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The Lake Geneva Herald from Lake Geneva, Wisconsin • 7

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HU cai CREMATION NOTES. THEY-WILL RISE AGAIN WECONSINBEIEFIEIS. Mississippi SOURCE. WISCONSIN S0L0NS. BY FIRE items Gathered from various SOURCES.

DESTRUCTION IN CHICAGO. THE DISCOVERY OF THE HIDDEN LAKE BY GLAZIER. On the Eth the Senate refused to concur ih the House bill abolishing the State Veterinarian. The Congressional apportionment bill was passed ro engrossment and" third reading. The bill Increasing fees of sleeping-car companies was tabled.

The House passed among other measures the following: Reducing pay of newspapers for publishing laws from $100 to $50 to prevent deception in the sale of cheese. Bill Incorporating trustees of Milwaukee County Orphans Home was passed under suspension of the rules. Os porns joint resolution providing fer the election of United States Senators by the people was adopted. Mr. Dodge's bill providing for the semi-annual collection of taxes in towns was made, a special order for Friday, i Justice elect-Pin-ney.

will take his 'place on the Supreme bench first Monday In January. Occasioned by the Flames Amounts to Dollars Bungling Work of a Doing- Trlelt with a xlgbtnd lamp-Miraculous Escape of the Audience in the Museum and of Occupants Structures. more has Chicago received a visit from the firq king. Not little Chicago fire which swept from Twelfth and Clark north to -Van Buren in 1874 has call ever been eclipsed Inits work. The other afternoon under the stage in Kohl "West Side Dime Museum on street, and before it was taken by the fire department it had the immense furniture establishment of JohnM.

Smyth, Kohl Museum, and five other business blocks, and damaged of the adjacent structures. A estimate to place on the loss is from its terrible effects, says a dispatch, the fire was a grand behold. Fierce and furious flames, eating all before them. at first blackened by the huge of smoke that poured forth fro'm. seething flames, soon took on a roseate as the tongues of fire darted the black mass.

Great fire sailed through the air, and falling started blazes which threatened destruction the surrounding edifices. appeared as though the western the city was doomed. The high carried the firebrands here, there, everjwhere. Teopleian about demoralized. Thousands of persons were oftheir lives.

Kohl Middletons museum was jammed with amusement seekers, who in an instant had pleasure turned into greatest terror. fast did the fire burn that it hardly a moment om the time it" out until the entire place was in 7 Story by On of Ills Crew, Who Tells In an Interesting Manner Some Facts About the Explorer Unknown Hereto 'ore. HE discovery of tlie source of the Mississippi River Jo 1881 ljy the Glazier expect ii ion to Northern Minnesota gave rie ut that time to some controversy, especially in the Northwest, the result of which, however, hai effectually es ab-iijhed the genuineness of the claim that Lake Itasca, xv hich was declared by Schoolcrait in 1832 to be the veritas caput, is nothing more than an expansion of the great stream v.hoe true Leadlfes in a lake to -the soutlfof it. It may interest the general reader to know that the Mississippi, if not the longest river in the world, is in many respects the greatest, and as the years 'Advance, and the cities on its banks grow in population and importance, its greatness will be vastly augmented. Ferdinand Do Sto.

a grandee of Spaii and Governor General of Cuba, came to this continent ip 1511 with a large retinue of his countrymen in search of gold, and accidentally di-coveied an vru-mesue riser flowing south to the ocean. IJk? Spanish followers at once named it BiejGrande the great river but and the modern world now know it only by it3 Indian name, the the Father of "Waters. Although the discovery of the Mississippi was made over three hundred years ago, its origin or true source was unknown to geographers before' 1881. Many attempts have been made to the head of the mighty stream but they had all failed from various causes among others, probably, the difficulty -of access to it. Father Marquette and Joliet, a Canadian fur trader, hi 16T3; were the first white men to view' the Mississippi after X)e Soto, and'inade extensive discover- ies in the vicinity of its headwaters, but the source of the river was hidden from them.

LaSalle, Father Hennepin. La Hontan, Charlevoix, Carver, Pike, Cass, Beltrami, aud.other great explorers appear prominent on the scene, and the Source was proclaimed by to bo at divers points which have all subsequently pi oved to oe erroneous. Henry-Eowe Schoolcraft, geologist of the Cass expedition, in 1832 discovered. a lake which he believed aud announced to be the true source of the great river. But he has been proved to be mistaken.

It Costs 843 for Aitalt? sd 633 for Children. The desire of Emma Abbott, as expressed in her, will, that her remains should be cremated has excited much comment, and some believers in cremation are about to organize a socitv to educate the people in its theory and practice. It is argued that a "body placed in the earth is finally resolved Into its original e'ements, leaving behind. but a hand nl of dust, while the intermediate stages are loathsome in the extreme, and often fraught with danger. The advocates of this mode of disposing of the dead tee iu it no tendency to unsettle ones faith in the resurrection of the body, yet it produces a rude shock to the sensibilities of most Christians, who believe that the human body shares with tbe soul-in the great redemptive work of Christ.

'One strong objection to cremation ha3 made an early entry into the question in practical and conspicuous way in England. The Duke of Bedford died and his body was burned in a furnace he had built for that purpose. Then a rumor arose that the Duke had been murdered, and it was discovered at once that the furnace had destroyed all possible postive proof of the supr posed crime. The cremationists have been warned that cremation would facilitate murder, but have made light of it. They now have a conspicuous example of the difficulty of proving that the death was a natural The relations Df the practice of burning the dead to the security cf the liviog have been put before the English public in strong light.

Pittsburgh has the only crematory in connection with an undertaking establishment, and the only one in the world built on a principal street in the heart Df a large city. It is also the only one, having been operated for any length of time, using natnal gas. The time required for heating the retort is seven hours, and the average amount of gas used is 11,000 feet, obtaining the heat of about 2,000 degree Earenheit The body is removed frojn the casket and placed on a sheet of iron mounted oi. a framework, which is rolled to the mouth of the fuvnace. A cloth is saturated in strong solution of alnm and spread over it, to prevent premature incineration, as four men swiftly shove it in, when iu the short space of one and a quarter hours it is reduced to ashe.

The cost of cremating an adult is $40, aud that of a child is $25. The ashes weigh from three and a half to five pound, and are very white and very clean. Forty-nine bodies of men, women, aud children have been cremated here. It was built iu 1886, aud iu tha basement story of a most complete undertaking establishment, including with this and the nrnal vases of cheap coffins and flue caskets, ruaning as high as $1,200, solid silver trimmings, aud also gold one, a chapel with cathedral window, organ, and all sorts of singing-books to accomodate tbe various creeds of Protestantism and Roman Catholicism. Only one thing is lacking a place to store the ashes of the dead, each body in its own urn.

The proprietor should have, either in the chapel, the offiee, or a room fitted up especially, a series of pigeon-holes for the receptacles. While some might prefer a mausoleum in the cemetery with aisles bet ween the stands, aud be willing to pay a fee, of say $5.09, to place an urn in it, the former suggestion would systematize the present shelving practice in little boxes. N. IV. Christian Advocate.

of 1,582 feet above the Atlantic ocean and Itasca has been relegated by our map-makers to its true position- as the first expansion of the infant Mississippi, i GREAT OI Willard Glazier we have gleaned 1 soma. interesting particulars from his biography by John Algeron Owens of Philadelphia, He wa3 born in the town of Fowler, St. Lawrence County, New York, in 1811, and assisted his father On the farm until the age of 15. By self-denial and industry he was enabled to take an academic coarse at. the Gou-verteur Wesleyan seminary, and in his 17 th year secured a position as teacher iu Benssalaer County.

He afterwards entered the State Normal school at Albany. When- the rebellion broke ont he was in Albany and, fired with patriotism, at once threw, aside his books, enlisted in the ranks cf the Second New York cavalry, under C-ob C-aience Buell of Troy, and was soon on the march tothe scene of tlia nations conflict. At Falmouth Heights, Aldie, Fredericksburg, Cedar Mountain, Second Bull Run, Brandy Station, aud in many other fields, he followed the- fortunes of Bayard, Stoneman, Pleasanton, Gregg, Custer and Kib Patrick. His horse was killed unde: him at New Baltimore, and he fell into the hands of the' enemy. This was in October, 1863, and four days afterwards he found himself within the walls of Libby prison.

Hero he remained eight months and was successively removed as a prisoner to Danville, Macon, Savannah, Charleston and Columbia. From Columbia he made his" escape, bnt was recaptured in Georgia. A second time he struck for liberty, but was re-taken by a Texas regiment of Wheelers cavalry. He was tried as a spy and kept in close confinement until he effected his third and fiual escape from Sylvania, Ga. After twenty-eight nights of weary travel through the cypress swamps of South Carolina and Georgia, he reached the Union line.

His term of service had expired and he at once applied for a commission. He obtained alientenancy in. the Twenty-sixth New York Cavalry, in hich regiment he served until peace was proclaimed from Appomatox. Ho was then breveted as captain and honorably discharged. During his military career, his bravery was frequently mentioned by his superior officers on the battlefields of Virginia, Maryland, and Pennsylvania.

Since the close of the war, Capt, Glazier has devoted his time almost exclusively to literary pursuits. His Capture, Prison-pen, aud Escape attained a sale of over 4:09,001) copies. Soldiers of the Saddle, Battles for the Union, Heroes of Three Wars, followed in quick succession, and ol these the press has spoken in terms oi well-merited approbation. A later work, Peculiarities of American Cities, has also become very popular, and his latest production, Down the Great River, has arrested the attention of many thousands of readers. On May 9, 1876; Capt.

Glazier rode ont of Boston with the intention oi crossing the continent to San Francisco on horseback. His object was to study at comparative leisure the country and condition of the people he came in contact with. The ride was accomplished in 200 days, 144 of which were in the saddle. Capt, Glazier has justly merited the encomiums he has received from the press and other sources as an honorable and enterprising man, and a credit to the State that nurtured him. His name will doubtleis be associated with the Mississippi for all time.

Ier Capita Consumption. The American negro, even in the days of slavevy, was usuaily allowed a weekly ration of three pounds cf bacon and a peck of meal, besides vegetables and other products, either of the plantation or Lis own garden patch. This made at least 150. pounds er annum, not to mention the occasional possum and chicken that were respectively his legit-imate plunder; and this amount of meat is more than the average consumption of any European nation, and two or three times as much as the average ration of several of them, including with the' peasant and artisan the citizen and nobility. The average consumption of meat in the United States is probably not less than 175 pounds per annum.

Of other civilized nations, only Great Britain exceeds 100, and many of them scarcely average fifty pounds. The consumption of cereals by naan aud beat is three times as much in proportion to population as in For the past ten years the average has been forty-five bushels for each unit of population, while the usual European consumption does not vary greatly from sixteen bushels per annum. Whi all is not used as food for man, no small part contributes to the meat supply. The. average consumption of wheat for bread is nearly five bushels, and about; three bushels of maize and one bushel of oats and rye, or approximately nine bushelsr eachs inhabitant.

The average European consumption of wheat is about 3.5 bushels. In the consumption of fruits the difference between this and other countries is marked with unusual emphasis. Small fruits, orchard fruits -7 I kinds, and tropical fruits, as wet; ur melons of many varieties, are in prof a-e and universal daily use in cities and towns, and in the country the kinds locally cultivated are still cheaper and more abundant in their respective Lon a Million Juggler of Other Once costly since the everything streets this latest damaging fire started Middleton's Madison in control destroyed Middletons five-story several low 0C0. Aside Chicago sight to were the The sky, volumes the huo through brands 4 with It part of wind and in peril their So was broke (HI flames. fierce knocked foot.

a painter from the in his senseless, leg able to Officers far.a pulled from stampede, Across Theater only by treasurer. that the caled and crowding, one spectators the the easily. As in last explosion. museum lamp a lamp a flame stage. before women stage 9 John The the his an Kohl equipment, The Madison Casey valued stock The Laberge, Loss Joseph What On Neighbors Aim Doing Slatteri ol Utnml and Local Interest Marriage and Deaths- Accidents and Crimes Per sonaX Pointers Pensioxs have been granted the following Wisconsin people: Original Francis M.

Gainer, Christopher Foss, Benjamin Cook, Christian Schultz, Edward Flnton, William Dickson. Daniel Fisk. William Gilboy, David W. Fox. Augustus A.

Hawkins, Nathaniel G. Grant (navy), William Baker (navy), James Wallace (navy), William H. Beare (navy), ames 8, Stanton, William D. Barker, Ole Olson. Jacob Young, Nicholas Wall (deceas ed), Alanson Ludwig Fchultz, Hugh Cunning (navy).

John Brunette, Leopold Debecker, James A. Brown. Reissue and increase Wm. Lagrout, Ephraim TI. Dugan.

Restoration John liosch. Increase L. W. Olds, Frank Fuchs, Charles Richardson, Wencell Chady, Joseph thaw, Robert H. John Keller, Henry Scblicht, Christian Cline, Matthew W.

Parker, Leonard Ransom, Wm. H. Dop-kins. Fetus Marlng, Alpkeus Palmer, William Wheeland, Albert W. Cole, Darius Dodge, Alexander Adair, Morgan Reed, Albert Brewer, Calvin A.

Parker. John W. Rowe, Edsrar A Delano, William H. Harris, Thomas Mould, Navy Edward N. Rowley, Chas.

H. Marsh, Levi Butler, Jos. Greenwood, Jncv Hobbs, Daniel Dederick, Ferdinand Elmer, Wm, Queeman. Original Widows, etc; Thomas, father of Francis Whalen, special act; Agnes widow of Jos. B.

Collins, special act; Sarah widow of Norman Powers; Caroline, widow of Edward Jansen; mother of Charles H. Warner; Mary, widow of Vlnsense Klu-ber; Magdalena, -widow of John Kurtz. At Ashland sensation was created when it leaked out that a large number of meu in line at the Laud Office are merely substitutes. It is stated that they are receiving 25 cents an hour for remaining inline, and that several large lumber companies are interested in the deal. M.

C. Hobbux, formerly of White Lake, S. passed through Centralia with his printing-office outfit He is about to establish a paper at Minocqua. At Centralia, the hardware store of L. M.

Nash was entved recently, and about $100 worth of cutlery, revolvers, aud ammunition was aken. In attempting to dispose of some of the property the culprits were detected, Henry Goodman, one Knapp, and Walter Demro3 have been arrested, the two former acknowledging their guilt. Joseph Nolan was sent np at Prairie du Chien for two years for forgery. There is a good winter wheat crop about Black Biver Fails. Oshkosh fishermen claim that the game lawjs being violated.

Mrs. S. C. Prince, of Lynxville, Crawford "County, dislocated her Jaw while gaping. One of the Immense new paper machines at the Kimberly Mills, at Apple ton, was started, and is doing good work.

The other will be started this week. The machines are 110 inches in diameter and will make print paper. Probarly not more than 100,000 feet of logs have gone down Black Biver yet this spring, and no new logs at alL At Chippewa Falls, the bondsmen of ex-County Treasurer Sever Seerly paid $15,000, the amount at which they compromised with the county board, in full settlement. Seerly will be tried -for embezzlement. At Ash' and, although about a foot of snow fell and the wind blew furiously, it did not seem to have affected the order of the land-entry liners.

It is marvelous, what these men endure. Physicians assert that animals could scarcely endure such exposure. One mans wife has moved there, and camps near by tho line to furnish her husband with warm meals. The men in line had a list of their names printed to maintain their positions. There was always a bitter fight as long as La Crosse and Eau Claire were in the same Congressional district, and the late W.

T. Price succeeded several years ago having the State so divided that these two cities were in different districts, but the new law places them again as common political enemies. Joseph Hammen, an employe in the Schlitz Brewery, Milwaukee, fell into a vat full of boiling water and was scalded to death. When his disappearanre was noticed, the water was let out of the vat and his dead body found. Paul Foley, aged 18, fell under a Northwestern passenger train at MU wankee and was killed! His head was mangled beyond all recognition.

Oshkosh police are investigating the death of Mrs. Marshal Kovs'ki. Dr. Harrington, who has been attending her, found her lying dead in a pool of blood on the floor, her clothes and face being spattered with the sanguinary fluid Pensions have been granted the following Wisconsin Original Pe ter Kline, Albert A. Kinsman, Chas.

McAllister, Frederick Hutlich, Vernon Mumbrue, Patrick Mullen, Jno. Miller, Jeremiah W. McCune, William F. Akin, Aaron T. Moore, Frederick Hubbell, Thomas St.

John, Lewis O. Jarvis, Charles Knuth, Karl Knechenmeis-ter, Nicholas Bowers, Solomon C. Enos, Charles Hoehne, Thos. B. DeLong, Francis M.

Garner, Christopher Foss, Benj. T. Cook, Christian Schultz, Edw. G. Fin-ton, W.

W. Dickinson. Daniel B. Fisk, Wm. Gilbert, David W.

Fox, Augustus A. Hawkins. Increase William H. Frazier, Horace E. Wood, Jacob Zim-merly, E.

Evanson, Bobert Campbell, James Short, F. Bruemner, Chrjsti an Stender, David May, W. A Vincent, Burton A Isaac worth, 'Wm. IL Bash, Jacob Henninger, Alfred H. Dpw, David Davis, Andrew Conley, Wm.

Healy, E. Howard Irwin, Alonzo Hate, Uriah Loveland, F. Marengo, Alpheus W. Palmer, Wm. Whelan, Albert W.

Cote, -Darius Dodge, Abe A Adair, Morgan Eeed, Albert Bromer, Calvin A Parker, John W. Bowe. Edgai A. Delano, Wm. Harris, Tho3.

Mould. Original Widows, Etc. Barbara, widow of Christian Engler; Augusta, widow oi Julius Mautai; Ann, widow of Hugh Mc-Crady. 1 Oneida County will hereafter pay a bounty of $5 for wolf seal pa A comparison of the receipts of the Oshkosh and LaCrosse postoffices daring the past year shows "that Oshkosh has gained about $600 more in the amonnt ol business done than La Crosse. Near Bice threq of Arthur Eitchies children, aged 7, 9, and 11 years, were drowned in a small pool oi water at his logging-camp on Birch Lake, near Bne Lake, by breaking through the ice.

On the 9th, the Assembly passed two bills, one to appropriate $7,000 to the Industrial School for Girls lu Milwaukee, and the other to abolish the law of 1889. which makes up a deficit In the salary of court reporters figured at $2,000 per annum. Other bills passed provide for tbe incorporation of trust, annuity, guaranty, safe deposit and security companies and fix the capital of any such organization- at not less than $300,000 and not more than appro priatlng $1,000 each in tbe years 1891 and 1892 for the Improvement of tbe Wisconsin rifle range. The joint resolution accepting tbe direct war tax of $500,000 from the Gov- eminent was concurred in. The Senate cohcurred in tbe resolution to adjourn April 22.

Railroad influence killed tbe labor bill making the roads liable for Injuries to employes through the negligence of coemployes. The bill' requiring foreign fraternal insurance companies, before doing business in the State, to be In sound. condi- i tlon and to have been in operation twp years was ordered to tnird reading. In the Senate, on the 8th, the bill apportioning the State into congressional districts was passed 18 to 13. In the House, the following bills were passed: Conferring additional jurisdiction on the County Court of Portage County providing lor fishways for dams in Rock river; to incorporate the city of Durand Scribner's rule the standard for scaling logs In Wisconsin; appropriating $5,000 for new buildings at the State fish hatchery; relating to patents on swamp lands in certain cases; for fishways in, I dams In La Crosse river; concerning street sprinkling in Milwaukee; providing for liens upon logs, to protect furnishers of supplies to logging camps; author izlng Kewaunee to issue bonds to build a bridge; extending the limits of Manitowoc; for preservation of trout In rivers and streams in Polk County; amending charter of Fort Howard; relating to sale of lots by trustees of cemetery associations; providing for- thp publication of statements.

of banks In towns and villages amending the charter of Chippewa -Falls; fixing terms of court in Brown County; amending the general laws governing improvements in villages; amend- lng the laws relating to construction of sewers in cities. In the Senate, bills were passed as follows: Appropriating $20,000 to provide facilities for physical and professional training at Platteville and Milwaukee normal schools; limiting the Speed of trains through cities and villages to fifteen miles an hour; limiting to ten days during one term of office the time which members of county boards in counties having les than 43,000 population may serve on committees outside of the session of the board appropriating $500 per annum to tbe Wisconsin Firemens Association; authorizing the Kickapoo Valley Railroad Company to construct a bridge across the Wisconsin and Kickapoo Rivers. The Senate on the 13th concurred in the House bill providing that the Treasurer, Attorney General, and Secretary of State shall select banks in which State funds may be deposited. This is the outgrowth, of the suits for the recovery of Interest money against the past Treasurers. The House concurred in the Senate bill permitting the Wisconsin Central to enter Milwaukee through a tunnel.

It is a bill that has always created a great fight among- opposing interests in Milwaukee. It now looks as though the session would he prolonged until May 1. Chinese Medicine. Medicines are much' sought after by them. While I as at Dulanhuo, near ly every one in the village came to see me, and most of the people asked for medicines, whether they were suffering from any complaint or no.

Plasters were in great demand, as all the villagers Jiad rheumatism, and the tighter the plasters stuck the better they were held to-be. I had with me a bottle of Enos fruit salts, and tried to give some to the people, but when they saw the salts boiling and fizzing they thought there be some magic about the medicine, and would have none of it. Most of their troubles sores and eye diseases come from dirty habits, but one can never persuade them of the necessity of keeping clean. A friend of "mine once traveling among the Mongols, and an old crone came to him and begged some medicine to put on a sore. He told her that before applying the salve it would necessary to wash herself.

$She gave it back to him, saying, I am sixty-seven years old, and I never washed in my life; do you suppose I am going to begin now? Mongol physicians feel the patients pnlse on both wrists at the -same time, and never ask any questions or at least hone concerning the origin and progress of the complaint, for if they did it wonld be held that they had shown ignorance in their profession. Century. Held, by Etiquette. A good story is related by the Washington Anthropologist. It seems that at official and diplomatic dinners there is sometimes difficulty in determining whose duty it is to rise aud break up the entertainment.

When Dom Pedro, the Emperor of Brazil, was entertained at the White House, he had been told by a confused Senator that it would be expected that he, the Emperor, should be the la st of the guests to depart. The Presidents wife, however informed her other guests that they would be expected to follow, not precede, the royal party in leaving the house. The result was that no one dared to go for fear of a breach of etiquette. Bnt at 3 oclock in the morning a tired woman pretended illness, and the deadlock was broken. Great is etiquette, but common sense is sometimes allowable.

6 Some Scraps of Science. Barron says that town life leads to degeneracy on account of the bad air. An immense blast of granite was recently made in Scotland, displacing tons. The bridge over the Indus at Sukkur fs at present the largest railroad bridge I Jn the world. Asbestos has been found to work admirably when used as a fireproof screen In the theaters.

Acrophobia Is a new term used to describe an exaggerated condition of fear when ia high places. REMAINS OF SMYTHS 3TAELISHMEKT. A stampede followed. In the fight for life eight women were down and trampled under Several men jumped from windows, and one of these, Alexander Grant, employed on the place, leaped third story and struck a sign descent. He fell to the ground his skull fractured, and one broken.

When all those yho were get out had left the' building Welbaskey and Pat Sheedy entered the burning buidlng and went as the ffiames would permit. They out several women who had fainted fright or been. Crushed in the the street in the JJaymarket a similar panic was Averted the of George Fair, the When it became apparent theater was in danger Mr. Fair tho ushers into his private office, instructing them to stand at the fire-escape and to by no means permit he quietly went around from gallery to another and told the that there was a fire across street, but that there was nb immediate danger. They were then led to fire-escape3 and male their v.ay the case of the great fire, conflagration was started by a lamp While the audience in the theater was watching with interest a juggler balancing a lighted on a wand, at the same time walking tight-rope, the juggler slipped, the fell, there was an explosion, and darted up the scenery of the The stage curtains took fire, and the panic stricken men and could make their exit the entire was a mass of flames.

M. Smyth is.the heaviest loser. Kohl Middleton edifice, as well as building occupied by himself, was property. His loss on buildings is on stock He carried insurance of $175,000 on the buildings. fc Middleton lose their entire valued at $20,000.

five-story buildings 147-149 West street were owned by James and were destroyed, They were at $210,000. Alfred Peats occupied the entire building with a large of wall paper. His less is $55,000. next building, occupied by Louis was six stories, entirely destroyed, and owned by CoL Thompson? ou building $40jC00, stock and fixtures $15,000. Stein's shoe store was at 153 Madison street.

His loss on stock is Other losers are: Adam Gerhard barber shop at 155 West Madison street, Baer Bro.s hat store and Eureka laundry at 157, MJ J. Irrmin, cigars, Neely boots and sho2s, $29, C00; L. Kaempfer, jewelry, loss unknown; Lawyer Payne Fittz, $5,000. Two persons were fatally injured and six others seriously hurt. Why He illualied.

The poet who even in his old age is as bashful as a girl," was once embraced and kissed by a man in a crowded Boston parlor. The incident is told by tie Rev. Carlos Martyn, in his Life of Wendell Phillips. Dom Pedro, of Brazil, on his visit to Boston in 1876, expressed a wish to meet Mr. Whittier, with- whom he had corresponded for many years concerning poetry and slavery.

A notable Bostonian gave a recitation to the Emperor, at which the poet promised to be pre ent. Tne Emperor was conversing with Wendell Phillips when the venerable poet entered, but be immediately rose, threw his arms about the blushing quaker and kissed him on both cheek. Then seating him on a sofa he placed himself at the poets ride and chatted with him for half an hour. When tlie conversation became general, the Emperor told of his driving over to Charleston to see Bunker Hill monument. It was 6 oclock in the morning, and the keeper was in bed.

When aronsed he refused to let the Emperor in, until he paid the entrance fee, half a dollar. Dom Pedro, having left his purse at home, was obliged to borrow the coin from tbe hackman. The company laughed and Mr. Phillip said: The story does hot end with the payment of the entrance fee. I will tell Your Majesty of the rest of it.

Two hoars later, a well-know leader of Boston society entered the visitors room at tlio base of the monument. Glancing ot it the book in which every visitor legist ers, he saw Your Majestys signature. Why, said he to. the" keeper, you have had the Emperor of Brazil ere this morning. How did he look? The keeper, putting on his examined the handwriting, and scornfully muttered r- Emperor? thats a dcdqe; that lel-low was a scapegrace, without a cent ir-his pocket named his discovery Lake Itaca, Jits Jndiaa name isOmnshkos) and upon his authority geographers and map makers were satisfied for a period of nearly fifty years I to aceept it as the source of the Mississippi, Doubts however, prevailed among a learned few as to the correctness of Schoolcrafts claim, and it remained for some more modern explorers to make further investigation and.

decide the disputed question. i Capt. Willard Glazier, a native of St. Lawrence County, N. Y.f led an exploring party to Lake Itasca in July, 1881, thence paddled through a narrow creek, hidden from view by a rank growth of giant bulrushes, into a beautiful lake above and beyond Itasca.

This new lake he found to. be the true Lead of the river. It is two miles in length ly a mile and a half in breadth, and deeper than any part of Itasca. -Capt. Glaziej soon after published his to the world and secured its recognition by geogiapliers.

It lies many miles from the nearest white s-et-tlement, and Would be difficult to reach dvv land on account of the swamps in its ifeighborhood. The Captain and his fyarty entered it ly water. Two small creeks flow into its southern extremity and one on its western side. These from rand hills 'two or tlnee miles distant from the lake. Having completed his survey of the localities, though scarce in the of.

recent settlement, and those unsuited tea wide range of specie. American Miller. A taunt In The Gazette. of Los Angeles, Cali, has the followiug interesting item concerning one of Californias exhibits at the exposition The section of the big redwood tree for exhibition at the Worlds Fair at new lake, the party returned "through.1 Chicago is from the largest and most the same narrow, connecting creek to peifect big tree in California, cut for An Op ill ortli Million. The most famous opal in history was that which was worn in a ring by the Roftan Senator Nonius in the days of the Triumvirate.

Its size scarcely exceeds that of a medium sized hazelnut. Yet its beauty and brilliancy rendered it marvel among the dilettani cf Rome, especially when it wa3 known the money changers had set its value at Marc Antony made overtures to Nonius for its purchase, intending, it is thought, to present it to Cleopatra; but the Senator refused to part with it, and, for fear that it would be taken from him by sheer force, sought safety in flight. Here history loses all trace of this famous gam, there being no record of its transferal from Nonius to any of his family. St. Louis Republic.

The pe culiar reach ioward Lake Erie in, the State Line of Pennsylvania, known as the Triangle (from its being originally the State of New York extension) wii a special purchase. Sept. 4, 1788, from the Government, of a slice of the Northwest Territory, containiug 202, 1S7 aci es, at a State cost of $157,640. 1 1 Washington, H. Cm the hemer of the was the former site of a S3t-tlement called Borne, which was located on the -Tiber (stream or creek still so called), and curiously the proprietor of the soil was a gentleman named Pope.

the purpose from the forest in Tulare County. It measures fully ninety-nine feet in circumference at the base. The height of this monster specimen was 312 feet, being 172 feet tothe first limb, which limb measured three feet in diameter. The tree is supposed to be nei Jly 3, 000 years old. taking each ton-cer tric ring to be one years growth.

It is to be taken from an altitude of 6.322 feet above tbe sea level, and thirty-thre miles from tho nearest railroad. Lake Itasca, and, proceeded onward in pursuance of tho leaders design to navigate the entire course of thoMii-rissippi by cance, a distance computed 3, 183 miles, from its newly located source to the Gulf of Mexico. The voyage occupied 117 ably the longest canoe trip on record. The trao source of the Mississippi is now generally recognized as Lake Glaz.er, in latitude About 47 degrees north, at an altitude George Gilmore, who is one -of the three who stand at the head of the class of 91 at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, is a Chippewa Falls boy..

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1872-1919