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Show KIXG-- OF -- by little, AliVSSIXIA.! little would be a they began to think it good idea to imitate the They went to work I royal exantpl. WENELEK, THE SECOND. HAS with the tools the whites supp i 1. and befoie lung a nui.ibn of then had bePASSED AWAYi come verv fin-- masons and stonecutters The king ait-- had seviral vuv Mofct NtVa tli Jutnrejqut Figure goo v agon ioada burl' btt.vei a some of Among the Nih i; i rr of Africa hL i h t tow : He M.t Projre! Th"te aa., nit a bt olge ir. the co jua Mail Maoj huprow j ,.d M. Ug the Sai- - custticcr, told the king that he ought to have it HE DON CTIISCI-- . brHae over ai.vor Uadt! g to the reeonq icred Uaba pro time. whKa Ufj a J.iancla cently In flood time could not o forded. of Rome announces "Mike me a model of what jou al. a that th- - report that t he king sid bridge. of Mtueltk King 1 no same day one of Mi Kg's ass Al'E-.'ii- a has been tilth b a gtroke ants appeared befoie the kina with the 1 he k of ligbtti',ng is offi proposed plan of the bridge was ordc much with and it, pleased confirmed. cially that the work be carried out at om 11. Menelek iVi King were Vety gieat. U was the most Inter- The difficulties v. as necessary to of trunks transport esting inknport-an- t burn- native ruler In Afti'a He walking tre?3 e distance of ten miles in the sun. was comWhen the ing bridge of Shoa. EAith of Abjsuiia, long before lie as. ended the throne of the larger pleted the kiug and his subjects would not risk their lives on It nnt.l the Swiss kingdom lbs people are of the same had given proof of its solidity by drawrace, and speak the tame language as very heavy loaded wagons over it. ing the Abytsiiiiuns. Their country Is simGreat was the Joy of the king when he ply o part of Abyssinia whose chief became powerful enough to be practically and his peop'e were able to utilize the" RT? A 'P IltS. BESANT. - lli'ktl ani trth JOE ThoGerman , ompos-- r, Humperdinck, I iauud n.ti to Amtrlcan audl-eiyf- e ttltseaxoa by the presentation of BAIRDS TAPIR, IS A ClilVEIl WHITER, HOWARD A Common Enoach Animal That Caw not lia Boon In Any Collodion. Still less known In this country, and never seen, either in,menagerles or museums, are th two species of pfipir found In Central America. ThtF sleek, HAST MASTER A wha o ffom the lime of torjr of Her l.lf Her Marriage to tli Irewni Iiaj 1 t A Diane the Keiiioa Ad ocat ng. 1 L o'e delivi I a scries of lectuiea la the leadtnjJ 1th s of the eomitiv. INCE the death of -- sj Mat Jlaivatsky. his ftsioua Put op'ia, "Hansel and Gretel is fui'v-oL- e ears old, and a man ufplcc'.u.g pi raonal.ty. lie is regard! Wpgiicr s liciigi'dl hH opeta has enjoyed exit a u dnury v ogue on the continent. lk libtctio ta based -nursery tale Babes 'in the Wood.. As i uili'itt In the conservatories si Cologne ailt Mn tilth, Humperdinck hore off an n,p pjizen, and after teachiejin the Ban Iona Conservatory he sUlsd, in lotto, iu FrankfuiL lifts (HTOpIril Krerjr IoitU-from- , Offirt chocolate-browl!y ip ie Eiltor II Wrote th Ir lmat ion for lrr.tlcut Uucoli of South America wo do During itit ir. on-th- e N et.ery place Amriv a ,a where Tapir n' plump-bodie- - seo occasionof Bairda one adult ally, both alive and dealiut Tapir there is not ytvep stuffed specimen inexistence, either ln tills tout! try- or Jn Europe.' A fear skulls and skeletons, and two or three mutilated and unmounted skins, are positively all the world possesses la representation of this - species,' and, what is still worse, no naturalist has yet .had In opportunity to eveq WTite a description of the animal! The young animal is kpown to be of a reddish-browcolor, marked with irwhite regular spot and stripes. ' - Mrs. Annie Besant uewtsprpers . are published the name has been the ac- -' of Howard head knotfledged la known. Editors and front of the of the great metroThe theosophlsts. bepolitan, dailies art theasophlfct may inraldid vtith their I ( of Iro. lieve anything with official title 'only Car4ina! Gibbons has to a religion, n graphregard given and are heard of as of ic destlpilon of the pope, who, now, in but the vast-ma- s the editor of the them agree on one bis eighty sixth year, Is pale and emaOur universal poverty in specimens Wot or of tho Tribune. of Times, the Id, Uh ciated, of a death almost religIs pallor point, and that that,the great cf tie Tapir named in honor of Prof. Mr. " Howard him however, Uy persona. This pallor is intensified ious ten hers wfre men who had upon is not due to the extreme rarity Baird H It and accompanies his work, reached perfection through having lived by thtyfhlte etlesiastlcal garments he of the animal, but rather to a lack of he no to that say conconsidIs perhaps wears. exaggeration Ills on habltnally body many lives earth, and that they on the part of the intellistitute a secret brotherhood, from erably bent with age, but ills rye is has either written for or been quoted In enterprise white men who from time to time gent In 1'nited State. the which members are sent at intervals to bright, bis mind clear and luminous exery newspaper have, bad it In their power to procure leach humanity. As Mrs. Besant is said end Ls power of physical endurance Ho is icrlainly an unique figure in and to preserve specimens. The aniAmerleandournallsm, and best characto coutemp'ate a third visit to the astouUhlng. is mal well known in Panama, Costa d bridge. as an terized newspaper iddepemhnt of the ruler farther north. States in the near future, it may Rica, Nicaragua, Honduras, and southLater the Swiss built a blast furnace United man." When King John was killed by the be expected that the agitation of this A ern Mexico, (irent I uUrrlaklnff. Sixty-twyears old, Joe Howard I to Maadirts in nig it was kno n to be his for the smelting of Iron, a flour mill, peculiar religious theory will sOon take A thtp canal from Bordeaux to to ovens. time time and From all Intents ;wnd purposes a hoy among --Although Tapir are .usually - found baking wish that hts nephew shott'd succeed on new life. connecting the Atlantic and tho boya, a man rlvera in . , among men, and a littera- along small and him-Viewed from any aspect Mrs. Annie Meditwrancan, hlTimitrie'ck.however.proelaimed Is one of the coming teur among those who look to atyle aa the hot lowlands of the tropica, they self King of Abyssinia, and no faction Besant te a strangely strong-wom- an. is The distance public enterprises. d He has a manner are frequently found on wa strong enough to oppose him exBorn in England, of Irish parents, her three hundred and twenty miles, and the saving grace. inmountains as well. him Dr. Fftmuius to said which has that be auggeata cept that Tigre, the most northern prochildhood was spent in an atmosphere the breadth Is to be one hundred and us that in Costa Rica Bairds forms bet self odd at I'm times: "They thing vince, was very alow in yielding allefeet at the narrowest and two of pure religion, andi upon attaining the forty-fou- r ter natured than I am, and Im Earned Tapir is found both in the lowlands and giance. age of young womanhood, h,e was of sn hundred and fifteen feet at the widest If I'll allow the Impression to prevalL on tbe highest mountain ranges. He Alton! fifly-fiv- e years ago, King Hae-loexceedingly devotional nature. With a points, with an average depth of about A tyro might enter his office at the says also that "it it much hunted, for ruler of Shoa, beard one day that A Times building and propound the most ita fleiih la very delicate; the backwoman of striking beauty was seeking boresome questions Imaginable, and woodsmen aalt it, or dry it in tbe air, alms at the doora of the palace. He Joe would explode, with the Intention and thus provide themselves with large sent for her, and was so greatly Imof him but he wouldnt. That atorea. it thick hide la very useful , scaring with her charms that he Intropressed would Tapirs are very fond of th , tyro stay right there. He would duced her among the women of his which are formed in the see la the kindly eyes confronting him salt-licestabU.-- i .nent. When a little boy was an Intention "to help the young fellow neighborhood ef the numerous mineral born the kirg said he would not recogout." And he wouldnt be mistaken, springs by the evaporation of the sanize lain as his son unless In the course for Joe Howard hrs a soft spot in his. line water. Her they are either shot ofeats he showed a striking resemheart for young and ambitious fellows, with bullets on moonlight nights, or blance to hts majesty. As the boy grew are hunted down with dogs, and killed up he came to look very much like his with spears." (TV, T. Hornsday, in St. as the him named and royal father, king Nicholas. his heir, though he had other sons who THE KING'S MOTHER, thought they had a better right to the Tb t'nefatnmi of Diamond. The boy was Menelek. throne. The the King sent one or the other of them Diamond powder and chips, and even leading native ruler in Africa, there- to Europe to purchase materia!. It has the finest dust, are of great value in the fore, was the son of a beggar, as well as looked as thougirthe work of these few mechanical arts. Brasilian diamonds of a king. It was his anelent lineage, Europeans would give civilization a are now put to a novel and interesting however, of which be was chiefly proud. considerable impetus among the healthuse. A thin disk of steel, seven feet In It was his boast that he was a lineal de- ful highlands of Ethiopia. at Interval of diameter, has apace of Solomon and the on scendant But King Menelek has not lived King inches. about one and one-ha- lt Queen of Sheba. good terms with the Italians. He has These space filled In with are s , v.-iPhysically the king was not an im- never ceased to regret the day in 1S83 , ,v-ateel that exactly fit, pieces ef pressive person. lie was almost coal when he signed a treaty practically ve v and into tbese are set the diay. q V, Unlike his placing Abyssinia under the protection blnqk, short and dumpy. monds fixed in countersunk acrew-head- a. uncle. Ras Darghe, and others among of Italy. He has said, in later years, his chief advisers, he was very friendly that the Italians asked an inch and took They are arranged in group of to Europeans until his recent trouble an ell. Ho has accused them of ateight, and are so placed that they do not follow jme exactly after the other with Italy, and wanted to Introduce tempting to absorb his country and In the cut, but each line takes its own their arts In his country'. He had re- make him merely a figurehead. That course. This circular aaw Is used for markable fondness for machinery and Is the cause dr the present war, in JOE HOWARD, cutting up blocks of atone, and so effimplements, of all sorts, and his great- which the Italians, from the start, are was to est delight particularly if he sees that they hare icient is it that in leas than two and one-ha- lf examine their rapidly getting the best of the fighting. the true newspaper Instinct years it has cut out four hundred The Italians assert, not only that the Every position on a newspaper, from and twenty thousand square feet of King violated his treaty, but also that office boy up to managing editor, has atone, at a cost of a trifle leu than two he prevented Italian traders from doing been filled by Joe Howard. "Howards cents a square foot. In this time it has business. They have gone into his ANNIE BESANT. column" would be a welcome acquisi- been necessary to renew twenty of the country, to buy ivory, and they say that a tion to any journal on this continent. teeth, the average cost of which has the King sent his agents far and wide been about two dollars per tooth. But they all cant get It to intercept ivory caravans, and when strong inclination for the cloister, she thirty feet There will be twenty-tw- o an Aa la a rcconteur without Howard no was to had diverted from the purpose of seel- locks, with fall from twenty sixty they reached the Italians they Inger-ro- ll Ivory to sell, because the King had ing seclusion in a nunnery by the be- feet In order to avoid delay and give equal not excepting Col. Robert Otn. Borkncrs Horn M. Depcw, says a will there lief tusk. for could that for she more ample 4 space bought every navigation, home of Gen. Simon accomplish The favorite Magazine., And Bollvaf Buckner is the little fdiglon by mail y lug a ckrgymanv&nd ber at interTa1soraboul'eIghUniilear KTtieriaTIetropoHUa log bouse 1 o Mr. baa then the Howard advantage of a mile long. Italians will probably have no diffi- at 20 she became the wife of Rev. Frank sidings In hills which In the he waa Kentucky culty, as far as the natives are con- Besant, brother of the novelist, Walter The locks will be eighty feet wide and at least one of them In age, though born.. From the day that he left the so him never e think till heard you fifty-fivThe six feet hundred and you'd long. cerned. in doing what they please with Besant, She soon discovered that her army of the Confederacy he baa spent husbands life did not conform to the craft using this canal will be towed by recount things away back la the fifties. all bis available tithe there. The cabin Abysolnla. New York Sun. An article which he contributed to a lofty Ideas of perfect religion which" fixed engines Tbe eoBt of theeanal Is la perbapi a hundred years old, and it she had formed, and resented the disap- estimated at one hundred and fifty mil Western paper on"ThoTragedIea in New is seventy-thre- e HIIm as a Clerk. years stnee Gen. BuckVeen what of ebows a York Journalism' dollars. There are still current in Boston pointment by not only refusing to go lions saw the light of day there. The first ner nad eye ba bas kept eu bappcnlng some entertaining anecdotes of the ex- to church, but by resisting blsautborlty is Munfords-vll.'- e, what a serviceable memory be has. town to which It is nearest In London. Kan Dart a no.tr as a and husband, a as clerk of General Nelson becoming Is In sight finally no house and other periences rare with Bart Kennedy, who has contributed to This, combined descriptive A. Miles. Miles arrived in Boston from heretic. The result was n separation, MENELEK IL ' Though handsomely furnished in an unlimited and Is now columns of vocabulary, tbe Leslies powers Weekly, mech mism. no hangings Tourists say he ruined the country town of his nativity clad in then a divorce, and, after thktalkaorts seems to places him in advance of others who antique way, there are about a dozen watches and alarm clocks, a green Jacket, short trousers, and green of trlaU and troub'.ea for tho woman, located in London, where he hide the tbe most into logs. Perhaps be his way successfully. Ills would recount the notable thing which the is the pisin t!c!e house at taking them apart and trying to put tarpaulin hat a style of attire that ex- which culminated in making her a port-al-making sketch and have happened during his eventful ca- teresting with a them together again. He became, at cited the hilarity of the city boys. He leader among the socialists of London, Burr killed Hamilton. which with tol In the London Amer- reer, last, however, quite a proficient watch found employment in a crockery store, a colaborer with Charles Bradlaugh In Interview, appear Joe Howards participation in the hisand after the outbreak of the war, when promulgating the doctrines of infidelity, ican, and the Sun has published several tinkerer. A RptibllcftB CBipftlgftftr of the late rebellion is not a matter stories from hla tory pen. Several years ago Mr. Chefneux took bis name began to be mentioned In the and subsequently the disciplo of and need be left untold. His authorthat is It generally taken for granted that successor then Mme. a of the the king as present from the French dispatches, his old employee Is said to Blavatsky ship of the famous proclamation, which women do not know anything about OfB. Loiifatrftftt I Failing Fut For have remarked that "If Nelson Miles as the leader and teacher of theosophy. government a mitrailleuse. created a greater sensation than' anyof carrying it had' been taken could kill rebels as easily as he could According to k Philadelphia newsMrs. Besant has had a trouble life, thing of tbe kind during that memorcrn to pieces and compactly packed. The and It ihusf be said that she baa borne paper man, who "gave him careful T r N able contest, was not known at the time, Her her trials with much fortitude. weapon reached the king several days served to place bis name since has but befobe the traveler did, and, very much association with Bradlaugh, which was In patriotic chronlclcs. And yet he U to Mr. Chefneuxs astonishment, . lm maintained without interruption until most unpretentious of men. Famthe TounJ the weapon properly put together k!s death, resulted Jn ostracism froa ous literary and newspaper men call on and mounted. The king had made a society and all aorta of condemnation him often and are accorded a kind recareful study of the mechanism of firefrom conventional people. But he pur-see- d ception, but no better than that which arms, and, with the aid of a picture of a her course unmindful of all this, he gives to the most diffident represenlithe had this mitrailleuse, prepared and even in the face of tho tearful procf a provincial newspaper. tative tle surprise for the white man. testations of her mother, whom she He will probably be at work until he The king was gentle and amiable to la said to have dearly loved, and who drops the quill for the shroud.' And those who had bis friendship, hut he died of a broken heart because pt the by the way, auggest that, although this, was guilty of acts of gross cruelty and actlo'na of her daughter. It is through to old newspaper traditions, he clinging enemleaIIo to Mrs. conquered beMoncure D. Conway that the injustice but aa opponent e news iwanything of widened the boundaries Shoa came acquainted wilimradlaugbTAqd .largely for be has In reality r progress, p pa by conquering the fierce Galla tribes through Wlliam T. Stead that she subalready dropped th .quill and dictates around him. He was. distinguished sequently met Mme. Blavatsky. . the great mass of matter which he turns his for faith advisers in bis above all But Mrs, Besanis Ufa nas not bren WfcenTte reMISS HELEN BOSWELL-practicout to a stenographer. tlje advantage of drawing useful lesbarren of good results. She became the use of the Into pen It is to tbe lapses sons from civilized countries. He did politics. One woman has demGEN. MILES IN 1870. champion of the poor Jn London, and lend weight to a request for the ap- onstrated, however, that she baa very not like missionaries, however. In 1SS5 break her tongue and pen did much toward crockery he would make a fine by pointment of some Itinerant represen clear conception of wbat politics means. he kept two Swedish missionaries pracsoldier." ameliorating their condition In life. tative of the press In whom he takes s She is a Miss Helen Varlck Boswell, town his chief for in tically prisoners Sho procured for the overworked and kindly interest. sent and who made before the Republican them back, then tea months, underpaid match girls such reforms In Qwf Cbhsb foe Batetdc. GEN. LONGSTREET. Howard's success with the people ts League convention at Binghamton the to the- - coast. Sinew then he baa exFrank E. Metzger, a prominent mer- their work and wages as materially tia7 recently, signs of age are becoming due to the fact that he writes for the first speech on practical politics ever-ma- de pelled all the French Catholic and Ger-- - chant of Uniontowm their condition. was duo manifest itt GeneraUTatncs LongBtreet, peopleT' He take them late hi conficommitted It Ala., before a New York State political man missionaries from his countryr suicide by Jumping Into a cistern la hbr 'mainly to her agitation that John Burns the last of the Confederate corps com- dence; he chats with them; be praises convention by a koman. The speech The king was very angry at the deHis brother had fought a street was given a' seat lnA parliament, and manders. la not only in bis thin them; he acoldB them; he laughs with was a good one, too, and showed that cision of the great powers to forbid the yanLI under her chief of tho with The tho with duel guidance police. working people white hair and white whisker, but In them; and sometime he cries Mist Boswell bad made a close study-o- f importation of firearms and gunpowder chief was killed, and Metzger.-h- o is of London were organized, with the the stoop of bis shoulders, bis slowness them. That la why the people have a Ho waa, into ifctrlnterior of Africa. the subject and bad formed her own wounded, has since been In Tsult that many Improvements in their end the lafk of fire In bis eye. soft place In their heart for anything of certain phases of the politiopinions however, in a measure Independent, as Jail, Frank was greatly exercised over social condition followed. During this of step, Joe Howard. Ills deafness is worse. General Long-stresigned i cal he made his own gunpowder and bad a the situation, " affair, and went to the authorities i period of her labor she stood one night very unlike a military man in - great number of Improved firearms. the t head to an of them and allow him of to take begged army workingmen his attire, for be affects clothes of sober Ilxoa Is Steady, In JS79 he Introduced some SwIbs Rmemblm a Cowboy. his brother's place in jail, and undergo in Trafalgar square and when a regi- Slack, not too well made, and it la alis rather edifying to learn that It carpenters and machinists into whatever punishment he ment of soldiers charged upon her force Chanes F, Luramls, who writes so enhave might a the leged that stranger might mistake with all his keenness in laying bare Shoa for the purpose of carrying out of life in the far Southwest fixed with on him. was His offer she stood her him for a preacher. refused, bayonets, put foibles and vanities of other people, lb tertainingly various works.' Among their undertakwith Spanish, Aztec and tinctured life ho declared then a that than and had rather to ground, remarking they a of deal a right himself dandy. sea la great ings was the building of some stone live to aee hts brother suffer be pre- be there. Her bravery won for her the a young man of thirty-fiv- e, is color Indian in fine days He ts always to be seen on Arm and L rg. houses, and as there were neither stone ferred death. In Los Angeles, who lives admiration of a)J England. nowadays the fashionable promenade of Chrismasons nor carpenters in the country By actual measurement of fifty skeleA borne was in" the East. old Ills Mrs. After this became Besant broadcloth the puin the handful of white men made slow tons the right arm and left leg have tiania, dressed smartly him mistake chance acquaintance might State. Oil la of Wnhluttn pil Huxley, and under his tutorship been found to be longer In twenty-thre- e, and Immaculate lineiv and wearing the progress- - Nobody volunteered to take A flowing well of petroleum was dis- studied science and philosophy. for a Mexican cowboy, for he wear a She the left arm and right leg in alx, latest fad in g'oves or nefcktles, while brown vtp'Hie stone hammer and chisel. the covered in mountains in corduroy suit with an enormous I Olympic flrat visited this air In 1891, the him country conscious March, there on the right side longer than about Tho king thereupon decided to set of tbe same color, and about week. The oil is said and delivered Several lectures. In 1833 the limbs last sombrero Washington his subjects agood example. He put to be identical in Character with those on the left in four, and in the re- of being "somebody." TbTgreat play- hU waist is a red sash, the product of that He made she her as second a however. an visit Is not delegate Adonis, the mainder on working clothes, and with hammer Inequality of the limbs wg wright of the eastern wells. Of the theosophlsts In the Congress of for that, but a Pueblo Indian loom. For a long time varied. Only seven out of seventy ; ta too abort in hand toiled for several days by the 7" at In him he lived In an Indian village, where he the Her Fair. Worlds ! of Religions an power Is appearance there or ten cent, his side of the Swiss. while gkeWons measured, per subjects Time sneers at the public's tastes. bad ffone to recruit his shattered health- ts of for the visit contemplated of purpose walks. umbs at he equal length. looked on in blank amazement. Then, 1 1 Jos-ep- full-gro- !) i js , "all-aroun- i ' o Nar-Bon- , well-shad- forest-covere- -- u, ks w three-quarte- t, rs two-colu- ce l' al I It et ' 1 r k et - 1 v W8- - u f |