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THE SAN FRANCISCO CALL, SUNDAY, APRIL 18, 1897, 100 LENENT WTH COLONEL FNGHN Marin County’s Sheriffi Cited for Contempt | of Court. Accused of Failure to Keep His Millicnaire Guest In Confinement. nsational Affidavit Filed by | Counsel for the Wealthy Pris= oner's Wife. SAN RAFAEL, CaL, April 17.—A big sensation was sprung in the Finigan | divorce casa to-day, when Superior Judge F. M. Angellotti made an order citing Sheriff Henry Harrison to appear before the court on Monday to show cause why | he should not be adjudged guilty of con- mpt for failing to comply with Judge i's order requiring the Sheriff to | rison Peter A. Finizan in the County Jeil and to detain him therein until he| complied with tne order requiring him to | pay alimony to his wife. | The order citing Sheriff Harrison for contempt was made upon the affidavit of | T. J. Crowley, one of the attorneys for Mrs Emily B. Finigan, the plaintiffin the case. In the affidavit Attorney Crowley sets forth the facts of Finigan’s imprisonment, as ordered by Judge Angellotti, then says *'that, notwithstanding the said order, the Sheriff of Marin Coznty has failed and re fused to comply therewith, and has been and still is disobedient to said order.” { The affidavit sets forth Colonel Finigan has ::t been and is not now con- | tined in the C but is perm aer the cou ich room isin part furnisied by Colonel Finigan, | and to0 and from which the colonel hasin- | gress and egress at all hours of the aay to the night. alleged that Finigan is permitted day and night to | U himsel the courthouse and a hotel across the street to partake | of refreshments, and is permitted 1o sit | upon the lawns of the courtbouse during the day and evening and be entertained by friends outside of the courthouse, and has in effect never been imprisoned in the County Jail since the order of commit- ment was made. Lawyer Crowley then alleges in his aflidavit that the fuct that Soeriff Harrison has failed to imprison the colonel has be- come a matter of public notorety and the subject maiter of comment by many per- the facts, and that wiih newspaper | ire has deciared tnat he | was as well circumstanced as if he were at the Hotel Rafael The attorney declares that many per- | sons have said that these proceedings | Were & travesty upon the law and an ag- | gravation of the contemp: already com- mitted by the deiendant. He charges that the Sheriff bas greatly assisted Fini- | gan in aefying the court and refusing to obey its order. Upon this showing Superior Judge Angellotti_immediately made the order citinz the Sheriff to appear on Monday to ow cause why he should not be pun- isbed. Colonel Finigan was seen this afternoon by a representative of THE CALL. He was surprised that the attorney had gone to such exiremes. *So this is like Hotel Raiael,” he said, | casting his eyes over the little cell wherein he is confined. “I think,” he con- tinued facetiously, addressing Under Sheriff Hannon, *“ihat you had better re- | ove those pipes from the wall, as I may de. | is true,’’ said he, more seriously, I have gone across the street 1o the but the Sherift or the Under Sheriff bas always accompanied me. All the prisoners are allowed the fresh air, and I have been out on the lawn lying down, where I have read my newspaper, but this freedom is allowed all the prisoners. While T was there two other men in the jail were our 1 They were working on tne fawn. Why, even murderers are al- lowed {resh air. 'Durrant is allowed to be | out some of the time. They don't expect | me 10 be in here all toe time.’” The F nigan divorce case has now_be- | come decidedly interesting. Colonel Fin- | igan is said to be worth millions, and | hen Superior Judge Angellotti of Marin | unty ordered him to pay $750 uhmnnw a| ot hote: 1o his wife he pieaded that he was with- NEW TALKIN G-Ls, oUT 5 Not the Blunderbu: | investigator of our American antiquities | | fashion of u dinner soup out the means. He was adjudged guilty of contempt and ordered confined in the County Jail until the money was forth- coming. The Sheriff took him in charge, and he was given a cell in the basement of the courthouse. He has been in Sheriff Har- rison’s custody for twelve days, and the favors granted him by the Sheriff have caused the attorneys for Mrs. Finigan to remonstrate. gieriff Harrison’s claim is that the prisoner has been confined 1n the County Jau, and the lact that he has not escaped 15 evidence enough that he has been kept in confinement. GUNS OF THE PURITANS. es Usually Repre- sented by Artists. One of the most remarkable facts to the is the aimost total ignorance which pre- vails among even those who are otherwise | well informed as to the weapons, more es- cially the firearms, with which our Puri- tan ancestors fought their wars with the Indians, says the Boston Transcript. One | of the notions which seem firmly estab- lashed is that the early settlers generally used the bell-muzzle biunderbuss. Almost | every artist who draws a Thanksgiving or Christmas picture of a Puritan going to meeting gives him a gun with a mnzzle like the end of a trumpet. Now, the fact is that the bell-mouthed firearm was never a military arm among English-speaking people at all, uor was such a weapon ever common either in this country or in England until about the middle of the lust century, when it came into use for the defense of houses agalnst burglars, for stagecoach guards and sim- ilar purposes. The blunderousses which are common enough in the curiosity \Imost without exception later ), and many of them date from wouthed gun was in use somewhat eariier on board naval and otber armed ships, but this was a heavy piece, on a swivel, and used very much as the howitzer was % Then as to the locks. Even some of our most distinguished writers seem to be completely ut sea on this point. Orne | New England writer whom 1 will not name, tor f:ar of seeming disrespectiul to man deserving of homor, wrote some time ago in a magazine ariicle that some | oldier 1n King Phillip’s War might have mvented the flintlock by finding that an Indian flint arrow-bead would make fire | if inserted into the cock of the match- lock. Now, the soldier of 1675 was given a matchlock, not because tne mulitary authorities were ignorant of guns which would make their own fire (wheellocks | and snaphaunces were in common use), but because the matchlock was consid- ered better for ordinary use. More than | this, if ke had thought of it he would have known that his matchlock would not make fire with flint. The flintlock with which our War of Independence was fought requires a powerful blow to make | the flint strike fire from the steel. This the matchlock did not have nor did the | pan-cover open 1n such a way as to make this possible. Atthe time of King Philip’s War and for along time afterward the ordinary fire- arm for infantry was the matchlock musket. Tlese are pienty in European collections but very rare in America. 1 bave never seen one in any collection in | this country. At the same time the snap- haunce, a primitive form of the flintlock, was quite extensively used by hunters, and probably by the Indians, who would naturally object to the match, which, if xept lighted, would betray their presence, especially at night. Wheellocks were | probably used to some extent by the earli- est settlers, but it was always an excep- | tional arm and too costlv to be generally used. By the time of King Philip’s War it was rather old-fashioned and not likely to have figured much. e The Hygienic Value of Soups. “In a family where soup begins the din- ner, and the dishes following are of a con- centrated nature, the soup should be tignt clear and warm, not necessarily nuir tious,” writes Mrs, 8. T. Rorer in the La- dies’ Home Journal, telling how to make | various kinds of soups. *'But where soup | 15 o form the entire dinnerit must be of | a nourisbing character. As water cannot disscive the fibre of beef, and the fiber of beef holds the larger part of the nourish. | ment, a beef soup, clear and beautiful | though it may be, is not nutritious. The | albumen is soluble in water, of course, but | as clear soup is boiled, this coagulates ths | albumen and spoils the brilliancy; so we | clarify and strain this out, thus robbing | iquid of everv grain of nutriment. | a hygienic standpoint, then, this is rily served at the beginning of the | meal, the object being to invite into the | the gastric secretions before the entrance of the solid food. While the is almost en- | tirely, in this country, confined to the | ‘few,’ the masses, if they would only stop to consider the hygiene of the fashion, would follow quickl . . The Queen of Greece is so devoted to | flowers that she delights to share with | others her pieasure in them. By her orders large quantities are distributed in the hospitals of Athens twice a week. | [ | | | i | | TO-EAY. ; - JACKSON Sc. CIG When I say they are strictly Cuban hand- tbe Lest moke on earih. AL DEALERS. RINALDO BROS. & CO,, COSST AG =& 1 REFER TO THE SQUARE, AR made. According 10 all accounts they’re | Banxing Company closed the doors of its | large depositors had been gradually with- | drawing funds. | directors have taken steps to obtain the | ties ordinarily considered good as cash on | toa: | Loans ou real estate. | Other assets, | news back to the Carthaginian Senate, | on conciuding his report. | cuse, belonging to Greece, because of its | be impossible. TIMiD DEPOSITORS CAUSE A FAILURE The Randall Company’s Bank at Eureka Suspends. Collapse Hastened by Recent Large Withdrawals of Funds. Other Financlal Institutions In the Northern Town Not Affected. EUKEKA, CAL., April 17.—The Randall bank here at 11 o’clock this moraing. It had been rumored in financial circles for several days past that the institution was in a bad condition financially. The recent departure of Casnhier J. 8. Murray and the election of his successor tended to in- crease the suspicion and in comsequence The extent of the failure is not known at present. The bank of- ficials have posted a notice that depositors would be paid in full. All sortsof rumors are going the rounds and the truth can- not be reached to-day. The Bank Com- missioner will take charge, when a state- ment of the assets and liabilities will be made public. The bank, the officers’ statement an- nounced, holds ample securities, bat it will take time to realize upon them. The necessary funds to meet the liabilities. The closing was made necessary by reason of the business depression and the diffi- culty in making collections upon securi- hand. They ask the creditors of the bank ist the directors in their efforts to reslize upon the assets as soon as pos- sib e. All the other banks here are on a sol- vent basis. The Humboldt County Bank, the Bank of Eureka and two savinegs banks are perfectly solvent, and the Ran- dall failure will not affect them in the least. The directors of the defunct bank are F. Korbell, J, M. Sass, Stephen Hill, Da- vid Evans, W. H. Johnston, George A. Kellogg, E. H. Vance, J. S. Murray and A. W. Randall. The president is A W, Randall: vice-president, Stephen Hil cashier, Guy L. Roberts (succeeding J. Murray, recently departed). The condition of the bank on the 27th of February last was, according to the re- port of the Bank Commissioners, as fol- lows: RESOURCEH Real estate..... £313 94 61 Loaus on s:0cks. e.c. on personal securi ¥ on hand Due from banks.. LIABILITIES. pital paid up.. Reserve, etc..... Due deposiors Due banks. ERRORS MADE BY HISTORIANS. Diogenes’ Tub a Myth—The Hannib: Fable—Lies About Cleopatra. The same year that Alexander died at Babylon Diogenes died at Corinth, 323 B, C.; but not, we 1aay be sure, in a tub, be- cause he never made such a fool of him- self as to live in ‘one. The story that he did so had no better origin than acom- ment by his biographer, Beneca, who was not born till more than 300 years after the cynic’s aeath. “A man so crabbed ought to have lived in a tub like a dog.” In 216 B. C.,, Hannibal, th about 50,000 men, nearly annihilated the Roman army of about 90,000 at Canne, in Apu- lia, Ltaly, butitis all a fable to say that he sent three bushels of gold rings plucked from the hands of dead Roman knights back to Carthage as evidence of his vic- tory. The messenger who carried the his gold ‘‘opened robe ana threw out a number of rings gathered on the ficld of battle.” Four years later the Romans, under Marcellus, attacked and captured Syra- alliance with Hannibal against Rome. As the invading ships approached Arch- imedes is said (0 have set some of them on fire with immense burning glasses; however, modern science has so well wa- tered this story that it only remains to add that even at this day the feat would In tue year 30 B. C. Cleopatra killed her- self to avoid being exhibited at Rome in he triumph of Octavianus, who had made war upon her and Antony because the lat- ter had divorced his (Octavianus’) sisteron the Queen’s account. But did she die from « snake’s oite? It is better to think Dot. “If her death had been caused by any serpent, the small viper would rather have been chosen than the large asp; but the story 18 disproved by her having decked herself in ‘the royal ornaments,’ and being found dead ‘without any marks of suspieion of poison on her body.’ ” Death from a serpent’s bite could not have been mistaken, and her vanity would not have ai.owed her to choos: one wnich would have disfigured her in so frightful a manner. Other poisons were well understood and easy of access, and no boy would have ventured to carry an asp in a basket of figs, some of which he even offered to the guards as he passed, and even Plutarch shows that the story of the asp was doubted. Nor is the statue carried n Augustus’ trinmph, which had an asp upon 1t, any proof of his belief in it, since the snake was the emblem of Egyptian royalty; the siatue (or the crown) of Cleo- patra could not have been witliout one, and this was probably the origin of the whole story. Here one may naturally ask: Who has not heard of Cleopatra’s wondrous pearls, one of which, at a banquet given in An- tony’s honor, she dissolved in vinezar. Either this story also is fictitious, or vine- gar was evidently different in those days from the present kind, which will not melt pearls. 1t was nearly 100 years later that the Emperor Nero also killed himself, 68 A. D. Stabbing was the choice this time though, and of this we make no question. What we wish 10 say about him is that he ‘was not so bad a monster as usually im- agined. His mother, Agrippina, was not put to deatu by his order, nor did he play upon his harp and sing “The Burning of Troy” while Rome was on fire. Our knowledge of him is gained mostly from Tacitus, who hated him, and from Petronius Arbiter, who was put to death for couspiracy against him. *Even in Rome itself the common people strewed flowers on the grave of Nero.” ——————— The Gift of Appreciation. There is, perbaps, no other natural gift that brings so much genuine pleasure to its possessor as does the keen sense of ap- preziation. It teaches us, or points out to our understanding, the beauties of na- ENTS, 300 AND 302 BATTERY STREET. ture that are about us, gilds the common- place and emphasizes the joys of life and of living. Appealing to us througn all our senses, the pleasures that it brings are ceaseless and unfailing. Seen through ap- | preciative eyes the beauties of hfe over- shadow and eclipse the homely, rough places. There is an attractive side to everything, and this the appreciative will see firstand longest remember. dies’ Home Journal —_—— ANSWERS TO CORRESFONDENTS. THREE CoMMERCIAL CiTiEs—K. B, City. The | figures of commerce in Hamburg, London and Liverpool show: Hambure, value of exports | and imports for & vear, 2.637,504,000 marks; London, £226,749,9167 Liverpoul, £212,162 149. DistaNcEs—A. R., City. The distance from Laguna street and Go'den Gate avenue aiong the last-named thoroughfare to Market and Taylor streets is 4200 feet, and the distance | wlong Tenth street from Folsom to- Market | and down Market to Sixth is 6400 feet. | HEIGHT OF THE BUILDING—P. C., Oskland, | Cal. The building on the southwest corner of | Third and Market streets will contain 272 rooms or offices of varying size. The archi- | tects are Reed Brothers, the builder is Claus | Spreckels and the heignt irom the basement | 10 the top of the birdcage on top of the dome is 327 feet. NEw Laws—Several Subscribers. A number of subscribers have asked questions in rela- | tion to mew laws passed by the Legislature recently holding session in Sacramento. As | these have not reached this City the informa- tion asked for cannot be given, but the an- | swers will be furnished as soon as each law ssked about is received, | “JOHNNY SMOKER”—E. M., Hollister, San | Benito County, Cal. The turf guides and | records do not show any record of a trotter | named “Johnny Smoker,” either in 1870, | 1871, 1872 or 18’ The only horse by that | name is the black gelding foaled in 1882 by | Totaway. Paced to a _record of 2:16}4 at St. | Paul, Minn., July 4, 1891 | Courr Cowisstoners—H. H. The Court | Commissioners of the Superior Court of San | Francisco are: John J. Mohn, J. F. Pinkhem, ! ugeno Levy, Henry Cook, J. F. Tyler and F. | W. Lawler. Whenever the Judge of one of the departments desires 1o call in a Commissioner | he se ects any one of those named. The Com- m! oner reports the testimony, say in a | divores case, and the Judge render: a decision | on that testimony. In & divorce case the court | decides how the community property shall be | divided, if the parties cannot agre | SALARIES—C. E., City. The salaries of the | officers of the United States are fixed by the | law of Congress authorizing such officers, and | the salary is fixed at either so much per year | or so much per diem, but Congress has not | passed any law directing in what proportion | yearly salaries should be paid. That is done | according to a rule of the Comptroller of | the Treasury. In 1872 a rule was put into force so that tone salaries should during esch quarter equal a tourth of the early amount, and to do this the payments varied each month, in accordance with the pumber of days in the month. That is the rule now, except in the case of the army and the navy, a recent rule making the monthly payments a twelith of the year!y salary. | THAT HIGH FE C., Oakland, Cal. The | high fence that marks the line of a lot front- ing on Sscramento street, between Jones and Taylor, was erected there by the late Charles | Crocker’s order. Mr. Crocker secured the block | of land bounded by California, Jones, mento and Taylor sireets, excepiing the pie inclosed by the fence. That was owned by Yung, an undertaker, who lived there with his | s when an agent of Crocker sought to purchase it he demanded a price that was considered exorbitant and refused to accopt what was considered a reasonable offer. Al attempls at & negotiation fell through. Whe the Cro T m sion was built the resident of Mr. Yung was surrounded by the ienc which stands to this day. After the death of Mr. Yung, some yea: g0, the house that stood on the lof was removed and the property has | been vacant since. A it stands now the plece | of property has but little value. | e | H. 8. and Merced, City. | The Mormons refuse to admit Gentiles into | their temple because of a rule thatnone but | those of the Mormon faith shall enter it. | The following is & history of the Mormon | temples and the one now on Temple Bloc! | The first Mormon temple was bulit at K Ohlo, The coruerstones were Iaid July ihe buliding dedicated March 27 1838, T mple measared 56x65 feet only and cost $50,000. When the Saints vacated the State of Ohio and: settied at Nauvoo they at once the erect on of another temples This was of hewn stone, 128x88 leen surmounted with B tower. 1 1o cornerstones were laid April 6, 1841, and the final dedication ceremonles occurred May 8, 1546. We are told that when President Brigham Y oung | and the band of ploneers reached the vailey of Lake, after the éxodus from Nauvoo, the bufld ing | of & temple was determined on and_ the ground se- | lected. 1h.s was on the Z8(h of July, 1K47, four days after they had reached their new home in the wilderness. But the work of providing homes and the laying | ont of farms was & pressing necessity, and it was | not until April. 1851. that the whol~ congrega 1o | at u generai conference of the church voed that a | temple shoud be built. Nearly iwo vears elapsed beiore definiie action was taken. and on Febriary 14,1853, the ground was measured and lald o According to_the origina: design Temp e Blo Waa to contain forty acres, but later \as reduced to ten acres, ils present si On Aprit 6, 1853, tne (wenty-third of tha church, work had advanced w the laying of the cornersiones. and this cer + was performed by -he full hierarchy of the church. The foundations weie commenced June 16, 1853, and finishod July 23, 1865, 4 he caj stone of the temple was iald April 6, 1892, impressive services aud in the presence of the Iargest assemb age ever gathered togecher in Utah. | Gn April 6, 1893, the completed temple was ded- icated with solemu ceremonies arild gre. ¢ rejolcing over the conclusion of forty tent wor ing and walting. The pri grand edifice are wor by of 1o including towers, s 1864 & There are six towers, thrve on ihe east and thre on the west end of the structure, Other measure- ments may be summarizea as follows: To end of rockwork. 210 1t 4 5t i8S 10 182 1. THE MORMON TEME To top of spires. 22216 e | Hp i | 2,0 fn! 194 o To top of 18734 fL. Sk i Helght of central tower.. Helght of central west L0 Heleht of side enst towers. Helght of side west towers. Height of walls Thickness of wails at bottom. Thickness of walls at top. . 6 Thickness of buttresses. . e The whole restiog upon & footing wall 16 feet thick and 18 feet deep. The bullding coversan area of 21,850 feevand has cost upward of $3,- 500.000. -room in the bas ment isgrand and impressive in all lts appoin: ments. The capacious bronze font Tests upon the backs of twelve life-sized bronzed oxen, & remind- er of a ike feature in the honse built by Solomon, which “8tood upon twelve oxen, three looking to- ward the north, and three 100king toward the we: and three looking toward the south, and thr looking toward theeast, and the sea was set above them, and all their hinder paris were in- ward.” This larze r0om has a pavemen. and base of fine white marble. A smaller room on an floor, respleadent in biue and gol ved with au artistically designed native wood mosale, the blocks being not more than an incl square zud highly polished. White ana gold are the prevailing colors throughont, and harmo- nious tints judiciously distributed removeany sng- gesilons of too dazziing brichtness. Notubly is this the case In the overhead and side decorations of large, high room on the north, which Is ex- quisitely chaste, harmonious and. natural in_coior +8 well a8 in every appiniment. Ko it goes trom fouudation to summit. Everywhere are sym- meiry, solidity, richness and purity. We se for a moment 10 examine in vare corridors toe prrmancni wash - basins, made of solid, rare. delicately tinted onyx, with vlumbing fixtures throughout of approjriate finish. and note, as an_evideucs of the thorough attention that ias been paid to detail, that even the door and window hardware has been made to rder expressly for ths bullding: the beehive or- Bunients. the doorknobs with the design of the clasped haods, have the moito, ~Holiness to he Lord” In the basement these fixtures. Including &l locks, bois, hinges, elc.), ar- of brass; on (he first floor they are of plated g0 d, ou the sacond of plated siiver and above that and in the smalier rooms of cla bronze. Ihere are = four floors, counting the basement, d - each one, exceptinz the 1op, s ~ divded into rooms of varying sizes. The upper or sssem- biy-room occup es the whele extent of the building except the towers, being 120 feet long, *0 feet wide and 36 ee: hich.'With & seating capacity, inciuding the gallery, of near.y 3000. The gallery is of graceful sweep: 1t 18 ralied with bronze and is réached by circular sialrways in each of the four he elevated siands for the priesthood &t either end, the choice hand-carved ducorations of dais &nd baicony, the broad auditorium, the art. istically paneled celling and frescoed frieze, with innumerable permanent lights mingled fu the cor- nice and five dependent_chandeliers ali combine in presentiog a scene which wiil be equally impos. iug by day or by ul —_——— He Was Safe. “If you put that umbrella in my eve again, as you i ave doue twice alroady, said the man in the brown overcoat, fiercely, *‘you’ll get a broken head.” “It was as much your fauit as mine,’’ retorted the man in the gray ulster. *If you want to kick up a fuss'sbout it, I'm Teady for you. I'm insured for £1000 in the “Self-Protective Mutual Association, and I’'m craving for a broken head.” The man in the brown overcoat looked fixedly at the other. Evidences of a se- vere mental conflict were visible in his face. At last Le spoke. “You're safe,” be said. “I'm an agent for that com- pany.” NEW TO-DAY—CLOTHING. OUR LANDLORD Gave us 30 days’ notice in which to VACATE our old stores. through the daily press. CUT THE LIFE OUT OF PRICES throughout our entire stock of CLOTHING, HATS AND FURNISHING GOODS! The people came and bought our High-class Merchandise, knowing full well that whenever we shout bargains they were in sight. Phenomenal Business-- issued an edict that the goods MUST GO---and =right upon the backs of the most in- telligent citizens of the Pacific Coast. lord gave us one more week’s stay at our old stand, but we refused--at a big sacrifice-=his kind offer. WHY? Simply because we told the publicatlarge that we MUST VACATE our old stores April 1. And to keep faith with them OUT WE WENT into our presenttemporary quarters bag and baggage. How long we can remain here lies entirely with our friends, Messrs. Shainwald, Buckbee & Co., agents of our present temporary home, who are about to draw up a lease with other parties who are desir- ous of making arrangements for a long tenancy. SELL WE SHALL! they went- SELL WE minus a MUST! We notified the public of this fact Then we immediately We did a profit===but we Our land- NOTE THESE PRICES AND REFLECT HOW MUCH YOU CAN SAVE! Men’s $12.50 SUITS, latest spring Men’s $13.50 SUITS, latest spring Men’s $15.00 SUITS, latest spring styles, styles, styles, go now for. go now for.......$7.50 go now for.......$9.50 $6.50 Men’s $15.00 OVERCOATS, latest spring styles, now go for. $8.75 Boys’ $4.00 All-wool Two-piece SUITS now go for........ $1.95 Boys’ $8.50 All-wool LONG PANTS SUITS go now for......$4.95 Boys’ $7.00 All-wool LONG PANTS SUITS go now for. -8$3.75 ST o & | | TEMPORARY QUARTERS: 222and 224 SUTTER STREET THREE DOORS WEST OE KEARNY. XOOCOCCOOOCG it Tis st E R S S DAVID GARRIOK'S SONG. The Famous Actor Was a Poet of No Mean Ability. David Garrick was better known as an actor than as a writer, but he was never- theless a dramatic author of no mean re- pute, having written or adapted not less than three dozen pieces, including farces, dramas and comedies. In some of these occur pleasant songs, which are still sung, while many of his plays are stil per- formed. He was born at Hereford, Eng- land, at the quaint old Angel Iun in that city, on February 20, 1715. His father was a captain of the Old Buffs, then recruiting at Hereford, his mother being the daugh- ter of a clergyman attached to Lichfield Cathedral. He became a pupil of Dr. Johnson at Lichfleld in 1735, and the following year set out with nis tutor for London, where he entered as a law student at Lincoln’s Inn. Soon after he went into business as awine merchant with an elder brother, but his predilection for the stage, which had manifested itself in his boyhood, be- came too strong to be overcome, and he resolved lo make acting his profession. In the walk of lite thus deliberately adopted he rose rapidly to the foremost rank until, to us: the woids of Pope, he was without an equal, and would never have arival. He married in 1749 an Aus- tralian dancer named Eva Violeite, wuo iived to the remarkable age of 98 years, dying suddenly in_her chair in_her bous> ai_the Adelphi, London, on October 16, 1822. Her husband had predeceased her forty-three years, having died on January 20,1779, and bemg buried with great pomp in Westminster Abbey. Altbough his literary reputation is merged in the splendor of his histrionic fame, Gurrick’s rank as u writer of pro- logues, vpilogues and the lighter kinds of verse was considerabie. His original plays evinced the possession of keen wit and fertile fancy. and his adaptations and alterations of French' plays were highly successful. The song here given is from Cymon,” a three-act dramaiic romance, lin which it is sung by Urganda at the close of the first scene: One adien, betore you leave me, One sigh, Although that sign deceive me; let me think you true! Cruel! thus, Ursanda fiying: Crael! this fond hearc denying: One sigh, one last adleu. Though my ardent vows be slighted, Though my iove be unrequited, Ob! hide It from my view: Let me feel not P'm forsaken, Rather let me die mistaken Than breathe one last adieu. —Pittsburg Dispatch. THE GERRYMANDER. Ex-President Harrison Writes That It Is a Public Reproach. “The use of what is called the ‘Gerry- mander’ in order to obtain an undue party advantage in the election of members of tne House of Representatives has become a pubiic reproach,” writes ex-President Harrison, discussing Congress in the La- dies’ Home Journal. “It is the making of unfair Congressional districts, not having relation primarily to population and to the geographical relations of the counties composing them, as they should, but to parly majorities in the counties, with the object of giving to the party making the apportionment a fraudulent advantage. 'I'he gistricts are made up to be Republican or Democratic, as the case may be, and the voters of the minority party are cheated out of a fair representa- tion in the Congressional delegation. This is a prave evil, but it may be doubted whether it would be cured or even much amelicrated in the long run if Congress were to take into its hands the making of the Congressional aistricts.” ————— Humors of Public Speaking. A temperance orator, in the midstof a moving discourse, deplored the fact that a friend resorted to the frequent use of the daily glass. The speaker said, “I stand prostrate with astonishment.” Yet another feelingly told his audience that it was “‘not the platiorm speaker, but the house-to-house visitation and the utierance of the silent word by the caller which did tbe most good.” That was a flight of fancy when a speaker asked, “Suppose if a balloon drojped upon an uniuhabited island, what would the | tives say 2" An old gentleman, stumbling through an after-diuner speech, said: *I—I have no more to sav, and so—and s0—L"il make a few more remarks.’” Kind was the announcement that *“there will be two more opportunities to hear the lecturer once more.” It was when the mesting ended that the chairman asked the audience to “close by singing just one verse of the doxo'ogy.” Sir John Lubbock, who has been con- sidering the ant and 1ts ways for many years, has ascertained thut these active insects may live to the age of 15 years. 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