The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, May 19, 1895, Page 4

THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, MAY 19, 1895. EAGIEERED BY HILL Scheme for Reorganiza~- ~tion of the Northern Pacific. PLANS ARE AGREED UPON Shares to the Amount of One Hundred Million to Issue. BONDS SECURED BY LIENS. The Great Northern Men WIill Have Control In the Board of Directors. BERLIN, GErRMANY, May 18.—For the past four days meetings of the United German Norther: Pacific committees have been considering the proposals of Mr. Ed Adams, the representative of the Deutsche Bank of Berlin, for the reorganization of the Northern Pacific Railroad, and they have finally authorized him to carry out his ‘plan, which the bondholders will be recommended to accept. The first point of the Adams reorgani- wation plan ‘is foreclosure of the old com- pany and the formation of a new company under special arrangements for this pur- pose: Secondly, the new company is to issue shares to the amount of $100,000,000 and a maximum ‘of $200,000,000 gold bonds, free of taxation. A sufficient amount of these bonds is to be reserved, in order to replace the present first mortgage bonds later, and $3,000,000 bonds are to be reserved in order to acquire independent branch roads and for a new construction at a maximum charge of $20,000 per mile. The new bonds will be secured by a mortgage lien on the Northern Pacific sys- tem, including the St. Paul and Northern Pacific Railway line, and will bear interest partly at 4and partly at 3 per cent, all un- der the same mortgage. Thirdly; the capital and interests of the new bonds are to be guaranteed uncondi- tionally by the Great Northern Company by ordering each bond, the Great Northern receiving in return half of the stock of the new company. Fourthly, the board of directors of the new company isto consist of nine direc- tors, four of whom are to be nominated by the Northern Pacific reorganization com- miftee. Fifthly—In accordance with this system there should be given for each §10,000 sec- orid mhortgage bond a $1125 new four per eent guaranteed bond; for a $1000 third mortgage bond a $1000 new three per cent guaranteed hond and at least $250 in shares, for each-$1000 five per cént consol at least $500 three per cent new gunaranteed bonds and $300 in shares. Sixthly, that overdue coupons of the second mortgage be paid in cash at the rate'of 5 per cent annually, Those of the third mortgage are to.be paid in cash at ‘the rdte of 4 per cent, and those in consols are to beadjusted at the rate of 214 per cent in new 3 per cent bonds. Seventhly, the floating debt of the re- eeivership is to be paid by the assessment of about $11,000,000 on the old stock. Eighthly, the reorganization and the raising of the necessary working capital is to be secured by a syndicate headed by J. Pierpont Morgan and the Deutsche Bank. HILL RETURNS, Ha Explains Plans for the General Reorganization. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 18.—Among the passengers on the steamer New York, which arrived this morning, was President J.J: Hill of the Great Northern, who has Téen talked of very much of late in refer- ence to the proposed control of the North- r c. He said: The reorganization committee of the Northern Pacific has a majority of each class of bends and is ready to push the re- organization of the road quite vigorously.” “Are the Great Northern people inter- ested in the matter?” T dm one of a number of gentlemen whg are interested in the Northern Pacific - rebrganization, and our company will be teady fo do anything it can to facilitate the'matter. We shall be glad to see the Northern Pacific reorganization on a basis h-can carry its financial burden. The thiree failures of the Northern Pacific, com- mencing with Jay Cooke, have marked thrée financial crises or panics in Amer- ica, and I think that the placing of the eompany on & sound financial basis asat present proposed will doas much to restore “the credit of the security holders abroad as anything that could be done anywhere.” _“Wili the Great Northern take partin the reorganization ?” “I am not prepared to say what the . Great. Northern will do, further than to state that you may depend on the Great . Notthern looking out, to the best of its abil- ify, for its own interests. It will be most *.glad to co-operate with the bondholders of the Northern Pacific to secure the desirable results F have stated, and thus put that ¢ompany on a sound basis. 1 don't care to .. 'go into. the matter any further at this -‘time, for reasons that must be apparent to T “Did you meet J. Pierpont Morgan in London?” Noj; there is absolutely nothing in that * gtory-at all. Ididn’teven see him, much * tess talk to him.” " »*What are your relations with the Van- *: derbilts, present aud prospective?” ~“IWe have very pleasant relations with them, but our relations are also pleasant with the other lines, and we have no desire .to make "any closer alliances than at pres- 1t existing.” MR. ‘IN. JACK FROST'S DOMAILN. Doing Great Damage in 5 the East. LEVELAND, Onio, May 18.—There was another destructive frost last night throughout Northern Ohio. Vegetation which escaped Sunday night’s freeze was destroyed. A number of points report great damage to wheat, corn and potatoes, in addition to the destruction of fruit. -INDIANAPOLIS, Isp., May 18.—A white frost covered the central portion of . Indiana this meorning. The damage is ery ‘great, especially to the early fruit, végetables and grain. In some localities . the grass was frozen stiff. . " GENESEE, N.Y., May 18.—The freeze “‘last night probably ruined what fruit was “left in Genesee Valley. Ice nearly half an “‘inch thick formed on still water in ex- posed places. © .~DETROIT, Mrci., May 18.—Dispatches -~from Southwestern Michigan report a frost this morning more disastrous to fruit than Cold Snaps Yet any of the recent visitations. At Benton Harbor it is reported that not over 20 per cent of the grape crop can survive. LONDON, Enxeranp, May 18.—Cold weather, accompanied by snow, isreported from various pointsin England and on the Continent. Of Inte to the Coast. WASHINGTON, D. C., May 18.—New postoffices have been established at Altru- ria, Sonoma County, with Emma J. Woodruff as postmistress, and at Pences, Lake County, with Irene Pence as post- mistress. The postoflice service from Le- land to Integral, Trinity County, has been discontinued. B~ A Death of Lieutenant Poe. DETROIT, MicH., May 18.—News was received from New York to-day of the sud- den death there of Charles Carroll Poe, son of General O. M. Poe of this city, aged 31. He was a graduate of Annapolis Academy, and at his death was lieutenant of the New York Naval Reserve. Lo o Snow Falls in Michigan. NEGAUMEE, MicH., May 18.—Snow began falling at 5 o’clock to-night, and at 8 o'clock the indications are that there will be enough for good sleighing in the morn- METHDE OF NSURGENT, Firing From Ambush Upon the Spanish a Popular Mode of Warfare. Lleutenant - Colonel Bosch Other Officers Killed by a Sudden Attack. and NEW YORK, N. Y., May 18.—A special to the World from Havana says: The en- gagement at Jovito affords a good example of she methods of fighting which the Cuban insurgents have adopted. The combined bands of Periquito, Perez, Miro, Bonne, Cartagena and Carzon lay in am- bush in the woods, and suddenly attacked Lieutenant-Colonel Bosch on the march with a part of his regiment, the “fighting Simancas.” Lieutenant-Colonel Bosch, the surgeon and another officer at the head of the column fell at the first fire. Then the Spanish soldiers, under Major Robles' orders, got in cover and firing was kept fup all day. The insurgents did not disclose themselves, but shot from shelter when- ever they could see the suggestion of a soldier. The position chosen by General Maceo was strong, and he was able to place his vastly superior force 1n secure cover. If General Maceo had as many followers as were with him two' days previously he had certainly 2000 men. The Spanish authorities assert that he actually had 3000. The portion of the Simancas Regiment with Lieutenant-Colonel Bosch, the same authorities say, numbered only 400. After desultory firing had continued the entire day a detachment of volunteer cavalry formed in Guantanamo by Major Gar- ringo made & vigorous attack on the in- surgents, striking them on the flank. This disconcerted General Maceo’s men. The Cubans seem unable to meet a sud- den change in the situation. This was shown at Cristo, when the pilot engine ahead of a train of soldiers upset the in- surgent plan of attack. Major Garringo’s squad drove the insurgents from their sheltered position, inflicting a considerable loss. The number of killed is uncertain. A Spanish regiment from Porto Rico, which has just arrived at Santiago, was dispatched in haste to Guantanamo,Maceo’s force, it is said, probably changing their base. The loss of Lieutenant-Colonel Bosch is unfortunate for the Spaniards, I ISES British Claims in Brazil. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 18.—A special to the Herald from Rio de Janeiro says: The British claims for indemnity, arising out of the recent revolution, will be pre- sented to-morrow. They make a large total. The Minister to Argentine has been empowered to negotiate a reciprocity treaty. el The Duke of Hamilton Dead. LONDON, Exe., May 18.—The Duke of Hamilton and Brandon has died at Al- giers, aged 52. He was the premier Duke of Scotland, the hereditary keeper of Holy- rood Palace. He had no male issue. s oo Loss of a Spanish Steamer. LONDON, May 18.—The Spanish steamer Gravina, from Antwerp for Lisbon, was lost off Capones in a typhoon and only two of those on board saved. TAUGHT THE YANKEES TO LAUGH. So Said an FEminent Frenchman of Oliver Wendell Holmes. Discussing the late Oliver Wendell Holmes, an eminent Frenchman once said that it was he who had taught the Yankees how to laugh. The poet’s wit was such as to put every one around him in the best of humor. It was Holmes who said that althoungh it was Eve who tempted man to eat, he had an idea that she had nothing to do with his drinking, for he undoubtedly took to that on his own account. Then the poet removed his cigar from his lipsand re- marked: “T really must not smoke so persistently, I must turn over a new leaf—a tobacco leaf—and have a_cigar only after each”— and as most of those present imagined he was -about to say “‘meal,” he continued— “‘after -each cigar.”’ Leaning back in his chair, he added: “A foreigner is an alien; a foreigner who drinks too much isan bacchanalian; and why should not a for- eigner who smokes too much be called a tobacconalian ?” When dining with Lord Coleridge the subject of lawyers came up and referring to_the American man of the bar Holmes said that the poverty of the American law- yer and the wealth of his client was his glory.s On another occasion Mrs. Siddons was being discussed, and some one said that the statesman, Fox, had been smitten b{ the great actress. To this the poet re- g ied by saying that from all he bad ever eard of her ‘he could not understard a man falling in love with” her. His reason was that she was so grand thata man mgsht as well fall 1n love with the pyra- mids. She might have been loved by the ‘Worshipful Compeany of Coachmakers or a Board of Aldermen, but it was beyond the range of possibility that one man could ever love her. _After he had been lionized by a delega- tion of Westerners some one asked him how_ he liked it. “Like it?” he said, “I felt like the small elephant at the Zoo with a cheap excursion party on his back.” Professor Agassiz, he used to say, was the Liebig’s extract of the wisdom o' ages, “and,” he would add, “whenever he goes off on long voyages to remote islands L can’t helf thinking what a feast the canni- bais would have if they boiled down such an extract.”’—New York Herald. . There was a row recently in the German imperial nursery, Friedrich Wilhelm in- sisting on flogging his brothers because he was Orown Prince. In the middle of it Kaiser Wilhelm appeared, anc, picking up his successor remarded: ‘‘Now that you ]l:,ayq ahIowal y\i;n- hmchen: who is Crown rince, I will show you who is Emperor.” He used a birch rod. N WILLAS DOWAN Politics in Germany Are Again in Chaotic Condition. PET MEASURES KILLED, Clash of Prince Hohenlohe and Von Koeller on Most Subjects. CHANCELLOR STAYS IN OFFICE. Count Von Klotz No Longer In a Bloodthirsty Mood and WiIl Not Fight. BERLIN, GerMaNy, May 18.—Things | 4 are once more in a chaotic condition in Germany. The two chief Government bills, the anti-revolution bill and the tobac- co-tax measure, have been crushingly de- feated and there is no talk of substitute measures. It is an open secret that the views of the Chancellor, Prince Hohen- lohe, and the Prussian Minister of the In- terior, Herr von Koeller, clash on most subjects of importance, and the existing situation cannot endure. The latter’s po- sition is so shaken that his term of office may end atany moment. Prince Hohenlohe, who has been much worried for months past, offered his resig- nation immediately after the defeat of the anti-revolution bill, but he was persuaded to remain in office on the urgent solicita- tions of the Emperor and his own family. Herr von Koeller's handling of the anti- revolution bill is condemned on all sides, but he has displayea a total disre- gard of their dissatisfaction, and in fact strongly urged before the Council of State the introduction of another anti-revolu- tion bill directed particularly at the So- cialists. Prince Hohenlohe quietly disproved his arguments and showed the futility of con- tinuing the fight in the present Reichstag. The Chancellor was supported in this con- tention by Dr. Miguel, the Minister of Finance, Baron Marschall von Bieber- stein, the Minister for Foreign Affairs,and Dr. von Boettischer, the Imperial Secre- tary of State for the Interior, while Dr. Schoenstedt, the Minister of Justice, sided with Herr von Koeller. Prince Hobhenlohe's views also met with favor in the Bundesrath, with the result that no new anti-revolution bill or tobacco-tax bill will be introduced, and an early close of the Reichstag session is therefore expected. According to the anticipations, the Reichstag will adjourn at the end of the month. Members of the Center party to-day in- troduced a motion in the lower house of the Prussian Diet for the restoration of the clause in relation to the Christian church (repealedan 1868); but only the Poles sup- ported it. The speakers of the remainder of the parties declared themselves in oppo- sition to the motion and declined to enter into its discussion. Thereupon the bill was put to a vote and was rejected. Owing to the increased price of petroleum inventors are busy throughout Germany trying to discover a substitute for pe- troleum, and one new lamp, in which raw alcohol is used to feed an incandescent lamp, is being tested with the view of re- placing the petroleum. Emperor William personally witnessed a series of experi- ments with this lamp at the new palace at Potsdam, and pronounced the apparatus to be calculated to achieve the desired re- sult. He also expressed the hope that it would become the lamp of the poor, being both cheaper and better than the pe- troleum. Count von Klotz, on the personal order of the Emperor, has called off all the remain- ing duels he intended to fight against his alleged traducers. Kolz will be remem- bered as the master of ceremonies who was arrested and subsequently released after having been suspected of being the author of anonymous letters which caused such trouble in high court circles for years. A big musical festival will occur at Brunswick from June 12 to 16, with Mottl, Strauss, d’Albert and Riedel as the direc- tors. Both chamber and orchestra music will be performed. Miss Eromstadt, an American musician who hailed from Min- neapolis, gave a successful concert here on ‘Wednesday last. The revenue officers having discovered that American bacon has been imported into Germany in large quantities under fraudulent declarations, a number of Ger- man importers have been indicted at Cologne, Dusseldorf and elsewhere. Tests have been made on a large scale at Krupp’s works at Meppes with new nickel steel plates such as are intended for the two ironclads built thss year. The new plates withstood all attempts to pierce them, indentaticns only being ohserved under the most severe firing. Tke epidemic of influenza is at last dead. There has been no case in this city of a death from influenza since May 4. The bimetallists have laid a motion sim- ilar to that adopted in the’ upper house of the Prussian Diet before the lower house of the Diet. It hasbeensigned by over 200 members, chiefly Conservatives. Four dredges and seven tugs have been engaged day and night dredging the earth which slipped into the Baltic and North Sea canal on Wednesday last and large quantities of gravel are being brought to the spot in order to strengthen the damaged parts of the banks. It is now recognized that it is impossible to obtain in time for the opening of the fetes which are to be celebrated on the comple- tion of the canal works the stipulated depth of nine meters, and so the contrac- tors have been ordered to get a uniform depth of eight meters throughout. The imperial marquee at Holtenau, in which the gala banquet will be given in the evening of June 21, will be a great affair. It.will measure 120 yards in length and will be 23 yards wide. This mag- nificent tent will accommodate 1000 guests, who will be seated at tables. It will be an exact reproduction of the German frigate Niobe and the masts and rigging of that vessel will be utilized in its construction. COLOMBIA HAS CLAIMS. Never Renounced Her BSovereignty Over Mosquito Territory. NEW YORK, N. Y., May 18. —The World’s special from Colon says: Refer- ring to Colombia’s old claim to the Mos- quito coast, a local paper says: Colombia never cared to interfere with the rights of self-government of the Mosquito Indians, but this does not signify that she re- nounces her rights of sovereignty over the h(osq‘ihn territory, which belongs to her. The occupation of such territory by Nica- ragua is unjust and illegal, and now is the time for Colombiato put in her claim and prepare for a settlement. The Venezuelan payment of the first in- stallment of $100,000 claimed by Italy as indemnity for damages sustained by Ital- ians in Venezuela during the civil war there has stirred up some foreigners here who lost heavily in the rebellion of 1890 and received no compensation. WHAT CONSTITUTES A LETTER? Sealed Packages Consisting of an En- velope of the Usual Letter Shape. Most people have supposed that anything sealed against inspection and delivered to the postoffice constituted in effect a “let- ter,” which at the regular rate of 2 cents postage per ounce the mail service would be obliged to forward to its destination. 8o far as the domestic service is concerned this supposition may be correct and would seem to be implied by the wording of offi- cial decisions, which declare that “‘all mat- ter, sealed or otherwise, closed against in- spection is also of the first class.’” But with the foreign mail service, at least, the condition is different. A provision in the postal treaty specifies that letters “in the usual and ordinary form” are to be for- warded at a given rate. Just what consti- tuted this “usual and ordinary form’ has not till now been defined and officially de- clared, and this is the way in which the efinition was brought about: A Boston architect offered at the post- office in that city a sealed roll addressed to the Commissioner of Patents at Ottawa, Canada, on which the proper amount of postage at letter rates haX been Smd. ‘The clerk in charge of the window declined to receive the roll as a letter, and on the mat- ter being referred to him, Postmaster Cove- ney decided that the term letter is to be construed to mean and embrace sealed pwkagea consisting of an envelope of any size, but flat, as is the usual letter. The obiiec;qr did not think that this ruling and delinition of a letter was correct, and gave his opinion that a letter ‘‘was a package containing personal matter of no salable value.” The matter being referred to the authorities at Washington for decision, the superintendent of foreign mails in due time forwarded a decision em- bodying the joint opinions of Canadian and American postal authorities, to the effect that “the term letter in its usual and ordinary form is to be construed to embrace sealed packages consisting of an envelope of an_{ size, but of the usual letter shape, and its contents; but that rolls or a pack- age not inclosed in an ‘envelope,’ as the word envelope is generally used, cannot be considered to be ‘a letter in its usual and ordinary form.’ A sealed package in the form of a roll is, therefore, not entitled to transmission in the mails exchanged be- tween the United States and Canada, and your office was correct in declining to re- ceive the sealed roll mentioned.” This would seem to settle the matter as to what constitutes a letter within the meaning of our postal treaties.—Paper World. BEER FROM BANANAS, How African Natives Make This Spiritu- ous Beverage. To the natives of Africa of the present time beer prepared from malt and hops is unknown. Butthere exists no lack of in- toxicating beverages among the sons of the Dark Contlnent. They are not re- quired to wait for the fire-water of the Europeansto be sent to them. They un- derstand how to prepare spirituous bever- ages of their own, and they also become intoxicated by them. The Africans make wine and beer, but neither grape juice is used for the former nor malt extract for the latter. Palm leaves of different kinds, bananas and millet furnish the raw ma- terials, says an exchange. Palm wine is made from the sap oozing from the cut-off blossom stems of the oily palm tree and of the cocoa tree. It is a pleasant, refreshing beverage, and suffi- ciently known. From the fruit of the banana tree a beverage is made in Africa which they drink there as wine or beer. Banana beer is chiefly used r‘-’iy the na- tives of Uganda, a country bordering on Lake Victoria. The people there are%o d of such beer, and when Emin Pasha went to Rubaga to meet King Mtesa he wrote in his diary: “Thisis a real beer trip; from village to village, or, rather, from beerpot to_beerpot, we are marching on.” In that country the manufacture of the banana beverage is very extensive. Dr. Felken, an English physician, who for- merly lived there, describes the different kinds of banana beverage. He makes a distinction between banana beer and bana- na wine, According to his description, “mubisi,” a cooling banana wine, is manufactured in the following manner: A big hole is dug in the ground, lined with banana leaves, filled with unripe bananas, and kept covered by mats and earth until the fruit has become completely ripe. Then the bananas are slit, mixed with fine hay, and into a large, boat-like, wooden trough, which at one end has an emptying pipe. After the addition of some water, the whole is thoroughly mixed by the hand or by short wooden sticks. Thereupon the trough is covered with banana leaves, and the mixture is left standing for about one or two hours. _After the expiration of that time it is taken out, and through glass sieves poured into Jarge calabashes. It is then ready for use, and represents a sweet, agreeable and not intoxicating beverage. But if the mubisi is left standing for three days, it undergoes a fermentation and be- comes a clightly acid. refreshing beverage, which is strongly intoxicating. QUEEN ELIZABETH. She Made Strenuous Efforts to Reform the Currency of the Country. To the undying credit of Elizabeth, she made a most strenuous effort toreform the state of the money of Great Britain. In 1560 she issued a proclamation wherein she declared to her subjects that she had never gained anything upon her coinages, neither had she coined any base money, and that she was determined to recover the ‘‘honor and reputation of the singular wealth that this realm was wont to have above all others.” Accordingly the Tower Mint was commissioned to receive base money, and in twelve months about three- quarters of a million pounds current value were coined into money of proper weight and standard. .The fumes from melting these base coins ‘were 8o Izo}sonous that many of the work- men fell ill. The medical authorities of that day prescribed a portion from a dead man’s skull as a certain remedy. Accord- ingly, an official warrant procured some of these strange cups from London bridge, and the draught was administered. Itis said to have afforded temporary relief, but many died, whether because the skulls Were traitorous in death as well as in life history does not relate. About this time a new mode of coining, by means of the mill and the screw ress, was introduced from France by one Eloye Mestreli. The method was l&pmnd Yy the Queen and her Council; indeed, it has been said that the first milled coin was struck in the tower by her own royal hand. However that may the_corporation of moneyers bitterly opposed the scheme, and, the Frenchman being detected in making milled money outside the Tower, was summarily hanged and quartered, and his machinery abamdoned.—Gentle- man’s Magazine. May Learn to Sweep, Too.’ Perhaps the athletic Vassar girls who are now learning to row and play ball will finally get muscular enough to handle a broom.—New York World. SLE o Suggestion Gratis. Fathers of boy triplets should call them Cleveland, Grover and, well, Dennis.—Cin- cinnati Tribune. e —— The Siamese have a' great horror of odd numbers and were never known to put five, seven, nine or eleven windowsin a house or temple, * NOT VERY POPULAR, English Sportsmen Are Criticizing Dwyerand Croker. JOCKEY SIMS IS TRICKY. His Monkey Tactics Said to Be Foreign to Insular Pre- Judices. LATE GOSSIP FROM LONDON. Viscount Hinton Graduates From Organ - Grinder to Wily Showman. LONDON, Exg., May 18.—The events of the past week in sporting circles have not increased the popularity here of Michael F. Dwyer or of Richard Croker. Even the colored jockey, Sims, has come in for a share of criticism. The Globe, commenting upon the riding of the American jockey, said: His mon- key antics are foreign to our insular pre- judices. He kept easing his mount and then sending him along to the leaders over and over again on Thursday, but we must admit that when he had to sit down he showed us what he could do. In an ex- cifj_ng finish he has proven equal to the oc- casion. The most serious accusation which the papers make is that these pretenses of being beaten were simply meant to in- fluence betting during the race, and that the Americans succeeded in getting a large amount in this way. The United States warships San Fran- cisco and Marblehead, from the Mediter- ranean, and the New Yeork and Colum- bia, from New York, will rendezvous at Bouthampton and will proceed together to Kiel, in order to take part in the elabo- rate fetes prepared there to celebrate the opening of the North Sea and Baltic canal. It is estimated that the four United States ships will represent 21,747 tons, with 75 officers and 1497 men, Great Britain will be represented by four first-class twin-screw battle-ships— the Royal Sovereizn, Empress of India, Resolution and Repulse—the first-class twin-screw cruisers Blenheim and Endy- mion, the third-class cruiser Bellona, the first-class gunboats Speedy and Halycon, and the Admiralty yacht Enchantress, under the command of Vice-Admiral Fitzroy. This fleet of ten warships will carry 171 officers ana 4309 men and have a total dis- placement of 78,660 tons. Austria will send four warships, which carry 52 officers and 1212 men, and which will represent a dis- placement of 13,849 tons. The Austrian fleet will be commanded by Rear-Admiral Archduke Charles Stephen. Russia will send three ships under Rear-Admiral Skirdloff, with 70 officers and 1305 men, representing 20,970 tons. Italy will make a gallant showing, with nine war-vessels, carrying 180 officers and 3309 men and rep- resenting 13,800 tons. The Italian fleet will be commanded by the Duke of Genoa. France will only send three ships, but they will represent 15,800 tons and will be manned by sixty officers and 1360 men. Secandinavia will send five ships, repre- senting 8594 tons, with fifty-five officers and 656 men, under Rear-Admiral Klinte- berg. There will be three Spanish ships present, representing 17,866 tons, with fifty-six officers and 1233 men. The Dan- ish flag will be represented by six war- ships, with thirty-two officers, 1370 men and 2960 tons. The Netherlands will send two warships, representing 4575 tons, with twenty-five officers and 413 men. There will be two Roumanian warships present, representing 1650 tons, with twenty-three officers and 400 men. Turkey will be rep- resented by a cruiser of 1926 tons, having on board fifteen officers and 300 men. The United States Embassador, the Hon. Thomas F. Bayard, will attend the fetes at Kiel on the Mirror, Sir John Pender's yacht. Lord Wolseley, Lord Robertsof Kandahar and Sir Evelyn Wood will also be Sir John Pender’s guests. The Mirror will start from Scotland for Kiel, and, after the fetes at the former place, will proceed to the North Cape. The party will be absent three weeks. The opera season opened auspiciously, although there has been nothing note- worthy as yet. On Thursday Mary Engel in “Philemon” was favorably received. The critics approved of her. The subserip- tion is the largest known. The Queen heads the list with the double box on the grand tier. Among the others to secure boxes are the Duke of Fife, the Duchess of Marlborough, Lord Dunraven, Lord Lons- dale, Lord Wolverton, William Waldorf Astor, Mr. Winans and Mesdames Mackay, Ronalds, Adair, Bradley-Martin and Ralph Vivian. The theaters have been suffering from the hot weather which prevailed during the end of the week, and there have been no novelties. The Princess of Wales and her daughters | are at Sandringham, whither they went after the drawing-room which the Princess held on Wednesday last at Buckingham Palace in behalf of the Queen. The drawing-room was not largely at- tended, and but few people attracted more attention than the ‘“American Duchess,” the Dowager Duchess of Marlborough, otherwise Lady Beresford, who was pre- sented on her marriage to Lord William Beresford. She had never been presented as Duchess of Marlborough. The beauti- ful American wore a gorgeous pearl gray satin dress with a velvet train shot with the faintest tinge of pink and embroidered with silver and diamond lilies. Thebodice was completely covered with lace and sparkled brightly with a profusion of dia- monds. English women are showing an inclina- tion to bedeck themselves with jewels in the daytime, which they admit is bad taste and which failing they have long accused Amerigans of giving way to. At the invitation concert of the Strauss orchestra at the Imperial Institute on Saturday society was out in great force, the names of those present including half the peerage, and diamonds in the ears of the ladies and around the neck and in brooches were worn in numerous promi- nence. The Prince and Princess of Wales, the Duke and Duchess of Saxe-Coburg- Gotha and the Duke and Duchess of Con- naught were among those present. Viscount Hinton, who for many years has been grinding an organ throughout the streets of London, is now acting as showman for a kinetoscope, near Leather Lane, Holborn. He says that the labor of grinding an organ has permanently crip- pled his right arm and that he greatly pre- fers his present occupation. Viscount; Hinton is the heir-apparent to the Earl of Poulett, his father, the sixth Earl of that name. The family is over 350 years old, and dates back to Sir John Poulett, Knight, an earnest Royalist, who was created Baron Pculett of Hinton, County of Somerset, peerage of England, in 1627. The earldom of Poulett was created in 1706. Lady Sutton, the widow of Sir Richard Sutton, whose cutter Genesta competed with the American sloop Puritan in 1885 for the America cup and was beaten, will soon re-enter the state of matrimony. The yachting season in British waters was opened on the Thames yesterday with matches under the auspices of the new Thames Yacht Club, and which was con- tinued with races to-day under the auspices of the Royal Thames Yacht Club. The races, there is every reason to believe, will be the most interesting for many years past. The contest between the Ailsa, Britannia and the new Valkyrie III naturaily form the leading attraction in view of the challenge for the America cup, but immense interest is likewise being taken in the twenty-raters owing to the ap- pearance of Herreshoff’s new cracks, the Niagara and Isolde, which are expected to make matters rather warm in this class. The importance of the match in the Leviatha class more especially would be but small but for the fact that the meet- ings of the Ailsa and Valkyrie IIT will de- cide which shall be the boat to contest in the America cup races against the defender. A well-known devotee of the sport re- cently said the America cup is beyond the reach of either the Ailsa or Valkyrie III. Herreshoif’s boat, he declares, will outsail either Watson’s or Fife's creation. In the twenty-rating class most of the old boats will be in commission and some good racing is expected. Next Saturday at Bremen will occur the first stage performance of ‘“Christus,” Rubinstein’s sacred opera. The work is in seven scenes and an epilogue. The bible story is adhered to throughout. The treatment is reverential and applause will be strictly forbidden. The first tableau represents the desert where Satan tempts the Savior, and from time to time the back of the scene will open and display a series of lofty castles, beautiful palaces, luxur- ious gardens and mountains of gold, etc., in brief, showing the riches of the earth. The second scene represents the banks of the river Jordan. St. John the Bap- tist is preaching and the baptism of Jesus takes place. The scenery is painted from sketches made in Palestine by Herr Zan- derch, and will be personally arranged by the author of the libretto, Professor Bult- haupt. The same treatment will be observed of the Sermon on the Mount, which with the miracle of the loaves and fishes forms the third tableau. The fourth tableau de- picts the expulsion of the money-changers from the temple, and the fifth shows the Garden of Gethsemane, in which the last supper is held. The trial of Jesus forms the sixth tableau, the prisoner being on one side of the picture and the steps of Pilate’s palace in the foreground. The crucifix forms the last tableau, watched by Satan and his devils from a subterra- nean vault, while .a vision of angels is shown from an opening in the heavens. The epilogue is formed by the proclama- tion of the Gospel to the Gentiles by St. Paul. The famous English cricketer, Dr. Grace, who is now 47 years old, scored twenty- eight runs yesterday while playing against the Somerset eleven. This was the hun- dredth time he has scored 100 or over while playing in first-class matches. INDIANS FEAR THEM. Telescopic Sights and Heavy Bullets Demoralize the Red Warriors. “Indians sometimes fight light firearms with great courage, but they fight shy of the attentions of any weapon that sends a large projectile,” said Colonel F. A. Blake, who has had wide experience on the ‘Western plains. “The rush and scream of the heavy bullet frightens them, and they prefer to keep away from their range. To that not unreasonable prejudice is due the fact that the buffalo hunters of the early seventies, who in following their business were constantly exposed to the attacks of hostile Indians, were molested compara- | tively little by them. The long, heavy rifle, with its telescopic sights and the knowledge of the deadly certainty of the buffalo hunter's aim, almost invariably served to make the red man keer his dis- tance, and set him temporarily free from the notion of scalp hunting. “One buffalo hunter, by the name of Murdock, that I knew, was creeping upon a herd on the Staked Plain when he spied a band of Comanches riding toward him. He instantly leveled his n upon them as a warning that they should not approach too near, Checking his warriors, the chief of the band pointed with his handtoa buffalo in the distant herd, then men- tioned in the Indian sign language that the hunter should shoot if. Murdock fired as the chief indicated and the buffalo fell. The Indians gave aloud ‘How’ of approval, waved their hands, turned their ponies, and swept on past the hunter, leaving him to gursue his_shooting of the buffalo un- molested.”—New York Sun. THE GUARD'S SYMPATHY. A Story Told by G. A. Sala of an Experi- ence on the Rail. The railway world witnesses daily so many piteous partings that weeping trav- elers seldom attract official notice, but G. A. Sala records an exceptional instance. It was at the time of our Civil War, and he was about departing for America as correspondent of a great London daily. “My wife was bitterly opposed to my going to America at all, and the idea of my travel- ing in a country convulsed by war so worked upon her mind that she became positively ill. 8tili she insisted upon coming to the railway terminus with me, and a party of iriends were on the platform to give us a parting cheer,” says Mr. Sala. *‘It was a desperate moment; I had part- ed from all that was dear to me and had flung myself in a very limp and boneless manner in a corner of the carriage of the mail., I Elare\i feebly at the burly, bearded uard who thrust his head into the win- low. He leaned toward me and in a voice hoarse with sympathy whispered: ‘¢ ‘Excuse me, sir, but you have another three-quarters of a minute before the train starts and you can get out and give th lady another hug.’ ” = g % ————— A Curiosity of Time. Two persons were born at the same place at the same moment of time. After an age of 50 years they both died, also at the same place and at” the same instant— {ee one had lived one hundred days more han the other. How was this possible? The solution turns on a curious but, with a little reflection, a very obvious point in circumnavigation. A person goins around the world toward the west 1 aday and toward the east he gains one. Supposing, then, two per- sons are born together at the Cape of Good Hope, whence a vo; age around the world may be performed in a year; if one par- forms this constantly toward the westin fifty years he will be fifty days behind the stationary inhabitants; and if the other sails equally toward the east he will be fifty days in advance of them. One, therefore, will have seen one hun- dred days more than the other, though they were born and died in the same place and at the same moment, and even lived continually in the same latitude and reck- oned time by the same calendar.—London Tit-Bits, ASKS FURTHER TIME, Japan Promptly Refuses the Request of China. HANDING OVER FORMOSA Nearly Aill the Troops Are Being Withdrawn From Port Arthur. RUSSIA YET ON THE ALERT. Torpedoes Are Placed at the En= trance to the Harbor at Vladivostock. SHANGHAI, CHiva, May 18.—Tt is stated that China has asked Japan for an extension of the time in which the former country is to hand over Formosa to the Japanese pending consideration of further proposals. Japan, it is added, has de- clined the proposition. YOKOHAMA, Jarax, May 18.—Prince Komatsu, commander - in - chief of the Japanese armies, has left Port Arthur and returned to Japan. Only two of the seven divisions of the Japanese army on the Lio Tung peninsula will remain there. The other five divisions will re- turn to Japan shortly. The Japanese Imperial Guard will be sent to the Island of Formosa, in order to quell the disturbanee and occupy the terri- tory for Japan, according to the treaty of peace signed between China and Japan. Admiral Kabayama has started for For- mosa in order to take up the post of governor-general of that island. The suspension of Japanese newspapers for conmenting adversely on the surrénder of the Liao Tung peninsula continues. The Russian consul here announces that torpe- does have been placed at the entrance of the harbor at Vladivostock, the Bussian war port,which forms the eastern terminus of the trans-Siberian railroad and which is situated not far from the northern part of Korea. ON BOARD MEN-OF-WAR. Old Seadogs Troublesome on Moders Cruisers. Curiously enough the old shellbacksin the navy are down on the Soldiers’ Home. They don’t want “‘a snug harbor.” They insist upon staying upon a cruising man- of-war, and when they die they want to be buried at sea. But the officers say that these old seadogs are very troublesome ona modern cruiser, where everything is differ- ent from what they were accustomed to when they learned their trade. They object to the new-fangled equipment and the im- rovements and conveniences that have een introduced on modern vessels. They object to sitting down at a table and eating their meals off china plates with knives and forks, like civilized people, instead of takin their rations in little wooden tubs an squatting down on their haunches in the shelter of the lee gunwale while they cut up their ‘“‘salt horse’’ with a jaekknife. They object to scrubbing the decks gvith a new-fangled rubber arrangement, instead of the old holystone, and refuse to obey electric signals because they have been ac- customed to hear the officers yell at them rom the bridge or the quarterdeck. Nowadays the galleys on board of men- of-war are capable of cooking fresh bread for the sailors every day, which is a serious grievance to the old-fashioned “Jackie,” who prefers hardtack to raised biscuits and rolls. A large supply of iresh meatsis now carried in the patent refriger- ators on board all the ships, and served to the sailors, alternating with salt beef and pork, at least once a day. This is em- phatically objected to by the veterans as an effeminate departure from the rations they received when they were apprentices in historic times. The sailors of a vessel that was recently in Montevideo and Buenos Ayres were served with tenderloin steaks for several weeks, because fresh meat was found to be cheaper than salt pork down in that great cattle countrv, but after about a week a committee from the forecastle waited upon the captain and said they desired to make complaint about their grub. He was much surprised at the suggestion, because he supposed they were T)ein;; unusually well fed, and remarked that they were receiving the same supplies that were furnished himself and the officers in the ward- room. They admitted that this might be true, and added that it was exactly what they were “kicking”” about. 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