Evening Star Newspaper, October 3, 1896, Page 15

THE EVENING STAR, SATURDAY. OCTOBER-3,- 1896-TWENTY-FOUR PAGES. A Planisphere of the Heavens, showing the ato pm. ‘To compare this chart with the heavens, hold it ove:head, when the points of the compass will come right and the stars will fall into their proper plice cmciple Stars Which are above the Horizon October OCTOBER HEAVENS S32 Six Thousand Stars Are Visible to the Naked Eye. FAMOUS NEBULA IN ANDROMEDA That Beautiful Cluster, the Pleiades, Now Above the Eastern Horizon. ABOUT THE PLANETS T HE BRILLIANT star which may be seen at 9 o'clock p.m. tomorrow low in the northeast is Capella, in the constellation Auriga. In the star lst published in the American Ephemeris Capella ranks as the brightest star in the northern hemisphere, being one-tenth of a magnitude brighter than either Vega or Arcturus, although the latter star is usu- ally regerded as the brilliant of the north- ern skies. All three of tHese stars surpass in splendor considerably an average star of the first magnitude. To decide upon their respective claims to the leadersh!p in this respect is not easy, owing to their difference in color. Capella is yellow, Arc- turus is inclined to orange, while Vega is Hluish-white. y one is aware that the stars are classed. accerding to their brilliancy, into magnitudes, the first six classes embracing all the stars that are visible to the naked eye. As the magnitudes are now usually reckoned, there arc twenty stars of the first magnitude, of which only fourteen are ever visible to an observer in the mean latitude of the United States—40 degrees— the remaining six being among the south cireumpolar stars, which never appear above our horizon. About sixty are of the second magnitude, two hundred of the third, four hundred cnd fifty of the fourth, eleven herdred of the fifth and four thous- and of the sixth. These numbers, except the first, are only approximate, the figures being given variously by different authori- ties. It thus appears that the whole num- ber of the stars visibie to the naked eye fs under six thousand, of which two-thirds are so faint that they can be seen only on the clearest nights. The telescopic magni- tudes run down to the sixteenth or seven- teenth, which last embraces the faintest stars revealed by the largest telescopes or by photography. ‘This classification is, of course, purely artific There is no natural arrangement of the stars in respect to brillianey, but, on the contrary, they are of almost every de- gree of brightness, from the brilliant Doz star down to the tinlest speck of star dust that makes its appearance on a photo- graphic plate. The plan was hit upon orig- inally simply as a convenient means of in- dicating roughly in catalogues a star's brightness, and as it was carried out by the earlier astronomers there was very Hittle system about it. Astronomers were not always in accord with one another as to the “magnitudes,” even of the naked- eye stars, and in the cases of the ielescopic stars their estimates were often two or Tore magnitudes apart. Of late years, how- ever, attempts have been made to introduce some system into this classification and to Place the measurement of star magnitudes, or photometry, as this branch of astronomy 1s called, upon a scientific basis. Naked Eye Stars. It has been agreed that the classes shall be so formed that a typical or average star of one magnitude shall be two and a half times as bright as one of the class next below it. This ratio has been adopted Partly because it leaves the magnitudes of the naked-eye stars, as formerly reckoned, Fractically unchanged, and partly for the still better reason that an average star of the first magnitude is thus rendered exact- ly one hundred times as bright as a star of the sixth. Furthermore, the magnitudes are now subdivided into tenths and even hundredths, and are expressed decimally. Thus, a star which is midway in point of brightness between an average first and an average second magnitude star Is said to be of magnitude 1.5. A star of which the magnitude Is 1.4 or 1.3 is nearer the first than the second magnitude; if its magni- tude is 16 to LS it is above the average ot the second magnitude, but is not bright enough to be reckoned as a first magnitude star. This photometric system can be rendered more clear by means of a few exampies se- lected from the stars which are visible to- night. The magnitudes are those given in the American Ephemeris, Aldebaran, the “Bull's Eye,” now just above the hor!zon, a Mttle north of east, is = typical star of the first magni- Fomatheut. in the Southern Fish. to be seen low in the south, is of mag. 3, taat is, it is three-tenths of a tude below the standard of the class to which it belongs. Altair, in the Eagle, now in mtiheavens in the southwest. Is a little brighter than Aldebaran, its magni- tude being 0.9. Vega is cf magnitude 0: ght-tenths of a magnitude brighter than Aidebaran, while Capella is le brighter than that which Is itude stars we take Beta Aurigae, the star in the right shoulder of Auriga, and Dubhe. the upper of the two “pointers” in the Great The five stars which form the of Cassiopeia are usually regarded as of the second megnitude, but all of them are considerably below the average bri ness of stars of this class. Tne brigh jpha and Gamma, the second and oned downward, as the group is now posed. These are beth of magnitude 2.3. Of the stars ef the Swan or Northern Cross, Deneb, in the tail of the Swan—the head of the Cross—is the brightest. Its magnitude is 1.4. That is, it is nearer the first than the second magn.tude. Beta, in the Beak of the Swan, is of magnitude 2.4, or about midway between the eecond and third magnitudes. The Pole Star is of magnitude 2.2, ard is, therefore, not a full second-magnitude star. Sword of Perseus. The principal constellations now above the horizon at 9 p.m. should all be found readily with the ald of the planisphere. Attention may be directed to a few objects of special interest, particularly if the ob- server can command an opera glass, or, better, a small telescope. The’ star cluster in the handle of the sword of Perseus was described last month. This object is always In order when Per- seus is visible, and tomorrow night he, will be in an excellent position in the north- east. The variable star Algol ts another object to be carefully looked after. Ordi- narily this star is of the second magni- tude, but at intervals of a little less than three days it undergoes a remarkable change of brilliancy, falling in the space of about four hours to the fourth magnitude and as quickly recovering its usual splen- dor. Algol will be at a minimum at mid- night on the 15th of the month and again at 9 p.m. on the 18th. The famous nebula in Andromeda Is sit- uated close beside the upper of the three stars which form the belt of the maiden. It ts visible even to the naked eye as a star of a peculiar hazy look. A field glass or even an opera glass shows its nebulous character unm:stakably. There is no need of directing attention to the Pleiades, now fairly above the eastern hor:zon. It has been known for the past eight or ten years, through the aid of pho- tography, that this beautiful cluster, which seems to have caught the eyes of the ea ‘St star gazers, is fairly imbedded in an extensive nebula, and that its stars are to be reekoned by the thousand. There has lately been pubiiched an account of three photegraphs of the Pleiades, taken with long exposure at the Tachkent observatory, which seem to indicate that the riches of this sar mine are practically inexhaustible. One of these photographs, which was given an exposure of twenty-five hours on nine nights, shows 6,614 stars on the surface of four square degrees—that is, an area equal to about one-twelfth of that of the bowl of the Great Dipper. Truly the Pleiades are worthy of the admiration they have always excited. The Planets. Mercury will be an evening star—too near the sun to be visible, however—until the Sth of the month. After that date it will be a morning star, becoming visible in the east before sunrise about the middle of the month. Venus is an evening star and may be seen in the west for a half hour or so after the twilight glow has paled sufficiently. Mars is now the most interesting of the planets. His position is in the constella- ticn Taurus about fifteen degrees northeast of the star Aldebaran, which the planet very closely resembles in color and bril- lancy. Mars now rises soon after 9) o'clock, and by midnight is a conspicuous object in the. eastern sky. Reports of observations up on the planet are becinning to come in from Mr. Lowell,who began work upon it in the latter part of July, at his observatory at Flagstaff, Arizona; from the astrono- mer at Mount Hamilten and from other sources; but thus far nothing startling nas been discovered. We shall not be at our least distance from the planet until the loth of December next. Jupiter is in the constellation Leo and is a morning siar, rising at about 3 a. m. Saturn and Uranus, in the Scorpion, are both evening stars and both now set be- tween $ and 9 p. m. Neptune, in Taurus, is about five degrees west of Mars, but is, of course, far beyond the reach of the naked eye. The moon will be new on the 7th at 3:18 a.m., and full on the 2ist at 9:17 p. m., Washington mean time. She will be in perigee—nearest the earth—on the 7th at 10 a. m., and apogee—farthest from the earth— on the 2ist at 1 p. m. pani THE TRAIN BOY. The Sleepy Traveler Did Not Depress Him and He Had Still a Chance. From the Chicago ‘Tribunc. The monotonous voice of the train boy broke in upon the meditations of the sleepy traveler. “Puck, Jucge, Life, any of the sporting or comic publications, books by popular autnors— “Not any,” drowsily answered the trav- exer. in a few moments the boy came pack and spoke to him again. “Bananas, organges, ap—" Again the boy went away and again he came back. “r1gs, cuvcolate caramels—” “von t want anything. I wish you would quit bothermy me.” Unce more ie voy went away, and once more he returne “Now, see here,” said the traveler, thor- oughiy' awakened by uns ume, “young chap, { don't want any iead pencils, prize PACKageS, SiAUONErY, LOOKS, papers ur ally xund, .gurs, Irult, candy or sku Caps. 4 nave no use for huts, suelled or vinerwise, aid you Can't sell me any soap, duckies, combs, razor strops, cum buttons, aima- nacg, papers of pis, corn starch, rugs, Waiking sticks, mustaru spoons, umucei- Jae, mnt sMUts, clothes pics, brocagea S.1K3, Tupber bands, carpets, vicycles, snav- ing mugs, yacnimg caps, alamonds, Kives or Torgs, Cut glass, flour, bacon, pickle aisn- «s, pertumery, comec, lea, ume cut topacco, cual, baby carnages, elephants, horses or any otuer Kind of animal, folr-rooted or ctherwise, saw logs, Inning stock or real estate. Now will you go away and let me alone?” “Yes, sir,” rejoined the train boy in the same monotonous tone, “want any chew- ing gum —+ e+—__. For the Bicycle Girl. From the Cincinnati Enquirer. ‘A piece of furniture is now made to keep bicycles in. It is of handsomely carved wood, and intended to stand in the hall. it comes in two parts. The lower, which is a lttle higher than the wheels, opens with two broad doors, while the upper is much narrower, being intended to accom- modate the handles and saddles. A shelf is provided to hold any extras one may have, 2s hats or gloves. Covers to fit over wheels may be made of handsome cretons or plain materials, out- | lired with some appropriate design. The | seams should be bound with bright-colored | braids. These covers are very attractive, and will serve the double purpose of pro- tecting the bicycle and one’s clothirg where the machine has to be kept in small rooms or halls in summer cottages. A cover made of rubber or waterproof cloth would be of advantage at the sea- shore or where the bicycles are kept in wire-inclosed plazzas. : ee Got Rid of the Chaperon. From the Chicago Post. “I thought I saw you riding alone with a gentleman last evening.” “You did.” “But dces your mother let you go bicy- cling with gentlemen without a chaperon? “No, indeed.” ‘But you had one.” “Oh, we had when we started, but we punctured her tire to get rid of her.” —— PRINCETON’S YOUTH The ‘Approaching Sesqui-Centennial of This Venerable University. STUDENT LIFE IN THE EARLY DAY: ‘Had Prayers at 5 A.M. and Small Beer at the Meals. TIMES HAVE OHANGED Se Correspondence of The Evening Sta: PRINCETON, September 30, 1596. Te OLD TOWN IS once more alive. Af- ter an absence of two and a_ half months, the 1,200 students have re- turned and taken possession, The dig- nified senior, the nolsy sophomore,and the innocent fresh- man, with terrified look, again give life to Nassau Hall and the surrounding buildings. But in the eyes of everybody connected with the college the formal open- irg this year is of little moment, for, as President Patton expressed it in his ad- dress to the students on Thursday after- noon, “Our minds are completely occupied; I might better cay preoccupied, with the sesqui-centeunial celebration.” Everybody has an eye on October 22. The faculty ccmmittee is busy with the arrangements of what promises to be the grandest col- lege celebration ever held in this coun- try, the student looks forward to a grand occaricn with the town full of “old grads,” and the ‘townspeople are all anticipating the “big day. In his opening address President Patton even .went further, and said: “I have so much to say on this subject (the sesqui- centernial), that I see notbing to do but make it my text.” In his talk he endeav- ored to impress upon the student body a full realization of the importance of the coming occasion, and what it signified in the arrals of Princeton, and in the educa- tloral history of the country. —- A visitor to Princeton does not have to be an alumnus of the college to realize the meaning of 150 completed years of the life of the college, with all the chanzes, ad- diticns and improvements that have taken place in that period. From the granting of Princeton's first charter by Gov. Ham- flton of New Jersey in 1746, which gave the right to President Jonathan Dickinson ard a half dozen students to gather at Elizabeth and he called the College of New Jersey, down to the present, which finds that college among the leaders of the coun- try and the world—the suceessful com- pletion of such an interval is certainly a fitting occaxion for celebration. A Glance at Early Days. A glance at the college of 1750 shows this: It was then located at “New Ark,” as it was then written, having been moved from Elizabeth at the time of the election to the presidency of Aaron Burr, father of thg third Vice President of the United States. This removal and the ease with which it was accomplished, show the primitive character of the college of New Jersey at that time. Nowadays when a man is elected president of an institution of learning, convenience and custom dic- tate that he should go to the college. Not 0 with Princeton's second president, how- ever. The college was promptly moved from Elizabeth to Newark. But when we take into consideration the facts that the president's house was the principal college buildirg, that the college. enrollment not over twenty, it appears that the col- lege and president could both move wit almost equal facility. Not until the removal to Prine on in 1TH did the college have a building. Nassau Hall was built at that time, and was for many years the largest and une of the most famous buildings in the country. This lat- ter distinction still clings to it. Used es a quarters by Washington’s army in 17 nearly demolished by the figatiag around Princeton in those days, and iater Used as the meeting place of Congress, it is 2 store- house of historical association, greater than any other university building in the worlu. The funds for its construction were partial- ly raised by means which today would be regarded as novel, if nothing more. Appli- cation was made to the New Jersey colonial government for permission to & lot- tery in the interest of the col Being refused in New Jersey, the trustess, with fertility of resource worthy of the modern pugilist, applied in Pennsylvania. The: the nj ary sanction was obtained, and a lottery drawn in Philadelphia realized avout $5,000 for the infant college. Lotteries were subsequently drawn in Connecticut and New Jersey for the benefit of the college. The Standurd of Admixsion. No college graduate of the last twenty- five years need regret that he couldn't at- tend Princeton during President Burr's ad- ministration. In those days the elective system had not been thought of, and there is no record of anything like the modern special student, who can attend a one-hour lecture every other Thursday and yet claim connection with a college. A thorough knowledge of the classics was the first requisite for admission, as the following will show: ‘None may be admitted to the college but such as being examined by the president and tutors shall be found able to render Virgil and Tully's orations in Eng- lish; and to turn English Into true and grammatical Latin, and to be so well ac- quainted with the Greek as“to render any part of the four Evangelists in that lan- guage into Latin or English.” This list of requirements takes up less space than the similar list in a modern college catalogue, with its six books of this, and three books of that, and ten of so-and-so’s orations, but ‘to render any part of the four Evan- gelists into Latin or English’ is a require- ment that would cause an appalling de- crease in the size of the classes now enter- ing colleges. Requirements in mathematics seem to have been based on a much lower standard. It was not until 1760 that “vulgar arithmetic” was made necessary for en- trance, and the Rev. Jonathan Edwards, third president of the college, in replying to the letter informing him of his election tu that office, refers to his deficlency “in some parts of learning, particularly in algebra and the higher parts of mathematics.” ‘A letter of a freshman of 1750 shows that he had a recitation in Xenophor at 7 a.m., irae followed by one in Watt's Ont The rest of the morning he studied ‘ero der Oratore” and Hebrew grammar, and re- cited in these subjects to the college tutor. The afternoon was spent “in the study of Xenophon ard ontology, to recite to the president the following morning. Besides these studies there was a desultory in- struction in geography and debates were held once a week. In sophomore year attention was paid to rhetoric, ontology and mathematics, and during the latter two years of the course the natural sciences, and moral and mental philosophy wero taken up. College Expenses Were Light. In these days when the average college student whose parents are in moderate circumstances spends between $2,000 and $3,000 cn a college education, ist seems strange to read that the expenses of an entire collegiate year at Princeton, about 7@, amounted to an equivalent of $70, made up cf $10 for tuition, $45 for board, $7 for washing, $5 for light and fuel, and $3 for room rent. But everything financial in the college was on the same diminutive scal@ and a gift of fifty guineas from Gen- eral George Washington caused more com- metion ‘than a $50,000 endowment would today. President Burr received a salary of about $350 a year, and each of the two tutcrs, who were hs only assistants, la- bored for £40 proclamation money, or about $100 a year ‘The commencement exercises then were much the. same formul and uninteresting function that they are today. The Penn- sylvania Gazette of October 9, 1760, pub- lished an account of the commencement of that year, which consisted mostly of ora- tions in Latin, ard syllogistic disputes, forensic disputes and disputes in the “Sceratick Way,” all in Latin, but aside from the formal exercises the commence- ment season was a gay one, for in place .of; the modern dances)’ and. promenages celebrated crirainal? Some one asked him there were horse races, bull baiting and | if he hadn't a great horror of him, and similar amusements, and the campus was | he replied aghast: “I a horror of him? temporarily transformed into a country | Why, I knew him.” : fairground, ..The cement. .dinuer.|. Mrs. Maybrick’s neighbors have this feel- of 1771, served by a Hicks, must | ing in an even greater degree. And the have becn a rather, festive, occasion, If we-lchildren adored her. Nobody ever knew 80 may judge from the on the bill} many delightful games or was such a which he rendered ta the trustees of the | fairy godmother in the way of bonbons college. Thirty-seven loyal sons of Prince- | and Christmas presents. Then, too, hus- 4on,-came back..to thei; alma mater-on | bands are not regarded with a great deal that occasion and consumed dinners to the | of reverence in Virginia, for almost every- amount. of-¢4,-12 shillinga 6 pence, while |"body has one, so I do not suppose, even to wash down this repast they used 23/i¢ they thought her guilty, the women bottles of wine, § bottles ef porter, 6 bot- | down here would consider the poor lady’s tles of beer, 3 double bowls of punch and 8.|.erime of quite the eame hideousness as if double bowls of toddy,—bringing the total] she had murdered a blood relation, whose bill up to £13 6 pence. | Small beer or cider | Joss can never be replaced. was a part of the regularcdiet of the fac- pihhesbic ich oi a ity, andigtudente in those, daxa, OLD COIN FOUND IN A ROCK. Prayers at:6 A.M. Although’ governed by rutes which would seem little but cruel to ‘the students..of today, the early Princetonians seem to have: maintained the best discipline. A large horn blown through the entries at 5 a.m. summoned all the students to pray- ers*Students were not allowed to leave their rooms without permission, except for half an hour after morning prayers, an hour and a half at dinner, and from eyen- ing prayers until 7 o'clock, under a penalty of four pence for each’offense. Card play- ing was prohibited by a fine of five shil- lings for the first. offense, public admo- nition for the second and expulsion for the third. Every freshman sent on an errand was obliged to go, do it faithfully, and-make a quick return.’ Every scholar was instruct- ed to keep his hat off about ten rods in passing the president, and about five rode in passing a tutor. ' Oliver EMsworth of the class of 1766, who afterward became chief justice of the United States Supreme Court, is said to have pyrposely torn the brim ‘off his hat and then deliberately marched past the president with the rem- rant on his head. When arraigned before the faculty his defense consisted of the following syllogism: “A hat is composed of two parts, the crown and the brim. Now this hat has no brim, hence, it is not a hat, and I am not guilty.” “This reason- ing, at once forcible and amusing, secured Elisworth's discharge. But times have changed. Some fresh- ren still find it convenient to go faith- fully on an errand and make a quick re- turn, and the modern collegian doubtless finds it harder to get to chapel at 8 o'clock than his ancestors did to get there at 5. But if one of Princeton's colonial presi dents could stroll through the town today and across the campus he might recognize old Nassau Hall, but when he saw the other buildings, ‘with a small host . of orange-and-black clothed men moving to and fro among them, and heard an occa- sional “Gcing down to the foot ball prac- tice today?” the o!d man would hardly think that he was in Princeton, but would rather believe that old Nassau had been moved into a realm of so great activity. MRS. MAYBRICK It Bears Date 1243, a = Curious . Story is Told of It. From the Baffslo Express. A remarkable coin has been brought to light in a remarkable manner. It was taken from a resting place where !t must have been lodged for centuries. It bears on its face the proofs of its antiquity. The find is an extraordinary one. The story of the discovery, as told by the owner of the coin, is also extraordinary. James B. Woostér, whese place of busi- ness is at 178 Seneca street, has just re- turned from a visit te relatives in Scio, Harrison county, Ohio, bringing the coin with him. Recently, when some laborers were harrowing a field near the town of Stio, their implement struck a large stone, the force of the blow splitting the rock. A plece was wedged in the -harrow, and was removed with considerable difficulty. A laborer noticed a bright object incrusted in the rock. He picked up the stone, and with his knife pried out what proved to be a silver coin. Scraping off the dirt and polishing the surface with his handker- chief, he saw the piece was foreign, and put it in his pocket. Upon returning to the house the man showed the coin to Mr. Wooster and his cousin. They examined it carefully, and easily made out the date and king’s name in whose reign it had been coined. The piece is silver and about one-sixteenth of an inch less in diameter than a dime. It is also a little thinner. On the front of the coin !s a head in relief, and underneath is the date 1243. Surrounding the head in Roman letters are the words “Ferdin VII" and “Dei Gratia.” The date side of the coin is far better preserved than the other side. The date can be seen indistinctly with the naked eye, but with a magnifying glass the nuntber stands forth clearly, with no chance for a mistake. The reverse side of the coin bears in the center a shield divided into four parts, each one of the two opposite divisions con- taining an upright lion, and the other two a figure that resembles most a Roman lyre. Above the shield is a crown, and on the sides two columns with a snake entwining. There is evidence of lettering around these symbols, but with the most powerful mag- nifying glass that could be obtained only four letters, which apparently completed the end of a word, could be deciphered. These are “span.” This side of the coin is worn quite smooth. The edge of the piece 1s unmilled and without indentations of any kind. There are three black marks on the | goin which resemble rust spots eaten Into the surface. A careful search was made in ancient histories for such a potcntate as Ferdin VII, but no such name could be found. There is a Ferdinand VII of Spain, who was born in 1784, but the date on the coin and the fact that it was securely imbedded in rock would put aside the theory that the name might have been abbreviated. It takes rock at least two centuries to har- den, ard consequently tke coin must have beer. dropped in the sand, which ultimately turned to stone, long before Ferdinand VII, King of Spain, was issuing money. The coat-of-arms on the coin does not corre- spond with Spanish arms, moreover, al- though the pillars and serpent are similar to the representations: of the pillars of Hercules, Capes Gibraltar and Ceuta, found on Spanish milled dollars and pieces of eight. But most conclusively of all, the plain date on the coin and its stony prison stand as proof of its antiquity. * Some wandering explorer of the Colum- bian age, or possibly even earlier, must have been strolling over the country that fs now Ohio with some loose change and a hole in his pocket. The fair condition of the piece would signify that it had not been in circulation long, and hence comes the deduction that at least as early as the beginning of the fourteenth century the United States was visited by a more or less civilized being, of whose visit history has no record. Mr. Wooster is looking for an expert in antique coins to ascertain the identity of this interesting relic and {ts value. Three men were present when the coin was found and are ready to make affidavits to the manner of its discovery. Soe 'S NORFOLK HOME. the Unfortunate Woman's Life There. From the Hertford Courant. A few evenings ago I was taking the leis- urely exercise the clmate permits, when I came face to face with a small brick tene- ment, whose upper windows looked into an old-fashioned garden. That outlook might as well have been in to a great English park. A stretch of green turf, ah, so green and cool, and a forest of spreading oaks end magnolias, with the pink splendor of the crape myrtle showing bravely between; then an open glade, half pastoral, half syl- yan, clean, stately, with long vistas and cathedral-like aisles. “Thé astute reader already divines from this introduction there is more behind the description of this park than meets the eye. It was, in fact, elab- crated on as a contrast. From the upper windows of the small brick tenement one locked upon this bit ef cultivated wilder- hess whose eyes behold today the grim walls of an English prison. The astute reader has further di¥ined? Yes, it is of Mrs. Maybrick we are speaking. For two ars the pretty bride kept house in the new celebrated brick’ tenement; kept a pretty, artistic, Nttle hnuse; was a member of a fashionable, the most fashionable, church in Norfoik, and had as desirable a jist of names in her iting book as so- ciety contains. Certaifly, {in view of what happened, even with precautions Hike these, nobody is safe. : A friend of Mrs, Mayhrick’s has brought me her photograph. She has soft brown hair, a high but broad forehead, rather a large mouth and deep, pensive gray eyes. ‘The expression, the picture taken when she was a presumably happy young wife, is one of much sweetness and refinement,the latter increased by a touch of melancholy and a sort of ethereal fairness. All the lines of the mouth tell of a sensitive, re- sponsive nature. The figure is graceful, the bearing perfectly that of a lady, and the photograph is taken in a charming costume. : Notwithstanding Mr. Du Maurier’s _ree- ommendation of a life sentence in an Eng- lish prison, as depicted.in “Peter Ibbetson,” Story of ‘STONE'S HEART. DR. LIVE Visit of the Late E. J. Glnve to the Spot Where It Was Buried. The second article made up from the people in this unliterary. pari cf the word | Journals of the late E. J. Glave, who crossed would rather be out than in, axa Mrs. | Africa in the interests of the Century, ap- Maybrick’s case has exc’t-a much sym-| pears in the September number of that athy. Her husband and herseli were on excellent terms, but his habits were per- fectly well known, as he made no conceal- ment of them, but had his prescription for arsenic @owders regulariy filled at a cer- tain drug store, and his own servant was accustomed to carry the medicine to him. When the trial came off, the servant was sent for and had the glory of cross- ing the water and testifying before the English court in behalf of the defendant. He also carried the prescription and the affidavit of the drvggist as to its frequent repetition. Mr. Maybrick was a cotton merchant and made money during the boom that passed over Norfclk in_ 18Si- He was a handsome, gray-haired man in middle life. The arsenic habit did not affect his business capacity nor his manners, which were ag-eeable and refined. On the principle that people cherish bits of rope cut from a murderer's body, I have the card of announcement, and so prize it, of these ill-fated people's wedding. It is decorated with a haif inch of sliver rim and a coat-of-arms, and reads: ‘Fhe Baron and Baroness von Rogues have the honour to announce that the marriage of their stepdaughter and daughter, Florence E. Chandler, to James Maybrick of Liverpool, England, and Norfolk, Vi was solemnized at St. James Church, Picadilly, London, on 27 July, 1881. Friends and admirers of Mrs. Maybrick have apologized for her on the ground on which Eliza, our cook, excused one of her acquaintance with whose reputation scandal had busied itself. Eliza said he had “in- healed” his m‘sdeeds from his ancestors, and poor Mrs. Maybrick is said to have gotten the ‘baneful notion from some of her distinguished southern forbears, and is therefore not responsible. It would seem, too, that a person who was So careful to spell honor ‘with a “‘u” ought to have met with more sympathetic kindness from the magazine. It is devoted to the journey to the Livingstone tree, and gives the follow- ing account of this memorial of the great missionary: July 8.—This is a red-letter day in my ca- reer. I have visited the place where Dr. Livingstone’s heart is buried beneath a big tree, called mowula, and by the Ilala mpundu. Although done twenty years ago, the inscription is in a splendid state of preservation. The tree shows no disfig- urement, and, moreover, the carving is not on the bark, but on the grain of the tree itself. It is a hardwood tree. three feet in diameter at the base; at thirty feet It throws out large branches; its top is a thick mass of foliage. When Livingstone died, the heart and other viscera were buried beneath this tree, and the park was cleared off for a space of two and a half feet square; in this space Jacob Wain- wright (whose account my discovery veri- fies to the letter) carved the inscription with no dunce’s hand, the letters being well shaped and bold. The tree is situated at the edge of the grass plain, and is very conspicuous, being the largest tree in the neighborhood. It is about five miles south- southwest from the present site of the vil- lage of Karonga Nzofu, an important Bisa chief, whose father was a friend of Living- stone. Chitambo's is now ten miles away. It was originally near the tree; in fact, Livingstone died a few m!nutes’ walk from the old village of Chitambo. About ten years ago Chitambo was so harassed by the Awemba raiders of Chiquanda that he left his village. The sacred tree has often heard the flerce yell of the man-hunters, and the screams of women and children and wounded men. ingstone’s long prayers for Africa's deliverance have not yet received fair re- sponse. Since his death new raiders have appeared in the shape of Awemba from the north. There is now no vestige of Chitam- British press. At any rate, the feeling | bo’s old village standing, merely a big here is strongly for her. You remember | space covered with young timber. The Charles Lamb’s human remark about a | Livingstone tree looks sturdy and healthy, TRIALS OF A MOTHER IN 1so9. “Geraldine, never let me see you with that fancy work agein—it will ruin your chances with Mr. Sissy. He suid last night he hated a gtrl who tried to be mannish.” and Hkely to last many years. I do not see howl ntrfbtte to the future recogni- tion of the Pigce. fetal, if I had it, would bé sfoler. There re no stones in the dis- trict to make a cairn. The tree will outlive any wooden cross I might erect. Several of the older men at Karonga Nzofu's remem- ber’ Dr. Livingstone, and describe his ap- pearance very well, indeed; they mention the cap he always wore. July 9.—Today I revisited the tree where Livingstone died, and in order to guide others to the exact spot, in case this tree should disappear from any cause, I se- Tected another big'tree likely to last many years, cleared away two and one-half square feet of its hark, and in the space marked as follows: “This tree is magnetic southwest of the tree where Livingstone's remains are buried, and is forty-five paces from it. I brought away a bit of the bark of the memorable tree—a dead part, so as not to be guilty of vandalism. Living- stone's grave is in a quiet nook, such as he himself desired, in the outskirts of a forest bordering on a grass plain, where the roan buck and eland roam in safety. When I visited the place turtle doves were cooing in the tree-tops, and a litter of young hy- enas had been playing nearby; in the low ground outside the hole leading to the cave were their recent tracks; they had scam- pered into safety at our approach. Ses THE LADY BURGLAR, She Explains How She Happened to Bargle. From the San Francisco Call. “Yes,” said the lady burglar, as she ran a dainty gold-tipped jimmy through her back hair and toyed idly with a dark lan- tern, “it was somewhat of an innovation, I confess, and I rather pride myself that I am the first real lady who has ever made a serious study of the science of burglary. Other ladies have tried it, but it was a mere fleeting fad, like roller skating and hoop skirts. They never took up the call- ing in earnest, and I believe I am correct in my assertion that I am positively the only lady who has adopted the profession as a means of livelihood. How did I hap- ben to enter it? No, don’t say what was the first misstep. That is mere sentimental gush. There was no misstep. I took up burglary deliberately, and, if I may say it, with malice aforethought. All the legiti- mate professions were overcrowded, and I was far too proud to ever think of becom- ing a house maid or a waitress in one of those quick and dirty lunch places. And there was no money in typewriting. Once,” and the lady burglar laughed a merr; reminiscent laugh, “I remember entcring a gentleman's house by way of the second- story window—he was a personal friend of mine. Oh, no, I never let such trifles stand in the way of business; in fact, if I am not much mistaken, he was an old sweetheart or something on that order. Well, I was just gazing in the glass to see if my hat was on straight preparatory to going through his jeans and whatever other ar- ticles of furniture he had, when he awoke with a viclent 10, 20 and 30 per cent popu- lar price start. ‘My Gawd, Mag, is it you?” he ejaculated in a low, sad voice, ‘what are you doing here at such an hour. Think of what the neighbors will s: ‘I am here to rob,’ I replied in a herd-boiled Barbary coast voice. He seemed surprised, but con- tained himself with remarkable self-pos- session. ‘If you will promise to go home and shed those bloomers‘forever you can have anything I have got,’ and he gave me the key to his wife’s bureau drawer on the spot. Yes, I have found that, as a rule, men are gallant. 1 always make it a point to disturb them as little as possible, but whenever I do arouse them they receive me in a courteous and kindly manner. I recall an instance of my early days when I was little better than a second-story novice. I had entered a bachelor’s apartment, and was hastily separating the wheat from his unpaid bills, when he unexpectedly opened his eyes and gazed long and earnestly at me. “Do you find anything that strikes your fancy?’ he asked, in a gentlemanly way. thing,’ I replied, ‘that will enable me to live in ease and luxury.” “Well, he answered, ‘in that lower drawer you will find a pair of pink silk pa- jamas. If you will be so good as to take them I think you can use them when your bloomers have goie into dry dock.” “Oh, no, I was not offended. We lady burglars have to put up with a great dea! of risque remarks, and, besides the paja- mas, I found, made excellent shirt waists for the seaside. Would I recommend other young women to follow in my footsteps? No, net unless they were willing to put up with all manner of unconventional things. Sometimes I almost envy Billie Fly, Davy Dare Devil and those other ladies who hang by their toes from eighteen-story buildings at $7 a column. It is a great deal more gerteel than to go through a pair of gentleman's trousers with the horrid dread in your heart that his wife has already been through them.” MADE A LIVING EASILY. With Prosperity of an Ingenious Ma a Small Conscience. From the Omaha World-Herald. ‘here is no need of a man starving or begging in tl world,” aud the speaker, a well-dresse1 n-an, bestowed a look of min- gled pity ard contempt upon a poor speci- men of humanity that had struck him for a dime. “I came to Omaha a week ago without a red cent, 2 white cent, or any other colored cent. Just one nickel was my pile. What did I do? Go out and strike seme man for a quarter to buy a meal? Go out and rustle for a job while I was starv- ing? No, sit, { went to a cheap hotel where my baggage was sufficient guarantee for a room and a few meals. “After engaging a room I hunted up a drug store and invested my nickel in one of those Httle bottles of perfume. Thea I jcllicd a cigar man into giving me several sheets of tin foil used in keeping tobacco moist. With these I returned te my room and confiscated the slab of castile soap which ornamented the saucer on the wash- stand. I cut it into p'eces about a quarter of an inch square. Then I poured about half a pint of Missouri water into the basin and into it emptied the perfume. My next step was to drop those chunks of va: tile soap into the perfumed water and leave them until they were scented. “After they had become quite sweet scented I took them out, wrapped them in the tin foil and was ready for busin: Going into the residence part of the city where the houses were small, I made a canvass and sold these pieces of soap for twenty-five cents each. People thought they were samples of some wonderful new soap warranted to teke out grease spots, no matter how deep or how ancient. “Well, yes; perhaps I did tell them so. But if I hadn't I wouldn’t have sold the soap, and if I hadn't sold the soap I cculdn’t have paid my hotel bill, and if I hadn’t paid my hotel bill I'd have been thrown out and maybe have brought up in the police court. So I think I did right. Anyway, my conscience does not trouble me. “After I had sold out the first Installment I had $1.0. With it I purchased some more perfume and some more tin foil and was ready for the second batch. These I sold in another part of the city, and real- ized so much that I paid my bill and am ready to go west on the evening train. so The Adventures of the Puppies. ‘The Late Admiral Stevens in the Youth's Companion, On one of our small coast survey schoon- ers there was once a litter of puppies be- longing to the captain. They were only to be allowed to remain on board until old enough to leave their mother, but during their stay on board, what scurrying, scamp- ering, frolicsome nuisances they were! The smartest and most ener; ic puppy of the lot was a little fluffy black and white spot- ted fellow called “Spottycus the Gladiator,” and he led all the others in mischief. The puppies had their meals immediately after the ward reom officers. Spottycus evident- ly considered it an infringement of his diz nity to be relegated to the sccond table, and so one day he led a crusade. It was a warm summer evening, and the ward room officers were just being hetped to their soup when- there was a ru: over- head, followed by a most fearsome succe: sion of tiny barks. The officers looked up, and beheld every one of the open skylights | overhead occupied by a little dog reaching | over as far as he could get, his mouth open | and his little red tongue hanging out. | ‘The first lieutenant rose fro: his in horror, but, as if that had been the signul agreed upon, Spottycus slipped from his | hoid and plunged headlong into the tureca of hot soup. As in duty bound, the others | followed his example, and fora while, in the midst of sounds of breaking glassware, the thud and.splash of falling bodies and a ! prolonged and horrible yelping, squealins | 4 and whining, it rained puppies. The aext exploit was to fall overboard al) together, being led, as usual, by the indom- | 15 itable Spottycus, whose cheerful disrecard of consequences was something appalling. ‘They were rescued from a watery grave and wrapped up in hot towels, whepce they escaped to eat a lot of poisoned fly paper. They became deathly sick, of course, and all that night had to be attended by two of the officers and most of tue crew. After this they were sent ashore, and the ship adopted a menagerie of kittens, having found puppies beyond control. . Remember- ing the effect of poisoned fly paper on the digestive organs of small animals, the offi- cers threw away what they had of this, and lay in a stock of the sticky kind. ‘Thi: owever, was hardly an improve- ment, for the kittens would go to sleep on it, and, waking to find their movements hampered in some mysterious manner that savored of witchcraft, they would give a wild yell and plunge up the companion lad- der, a frightened, scrambling, sticky mess of furry brown paper. eee PERILS OF AERONAUTISM. The Terrific Experience of the Party im the Balloon Jupiter. The Berlin Vossische Zeitung publishes further particulars of the wreck of the balloon Jupiter. M. Boiteux, one of the aeronauts, say “When we had risen 500 yards or more we found ourselves in such thick clouds that we could distinguish nothing. Sudden- ly the Jupiter lay on one side and the car leaped terribly. At the same time we were lashed by large hailstones and heavy rain. We were driven forward with bewildering speed. In our fright we threw out e thing that our hands came across. balloon sprang upward like an arro soon passed through the clouds. We under a clear sky, in the light of t ting sun Gradually it grew colder and colder, and our wet clothes were frozen stiff. Crepilion fell fainting to the of the boat, and we others were not _m better off. We were all bleeding, for hail had wounded us. As I looked out I saw a large, black cloud moving from southwest to northeast. The blood stream- ed from my nose and ears. My hands were frozen hard as a board. “In a few minutes we had risen to a height of nearly 5,0) yards. Then we b» gan to sink, at first slowly, then rapidly. All at once we were again in complete darkness. We were in the midst of - der clouds. Again, amid hail and rain, the wind drove the Jupiter on at a speed of ninety miles an hour. We were blinded by the hail and could scarcely breathe. But I did not lose hope of reaching th rth safely. The hail and rain now } to be mixed with leaves and yp of earth. The car was violently shaken, and we fell against each oth an to hold on to the ropes. Then we began to drag along the ground. The loon su i- denly rose again. I let my ro go, and was dashed to the ground. I nd beliey- ed that I had voluntarily jumped out. He Jumped after me, and fe @ broken leg. Thus lightened of welgh the balloon rose more rapidly. Rushing through the tree-tops, it w about six miles in the direction Gretz. As it hung on the top of a tree Foucarl tried to land, cavght a rope, but was thrown vio- lently to the earth. A woman saw the balloon hanging in the trees and sent the people at her inn to our asi: Fou- card was found covered with mud and | his face all torn. He still breathed. When his head was raised with the intention of giving him stimulants, he was seized with a convulsion and soon expi “As he was carried away a weak voice was heard calling from the car for help. Two ladders were brought and tied to. gether, and a gendarme climbed up to as- sist Crepillon. It took an hour to & down. On reaching the ground away. He was cold as ice, and onls ed his senses after continued frict/on. few hours he was out of danger. rome, with so S False Tooth in a Fish, From the New York Journal. T. H. Burchell of this city, while bath- ing in the still water of the creck at Far Rockaway about three months ago, lost a front tooth. Two wecks later W. H. BD ard, who was staying at a ccttage in Far Rockaway, caught a blucfich. He took it home have it cooked for his dinner. In it found a single false tooth. The story to Burchell. Bullard sent the Burchell, who found that it diffe respect from the one he had polishing it up he put it in It fitted exactly, and he is no tod it. The bluefish was caught in the open sea fully two miles from the place where the tooth was lost. This is the second case of the kind at Far Rockaway. 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