Omaha Daily Bee Newspaper, July 14, 1885, Page 4

THE DAILY BEE. Owana Orvrer No, 914 AxD 916 Farvax 87, New Youk Orrics, Roos 66 Trinose Brinne ING, raimg, except Sumday laily published in the state, 8 BY MATL 40 | Three Montt ) | One Month..vevss e every Wednesday Pab' only One Year Bix Months nvs, v One Year, with premium. .. Ono Year, without premium Bix Months, without premii One Month, on trial CORRPSTONDE All Communioations relating to N: atters should bo addressed to the Ben., DUSINRSS LETTRRS, All Business Totters and sddressod to Tre Brr Uil Drafts,Checks and Post o able o the order of the ¢ THE BEE PUBLISHIN ances ehould be & COMPANY, OMATIA, to be made pay @ C0, Props. n ROSEWATER, Epiron, A.H. Fitch, Manager Daily Circulation, Omaha, Nebraska. Er Mampt Is dead. Tho Eoglish wonld have thanked him ifhe bad climbed the golden stairs a year ago. ——— DouorAs county, actording to the state censas, has a population of a little bver 72,000, or more than one-tenth of the entlre population of the state, and she pays more than one-tenth of the entire taxos of Nebraska. Dorine the month of June there were elghty.twc olrths In Omaba, of which forty-e'gnt were fomales and thirty-four were aales. The sexes must be more evenly balanced than this, or else It will be only aquestion of time when it will be a difiicult matter to obtain recruits for the regular army and base ball clubs. — The | this olty, bat elsewhere. The Denver Nciws says; pleted, the present population of Denver proper is 54,407 " ing & gain of 18,778, or almost 53 per cent in five years, suburbs, which really form parts of this eity, although not included within its corporate THE DAILY BEE- OMAHA LEAVES DENVER BEHIND. | havo located In other countles, and if so, Weo had sapposed all along that for|Holt county may have attracted them According to the state census just com. |} It was 85,629 in 1880, show- It we include ten surrounding limits, the population of Denver falls but lit tle short of 60,000, There are not many cities in the country, and wo doubt if thereis any other, that can show an equal percentage of gain in the last five years, There has been no “boom” since 1882, nothing but a steady, beautiful growth. So far as percentage in ¢ain durlng the last few years is concerned, Omaha 1s one of the fow olties that can show a groater gain than Denver. In 1880, she had 30,652, or 4,977 lees than Denver, aud now sho has 61,835, within her clty limlts, or 7,428 more than Denver, do not Include the suburbs of South Omahs, West Omaha, and Saratoga, which would increase her population to 66,000, within the next ten years we shall catch up with Kansas Clty, St. Paul, and Minneapolis, all of which clalm double the population of Omaha. This clty, however, durlng the last few years SomeriiNe should be done Immediately 1n regard to Hanscom park. The keep- clties, present population of shonld be added to that of Holt, which enongh to make such an exposition a suc- would be proper in making a comparlson, a much greater Increase would be shown, soveral years Denver had a greater |within its limits, as It shows the greatost population than Omahs, and such has | percentage of Increase, 1In 1880 It only been the general Impression, not only 10 | had 3,287, while the present census gives The Denver iy 20,305, This makes It rank as the papers now, however, admit that that|fonrth county in the state In regard to olty has lers than 60,000 population. | popalation. Although we have been confident that|ga, Omaha would outstrlp Denver in the|decrease course of time, we had no idea that she | The census officlals, however, have evi- would accomplish that result 0 soon. | dently overlooked the fact that since the|csuse the stats falr cannot rival an national census of 1880 Browncounty has Its wonderful in Increase has been as the reported Fillmore county. heen carved ont of Holt connty. If the Brown county Brrore p;l‘llnl; the lpecl;l mail delly- ery Into general operatlon, the postoffice department will probably ses how the plan works in New Ygrk, Boston, Phila- delphia, Chleago, and a few other large cltles, this special delivery will be Insugurated | oga Blunders Made by Telegraph antil September or October, for the ten-cent stamp to be used for this It is not likely, however, that The design purpcse has been approved, and the con- tract for printing has been awarded. The stamp will be about twice the size of the ordlvary postage stamp and the shape boy In uniform, Across the top are the words “‘Unlted States special postage de- livery,” and along the bottom the price of the stamp, 10 cents, s expressed the body of the siamp are the words, “‘gecures lqmcdl-tn delivery at speclal delivery office.” Tur serious lllness of Mrs. Bayard or should be a thoroughly competent |healthy growth, there being nothing 1ike | state relative to the appointment of con- man and paid a sslary as keeper and for [a «boom” which other places have de-|suls. Itissald that there are now on nothing else. If there Is to be a restau- rant maintained the privilege should be let to outslde parties, and the keeper should heve no conaection with it, His time should be devoted entirely to the besutlfying of the grounds and protest: ing the property. —— Mg, HoapLey, having been braced up by Grover Cleveland, now manifests his willingness to acoept the democratic nom- him through. However, he will find Mr. That clrcumstances alter cases will be demonstrated In the coming campaign. Ir the clty councll can possibly spare enough money to psy the difference be- tween the rough granite blocks and flat stones, sufficlent for smooth cross-walks on Farnam street, 1t should do =oat once, and give the public the benefit of the exchange. If the council does not want to Jdo thls, we would suggest that the aephalt pavement be extended from the cross-streets far enough Into Farnam to make cross-walks. This would be better even than cross- stones, THE result of the test case in regard to the sldewalk In front of the Van Namee property has been very effectlve. We shall now have a firat class walk on the corner of Farnam and Twelfth streots. “This should by no means be the last ef- fort to improve the sldewalks on that thoroughfare, I1f the board of publle works has authorlty enough to compel the owner of that lot to lay down a uni- form and substantial sldewalk, {t has am- plo authority to compel the owners of other property to do the same thing,"and there should be no favoritism. Let the good work go on, and give us first class walks on Farnam street at loast. Taz omnibuses which have been drly- en off of Broadway, in New York, by the strect care, are belvg sold out at auction, The New York Comunercial Advertiser Bay: ‘There is romething pathetic in the sale of things familiar by long use, oven if they hap pen to be things so prosaic as omnibuses, Nearly a hundred of theee vehicles were sold Dhursday, chiefly for out of town traffic, at ruinously low prices, The average sum is said to have been but $30, and one was sold for 810, Now, when we consider the cost of tents, the prosent Jiking for camping out, and the ease with whis from polut to point, it appears strange that some adventurous tourists did not buy omui buses to use in place of tents or huts in the wilderness or by the ehore, The vehiclee keep out the weather, are well off the ground, and by thesse of curtaing a trayeling photographer a Broad way omnibus prosents decided advantages, we should say,to #dd to those of association. S——————e— Tae hand of Jay Gould has become vlatble in the Mexlcan financial muddle, for wome tlme in his interest what ds known as the Graet rallroad concesslon just before It adjomrned, It pended upon. E— Tue superintendent of the Omaha waterworks is very tender and touchy en the wrong spot. He goes into a spas because this paper has seen fit to call at- tention to the digglng of trenches on up- per Farnam street where paving s about to be begun, The touchy waterworks officlal says that the BEE in venomous jorks ‘‘demanded the whys and where- was anything venomous in our Inquiry? ble to cause the pavements to settle? attentlon to anythlng that lmpedesthe |« iy will be news to our subscriblng proper constructlon of our pavemental| ijzens, who sank $1,600,000 in that If the delay has been caused directly by the clty officials or council there fs still nothing venomous or jerky about the offensive paragraph. There certalnly was nothing eald to which any water- works officlal could offeuse. As we said at the out- sot, the superintendent 1Is altogether|ganq the game”’ license local option 8pot. | double-back-action platform for the com- too touchy on the wrong file ten thousand applioations for consul- ships, The applicants for these places, however, will not be any more dlsap- pointed than the rest of the grand army glven the enemles of O pl excuse for exhibiting petty spite. The fact Is, Omaha has organized a permanent exporitian association, just as Chleigo, St. Louls, Kansas Oity, St. Joe and other olties have done. Itls not a Nebraska falr, but rather an Inter-state exposition In which western Iows, northern Mls- sourl and Wyoming Intend to take an In- terest with Nebraska. Itls in no sense gotten up as a rival of the state falr, be- Omaha exposition. The population within a radlas of fifty miles of Omaha can farnish exhibits and attendants ocoss in every partlcalar. Axorner delegation of Nebraska office- seekers 1s moving upon the national eapl- talIn hopes of oatching Mr. Oleveland before he escapes to the mounntains of Now York, KK OF ERRORS, Operators, London Standard, 1t seems, however, as If the transmis- sion of messages was superintended by some telegraphle Puck, whose speclal de- light 1s to commit mallclous perversitles Omaha's figures, which are obtained from | of a dollar bill. On the left of the stamp | 5 the sense of messages for no other pur- the state census as those of Denver are, | there Is a pretty vignette of a messenger | pose, apparently, but to gratify his pre- dilectlons for practical joking. To some his pleasantries may cause amusement, but they are more frequently productive of embarrassment. How friendly greet- ings paseing between familles have bsen We have left Denver behind, and|in figures and letters, Conspicuous on altered, what dreadful suspense and alarm has been caused among households and perturbatlon among business men through the hidden telegraphic imp, none but those who have been victimized can fully appreciate or understand, A gen- tleman onca telegraphed asking that a horse might be sent to the rall- has had as rapld a growth as any of these | will postpone for some time any farther way station to meet him and was and It has been a fsubstantial and |action on the part of the secretary of [suprised to find a hearse Instead. A prominent atatesman was acoused of de- laylng leglslative work through an *‘an- fortunate idleness,” when the honorable gentleman’s *‘iliness” was the cause of the delsy. From belng “bad” a man was made ‘“‘dead,” and one that was ‘‘no worse” became ‘‘no more,” through tele- graphlo agency. - Messages are sometimes m | of office-seekers, as Presldent Cleveland [ made to read precisely opposite to what proposes to take a vacation of meveral |is meant by the sender, and trouble and weeks, will be glven a rest, and will continue to draw thelr salsrles with the usual regu- larity. IN comparlng the recelpta of the New inatlon for the governorship of Ohlo. He |fores of the dilatory proceedings on the | jeang exposition with those of the thinks that Mr. Cleveland’s friendship | partof the waterworks company.” Now, | sentenntal at Philadelphia 1t has been and exprasslons of confidenca will carry | we would like to know whereln there | onarajly stated that wl in reply to the New York |y altored. Meanwhile the office-holders | dlsappolntment is frequently caused by theee perverted communications. “Send check this afternoon’ has become *‘cend chase this afternoon,” “‘your bacon” has been transformed Into “your banker,” “linseed ofl” bas been converted Into “Uneeed meal,” ‘‘fifteen wagons” into ““fifteen tons,” “‘clothcs” has been made “*goles,” ‘‘sold” made *‘unsold,” and the announcement ‘‘salmon recelved” has hile the former (heen changed into *‘balloon recelved.” exhibition was a financial failure, the lat- Foraker a much stronger opponent than | Was It not very timely and proper to call | tor was oxactly the opposite. This is | the ne was two years ago, owing to varlous | attention to the fact that the delay for |, i the oase, however. The Philadel- clrcumstanoes that have since arlsen. |outting trenches for water aud gas is lia- phia Call, ‘When meetings are arranged through medium of the telegraph occasionally happens that the and place of meeting Sunday has a decided ten- it time X World, which stated that Philadelphia |dency to become Monday, Tuesday ls lia- Could a vigilant paper do less than direct | paqe money out of the centennial, says|ble to be made Thursdey, and the first enterprlse, reaped the benefit. Tae Iowa democrats are wres:ling with the liquor problem, bralns how to get up a *‘high, low, jac! train has been altered to the last train, while places of meetlng have been changed and converted into something of which the whole natlon |that was painfully perplexing to the re- clpients, = *‘Constantinople among the grocers” was a rather unintelligible an- nouncemenr, and the changing of the re- quest ‘“‘send no more” into ‘“‘send on Thelr acrobatic | more” was calculated to preduce annoy— take personal|jigtform carpenters are puzzling thelr |snce. Here Is a curlus piece of composi- Jc | tlon which a telegraph clerk turned out: *‘Speaker urged a compliment eoncern- ing the deatrabllity of thelr ocause and the hounds of the execufon.” This The superintendent says that the com-ng campaign. With Mayor Vaughan, of | being interpreted meansth: ‘“The spes an old-time landlord of the Herndon House, who, Instead of keeplng a supply of provislons on hand, would run out just before each meal and buy just|pointed. Emperor Willlam’s health has|dleputed. enough potatoes, meat, etc., for the im- mediate demands of the boarders. That le no way, however, for a works company to do busl- ness. It should keep on hand a suf. ficlent amount of pipe and hydrants and jointa enough to lay halt a mils at least at any time. There would then be no delay. we could say abcut the waterworks com- pany which wo have left unsaid, and it does not seem at all necessary for the su- what he may imagine to be a grlevance. Right hero lot us say that Mr. Dumont, one of the members of the com- pany, did call the attention of the editor of this to the caure of delay, after the article In question had appeared in print, but looked. People who are In the habit of accosting the editor of a daily newspaper on the street to tell bim to make correc- tions are llable to be dlsappolnted, unless they put the matier in writlng. surd to expect the editor to rush down to on the street. No rational person ought to expect any such thing unless he lives in a village where the editor takes pump- kiny, eggs, and cordwood on subacription, himeelf. Had the superintendent of the waterworks sent in & written communi- | 08conda to swallow everything that i catlon it would have been published, —e The Nebraska census compilation of | favor upon the reported proposition to|upon the horse, ai 1t Lo sald he has had an agent in Mexico | fifty-six counties gives s population of | locate the Apaches in Greer county, of | true of the porti The | 618,866, There are yet fourteen coun- | that state, Meoxlsan congress voted a forfeiture of | tlesto bo heard from, and It 1s estimated | do to take care of the festi that they will kring the total populatlon of the atate up to nearly 700,000. This walks of flat|P20Y had tosend east for some pipo and | Gouncll Bluffs, as thelr cand date, such,a ahydrant or two. This reminds us of | tgater.hoard plank would not be neces- sary. er urged a complalnt concerning the de- sertion of tholr cause at the hands of the execative.” St. Vitas' dance seems to have puzzled an operator, for he ren- dered it “*vlle dance,” a definltion which TaE obltuary writers are again disap- [the unfortunate sufferer might not have improved greatly, asa cricket. He may live ten years yet. water- | The latest cable advices are that he will | have shocked the “‘unco guld.” probably be able to take an actfve part in the Avgust manoeuvres with his sword, helmet, and in fall war paint. ) WEe should like to know why the Oma- There are many other things|ha Repudlican did not publish Mayor Boyd's letter to Oharles Francls Adams, At the risk of being called into court to make good the damages, we would gently think of Is that the paper is under the thumb of the Union Pacific ‘WE are not surprised that the cattle- a formal protest agaln the proposed abro- gatlon of thelr land leases. Thay arc grazing lands at & nominal rant of ons to three cents an acre. — OnoLERA continues to count its victims feot 1t Is ab- | by the thousands In Spain, There were usually ema'l space, or In boots so 1417 new cases on Sunday. S far there n omnibus can be taken | 1y offico every time he is thus spoken to have been 30,000 cases and 13,000 deaths, tho death rate bolng nearly 50 per cent of those who are attacked. TrE fact that the Western Unfon has n bo made as private | and does all the wrltlog, type setting, [#Wallowed another telegraph company, #a may bo desired. For either a sportsman or | goliciting and delivering of his paper the American Rapld, should causs no |the worn psrts at night ral surprise, as it ls but natural for an|ening oll. swallowab! Tae people of Texas do not look with They have got all they can owboy, Tue Hawkeye Blade is the name of a appears dat the forfeituze was a mero [shows an increase of nearly 250,000 in|new democrati: sheet at Des Molnes, blind for worklog througk a scheme that | five years, Although these figures are |Its projectors may find 1t costly amuse- seoms to hav® been eminently successful, [not quite up to our expectations, yet [ ment to fool with edged tools before they |last Ssturday night, The light was seen Arrangements were made with govern. | they Indicate a very rapld growth. When [ get through, ment officlals £'r the ‘‘famons decrse,” and Gould went short on the bonds and the next national census is taken in 1890 Nebratka will have over 1,000,000 in. —— Mexico is a sorely afflloted country, and he Is now as active | ;.\ y1o s stock of the Ceniral and National rall- | habltante, Only one ecoumty, Fillmore, | In addition to her financlal embarrass. The phrase, ‘‘ant!qulties of the church,” once got a telegraphist Into for he had the audaclty to write ““‘Iniquitles of the church,” which must A paper had to apologize for having—through a telegraphic error—in the report of an unsavory lawsult referred to a *‘religious” instead of a ‘litigous” family. There can be no question but the clerk who wrote ‘‘subterranean taverns” when “‘caverns” was Intended, must have bsen euffering from the effects of a recent visit to some mnderground liquor shop. - ——— Oare of Horses in Summer, perintendent to rush into print with |intimate that the only reason we can | American Agriculturist, The urually tough skin of the horse is softened by the flow of prespiration dur- ing the rush of epring work, and a rough, {ll fitting collar, a useless, chafing pack- pad, or & projecting backle, quickly pro- paper | men In the Indian territory should enter [ duces paio. No one can blame a horse from faltering when ordered to press its raw and bleeding sheulder agalnst the collar, that 1t will sluk into the bruised among other matters this fact was over. | 2aving the benefit of millions of acres of | fiegh, " To avold galls all parts of the har- ness should fit closely, A laboring man s careful in buylog boots of proper slze, He could not endure twelve hours of hard labor while were cramped within an Iarge that his foet slip In them aud wear the skin away by constant frictlon, As a rale, horses are worked in tod large collars. A eoft pad under sach will pre- vent galllog. When the anima's are brought in from work the harness shounld be removed at onco and cleaned, and the necks and shoulders well waehed with oastlle soap and water. After bathing b on some soft- Use no oil in the morning, The collar should not be ofled, as it will then gather dirt through the dsy and form a rough coating that will chafe the exposed parts. Keep all parts of the harness clean, especially thoss that press seo that the same ls of the horse agsinst which the harness presses. It s much easler to prevent than to cure gall. C — Electrical meadlights, Eleotrleity for headlights on locomo- tives was tried for the first time In the east on an engine of the Lehligh Valley road that left Jersey City for Easton on at a much greater distance than was pos- sible with the oil light. Jacob Heck,the engineer, also sald that he could see plainly a mile ahead of him on the track, The furtherest he couid see with the oil TUESDAY, JULY 14, 1885 She is to Try and Beat Her Lexing ton Mecord at Cleveland. Philadelphia Special to the New York Times, The best known and most dlstingnished passenger that loft the Broad street sta- tlon on the western expross, shortly after 11 o'clock to-night, was Maud S. Hor destination was Cleveland, whither she had been ordered by Mr. Bonner, her owner. Her equin were McCleod, John %, Helen Hough- ton, Omar and Otho. The other horses composing the stable under traln- ing at the hands of W. W. Balr remain at Bolmont driving park In charge of O, C. Phipps, the lessee. Maud S. and the other horses that accompany her, were loaded on a speclal car at Bryn Mawr, at about 0 o'clock, and brovght to this | maglstrate and attended conrt In White | 1ady; clty, whero the car was attacned to the regalar western exprees, The summer meeting at Cleveland will begin on the 20:h, and Mr. Bonner has consented to allow Maud 8. to give an exhibition troton somo day during the meetlog. Jay-Eye-See ls also traln- ing at tho same track,but It {s iImprobable that Mr. Bonner will consent to arrangea match between the two great trotters, al- thongh Mr. Oase, the owner of Jay-Eye. See Is anxious to do so. Maud S. has been in tralning at the Belmont driving park for the past three months, and left to-night In better condition than she has ever been in before, “‘The little lady,” sald Mr. Balr, slap- ping her affectionately on the neck, *‘never felt, looked, or acted bettor in her life than she does to.day. Her sojourn in Philadelphia has evidently done her lots of good. On the 16th of June she did a mile in 2:11}, which, consldering her condition, was better than that made by her when she soored ‘her top speed of 2:00} at Lexing- ton on November 11, 1884, 1 under- stand that I am to drive her an exhibi- tlon mile at Cleveland during the meet- iog there. Where we shall go at the close of the meeting 1s for Mr, Bonner to say, bat I hope he will order us back to Rel- mont. I would select that track In pref- erence to to any other In the country for tralning purposes. With a few alter- atlons it could be made the {astest one In America, but the Indifference of the Philadelphfa public to horse racing glves no incentlve to managers to make any extensive alterations. I expect to return here, however, and if I do I intend making thls the fastest track in the world, backlng or no backing. Why, slnce I have been here,” concluded the tralner, “I have sent McCleod a mile ‘around that track In 2:194, and for a qusrter at a 2:14 galt.” On entering the car at Bryn Mawr gome of the other horses balked and ob- jected to climbing the plank, but Maud S. threw her little eara back, and, with a knowing wink, climbed into the car and took up her posltion at the end of the car where the atraw was deepesi. ———— Qurious Facts About Centenarians, New York Times, SyrAcUSE, June 27.—For more than thirty-five years Joseph E. Perkins, of this city, has been collecting statistics In regard to people who have lived 100 years or more. *‘I have more than 10,000 instances,” sald the antiquarlan to a Times corree— pondent, “‘of people who have lived 100 years and more. These names have been gathered from every part of the globe. This country leads in longevity, and Con- nectlcut is at the front among the United States. In that state 1 have gathered atlstics In regard to more than G,000 persons who were more than 80 years of age, and of thls number twenty were be- ond the centenary llmlt, Vermont and ew Hampshire also show many instances of longavity, The Chinese are short and he Russians long-lived. As regards the sex, the majorlty of these 10,000 cases of centenarlans are women. I account for this by the fact that they less irregular lives than men, I have instances of fifty old malds who come to my century stand- ard, and only twelve bachelors, ‘““Among the oldest people in the United States,” sald the spcclalist on old people, ‘‘were Flora Thompson, a negress of Nashus, S. C., who dled at the age of 150 years; Betsy Frauthum, a native of Germany, who died In Tennes- e at the age of 154 years, and Sims, a slave, who died in Virginia, 180 years old. I have the casesof ten persons who lved in safety for 100 years, and were then burned to death. In Onondaga county I have the sketches of fifty cen- tenarlans, Among them is the Rev. Daniel Waldo, who died in 1862 at the age of nearly 102 years. For more than 60 years he was a clergyman in the Pres- byterlan church, and on the annlversary | ing of his 100th birthday he preached a ser- mon In the FirstjPresbyterian church of this city. The last slx pensioncrs of the revolutionary war were centenarlans, and 1 have thefr photographs, Then there was John Weeks, of New Liondon, Conn,, who marrled his tenth wife when he was 106 yeors of ago and she only 16, He died at the age ot 114, Hisy gray hairs had fallen off and they were renewed by a dark growth of hair. Soveral now tecth had also made thelr appearance, and a few hours before his death he ate three pounds of pork, two or three poonds of bread and drank a pint of wine, The last man in the party that threw the tea overboard in Boston har- bor, at the beglnnlog of the revolutionary war, was David Kenntson, who dled at the .in of 117 years. Then therels a Scoteh tioker by the name of Anderson, who was 114 years old when he died. “Nicholas Schathcowskl, of Posen, was another fellow. He depoted on oath be- fora the council of Oonstance, A. D, 1414 that he was 100 years of age, snd that his father, whose age a! the tlme of hls death was nearly 200, oould remember the death of the first king of Poland, A. D, 1025, Among the oddities to be found in my book will be the photograph of & man who dled at the age of 121 years, He had 144 children, grandchildren and great-grandchildren, and outlived them all. Then there was Margaret McDowal of Edinbarg, who dled at the age of 106, She marrled and survived thirieen hus- bands. John Rovin and his wife, of Hungary, lived together as man and wife for 148 years. He was 164 and sho 172 Eyo- | two children, and had no cheldren. The oase is offset by that of another ocentenarlan who had forty -nine children. John Riva, an ex- change broker of Italy, lived to the age of 116 yoars, and had a child born to him after he was 100 yoars old. He attribu. ted the remarkable preservation of his health to ablt of chewlng citron bark., Will Farr, of Birminghsm, England, had 144 descondants, and sur- vived them all. He loft h's property, to the value of £10,000, for charitable pur- potes, Betz, a Sioux aquaw, who died a years. She had been the wife In turn of an army offiser, an ladian chlof a boe- der highwayman and a Methodist minls- tor, Attila, king of the Huns, died A. D. 500 at the age of 124, He had_jast married & beautifal girl, Willlam Ward, of Winchetter county, dled in 1778 at tho ago of 107. His brother John was a Plains as Iats as 1 member of thls family, ness as banker, 1783, at Broadway, New York. Another queer inel- dent s that of a centenarian who was marrled four tlmes, and had a daugh- ter by each wite, Theso daughtera mar- rles, and each of them had fourteen chil- dren, Then there was a man who went over the centary llne and had twenty- His first ohild was a boy, and glrls and boys came after that in regular rotation. There was a person known as Elizabeth Page, who llved in London and dled at the age of 108 years, This person had acted as a midwife, and was supposed to be a woman. After death, however, It was discovered that the supposed woman was a man., A woman by the name of Aglac Timusier dled in France at the age of 104. She had a beard thirty inches long. I have 300 instances of people who liyed In throe centuries and 77 of those who lived to 100 years or more. I have the case of a widow who survived her husband 92 years, The most remarkable instanca of longevity in British history {s the case of Thomas Parr, of St. Leonard, Shore- dltch, He dled in 1538 at the age of 207 yoars, He was born In the relgn of Richard IL, and lived in the relgns of twelve kings and queens, namely, Rich- ard IL, Henry IV,, V. and VI, Ed- ward IV. and V., Richard III, Henry VIL and VIIL, Edward VL., Mary and Eltzabeth, Willlam Ward, a carrled on busi- A Legal Romance, London News, A case has come before one of the French law courte as dramatic In its real- ities as a'tale by the Elder Dumas. An old woman lived in the villege of Ville- jolnt, who had the reputation of belag very rich and a great miser. Oneday at chapel she was accosted by a stranger, who told her sho knew the troubles that aflicted her, and was able to cure them. A vieit to the miser’s house followed, and the stranger found out that poverty was the trouble, and she promlsed to cure it Some little money was necessary where- with to start, and 400 francs were pro- duced and locked op in adrawer. ‘‘Like producen like,” said the stranger, handed the key to the owner, and she promised to return In a week, when the sum would be found donbled. She did return, but the money had not increased. It seemed there was not sufficient stock with which the natural law could operate. The miter, now convinced of the honesty of her deliverer, produced all the money she had in the house, 4,500 francs, and these were locked up and a day three weeks off fixed for the great event. The day came and so did the en- chantress, but still the treasure was un- disturbed. The poor woman now added another 2,000 francs from her banker, and the enchantress ixed a final date. Morzover, a ceremony was to be gone through. At midnight the bed-room fire was to bs lit, a saucepan placed upon 1¢, and just as 1t strack 12 some powder was to be poured om the sauce- pan. These dramastlc directlons were obeyed, with the re- sult that the powder exploded, the house oaught fire, and the poor woman was nearly burned to death, The enchant- ress was, however, dlscovered and ar- rested. The faith of the vlotim was un- shaken. When the police proceeded to open the drawer, she begged of them not, 88 the charm would be broken. The po- lice wore not deterrad,. but of courze the 6,500 francs were gone. The court con- demnued the prisoner to twenty years penal servitude. e —— “He Padt Oheese in Mein Ear,” New York Telegram, Heinrlch Dinkel, a little, fat German, was frightened when he took his turn at the bar in answer to his name this morn- *‘What {s the matier with you, Heln- rlch?” “Donnevetter nodtings. Chudge, idt vhas bedter uf you ledt me gone home vonoe alreadty to meln frou, I den’t make such foollshness llke dot pefore,” answered Heinrlch, “You were drunk and created a dis- turbance in the Bowery.” *‘Chadgs, I don'dt vhas full,” he an- swered, deprecatingly; I only trink dwenty, dirdty glasses lager.” His Honor stsr:d at the litte man and queried, *How abouat the disturbance?”’ “T trink dot lager mit & goot frendt undjvhas goin’ home, In der Bowery}l vas dry, und I g for some more lager, Some vellers eay, ‘Datchy, you vhas dreatin’, aiod’c it!" und I say, ‘Nein.” Den one of dem vellers make me muin hat ofer mein face und pudt cheese in meia ear,und I hil him aof der nose, Dot vos right, alnd’t iy’ ‘I guoss you’ro more sinned thau sloning, Helnrlch,” eaid the *You're discharged,” “Dot’s so, Chudge,” sald the little man’ his face beaming with joy, and he turned out, thanking His Honor as he went, ainst ourt. e ——— Judge Belford’s Dog. 8t Lows Globe-Democrat, The most noted dog In Colorado is an English deerhound, the property of ex- Congressman James B. Belford, He ls known throughout the state as Spot,hav- log been the companton of Judge Bel ford in most of his congressional cam- palgos. When Bellord was on the stamp BARKING MUSIC IN HER EARS, Curs as & Oure for a Ohronic Case of Insemnia, “Iwant a dog,” sald a Isdy of uncer taln age, recently, to our respocted pound- master, ‘‘that will bark all night withont stopplog. 1don't care whether ho le brindled, yellow, or black and.tsn, so long as his bark Is sbrill and high.” “You'd like his bark to be on the C,' © companlons | little while ago, lived for more than 100 |suggested the offiolal, “‘and not bars o tone, Isuppone?” *'Oh, you government officers are al- ways 80 witty,” retorted tho spinster, “but [ rolly do want a dog of tho kind I have described. Have yon got one " ‘I have about sixty-seven, madam, who yelp all night,” *‘Oh, how delictous!” murmured the ‘*how 1 wish I oould afford to buy them all and feed tho poor things, “‘Porhaps you've got a grndge agalnst your nelghbore,” inslnuated the car- oatcher. “‘Well, that's how It began. You see they are always saying unkind things of me, because I live alone and am an- wedded, ahem! and the gentlemen next door sald one day in hls back yard that he wondered how old I was, and his wife guoased somewhere between twonty and elghty, that is, there or thereabouts. So I bought a dog with the awfullest bark you over heard, At first he kept me awako, but I got 50 used to himthat, now they have polsoned him, I can’t sleep a wink without him. Do you know that hearing all your dogs barking so beauti- fully together is maklog me eleepy now? Have you got a chair?” **Kor heaven's sake, madam, don't go to sleep here ! yelled the now thoroughly scared janltor of the canine county jall. “I'll glve you two dogs, madam, that will never let up barklng, for nothing, 1f you'll only go right away with them.” Bat he was too Iate. The Jady had sunk on a bench and was snoring placldly. It was five hours before they conld wake her up, and as she salled down town, leading a one-eyed bull dog and a yellow mon- grel, the pound-keeper wiped his clammy brow and whispered hoarsely: and take tea with her and hea: My love Is true to me (' whole year’s dog fees.” e — Rats at the Zoo, Philadelphia Tim Just as the last visltors were leaving the Zoologleal Gardens late yesterday af- ternoon, a wild scream was heard in the Ilons’ and tigers’ house, and three of the keepers tumbled all. over each other In their hurry to roach that part of of the building where they supposed some ven- turesome visitor was having an arm lacer- ated by angered beasts, When they got near they stopped and isughed loudly. A very pale and wuch scared young lady stood upon a bench with her skirts tight- ly grasped, whilo twenty-two rats roamed with the utmost unconcern over the floor. “Rats!” exclalmed a keeper, after the young lady had been rolleved; ‘‘rats! Why, there’s hundreds of 'em here. Just stand in that corner and I'll show you something.” When all was quiet dozens of rats ap- peared. They scampered along the floor at the edge of the animala’ cages and dined luxuriously upon peanute, broken cakes and orange rinds, Two of the bolder ones crawled up Into the cage that containes the large llon, and starting upon a foraging expedition into_ varfous cor- ners, crept rather cautiously up almost to the very note of the lion, who lazlly rested his fine head upon one paw and turned his blg brown eyes upon his bold visltors. When they bad eaten all they could find they jumped to the floor and jolned the others *‘That old lion don’t mind 'em as long as they don't touch him, If they do they've got to skip mighty llvely to get away. The other day ons big fat rascal got Into the cage and toughed the llon on the leg. Almost before I could wink the rat was lying flat and dead under the old fellow’s paw. He never allows man or beast to fool with him,” e — Oldest City in the United Btates, Correspondence Boston Commercial Bulletin, St. Augustine ls the oldest European settlement in the United States, and wae founded by the Spanfards fn 1565, more than fifty years before the landing of the Pilgrims at Plymouth, and has been con- splcoons In history as being besleged, taken and retaken till 1819, when it was ceded to the United States. It changed hands no less than three times during the civil war, and really the town proper has something of the aspect of a sleepy, old world, broken down Earopean vil- lage that, with Its narrow streets, co- quina-stone houses, with overhanging balconies, seem to have been loft here and forgotten. The history of St. Augustine carries us back almost to the middle ages, 1t has seen the Spanish fleet of Menendez in 1568; the French adventurers of a year or two later, who avenged the s'aughter of French Huguenots; Sir Francls Drake’s expeditionin 15 the rald of Eoglish buccaneera In 1665; the South Carolina invaslon of 1702; the Ineflactual attack of the famous Gen, Oglethorpe in 1740, whon Spain and Englend were at war; be:ides other less noted cxpeditions snd conflicts down to the time cf its transfer to the United States, The ciquina stone, of which the old fort is built, is said to have been eelected because it was well calculated to resist cannon shot and does not splinter when struck, The old Spanish wall, which formerly extended across the penineula from shore to shore for the protection of the clity, has all been taken away with the exception of Its principal entrance, the city gate, which 1s still left standing a8 a curlosity of the past, and with its queer sentry-boxes, towers and loop- holes is a pleturesque and Interesting object, Some of the old Spanish streets aro scarce fifteen feet In width, and the houses, bullt of coquina stone, were first coyered with mastlo and then yellow, or whitewashed, the overhanglng balconies at the second story bringing them s.i'l nearar together, —— Looking After the Defenses. Special Telegram to The Bix. Nkw Youk, July 13,—Secretary of War Endicott is here with a special commission to her sing Not for a years at the tims they died, and thelr [and got off somethlng good Spot would |investigate tho defenses of the barbor and youngest son was 116 years old when the | raise a little more nolse about it than any | const. He said to your correspondent this parents died, I bave ten lustances of |of the other audlitors, and would keep up | morsing that he should visit the forts with people who dled on thelr one hundreth |such a protracted howl at times that the | the commission and finish the tourat New- anniversary and nine of centenarians who were born and who have lived and dizd in the samo house. I have three contenar: {ans who were born dumb, the oldest orowd would joln In glviog hils msster three cheers and a tiger, When Belford went to practics at the bar In the morn- ing, or to take something to cheer him, port, and report with recommeudations to congress on the completion of these investiga tions, e — The Mexican Kdltorsin New York, roads to an cnorn'ous amount, The|shows a decresse. Lis prosent popula- | the voraclous grasshoppers have swoeped [light in frout of Lim was 136 feet. The deoree was promulea‘ed and sccurlties |tion is given at 10,442, while in 1880 it [down apon her fields, “'fidcl‘;‘l; lfg:', khe llld'.l l:m;:“dn.m.gll‘)]y fell, as they inevitably would, to an ex.|had 13,452, a decrease of 3,010. This 1s —_— :‘“e denl‘;r”ed ‘:h::‘eltualorlcli; fanl‘ll)za:gllghz; tent to repsy Gould ' his $30,000, |rather a slogular fact, and we bardly| Hastivgs surprises the natives by |was far moro eatisfactory than ofl, which he had deposited In the Monte [know how to account for it, uciess the [ jamping forward as the third town in the — de Plodad, besides waking many times [census bas bsen very poorly taken ofstate. The oensus returns give It aver as much more money, after diy.iding with | that county, or else some mistakes have | 8,000 population, partners lo Mexico, Three day. before | been made iu the reports, That so many the decree was promulgated telesrams | people should have moyed out of the were constantly passing between the|county in so short a time is hardly prob- | Omahs exposiiion should have been mis- Mex!can palace and New York, sble, Itis posslble, however, that they lnamed the Nebraska falr, e e— Ralsed the Qaarantine, 8eiNorieLp, Ill,, July 13,—In lrcurdnnnll with a recent act of the legislature Governor | (glesby issued & proclamation recalling all | existing orders sgaizst the importation of cattle futo Illinois from certain localities in | othec staies scbedulod n containiog pleuro- Thiy has' pneomonia, i living to be 121 yesrs old, - Then there|Spot never falled to go along and take | Nyw Youk. July 13.—The Mexican editors were threo dwarfs, each one less than|his libation in the shape of 8 8trong | were cutertained this moraing Ly the pross three feot In helght, who lived to the|eooktall He was nevar known 0 “‘get| it ‘and visitod the sity hall aad Mayor oge, respectively, 100, 104 and 117.|off his pins,” as the saying is, although it | (iruce, where Greetings wers exchaugod. Tnere ara three caces among the|was the delight of the judge's consiitu- | Aferward visits were made to places of in- oentenariins where tho hushands aod |ents to treat Bpot with dlstinguished con- | torest throughout the city, wife each dled on the same day, |sideratlon when the pair were maklog m——————— and one of tho mcst curlous things inmy ¢3¢ circult iu the campaign, He was| , . Tole# collection {s that I regard to a black | kuown ta all the raflroad wmen and would | Tho Cliarles A Trowler St, Bernard dollar sud white centenarlan. Eaich of them |trevel from Denver cr any other point in i aneg Jastasday: e was bun with six fingers and tces on |the state to the jadgu's hume in Central el et eyl each hand and foot. Then there is the ! City when he thought the eleotioneering Aty 3 q Kicl's roap Lioks, $18,000; i 826 of & man who married sixteen times | business had lasted abows lang enough, Wy AL St burned yesterday, $10,000.,