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Show "MAYOR OF LONDON. Joseph iVlutefiead who was elected lord mayor in 1890, was under tha ENVOY FROM JAPAN. stigma of havingbeen engaged in company promotion Sir Henry Aaron SCHIN1CH1RO KURiNO, DIPLO- SIR JOSEPH RENALS IS A TYPICAL BRITON. Isaacs assisted while in office to feat two of the biggest su indies known in modern times, Sir Joseph !saory who After AttMtitUii a Fortonel-arr- a pledged himself not to join any boeKl 1B Lttoujh to Un Eim tks Krais during his year a term as lord mayor, of 111 Life, He Soujht end Woo became a director in a company w ha h Political Ho&on. obtained a city lighting contract. These facts helped to make the opposition lo Mr Joseph that it was found so hard to HE RECENT w circus prond-e- overcome, but be fought aOct inning 3 last the ballot taken and tight, the of by city m his resulted favor London upon the occasion of the inGrand duke michael. stallation' of the new lord mayor ws Ol flrmiawu Friar of tbo Konianoll witnessed by tens Dynasty. of thousands. The of turnout of the popt-lac- e theThe Grand Duke, Michael, brother late Emperor Alexander 11 of waa the largest He in recent yeara. Russia, was born Oet 13. 1832 in marshal neltl tof J.BiK'ils Woiltingmen am- women the Russian is also and were massed at Fleet street, St. laul s army, presi dent of the state a council and chief of churchyard and on the Victoria emartillery. He married in 1857, Prinbankment, but there were no disordercess Cecilia of Baden, u ho died in 1S9L ly demonstrations and the scores of The grand duke has seven children, six sons and one daughter, Anastasia, born in IsbO, who married the reign-in- g grand duke of Mecklenburg Schwerin MAT AND SCHOLAR. It Has lately Suer etied the Mach Tslsoo Has SrnH His (osulrjr oo Mu; 1 oipurCsst ed Sir. ls-d- er i:iluc SI ISM loos. ff u I AX-nu- d RECENT NAVY CHANCES. Young snd t igvroiia O filer ra Brin Drought Out to Pill 1 aeanclet- By the retirement of Rear Admiral Gerlmrdi, Admiral Benliuin. the hero of Rio de Janiero. succeeds to the most Important post in tlie I mted fstates navy. It is an liouor which he will not enjoy-- long, jhow-eve- r as he becomes " years of agy shortly after receiving his eoinmissiyu. He in time will be succeeded by Admit al Robert Eians, who is alsowithin a few weeks of the The age at wLkh he must a will front to change the young bring lOIUI IHIOH SIR JOSII'II l.fsALS, and vigoous set of officers who have inctropoitan police stationed along the y et to gjain their spurs route of the procession had little or nothing to do The"arioiib divisions FRanCE'S COMING MAN, included the city fimuen, court of ildernien lifeboat nieu. Foresters and 11 Nome Is tillers, anil He Is o 8 lire ietaehmei'ts of the civic societies, toDiplomatist. M gether with a large numlwr of promiI.eMyie Villers has received a nent citizi ns. The carriage of the lord 'eward for his diplomatic success at mayor was a gorgeous affair, draw n by Itankok in 13113 by being chosen as the horses with sJtoatii-iion- s French envoy to the Hot a government. iight snow-whit- e clad m livery of scarlet and gold Relations between the Frynch govern- e It ,u 111 jj n bH IX ICHIRO Kurino, the new envoy extraordi-I- j R. nary and minister plenipotentiary of J span, in Lbei nited States, w ho recently arrived at the legation in X st feel In Washing ton, su receded Mr (loro late no, soon alter the expiration of three years of service bv Mr. Tateno, a gentleman who had admirably maintained the eordial relations w hich have existed for yeara between Japan and the Fnited Mates, and whokc charming wifsv readily adapting herself to western ways, and acquiring some command of the English language, made 'the legation one of the most attractive at the capital Mr Kurino is still a young man in the diplomatic service. He was born about forty-fou- r years ago, in the south of Japan, and comes of one of the old .Samurai families, a class that is furnisliiug many- - of the most advanced and advancing men of the empire of the Rising Sun. He was liberally educated in Japan, and pquipjied with a fine knowledge of the English language, he came to the I mted States and took the lavCprse at Harvard Ilia stay in this country uiadeliiiu familiar with the country and its government, and was of great advantage to him in the career width he had chosen in the diplomatic sen icc of Japan I pon lus return to his home lie t ntereil the home foreign office in a cli rual i a pacify , where his abilities soon indicated him as a 111811 entitled to ad anoement Bnd to lespunsible office The relations of Japan to Corea hae for many years reqtliied the services in the Hermit kingdom of Japanese of good training and natural aptitude. as the disposition of (Uiua to be jealous of Japanese influence lias been observed by the Emperor of Japan for a long time hile Japan has constantly maintained a diplomatic repre sentative at Seoul, she has found It necessary tf( send to the lorean capi tal, from time to time, special representatives to feel the situation, con suit with the regular representative, and communicate to him the in terest of the home foreign office in Corean and Chinese affairs. Mtv Kurino was sent on such missions to Corea In 1881, 1384. and again in 1894 so that he is thoroughly familiar with the events leading np t the conflict sew proceed lag In Cun,u; Harper. Weekly, ffe has also been intrusted w ith important missions to Europe, having visited France and Portugal in 189.1, his mission to Portugal being to denounce the claim of two-swor- d TO DO Oia.-e- Hslf-tx- r lIlKtirtri 1 er; I A RIDE FOR LIRE. iTHE KING OP COREA. AWAY WITH SMOKE. How - ful Proems, THE MAN OVER WHOM TWO Duller of the Belgian engineers NATIONS ARE AT WAR. has discos ered an easy and economical method of doing away wuhLmdon smoke. Hie .smoke enters a chimney He Is as Intelligent Llttls Man of 40, shaped like the litter X At the botAlthough Ho Heads Only Chinese tom of the left Laud leg it is met by a Hos 300 Wives and Is how Quits small jet of steam w huh saturates the H;m. smoke and aieelerates the draft. At the top of the log water of spray KING OF drives down the soot ami noxious proabout w hose Corea, ' allow ducts, iug only almost pure vapor kingdom China and to escape up the last leg Half the Ay . Japan are now hav acids and til per cent with. oot are ing such a Jolly thus renioied jhv' nn-n- l dowa into row, is an intellithe sewers, w here they act as disinfect gent little man about 4u years of CoL rrHE age. He reads noth-Ip- g but a Plurk; frmiter'Hmag Saved Mayoi George Robert Tyler, the outgoing offi ciai,alld bis successor, Sir Joseph Renal ness along the route of the par ade a generally suspended and the ,usinesg houses and publie buildings we re ejab. The decorated. pageant started from the Guildhall at It oclock apd proceeded via Graham street, Victoria Mooregate Hill and Queen street. Upper Thames street, aup churchyard, Ludgate hill ams jqeet street to ho law courts wh j,8 lordship was received by tlie jorj I chancellor. From the courts tJ,e return was made via the Strand, haring Cross and the Victoria embnkrent to , the Guildhall. The lord mayor was born jotting-haEngland, and received hi (educaci- hi tion there. He made that home, and for a number of ye ars he was engaged in business wit h .his brother. At the age of 32 years he retired from active business life a nd re-h-e was moved. to London, wherein 1888 electei an alderman of the corpoi tjn Prior to this, however, he bad e politics, and he had representede vWer. common ancu. gale in the court of At the time of his election a y occurre mayor of London, which nor a few weeks ago, he was the . sheriff of London. HU election 1i0 the mayoralty waa vigorously oppos.d by several aldermen on the group that 0f he was the promoter and dlrect nine companies having an aggri .gte not one of v capital of $15,000,000, An entire I bich ,au0t was paying dividends of the entire guildi electorateR was ,nais taken, how ever, and Alderman received a majority of the rotes Bn(j was declared elected- - The fact tha t l tie ' "office of lord mayor of London of jate had been unpleasantly connected wtb financial scandals made the opposition it wpouid to Renals more effective than .otherwise have been. It w ported out by those opposed b?himthat slr of these Carroll immed lately dumped into his system, blowing the other in his pocket, ha then mounted a horse and started for the stage station at the canon of the Hassayampa, a dozen miles a way. On the road he drank the remain log .flask andfrom that time on knew nothing save that he fell frorn '' ."L. 7. "Jhis horse. Mrs. Conger, the custodian of the station, was alarmed to see the horse. coming back, and mounted the animal, and, accompanied by her dog, she started on the search. Eight miles away, in the stony hills fully exposed to the glare of Arizona's July son, solely to the Intelligence of the dog, Carroll waa found lying unconscious. He Lad been there eleven hours. The plncky woman loaded the suffering man on the horse and, --bringing him to the mill, nursed him out of danger. The day was hot in the extreme, and the dog, searching for The man. became over heated and on returning to the ramp died within a few hours. It may be believed that he was given a burial as guod ss the camp could afford. Chin eve. hhort in height and boyish in figure, he looks ridiculously insignificant when surrounded by the magnificence of hia audience room, which is an immense lie resides in a fine large apartment. palace In Seoul, with his queen and half a thousand other women who are nominally hia wives. The queen, however, is always at the king's aide and is really his keep- -, The king of Corea, like many Americana, stays up aU night and does his sleeping in the daytime. Ail night long he and hia qneen sit and smoke bits of Chinese tobacco in little golden pipes. This turning night into day is caused by fears of a revolution. The city of heonl is a very large city, havings wall nearly twenty BABY PEARY. miles In length and numbering among oi.. in urn. souls. this Of Oao Who Was Dora A old million The Lfttls ants. The system can be applied to a its people half a Arctlr Snow. for about $250. and to a siugls factory Probably the two most interesting dwelling house for $12 or $13. y are persons In Washington ffttl of KlrH Alls Crfn. wife of LieuL Peary, the famous arctic explorer, and her little Miks Sylvia Green lias a fad which is hers by inheritance. It is for money. daughter Marie Ahmlgito Peary.a Hut, on) ike her mother, Mrs. Hetty Young Miss Peary is born to a grest-nesLike Virshe can never escape. Green, it n, not for the making of money, but for saving it. Mm hr eon ginia Dare, she w 111 go do n to posteratantly 111 fear of the poor house, and ity sung of many tongues, her primary" is afraid to spend a cent. She Las claim to distinction being that she U tlie first of her kind to begin existence $3.000,00 111 iier own right from her among the glaciers and ice caps of grandfather, but spends nothing She Besides this, is most agreeable to live w ith. being northern Greenland. however, little Ahmigito has more than quiet, amiable and accommodating, even a first babys list of perfection, though not so heerful as she might be. She is not stingy to the house bhe ia very pretty, with flaxen hair and big blue eyes; she is wonderfully hold, but w ill not spend a cent on herself. bhe lias devised almost every vigorous and well; she is gay and bonkind of bank for saving her apart' ny, ready to laugh with any one, and, with a pluck that could hardly be absent from the child of such resolute paKINO OP COREA, rents, she has passed the trying first city the king has seen only the main street, which is cleared and sw cpt for him when he travels it in state. On these occasions he is gorgeously arrayed and accompanied by 2, 000 men, THE LAlfe CZARS PHYSICIAN zgr , Mrs.-Pear- to-da- 1 -- Tb Dkllafikh A Hooded Prof. L;doa Alexander 1IL Who Prof, Leyden, the eminent physk-lanpon the car,w ho lately In attendance a wther phyefeiono dUhn Ooa in maintaining that his condition was critical, is one of the most distinguished physicians of w horn modern Germany can boast It was hit great reputation that caused him to be summoned extra territorial jurisdietion-hv-th- at to attend the Russian imperial family SILVIA OHhl.N. ' five years ago, during the great incountry in Japan, Its right having exis and always looking ahead fluenza epidemic. He is 62 pired by a limited convention on the change, years of into the with her money hidwas at first a sergeant in the subject. The estimation in which he den in future, and age, BI! I." BABY PKABY AMI XI USK her hand for safe keeping. Her is held by the Japanese government is in the war army.-Aft- er serving friends is this that the result of say of life with an ease and su.ves indicated by the fact that for several against Denmark in 1864 he retired year her and b eradiwill training other babies should be urged to early that been Las he the chief of the cated if she ever cornea civil life, and has held successive years into the fifty into emulate. of universities political section of the homo foreign or so millions the at her mother w ill leave professorships office, the branch of the diplomatic Konigsburg, Strasburg and Berlin. her. Amateur llroaxluff. w service hich arranges all treaties and other agreements w ith foreign coun- Fir Thoanand Found 01 articles may, according to an Copper Bruin; tries. An Amerieanasking to which eminent French authority, be very The follow ing remarkable paragraph Ir published by the Bristol Times and easily bronzed without the cumberrsrW't and complicated appliances and some 1 Mirror: am a photographer Jin The accessories hitherto employed. Bristol, and one of tlie queerest exthen to be cleafted, articles thoroughly I have ever hnd folWas the periences with s brush coated with tlie followlowing: One day a. gentleman of about 40 walked into tlie shop, puring mixture: Castor oil, - twenty parts; alcohol, eighty parts.forty chased the photograph of a young parts and water, forty parts. After lady which was exhibited in the winremaining In a place free from dust dow, and, having inquired her name hours the piece has for twenty-fou- r and address, which h was unable to acquired a fine bronze tint. After this give him, for I had only recently purthere are varying shades, according t chased the business, and the book to the length of time the coating is alwere muddled left me, having prelowed to remain. When the desire! viously informed me that he would color la reached the piece is cleaned K20 to one who discovered give any her. and dried with hot sawdust, and finAfter that he took the most active ished with a thin, colorless varnish. steps to find her, w ithout avail He died five years ago, unmarried, and in hi will left a legacy of 5,000 to the Wh; 4b lull 1 Called Moatsoa. PROF. I Et HEX. nameless young lady whose photoIs probable that Montana means It is the author of several the Forest state than tlie graph he had purchased, to go to her Prof. Lejden rather beif she were found within seven years standard medical works, and has state. The word MonMountainous of his death. Money was also left to come famous chiefly in consequence of tana. pure Spanish, is used to indicate aHIXICHIRO KIRIXO. executors to enable them to prose- his researches on the nervous system. the forest clad eastern elope of tlie political party in Japan the' new min- the Andes, and early Spanish maps of the Th Advantages of a Fad. ister is attached would be told, by cute a search for her. Lena than two now Americas were plentifully marked and the has remain, cultiyears a well informed pelrson, that the lady The man who undertakes to never been discovered. We shall be vate some fad like the of with the word monte," which means growing government is supposed to ignore political divlsiona in selecting members pleased if any of our readers find them- plants, .the raising of fish, photog- forest English student of these made the mistake of supposing The adminis- selves entitled to this legacy," of the administration. raphy, entomology, boating, bicycle mapsthis recurrent word Indicated thu that athletic tration of Japan Is not yet responsive sports, microscopy, riding, Mm. Dlalafq;'s Qaeer Attlra. mountain range. of great presence to parties, as in England, the tendency music, fishing, painting, drawing, Mine. Dieulsfoy, the noted archaeolhern taken -to that slate of affairs being one of the hunting, and a thousand and one other The BpanUhmonteJtiaa of Paris, always wear ogist French language, where R re, the into come the under which matters of political contention in the "Clothes adopted may by men as best suited "Ings empire. The change of ministers at to their nerd and convenience. She head of personal recreation, has al- tains its original meaning. Washington does not involve a change ways something within his reach much into tbit. - ' Mai. D BUM'S Approach! in the rest of the personnel of the le- goes but neversociety with her which makes him independent of the of w ife of the Danish her changes de Mme. way Bille, is man of The who world. the attaches boating gation, several dressing. Her husnand approve and outside court of M. James, were connected w ith it under Minister the Paris forever feeding" his canoe or yacht ambassador to the conauthorities municipal will shortly arrive in New York for a of and Varnish or Tsteno remaining In service with his sent she shall retain it fittings with paint making an exsuccessor. invention. The mineralogist visit of a month. Mme. de Bille is the ception in her favor. So they study bis own the late Chancellor endless an has pleasure In arranging daughter of and explore together. They agree that .New of Jersey, and while in in those and obtaining " Th Hleevp at a common dress enables man and wife his specimens be the guest of her will Gotham fights . The fruit pf this South African plant to submit to the same conditions and which are new. The sportsman fisher- brother, Augustus Zabriakie of 11 the and oer battles his again, is locally know n as the hiccup" nuL share the same pursuits. One can go fifth street. She paid a man attends to hje tackle and invents West Thirty w here the other goes in bad weather. and by the natives as Umtandawa. Victoria at Windsor to visit Queen ex next his facts" to illustrate years of travel and The plant is a climbing shrub with the summer, Mme. de arbitrary during but All harmless amusements, cale, ovate leaves and terminal spikes of social rules that make distinction for ploits. than gold, because they Bille has not visited her native land dull red flowers. The fruit is an ob- petticoats are all effaced. It permits more valuable for twenty rears. She met her hustake a man away from himself. band when he was the Danish miuLtcr ' long nut with a pleasant ' flavor, but an unbroken companionship in difficult causes violent hiccough if only a few situations of travel. But few women to the U nited States. j ' About Olivo OH. are eaten. At one time Mr. Mood tried would consent to wear the trews. Only 1 Great. tbo of imBast Bn4 them oq himself, and did not try to re- very slender women are- not made Much of the pretended olive oil A bust of Herod the Great, believed peat the experiment. An allied species, ridiculous in therm Modifications of ported into this country is made up in C. erythrophyllum, Bond., known as convenient dress in short, a human to be authentic, was recently discovUrge part of peanut oil, pressed from Umduba, distinguished by its dress i what is needed, that shall be Africa and Indian peanuts. PeSnut ered at Jerusalem. It has been bought the papery, four winged fruits, snd its graceful as wells mwful. oil Is not very good to eat as a salad by the Russian government for leaves turning almost white before Is tn excellent base for fine Hermitage museum at St. Petersburg but oik Pellcsas Great Wing. or Illuminating flowering, but reddish in the autumn, soups and valuable-fTbs gntallMt The great pelican often has a is stated by Mr. J. Kirkman to be used It is not produced in large, wing purposes. The smallest egg is that of the t.ny as a medicine by the natives in the spread of fifteen feet The bird itself quantities in the United States, It Is scarcely dose of one half ounce or less, but an sometimes exceeds twenty-fivpounds though the peanut crop la an import- Mexican humming biyf. head. in weighty- - K a than overdose causes death. south. of the pins larger ant one in psrta a j U-k- p, hus-ban- d, le -- jrd ' ' ment and prime minister of hlada gascar bare been strained for aoine time, and the mission of M. LeMyre Villers is to reconcile these differences and assert the French position. It is not his first connection w ith the island, as he was resident there several years ago. ft waa he who hauled dpwn the French flag at Antananarivo, as an endeavor to frighten the Malagasy into concurrence with his policy. Astute and alert are the most correct adjectives to apply to M. LeMyre Villers. Art-so- At Smith's mill, fifty miles northeast of Phoenix, Arts., arising from his cot Sunday night for a drink of water, Harry Carroll stopped squarely upon a rattlesnake and was bitten npon tha bare foot There were two pint of frontier whisky at the camp, and one soft-soa- It was occupied by Lord la Miner. -- s x. lk htbe vnxrnx not much suavity but a great deal of determination. The following word picture of theMalagasy prime minister, with whom the French envoy will have to deal, is worth recording. He U described by a German visitor aa a little, old man of 67 years of age, whom neither iime nor hard work, however, have bent. His movements his eye gleams with a are agile, penetrating intelligence. He is a consummate diplomatUt, and thera is nothing to be got out of him." Hfr-k- u 1 e |