. But the government secured all necessary proofs ani wove a net so tightly about him that he could not possibly escape. Having learned that a warrant had beén issued for his arrest, he went into the rear part of his shop and blew his brains out. In a case like this neither the pensioner nor the government loses the meney. ‘The government recovers from the bank that has cashed the fraudulently indorsed check and pays the pensioner over agair. Fraudulent Claims. From thirty to forty persons are arrested every year for fraudulently pretending to be agents of the pension office. One of the most remarkable swindlers of this kind was a colored preacher of Nashville, the Rey. Clem. W. Lewis. Through his pastoral re- lations he knew everybody, and his prac- tice was to persuade all of his acquaint- ances to apply for pensions. He repr sented that he was an officer of the gov- ernment authorized to adjust such claims, and he made a business of furnishing the requisite evidence in their behalf. The persons with whom he dealt being very igporant, were easily persuaded that they were entitled to pensions.. He manufac- tured the testimony, including bogus atfi- davits, etc., and literally peddied it about in a market basket. In this way he made a good deal of money, imposing upon hun- dreds of individuals. He was so foolish as to give receipts in sore instances, and a few of these got into the hands of the authorities. He was arrested a few months ago and was sentenced to twenty-eight years in the penitentiary—the longest sen- tence ever given in a pension case. Much more remarkable and successful were the fraud of the three McGindley brothers, James H., John W. and Austin, in southern Illinois. Immediately after the war they established a business in fraudu- lent claims. James H. was the genius of the trio. He had a benevolent countenance, scmewhat resembling Horace Greeley's,and well calculated to disarm suspicion. The plan adopted was extremely simple and ef- fective. The claims of widows who had been pemsioners and who had died were dealt in principaily. The McGindleys se- cured women to falsely personate the de- funct widows, themselves executing the vouchers and forging indorsements on the checks. In not a few instances, where sol- diers had not been so thoughtful as to take wives unto themselves, they manufactured widows for them. How much money they secured in this way is not accurately known, but it is supposed to have been somewhere between $40,000 and $50,000. James H. was arrested in 1887 at a post office in Illinois, to which he came for the purpose of securing mail addressed to him under a fictitious name. He got ten years. One of the other brothers died in Memphis of yellow fever several years earlier; the third was not captured. The government recovered from banks $1,800 on proved forgeries of indorsements. A Much-Married Man. x Capt. Jenks, not of the horse marines, was a remarkable criminal in more ways than one: He finished his last term in prison in 1$90, and has not been heard from since. Soon after the close of the war he killed a steamer captain in New York city and, escaping punishment, came to Wash- ington, where for some time he pursued the calling of a card sharper. Having left here, he turned up at Cumberland, Md., where he appeared in the role of a pension agent authorized to investigate and adjust claims.. There he won the affections of a widow, whom he married. He deserted her and went to Lockport, N. ¥., where he married anotker woman. This sort of thing he kept up until he had accumu- lated no fewer than nine wives, always se- lecting women who had some money. Mean- while he kept on at the pensions claims business. He wore on his waistcoat a large metal star, which bore the inscription, “United States Detectivé.” This served him in lieu of credentials. One method of his was to promise a pension and to say that, while he himself was not permitted to take any fee, the cost of issuing a certifi- cate would be so much. Another plan was to threaten a reduction of pension, but to offer to fix it with the government for some such small consideration as $5 or $10. He was not a proud man, and was usually willing to take chickens or other easily con- vertible property in case the victim had no mney. = These explcits were not performed wholly without penalty. The enterprising Capt. Jenks was tried and convicted for personat- plea that she should be employed in taking:|, est pension agency, and Was informed. that } ing a gcvernment Officer five times, spend- ing many years in the penitentiaries of Pennsylvania and New Jersey. On one oc- casion he was takeugup in Chicago just after deserting ong,of, his wives,from whom he had secured 44,09) in cash, obtained from the sale of rm belonging to her. Wheh arrested f¢{ the last time, in 1888, he was masqueragng,as a clergyman, and had just cempletql %.powerful sermon at a camp meeting, which had thrown his audience irto the wildest enthusiasm for salvation. As he Was descending from the pulpit the hand of a deputy marshal was placed on his shouldey, He drew a revolver and shot the rghal, wounding. him, though not serious} A Plausibte Rasenl. A rival of Capt.,Jetiks as a masher and gay Lothario wag, a,fScandinavian named F. M. O. Holsten, fide appears in the rogues’ gallery at the penttonfoffice in the uniform of an officer of t#é Wuion army, with a sword at his side“ind the badge of the G. A. R. on his breasts, He is also decorated with medals of hopor. vertheless, he never was in the army. When captured bona fide letters from Gen. Grant and other disiiuguished persons were found in his pockets. He.is a véry plausible man and has no end of grit.” Just at present -he is in the penitentiary, having been corfvicted of forgery and perjury in connection with persion claims. He made a business of pretending to be a pension agent, collect- ing money fy a manner similar to that al- ready described. Incidentally, he married at least nine women. A face of the purely criminal type in the big phctograph album which embraces the rogues’ gallery at the pension office is that cf George B. Howard, who served in the Union navy during the war. He actually succeeded in personating eight of his former comrades, who were on the same ship with him. He collected pensions for all of them by forging claims and manu- facturing evideace in support of them. Re- cently’ a man was arrested in Louisiana who for some time has made a busiress of promising pensions to people. His method has been to give orders on the custom house at New Orleans for the amounts al- leged to be due. At the same time he de- manded fees, which were readily paid,even if the victims were obliged to borrow the Mmcney for the purpose. Nothing in this world is too mean for a pension swindler, and hardly any other form of fraud against the government is so frequent. RENE BACHE. —_—_—— WAS NOT LIKE HOME. He Wants His Wife to Take a Course in Slippers. s From the Chicago ‘Tribyne. He had taken off his shoes and was down cn his hands and knees in a closet search- ing for something, when his: wife noticed him. “What are’ you looking for, William?” she asked. “My slippers,” he replied, yh, I gave those old things away to- day,” she said. He turned and looked a: “You gaye them away!” he repeated, ¢nd then he added solemnly: “Mrs. Miffler, are you trying to drive me from home?” “Of cour’e not. : “What is home without slippers?” he in- terrupted. “What is an evening at home with heavy shoes on your feet? Mrs. Mi what do you think constitutes home? you’can get another pair,” she her in surprise. To “Of course I can!”; he exclaimed. “I can get a new pair of stiff-soled slippers and Spend thirty days. breaking them in.” “The others were forn and—” . “That's why I liked them! They were comfortable. Whep .t,got them on things séemed home-like, I (was ‘settled for the evening and a fapr-hgcse team could not Bet me’ out agaig, But riow—now, I am ready for the clup-otythe theater, or any ather-place. Siippgrs, Mrs. Miffler, help to make the differeng between the home and the office, and old,alippers make the differ- ence greatest.” “Of course you - No woman ever can; but I tell. youssif J were runring things Td make,every woman take a course in shppers. That's what,js needed more than suffrage or anything else in that line. Just slippers, - nothing ,put plippers.” He got up, stamped around the room in his stocking feet’ oy g, minute or two and then put on his shoes, again. “This isn't homa,{ he said. bitterly. isr’t@ bit like it.;J’m,going to the club.” ss) hori Rae Mr. Ibanex? Was iWritten, it Way y From 'Mcclire’s “Madaztne? “And now tell me,” I said, “the true story of how-you eame towrite ‘Mr. Isaacs.” I have read different versions of it.” “It has once or twice been told correctly,” said..Mr. CraWford, “end this is exactly how it happened. On May %& 1882, Untle Sam (Ward) asked’me to dine with him at the New York Club, which was then in the building on Madison square now called the Madison Square bank buliding. It goes without saying that we had a good dinner if it was ordered by Uncle Sam. We had dined rather early, and were sitting in the smoking room, overlooking Madison Square, while it was still light. As was perfectiy natural, we began td exchange stories while smoking, and I told him with a great deal of detail my recolléctions cf an interesting man whom I had met in Simla. When I had finished he said to me: ‘That is a good two-part magazine. story, and you must ite it out immediately.” “He took me around to his-apartments, and that night I_began to write the story of ‘Mr. Isaacs.’ Part of the first chapter was written afterward, but the rest of that chapter and several succeeding chap- ters are the story that I told to Uncle Sam. I kept at it-from day to day, getting more interested in the work as I proceeded, and from time to time I would read a chapter to Uncle Sam. When I got through the original story I was so amused with the writing of.it that it occurred to me that I might as well make Mr. Isaacs fall in love with an Unglish girl, and then I kept on writing, to see what would happen. “By and by I remembered a mysterious Buddhist whom I, had once met in India, and so I: introdueed him, to still further complicate matters. I went to Newport to visit my aunt, Mrs. Julia Ward Howe, while I was in the midst of the story, and continued it there. It was on June 13, 1882, while in her»home, that I finished the last chapter of ‘Mr. Isaacs;’ and Uncle Sam appearing in Newport at that time, I read him the part of the story which he had not heard. ‘¥ou. will give it tome,’ he said; ‘I shall try and find a publisher.’ He had for many years frequented the hook store of Macmillan, and was well acquainted with the elder George Brett. He toak the manuscript to Mr. Brett, who forwarded it to the English house, and in a short time it was accepted.” Se Several of This Kind. From the Chicago Record. Estimable Citizen (in his after-dinner speech). “Every citizen must do his duty at the polls, no matter what the cost!" The same citizen (on election day)—“No, Jacobs, I’m not going to vote. You see, I'm extremely busy—and—well—the fact is —I—I—neglected to register.” a Cause of the Delny. 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Dutton of New York, sideration. . the enginéer, who has worked out the prob- Chiko was surely a most extraordinary lem of the new waterway, says they could ape, He was abcut as near human as any | be turned back into that channel if money animal which ever came under the observ- enough were expended upon the work. His ing eyes of New Yorkers. And now Miss | plan, however, does not contemplate any- Johanna, after a year’s education in the thing which would destroy the commerce of Central Park zoo, seems to have developed | Montreal or make Quebec’s water front a an intelligence and wisdom .quite equal to sandy plain. The great river can spare the late Chiko. cnough water for the ship canal and not Johanna belongs to the chimpanzee fam- appa = se — lost a drop. ily of West Africa, and holds a very high is the foremost. of rivers in its uni- form discharge, of which the mean amount position in ape society. The chimpanzee 1s | is"370.005 cuble feet per second at Onder generally regarded as second only to the} burgh. The lowest discharge of the Missis- gorilla, There is little doubt that Johanna | sippi is 156,000 cubic feet per second and its would occupy a prominent position in hu- aetna is sey, elgnt | times that amount. 2 Work requir complet ie pro- man society in many parts of her native | sect ty not so.great as may be imagined. It ‘Johanna oecupies an apartment in the | Will be necessary to build a new aqueduct old arsenal building in Central Park, and she holds a general reception every day. over the Chippewa river on the Welland canal, also eight miles of new canal from near Thorold, Ont., to near Queenstown, Her keeper declares that he has observed in her traits of character bearing a certain | With two locks; a lock at Cornwall, a lock resemblance to those which distinguish woman from man, Anybody, he says, can near Valley Field, Quebec; a canal from Lake St. Francis in the St.’ Lawrence at a See the same thing for himself by devoting a little attention to her. point opposite Grand Island, to the Riche- Yeu river, and lastly a canal from Lake to the Hudson river. This last He finds that she is orderly, cleanly, | Champlain cheerful, affectionate and patient, She | Will be the most difficult part of the whole only uses bad lenguage on severe provoca- tion, and is in general as well behaved as undertaking. a chimpanzee is ever likely to be. The posed canal will connect South Bay, Lake Champlain, with the Hudson She loves to keep the home bright and cheerful, and if the scantiest material were at Fort Miller, although an effort will be made to connect with the river at a point allowed ‘her she would undoubtedly busy | MEPEH,Um Below Coxsackie the Hudson herself constructing cozy corners. It is| > 'New York. The lock at thin ena or ae understood that she has hopes of doing | route will be at Waterton something in this way, but menagerie and | "“rne Gepth of water neccesary in the ca- cireus authorities are unfavorable to Her | pais to be constructed will conform to that plans. She thiaks she could produce pretty | on Limekiln Crossing in the Detroit river. decorative effects with hats, eyeglasses, | ‘The route will be essentially for freight feathers, scarfpins, scarf false fronts and | vessels, and it will be deepened trom tone other contributfons from visitors. to time to conform with the depth main- One of the best times to gain an idea of | tained by the government in. the Detroit Johanna’s nice little ways is when she eats = her breakfast. This consists almost en- tirely of fruit. Her diet, in fact, is practi- river. cally ited to fruit. Before eating she spreads out a newspaper with her hands and arranges the food daintily on it. For breakfast she usvally gets a lemon and a liberal supply of oranges and ba- Nanas. She peels them very neatly, and puts the peelings with care on one side of the newspaper. Sometimes the fancy will take her to lift up the newspaper and pitch the contents in somebody’s face. This Mr. McCabe re- gards as feminine caprice. One of Johanna’s qualities, which does not carry out the human analogy, is an ability to aim with remarkable correctness. She can hit the passer’s nose with a piece of orange peel or paper whenever she tries. Her language, according to her keep2r, is Portugues She spent two years in Lis- bon before she-came here, and became ac- customed to hearing the language of that place at the period when the chimpanzee begins to understand. She is now about twelve years old and has reached her adult age. A chimpanzee in a natural state may live, it is computed, to be about sixty. There is very little prospect, however, that one living in captivity in a northern cli- mate would attain that age. Johanna is expected to grow yet, both in mind” ahd body. Her youth is apparent from her playfulness. . After breakfast her keeper gives her a glass of port with an egg. The delicate state of her health requires this combina- tion of. stimulant and nourishment. She appreciates this feature of her diet very thoroughly. After taking in the port wine and egg she pats her stomach and smiles archly at Mr. McCabe. Johanna is fed at irregular intervals throughout the day with fruits and nuts. The object is to give her as nearly as pos- sible a natural diet. Wine is also given to her more than once a day. Like all monkeys, she shows a strong liking for alcoholic stimulants. It is to be feared that if she had the oppor- tunity she would become a dipsomaniac. When Mr. McCabe gives her a drink of wine he holds the bottle in his own hands, and tells her in Portuguese to keep her hands at her sides. She obeys him, but shows, involuntarily perhaps, some diffi- culty in keeping her hands off the bottle. Every morning she looks over a news- paper very carefully, showing a preference, it is thought, for the illustrated portions. Sometimes she will stop her reading, roll the paper in a ball and throw it at a spec- tator. After eating she uses a tooth-pick, and spits like a real American man. Her voice is painfully human. It is ex- erted most powerfully when her keeper an- noys her by humming. Then she screams at the top of her voice until he stops. At the same time she walks yp and down her cage, stamping her ample feet on the floor. Johanna walks sometimes upright on her Rind legs, and sometimes on these and the knuckles. She never walks on the flat of the hands. ACUTE DYSPEPSIA. Sympathetic Heart Disease Often At- tends It. From the Republican, Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Mrs. V. Curley, who has resided in Clarence, Iowa, for the past twenty-two years, tells an in- teresting story of what she considers rescue from premature death. Her narrative is as followst manifold symptoms of acute dyspepsia, and at times other troubles were present in complication— I aid not know what 1t was to enjoy a meal. 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