Evening Star Newspaper, January 18, 1896, Page 9

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY, JANUARY 18, 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. Monday’sProgram at the Patats Royal. = Rare bargains in new and _ best Silks,» Wool Dress Goods, Trim- mings, Laces. Ribbons, Notions, Table Linens, Stamped Goods, Glass Ware, Underwear, Corsets, Um- brellas and Mackintoshes. The Black Silks. A scratch of the pen will make them worth—on paper—any price we like to stafe. We want you to make comparison with those else- where. Samples will tell you. {FForty-one pieces of these silks have been se- cured at 25 per cent discount, and we claim them that much better values than any pre sold or being now ‘sold elsewhere, 5 $1 for $1.50 Brocades. The Black Gros Grain Brocaded Silke, with very large figures—the ultra fashlonabl silk for skirts. as, Peau de Soie. inches wide, $1 quality for 85c mv 24 inches wide, $1.25 quality for $1 yard. 24 iwches wide, $1.50 quality for $1.25 yard. 2 inches wide, $1.89 quality for 31.50 yard. $1 for $1.50 Bengaline. We ciata: Ust same “quality ‘elsewh ‘same it yard. Samples will ef pow aos Black Satin Duchesse. wide. 1.50 22 inches wide, 5c quality for 7Se EE inches Wide, $0 gunlty tor S0e" yard 24 inches wide, ality for $1 yard. 24 inches wide, $2 ity $1.50 yard. The Colored Silks. Do you know the difference be- tween Silks with printed warp and surface prints? are the new Persian and Dresden Silks, Im street and ev with printed warp, at wi price was iF &gc for $1 Silks. 2 Sos Meare colors as only Paris taste Pp 49¢ for 69c Silks. ‘The 7896 Figured India Silks—the advance styles for spring and summer. We do not call them beantiful, only fashionable. Black Wool Fabrics. Since the Mohair family is to be the “four hundred” of 1896, the fol- lowing bargains should be duly ap- preciated: At 89c Yard. Black Mohair Sicilian, 45 inches wide. $1 qual- ity for only $9e sd. SS At 75¢ Yard. The 45niach wide New Grenada Cloth and the 42- foch Mohair Brilliantine, Se qnality for Je yd. ‘ At soc Yard. mea wide Mobair Sicilian, T5e quality for only At 39c Yard. So-inch Black Freich Senge, af 30¢ yard, that ‘very woman can see is good valu> at 50 cents. An Extra Bargain. 50-inch Black Wool Suitings, in rough effects. A ecemenons lot, worth $1 to $1.50, for only 89¢ Fabrics in Colors. The 1896 Wool Dress Goods just out of the custom house—the new spring styles of London and Paris. At soc Yard. 40-inch Mohair Jacquarda, in two-tone effects. 40-inch Pin-check Mohairs, from London. 40-inch Persian Stripe Suitings, from Paris. 4@-inch Silk and Wool Plaid Suitings. The prices of fnture importations cannot be lower. If the bill ‘nereasing the tariff Becomes law prices must be higher. Trimmings. Under this head we will mention Trimmings, Buttons, Laces, Rib- bons, Embroideries and Notions, telling you of the bargain spots. $5 Yokes. for $1.50. These are finest cut jet garnitures, Yokes and Collars, worth $2.50 to $3." We bought the im- Perter’s samples at $1.25 h Sell them at $1.50, meke 25. eents-on each, and yet sell at less price than paid at wholesale by other merchants. Sonte Costly Buttons. Finest of Jewel, Riinestohe, Enamel and Minia- ture Buttons. They were imported to retail ffom Se to $2.25 each, and yet we can profitably dis- tritute them from 25e to $1.50 each. 50c for $1.25, Laces. Soc sant” for Lacot worth T5e to $1.-25—Iast of best selling Chantilly, Bourdon and Real Venice Laces, 3% te 12 inche wide. They are not whole Pieces, and they are not meager remnants —lengt's Femain sufficient for all parpo<es. Grass Cloth Laces. Alresdy the 1°96 favorite in Paris and London. We have just received fifty latest styles in Inser- = and Edges, 1% to 6 inches wide, 16c to $1.50 Points Lear and Breton. More fashionable Laces for "96. They come in mateh sets. Point Lear, 1% to 10 inches wide, 12 to 50e yd. Point Breton, 3% to 10 inches, 35¢ to $1 yard. Gauzes and Chiffons. ‘ide Tinsel Ganzes for only 50c_ ra-d, a Se wee thee $4.50 yard. ‘fact All-silk are. same rlousl sold at T5e Black, white and eae Peis s Bargain Embroideries. « 1895 pattci:ns that were 35¢ to 40c are to go quickly at 19¢ yd. Cheaper and more expensive at cor inz reductions in prices. See bargain ccutter. to left of G st. entrance. Half Price Ribbons. Once-a-rear bargains—the ‘“‘seconds’” from the best maker of Lest Kibbons in the United Stazes. Let a defect exist in one spot of the ten yards compesing a piece. and the whole is thrown aside. labeled “‘seconds."* These pieces are gathered to- gether annually, and go to one of the maker's best custonérs at nominal prices. The Palais Royal proprietor is the lucky oe this year. At 5e yard— Se te-12e qualities, % to 1 tach wide. t 12% to 2 oualities. ‘1 to 1% inches wide. y 160 ‘to 30e qualities. 2 to, 2% tnches wide. At Iie = Be to 40¢ qualities, 3 to 3% inches wide. At 25c. yard— Bic to 45e qualities. 3 and 31% inches wide. At S5e yard— @0c quality, 5 inches wide The lots includ> Best Satin and Gros Grain i=4 and Moire and Gros Grain Ribbons, in the best colorings, enous” ‘ra two days’ “rush.” The ‘Special’ Notions. Dressmakers and storekeepers will please understand we cannot afford to sell wholesale quantities at prices quoted below: E>The right ts reserved to limit the sold esch purely. ser. Copa Je for King’s Sewing Machine Cotton, 200 yards. Je «pool for Black Sewing Silk, 50 yards. for +-yard piece “Princess” Birding. piece for Taffeta Silk Seam Binding. for one dozen Covered Dress Stags. for rand of “Swell” Hooks and Byes. doz. for Clinton Safety Pins, all sizes, for 4yard piece Cotton Tape. pair for 9e Dress Shields, No. 2. The Table Linen. See the Hemstitched and Fringed Sets, consisting of Table Cover and Twelve Napkins or Doylies. ze Be Be Be le Be ET They -~- 1805 designs. Sold until now at $2.49 and 5). To be closed out at 20 Per cent Sth off marked price. 00d Bargains. tor $1.7 ity Superfine Double See wie! ‘ $1.29 rau Satin Table Damask, $1 yard for $1.39 quality Damask that looks goed Value as the abcve quoted. ey 89¢ yard for $1.10 quality, 68 inches wide. Te yard, to aves Not the End. ‘The end of toe column is reached, but not Mon- ay’s program. To be continued on Page 7 of to- Fine Poached Palais Royal, @ and Eleventh strects.......... A Lianer SCHOOL FOR GIRLS First Building to Be Erected in the Cathedral Grounds. ABOUT THE PROPOSED PLAN Due to the Generous Gift of Mrs. Hearst. WHITE STONE AND BRICK Some time next spring, when the bishop- elect of the diocese of Washington enters upon his duties and is able to give his at- tention to the affairs of the Protestant Episcopal Cathedral foundation, the erec- tion of a building for the Hearst School for Girls will be begun. Independent of the fact that the building itself will be a grace- ful architectural creation and an ornament éevoted to the uses of a girls’ school. As may be seen from the accompanying cut, which was taken from a perspective draw- ing made by the architect of the cathedral foundation, Mr. Ernest Flagg of New York, the exterior of the proposed. butlding will be in the modern Renaissance style, to cor- respond with the architecture of the cathe- drel. As is well known, the ground se- cured is at the intersection of Connecticut avenue extended and the Woodley road. The building for the school for girls will face Woodley road, standing on the west side of a great court yard, which will be in front of the cathedral. In the future it is proposed to have a balancing building on the other side, to be used as a seminary. The great extent of the frontage of the proposed building is 216 feet on Woodley road, with a rear extension of 128 feet. As shown in the illustration, the building is divided into five semi-detached pavilions; the central one, on Woodley road, is for the class rooms. The pavilions on either side are for dormitories above and sitting rooms, parlors, &c., below. There are two other pavilions, containing dormitories, dining room, kitchen, gymna- sium, &c. Inclosed playgrounds partly covered, as shown on the plan, are provided so that the children can plav out of doors in cold weather. The dormitories are arranged in sections. For example, the rooms on one floor of a pavilion open from a central hall. A teacher is to occupy one of these rooms, and thus will have close supervision over the pupils, and this arrangement will pre- serve the family idea, which is considered to Pian ot First FLoom dimensions. From this there ts an entrance to the corridor, which extends along the tier of rooms on this floor and opens on the courts. As indicated on the plan, the two courts or covered playgrounds are entirely distinct. The system of grouped or fam'‘ly dormitories is continued in the upper story, the central pavilion in the second story be- ing devoted to class rooms and a library, while the space in the side pavilions is de- voted to dormitories. The details of the plan have been carefully thought out and have been explained to Mrs. Hearst, who, of course, takes the deepest interest in hav- ing the building a model of its kind. As may be seen, ample facilities have been pro- vided for light and air, and as the location of the building ts a high and commanding one, and in one of the most picturesque sec- tions of the suburbs, the external advan- tages of the new school will be of the best. One of the attractive features of the new buliding will be the material to be used, which will be white brick and stone. All| the trimmings, cornices, etc., are to be stone : and the plain surface brick. The cathedral is to be entirely of stone. As the system of streets in the vicinity of the grounds has not been decided upon, it has beer’ suggested by Mr. Flagg, the ar- i chitect, that provision be made by the Dis-! trict Commissioners in their plan of street } extension so that there be a broad avenue on the main axis of the cathedral running to Massachusetts avenue. The slope of the ground, he says, is such that this broad street would rise at a uniform rate up to the cathedral grounds. The church edifice would then occupy very much the same re- to the city, its erection will be the second practical step, so to speak, in the fulfill- ment of the gran@ scheme involved in the idea of such an institution. The first step was obtaining by donation and purchase the ground, which was accomplished through the enterprise and generosity of citizens of Washington, and resulted in se- curing a tract of twenty acres, which occu- be a desirable feature in a modern school. The same idea runs through the entire in- terior arrangement, as is shown by the pro- vision made for the inclosed playgrounds. ‘There are two of these, one for the use of the older girls and the other for the mem bers of the younger classes. They are con- rected with the apartments occupied by these different grades of pupils, and the pupils can, while in the playground, be un- der the eye of the teacher, and when they e EPISCOPAL CATHEDRAL SITE. pies a commanding site overlooking the city. ‘Through the berfefaction of Mrs. Phoebe A. Hearst, the directors have been able to ar- range for the erection of the first building, and, as provided by the donor, it will be go out on the grounds about the building, they can be accompanied by a teacher, if the regulations of the school require. There is an ample vestibule, from which access is had into a rounded hall of large lation to the proposed avenue as the Capi- tol building does to Pennsylvania avenue. Such an arrangement, Mr. Flagg thinks, would add immensely to the beauty of that part of the city. According to another plan, the, system of streets covering the section south of the Woodley road will not square exactly with the plan of the arrangement of the buildings on the cathedral grounds. There will be streets leading south from Woodley lane, but there will be none on the line of the axis of the cathedral, so as to afford a vista to the cathedral. As will be seen from the map, the contour of the ground made it nect essary to select a site for the cathedral building which was not the central point of the grounds. The gift of Mrs. Hearst to the cathedral foundation for the erection of this building was $175,000. The formal acceptance of the gift was made in April, last year, and in ac- cordance with the. understanding made at that time with the trustees of the cathedral the building is to be entirely completed be- fore 1900. It is expected, however, that it will te ready for the reception of pupils be- fore that time. In addition to the complete- ness of the proposed building, it is expected that a department for the higher education of women will ultimately be part of the scheme. As is well known, the cathedral foundation charter conferred by Congress includes within its scope not merely the cathedral proper, but adjunct institutions of a benevolent character, together with a broad educational scheme. It 1s expected that the Uberality of individuals will make it possible to build other parts of the whole cathedral scheme, such as the boys’ school, the chapel, the bishop's house, the sem- inary for higher theological education, the convention hall, the diocesan library, resi- dences of the clergy, etc., and last, but not least, the cathedral itself, which {s to crown the whole. 5 ‘The committee on buildings and grounds consists of the Rev. Dr. George William Douglas, Col. John M. Wilson, United States army, and Mr. A. T. Britton. Under the supervision of this committee it is expected that the active work of erecting this build- ing will be begun early in the spring. NEVER SPOKE TO WOMEN. George Barnes, 2 Hermit, Had Many Peeuliarities. From the San Francisco Chronicle. ‘Another strange romance has come to light in the mining camps of California in the discovery of the fact that an old miner, known as “George Barnes, the hermit,” who died at Jacksonville a few months ago, left a fortune of $100,000, which will go to his brothers in New Jersey. One is Jas. Barnes, a well-known citizen of Paterson, and the other is William of Franklin, in the same stathe story of how their brother George lived and died, leaving them his fortune, is a romance,” said Attorney Oscar T. Shuck yesterday. “‘In their youth the three broth- ers lived with their parents on the heights of Povershun, N. J., simple farmer boys. George, the most ambitious son, fretted un- der the restraints of farm life and deter- mined to marry before he had reached his majority and come west. He fell deeply in love with a young woman, and spent much of his time in her company, but his father deeply objected to the atta¢hment and for- bade the marriage. The result was a bitter- ness between father and son, and George was severely reprimanded. The trouble cul- minated in George’s determination to leave home, and one morning forty-three years ago he bade his family farewell. 7 am going west,’ he said at parting, ‘and I shall never return. If I cannot marry the girl I love I shall lead a hermit’s life. I will never speak to a woman again.’ “Long years the family waited for word from the wandering son, but none came. The parents died, the brothers separated, and George was given up for dead. “Only recently it was discovered that the old hermit of Jacksonville, who was found ead in front of the cabin a few months ago, the strange man who shunned men and who never spoke to women, was the same romantic young man who left his home in 1852 with the oath his strange life fulfilled.” Barnes worked a claim of his own, and when he died papers found in his hut showed him to be worth over $100,000. The names, whereabouts and relationships of his rela- tives were found also among his papers. ——_—_+ee____ Michael Hanrahan, an aged_ gardener, who has lived in Princeton, N. &, for twenty-seven years, disappeared January 1 and has not been heard from since. MAN-TRAILING DOGS. Results of Using Bloodhounds to Catch Criminals in the Far West. Fron the San Francisco Examiner. The use of bloodhounds as an adjunct of the police department is becoming more and more common in various sections of the Union. This is particularly the case in the far west. During the Gays of slavery dogs were used throughout the south to run down fugitive slaves, but for many years after the war man-hunting with hounds was al- most unheard of. Now and again it was tried, but lack of training in the dogs and perhaps want of patience in their owners brought about so many failures that the practice was almost forgotten. Ten years ago, when two desperate men held up a train on the Atlantic and Pacific, in the southwest, and secured many thousangs of dollars in booty, a ranchman in Arizona offered to trace the highwaymen ff a suffi- cient force for their capture was furnish- ed him and a reward for his trouble offer- ed. These preliminaries being settled he appeared cn the scene twenty-four hours after the crime had been committed with a couple of not very dangerous-looking dogs and a rifle. He was ragged in cos- tume and apparently ragged mentally, but, as the result proved, knew what he was about. “Keep your eye on them dogs and your hands on your weepons—there’s going to be more or less fun,” was all he had to gay to his associates in starting. Three days later, after a weary chase of many miles over one of the roughest trails in the world, the dogs came up with and cornered the highwaymen. The latter killed both of the dogs, but before they could escape the pursuing posse was upon them and they surrendered. They afterward confessed their guilt, and told where the booty was hidden. Nearly $50,000 was recovered. The amount of money involved and the satis- factory work of the bloodhounds revived the old practice of trailing men with dogs, and there are now hundreds of the useful animals in the possession of the peace offi- cers of the west. They are carefully bred and trained for the police duties. —-_—____+2—__—_ ‘The four-story brick tannery of William Buff & Co., Louisville, Ky., burned yester- day afternoon. THE “SAMPLE WOMAN.” Not Specimens of Dress Materials, but Various Articles of Food. From the New York Tribune. In one of the resfdence districts uptown there is a person who has become known to all the grocerymen in the neighborhood as ‘the sample woman.” ‘She is an ex- ponent of the belief that the world owes a free living to those who are smart enough to collect it, and. like the usual run of such creditors, devotes much time to the problem of how, not to work. Her method,so faraa 18 known, is original with herself. Its defect js that it can seldom be su more than once in each place, and idjwa$ through an unin- tentional repetition on her part that one grocer was enlightened the other day. “A week or two ago,'}i he said to a cus- tomer, “that woman e into my place for the first time. Shortold me that Mrs. A., on@the next block;-had been speaking so highly of the particular kind of hams I kept that she wartedsto try them. She said that she didn’t’ wafit to take a whole ham just then—couldp’t jise it—hut that she would be greatly objiged if I would let her take a slice home as a sample. Then, if she liked it, as she was convinced that she would, she would sefid finmediarely for the remainder. Well, I hadgorfe suspicions of her story, but I'though{,I would he oblig- ing, and I gave her the.#ample. Of course, I didn’t hear any more from her ebout wanting the rest of {fhe ham, and I put the incident down in my mind as another les- son learned. “Naturally, I never expected to see her again, so that when she walked in this morning I was considerably astonished. She'd forgotten to cross this store off her list, you see. This time !s was crackers. A friend of hers in —th street, mentioning the name of one of my customers, had said that my soda biscuit were so good that others were nowhere in comparison, etc., and wouldn’t I give her a few to take home and try? “ ‘Madam,’ said I, ds the sampling bust- ness prosperous now? I think it bids fair to pay better than the grocery trade unless we're a bit careful.’ “She gave me one look of understanding and turned without a word. As she went out of the door, I swear she was.smiling a little, as if she was rather amused at her own carelessness in getting caught.” For 2 Days. Just to give more of you men a taste of our kind of tailoring, we will offer a lot of fine trouserings on Mon= day and Tuesday, tailored in our best manner, for— G ‘o For two days, remember! Monday and Tuesday. On center table, second floor. G. WARFIELD SIrIPSON, : Merchant Tailor, 12th & F Sts. DEATH OF M. B. BRADY He Passed Away in New York City Last @hursday. A Life Work of Great Historic Vaiue and Peculiarly Interest=- ing Activity. M. B. Brady, the well-known photog- rapher, is dead. For many years he was & familiar figure about Washington, and the news of his passing away will be received with sincere sorrow by hundreds who have known him during his long and eventful career. Mr. Brady was a native of New York, where he died Thursday, having gone there to live a few months ago. A little over a year ago he was run over one day while crossing the street at the corner of New York avenue and 14th street, and for months he lay in the hospital hovering be- tween life and death. When finally he re- covered he was only able to go about on crutches, and existence was almost a bur- den to him. e He began life as a photographer in New York city far bagk in the days when daguer- reotypes were in vogue and soon became known as an excellent workman. He saw the value of his occupation as an adjunct to the historic description of contemporary times and characters. To Brady is due the accurate portraiture of scores of men of great historic prominence in the first half Of the century, as well as of hundreds who have been active in the affairs of the war period and since. He made daguerreotypes of Webster, Calhoun, Clay, John Quincy ‘Adams, Sam Houston and many other men famovs in thelr day. Coming to Washington in the early fifties, Mr. Brady soon became a leading photographer and in a few years Tis neme was a-household word all over the United States. The illustrated journals during the war added to his celebrity by reproducing many of his pictures of battlefields and his por- traits of prominent generals in both armies. He took thousands of important and val- uable negatives during the four years from 14861 to 1865, which have served to illus- trate that great struggle as no war had previously been pictured. Many of these were of a large size and presented graphic Scenes on battlefields, in camp, hospital, during the march and in and about army headquarters. Congress authorized the purchase of a large eollection of these pictures, and a large photographic pub- lishing concern in Hartford, Conn., has for twenty years been steadily engaged in making and selling copies of Brady's war pictures. The sale is largely among vet- erans in all parts of the United States. ‘Mr. Brady, as time settled upon him—he was seventy-six when he died—became Gesultory ard uncertain in his business methods, and neglected rather than utilized his splendid accumulation of valuable work. Last July the last of the negatives in his ccntrol was sold under forced sale to a leading photographer on F street. In this collection were hundreds of life-size nega- tives of the famous generals, statesmen, journalists, diplomats, literary men and actresses of the century. Its historic value is incalculable, and must increase as time passes. In person and manner Mr. Brady was a most congenial gentleman. His friends were legion, and he preferred for years to give them his time and company rather than confine himself to the demands of his calling. He did a good deal of transitory and fugitive work in recent years, much of which consisted of taking pictures of large groups of organizations visiting Washington. In this work he was assisted by his nephew, L. C. Handy, who owns a large number of Mr. Brady’s negatives, and succeeds to the greater part of his bus!- ness. 2 —— THE PENSION BILL. House Passes It Ahend of Time. ~ ‘The pension appropriation bill passed the House yesterday, being several weeks in advance of the usual time for action on that bill. It carries $141,225,820. Mr. Bart- lett of New York raised the point of order against all new legislation proposed in the way of amendments, such as that looking to making a pension a “vested right,” &., and Mr. Dingley of Maine, who was in the chair, sustained them. In this way the clause in the bill changing existing law so as to allow widows to obtain pensions un- der the act of 1890 whose net incomes did not exceed $500 per annum was stricken out. Mr. Bartlett, however, did not raise the point against the provision making pensions under the act of 18%) rejected, suspended or dismissed, and afterward al- lowed, to date from their first application. It was announced in the debate yesterday that bills covering the amendments ruled out would be reported from the invalid pen- sions committee. ee The Moth and the Candle. From Brooklyn Life. She—“Yes, they are engaged. I know she refused him twice, but the third time he proposed she accepted him.” Her Husband—“Serves him right.” The Difference. From the Indianapolis Journal. “The difference between a street and a woman,” said the Cheerful Idiot to the as- sembled and up-to-that-time-happy board- ers, "is that the cross streets are the quiet~ est The Receivers’ Sale at OPPENHEISPER’S STORE, “514 oth Street Northwest, Is still going on. Look at Cloaks, Wraps, €apes:. $3.50 Children’s Blue Reefers. $1.25 4. ‘Gloaks. . . -81.50 00 Ladies’ -Alt-wool 00 00 Ladies’ Double Boucle Capes. 0 Bou pes. Muffs 50 Seal Neck Scarfs. Black Coney Fur a Se: | Furs by the yard at Sacrifice Prices. - the BIG CUT OF PRICES. $9.00 Ladies’ Handsome Boucle Coats. ooo 400 $14.00 Ladies’ ‘Boucle and Kersep.Ceate.s. $25.00 Genuine Electric Seal awaenpee nd Furs. Hot Gosia tl As Blankets and Comforts. $1.75 10-4 Brown Mi: 85e. 1.25 +$3-40 $3.00 12-4 Heavy Gray or White Blankets Tea Gowns and Shirt Waists 78 2c, 25. Boys’ Stripcd Cheviot Shirt Waists..... 5 $5 oocen Pisid' aod’ Flannelette “Shice” © Waists, made in the latest style..... Cotton G0c. Nicely Trimmed Drawers..... Tse. Har dsomely ‘Trimmed Drawers. $1.00 Handsomely Trimmed Drawers. SOc. Skirts, tucked and ruffed. @c. Skirts, tucked and BBc. 2ie. 42c. Everything must be sold, as we in the premises by March 1. Underwear. $2.50 Satine-lived Gomforts.. $8.50 Handsome Satine Comforts. seeeee SLB Se. Plaid Waiste, lined throughout. $3.50 Ladies’ Worsted "Gowns, stylishly made, trimmed in silk Isec” LEON TOBRINER, S. SUGENHEIMER,: Receivers. ee ma -SAMSON IN A FOUNDRY. Prodigious Feat of Strength Display- ed. by an Irishman at Pittsburg. From the Pittsburg Post. At one of the Allegheny foundries where large cast-iron ear wheels are made a long- standing joke practiced on green hands ty some of the older employes was to send two men after a pair of wheels. The old employe, who, in accordance with the plans, always accompanied the green hand, picked up a wheel, which was an exact counterpart of the cast-iron wheels weighing 500 pounds each, and lifting his light burden, trudged away to another part of the establishment, while the other workmen concealed in vari- ous places laughed themselves hoarse at the franticefforts made by the new men to car- ray the heavy iron wheel. Last week a big, strapping young Irishman, just landed from Limerick, secured employment at the place as laborer. He was put to work with a lit- tle Englishman, not more than five feet three inches in height, and who weighed only 112 pounds. The two were often sent to carry molds and other heavy articles, and the big Irish- man complained that his partner was only a half-man, and not fit to carry wheels for a clock tinker, not to talk about working in an iron foundry. The other men, seeing how affairs stood between the two who were so unevenly matched in strength, per- ceived an excellent opportunity te work the car-wheel joke for the hundredth time. They posted the little Englishman, and after getting the foreman’s consent, had “ postens wheel =a its counter- part, a cast-iron one weighing 550 pounds, placed at the lower end of the foundry, and then they ordered the Irish giant and the British dwarf to go quickly and bring the couple of wheels. ‘The two started off together, and the men hid behind boxes and barrels, and in antici- pation of the fun, unbuttoned their vests so as to give their lungs full play for laugh- ter. Little Billy, the Britisher, reached the place first, and picking up the wooden wheel hoisted it to the top of his head and started off with an easy motion that surprised the son of Erin, who was in doubt about the ability of the little fellow to carry one side of a wheel, not to talk about lugging a whole one. Pat then bent down, and after giving the iron wheel a mighty tug, straightened him- self up, with a look of the utmost amaze- ment depicted on his face watched the Eng- lishman hurrying away with his load. Then it was that those who were near enough to the scene heard Pat make use of an/awful oath, and stooping down he seized the heavy wheel, and by an almost superhuman effort raised it up to a level with his head and with the tremendous load in the air stag- gered into the other room and threw it to the floor with a crash that shook the whole building. The floor gave way under the shock and the wheel went clear through to the cellar, while the men who stood by in amazement watching the prodigious feat ef strength finally broke forth in a shout of laughter and applause. Many a time had the, joke been perpetrated, but never before was the iron wheel lifted and carried till Pat performed the formidable task. Sete ~oo— 2 Human Faith. Barrict Louthan in Chicags Record. ‘The epring that strives Or slog Mngzers in the vale below,” wander from know *Twill on day reach the ty ms af the The chili ‘And now of the sea. wind of sutumn sadly grieves, ‘Though first they rise uncertain, iin t w ‘Thes'll rest at last among the myitie leaves, earth and stle: Ee JACK RABBITS FOR. counstNe, Said to Be ‘Greatly Superior English Here for That capex The sport of rabbit coursing is’ hecel @ new impetus sinte the-Scnsad Dino tale ed jack rabbit has entered the arena. Not until quite recently has the coursing fra- ternity been aware of the great superiority of the jack over the cotton-tail rabbit, or the English hare, for this purpose. ‘Kensas jack rabbits are now greatly in demand, both in this country-and im England, and live ones command a good price. The dif- ficulty in catching them alive 4s very great, and only one man.in Kansas, so far as The‘ capture of live jacks involves the pur- hase of a great deal of expensive para-~ phernalia. Mr. Payne has two nets made of seine twine, five in hater txt feet height, which, across a section, and made catching live jacks. His method ping the live jecks is unique. usual custum. when preparing upon the rabbits, to advertise farmer boys the day upon which rabbit drive is-to take place: try boys, mounted on poni rendezvous, arried with fogh bells and anything else that cordant music. are semi-ci : net, and at a given signal from the of the day the line moves toward.the net, each man making feels rout lected the horsemen will “bouncing” rabbits they scamper away toward lowed pell-mel by the eager farmer the scene ts one of great animation. rabbits, if they do not become the noise and excitement, bound away ward the net at almost Ightning and meny of them strike the so that they break their necks. Those it survive the shock scamper into the pockets | of it elt ie] Yet f i 2 ge58 aelttar which are ingeniously arranged for their reception, and for them the #i~ ‘= up, Rab- bits sometimes die with ir >t having sufficient strength to me" race for life. These rabbit drives are the popular sports in which the prairie farmers indulge, and ‘t ts customary for the organ- izer of the drive to provide a bountesus spread for his gratuitous helpers. ——+e Stone Forests of Arizona. From the Cinctonat! Commercial-Garette, The regions of the Little Colorado river in Arizona abound in wonderful vegetable petrifactions, whole forests being found some places which are es hard as flint, which look es if but recently stripped their foliage. Some of these are standing just as natural as life, others are piled across each other Geologirts say that these wore once covered to a depth of 1,000 feet with marl, which transformed wood to solid rock, The marl, siotang aso betanr bases Pe standing in an upright jority of ‘nowever, are skelter tn all directions, being sometimes piled up in an ground. i