Grand Rapids Herald-Review Newspaper, August 23, 1902, Page 5

A SPANIARD IN CONGRESS, A New Mexican Delegate Who Spoke No English. Forty-six years ago there sat in the House of Representatives of the Unit- ed States, and introduced measures for its consideration, a man who had no knowledge of the English language, Says a Washington writer. He neither understood it nor spoke it. He was, moreover, an educated Spaniard, and was said to be a Catholic priest. This man of foreign tongue only had suc- ceeded Richard H. Weightman, who served during the previous Congress. He held his seat by virtue of the vote of his constituents, the favorable re- Port of a committee of Congress upon a contest made against him, and the approval of that report by vote of the | House. He was the sole representative in the House of a portion of the United States but little less in area than twice that of New England. He went into his seat, as has been said, on a contest that ended favorably to him. He went out of it after an election on a contest that was decided against him. His po- sition in the House, and the manifert disadvantage of it to his constituents, led to repeated attempts by his friends to provide him with an interpreter upon the floor of the House, The first effort contemplated that this should be done at public expense. Lafer it was sought to provide that some one to in- terpret for him might be permitted | merely to come within the doors of the legislative chamber. pri the lack of a two-t of suspending the to permit the tutroduction of a resolution, I have given above in a general way the congressional history of Senor Vose Manuel Gallegos, delegate from New Mexico in the Thirty-third Con- gress of the United States, as gathered from the Congressional Globe, the House journal and the House reports of committees. FROM A KING’S DEATHBED. “tar Cloth of St. Osyth's a Reminder of the Times of George Ik, There is a pretty little village called St, Osyth in Ezsex, Eag., close to Ch: ton-on-Sea. The altar cloth and cush ions df the pulpit in its parish chureh were made from the counterpane and the velvet hangings of the bed in which George Ii died. In the royal household there is an office call room of the stole,” filled by a peer if the reigning sovereign is yled ‘“‘mistress of the a queen. 2, ry of $2,500 a year at- tached to th oifice, and, as’ a_per- uisite, the holder of it at the demise ewn receives the furniture of the beichamber in which the king or queen dies. The groom of the stole when Gcorge II died was the earl of Rechford, who had the furniture of the room in which the monarch passed away removed to his residence at St Ceyth, sented the rich trap- pings of the royal deathbed to the par- {sh church. Fat Treasaries. Some y that the amount of money in the United States Treasury at the time of the Secretary’s latest report— $545,876,805—is not only the largest in the history of our treasury, but the on record for any nation, says s. Stich is not the 0 mouths after the war the Bank of case. & Franco-Prv ($600,009,000) in gold, amount of gold the world has ever seen, The most extraor- dinary thi in connection with this was that France had paid te Germany about a year or so previous 5,000,000,- 000 franes ($1,000,000,000) as a war in- demnity. The war increased the na- tional debt about 7,000,000,000 francs. The Commune destroyed property worth 800,000,000 francs in April and May, 1871. Just think of the recuper- ative powers of France to have more than half her war indemnity back iu her pocketbook in a year and a half, and through trade, too! Tho. First Newspapers. As it is to Germany that we owe’ the first example of printing, so to that country is due the credit of publish- ing the first’regularly issued newspa- per. This was the Frankfurter Zei- tung, and it appeared first in 1615. This publication is still in existence. -It was followed the year after by the | Nieuwe Tidjinghen, a Dutch produc- tion, printed at Antwerp, says a Lon- don paper.. The first English newspa- per was the Weekly News from Italy, Germany, ete., published in London ja The first effort | filled by a noblewoman if | d in its vault no less than | me Sota eer ; 1 UNEASINESS IN INDIA. #ilitary Preparations on the Northwes, Frontier. News by the last Indian mail was in- teresting chiefly because of the re markable military preparations thet. are going on along the northwest frontier which are recorded. Consid- erable sums of money have been ap- propriated for increased accommoda- tion for the troops that are to re-in- force the garrisons of Nowshera and Abbattabad, north of the railway line between Rawulpindi and Peshawur; and of Dera Ismail Khan on the west bank of the Indus, 175 miles south of Peshawur. At Attock, where the above-named railway crosses the Indus by one of the finest bridges in Asia, powerful batteries have ‘been con- structed for its protection, heavily armed and the principal one. Fort Attack, has been equipped with electria lights. The works are to be com- pleted by next month, and the garri- son increased. — Large sums of money have been ap- propriated in the military budget for the equipment of the new rifle factory atIshapore, and for the extension of the central gun carriage factory at Jubbulpore. The rearmament of the native infantry regiments is also to be completed with as little delay as pos- sible, a sum of $1,345,000 having been appropriated for the purpose. The re- organizaticn of the light and heavy field artillery and the division and bri- gade staffs also absorb a considerable sum, To meet the possible military uirements, the rolll. reifways is to receive ‘ge additions, } The army experimental balloon corps is to be exercised among the hills of , the Yuzufzai country by which the road from Nowshera to Chitral, in the ; direction of the Russian frontier in the | north, passes. : . GUM PRODUCED BY ANTS. Without Their Labors Supply of Gum Arabic Would be Very Small. Gum arabic is an exudation from certain species of acacia. in order to obtain the gum the stem must be cut or perforated ¢o that the juice may exude, and we are told by M. Walter Busse, who has just been investigating the gum production of German East Africa, that in the majority of cases this necessary perforation is accom- plished by ants, without whose labors, therefore, the world could not get its supply of gum arabic—at least with the present ease. Says M. Busse: “Apart from the rare wounds in flicted accidentally by man, animals, storms, etc., all secretion of gum te this country is provoked’ by ants. The ants perforate the bark of the acacia to gain <dmittance into the wood, where they lay their eggs in the exca- vations, which are sometimes of con- siderable extent. “The eacacilas with soft wood gener- elly show few wounds of this kind. The hardwood ecacias are riddled with them, each perforation being marked with a globule of gum. “The ant that thus produces the gum makes no use of it. It is only an obstruction to her work, since it stops up the galleries that she hollows out.” —Journal d’Agriculture Tropicale. How New York Sleepé. New York is a city of infinite varie- ty. There are those who have beds without sleep and those who sleep without beds, Three thousand of her winter residents slumber in the cra- dies of the canal barges that come each from the. canals of New York state, from the great lakes and Lake Cham- plain, to spend the winter months | moored in New York harbor, says Les- lie’s Weekly. In the tenement dis- tricts a man, his wife, and his four, or six, or eight, or more children sleep in a single room. And one who goes about the city finds many a device for slumber and repose. On Washington street, on the west side, where the Turks, the Greeks, the Assyrians and the Egyptians live near neighbors to a colony of Irish, is a queer little Ori- ental hotel on the top floor of a tene- } ment, and the proprietor is a man who | once belonged to the retinue of La Belle Rosa, a Turkish dancer of Mid- way fame. Scarf Pin in Cow's Heart. The finding of a gold scarf pin im- | bedded in the heart of a cow butchered at Carrollton, Ga., for market has aroused a deal of interest. | A local butcher who was preparing the beef after it had been slaughtered made the discovery. -The pin had pierced its way literally into the heart of the animal‘and had evidently. been in that position for some time, as it had grown into the tissues of that organ. ‘ quarte 1622. The Gazette.de France (Paris, The cow was purenased by Robert 1631), and others followed. The Lon- | Gaston, a farmer of Hast End, from don Gazette was the first regularly is- | Mrs, Wilbur Helton, the wife of a sued English newspaper that survives to the present day. It appeared in 1665, and the earliest numbers. were pub- lished at Oxford, where the court at that time was temporarily established. “Difference Between Artists. Down at Greenport, L. 1, late last |. _ fall two New York painters whom it were cruelty to name under the cir- cumstances, who had ‘lingered about their summer haunts to get some duck shooting, were taking an afternoon at sketching to secure some notes of ma- sine and nautical details among the shipping in the harbor. A village sign pain them @ up and v.acksmith near that place. She iden- tified the pin as belonging. to her, stating that it had been lost some time ago.—AtJanta Constitution. tom > fee a pee IRISH HERALDRY. we Knowledge of It Not Mohopollzed by Peopie with English Ancestors. Knowledge of heraldry, which occu- pies people with ancestors from Eng- land and the continent, is not monop- olized by them. The Irish -in this country have crests and coats of arms more authentic and elaborate than many we see on carriage doors and fashionable note paper. Every Irish surname of any account, whether of the milesian stock—the “Macs” and “O’s’—or the Anglo-Norman or of the Elizabethan reign, has its insignia, During Ireland's years of oppression these were lost, and many are utterly unknown to the descendants of. the original bearers, says the New York Telegraph. The fatal battle of Augh- rim, fought on the property of ths County Galway, was doom to-the an- cestral pomp and glory of the O’Kel- lys, and they scattered all over Eu- rope, went into the continental ar- mies and outfought the natives every time. The Kelly crest is a weird ani- mal, called an enfield, having the head of a fox, the mane of a horse, chest cf an elephant, forelegs of an eagle, body of a greyhound and tail of a lion. The motto in Latin is “God is to me a tower of strength.” Forefather of the Shea family had a swan for his crest and underneath a whits shield dotted with red fleur-de-lis. The Burkes were a Norman-Irish. tribe Their flag was of ermine, white, span- gled with black, like the trimmings of a judicial robe. In the center was ® large red cross, In the upper left a black lion and in the oppo- “ner a black hand. The name comes from the same root as ”’ meaning town, and the tribo nally descended from Norman settlers In Ireland of the goodly French name De Burgho, meaning “of the town.” The Ryans and MacNamaras have coats of arms more authentic and far more beautiful than many of the folk with “Van” before thei: names. That of the Ryans, or O’Mul- rians, as they were originally called, is especially fine. Holly leaves and griffin heads wero distributed over a. blood-red shield. A horse rampant was the crest, while there was a fiow- ing motto signifying a preference for death to dishonor, SENATE'S “MORNING HOUR.” It Ocours in the Afternocn and Con- sume3 120 Minutes. The “morning hour’ is one of the queer things of the United States sen- ate. In the first place the “morning hour” is two hours lang; though it may be completed in 10 or 15 minutes. In the second place it never occurs in the morning but begins at 12 o’clock noon, except on the rare occasions when the senate meets at 10 or 11 o’clock. Sena- tor Hoar of Massachusetts is respon- sible for the elongation of the morning hour so as to make it cover 120 min- utes. Prior to fourteen years ago-the “morning hour,” while existing in the afternoon, was but an hour in length, but a resolution submitted by Mr. Hoar was adopted August 10, 1888, and that provided that the “morning hour” should be two hours that it should end at 2 c’ciock. This resolution provided “that after to-day, unless otherwise ordered,the morning | { hour shall terminate at the expiration of two hours after the meeting of the Senate.” The morning hour is devoted |} to the presentation of petitions, the in- troduction of bills, reports of commit- tees, etc., and is the time when all sorts of little matter of that kind are attended to. At 2 o'clock the presid- ing officer lays before the Senate the bill on the calendar, which is set aside as having precedence over other meas- ures, and that is generally the time for long speeches of all kinds unless unan- imous consent is secured to consider pension bills for a specified time or unobjected bills on the calendar. A Remarkable Turk. In the village of Bodra a Turk piamed Ismall, aged 120 years, is in such good health that he froquently walks to Bartin, six miles distant, to sell eggs, for he {s a poultry dealer. He has Sole Agent had thrity-four wives, the last of whom ke married recently. The bride i Js 60 years his junior, and the mar+ GRAND RAPIDS MINN. riage was celebrated with much sol- emnity, to the sound of drums and fifos and volleys of fireams. The whole village was en fete. The wedding pro- cessica Included all the male progeny of the patriarch bridegroom, consisting of 140 sons, grandsons and gzeat- grandsons. —_—_-——— Effettive Dire Laws. From many parts of New England this summer comes the news that the song birds eeem to be more in evi- dence than they beve been for many years. An cld Rangely guide said re- cently that it was hardly Within his recollection of the past, twenty years that the birds had been so aboundant or of So many species as they may be seen this year. In the want of any other reason to account for the ~wel- come change it seems fair to assume that the New England laws for the grdtection of inseetivorous birds ase beginning to have some effect, The Cheerful fdlat. “J wonder if Maceo 3 really dead?’ said Mrs. Hashcioft, as she poured the coffee, “In view of tie fact that hia physician is said io have had a hand in the affair it looks as if it mighe. be°| true.” said the Cheerful Idiot —India+ dapotis Journal. z Simplicity of Emperor Josephs | walls of the commune warning the in- in length or| 4 Itasca County AOMITTED CUILT. A Missouri Convict Pardoned for Isking the Trath. Gov. Bob Stewart, Bourbon and Democrut, was the most pictureéque | character who ever occupied the exec-’ utive mansion in Missours, He de- feuted Major James S, Rollins for governor in 4857. The governor was from St. Joseph and.many are the stories told of this eccentrie and er- fatic westerner. The following inci- dent illustrates Gov. Stewart's keen noted throughout Misscuri. It was | sense of humor for which he was | the custom of the governor to question the convicts in the penitentiary as to why they were imprisoned. The in- variable answer was an avowal of in. aecence and of wrongful conviction. Finally, in his rounds jhe encountered ane prisoner, who said he was fm. prisoned for horse stealing. “Are yor Guilty?” asked the governor. “Well governor, I guess I am; I took the horses,” rejoined the man in stripes, “Get right out of this penitentiavy,” Governor Stewart vehemently replied. “You will contaminate all these in- focent men who have been wrongful- ly placed here,” The fellow was released immediate- ly and a pardon was filled out for him. : Dr. Templo's Temptation. When Dr. Temple, the present Pri mate, was head master of Rugby school he paid a visit to Dr: Benson, his predecessor in the See of Canter- bury, who was at that time the mas- ter of Wellington College. One after. noon the two went for a stroll through the woods behind Heath Pool. Benson began to point out to bis companion the sylvan. beauties of the place, calling his especial atrention to a magnificert beech tree. For a while Temple ad- it in silence, then suddenly erying, “I can’t resist the temptation. Leok out!” made a rush for the tree, und, ere his amazed friend could grasp the situation, had serambled up the trunk and seated himself among the branches. Then the two future Arch- bishops, looking at each other, broke into a burst of schoolboy merrimeat.— Golden Penny. An Incorruptible OfficiaL M. Mouchel, a magistrate at St. San- veur le Vicomte, department of Les Manches, has posted a notice on the habitants that if they continue to im- portune him to accept presents of poul- try, game and provisions, etc. “with an intention easy to define,” and stop him in the street to request him to use his influence in favor of their friends, he will proceed against them with the utmost -rigor of the law.—London Daily Mail. ae5 ; Father ‘Marquette ! HK 1866 : PURE RYE ies if N A Masterpiece of Distillation It is absolutely free from fore- ign ingredients. Its boquet comes solely from the grain. and the amber color from the oak in which it is kept. Real age bas accomplished f and taken the place of expert blending, and the addition of § j flavoring oils, prune juice,sacch- 4 rine, glycerine, etc., which is often used to make new whisky palatable, Father Marquette Wis a natural, pure, perfect article 4: ripened only by real age. 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