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Show One te ne ae a rere er THE WESTERN STEN IN CHINATOWN. ‘There bas grown up a tancv among the ~ young people who are rather suffering for amuseuicnt to explore Chinatown, and they tind much that is amusing beside the yellow skinned beauties Sunday evening is the time chosen for this sort of slumming, as then the pigtailers con gregate trom far and near to buy supplies of Chinese food, which last them all the week in their Jersey City and Hoboker laundries At that time Mott street and its vicinity present a pretty fair imita tion of Hong Kong, despite the fact that trains are thundering by through the ele vated network at Chatham square. The streets are almost impassable with the chattering crowds of Chinamen. each with a parcel under his arm, containing salt turnips, dried shrimp, tea and rice, which they have come to purchase for their seven days’ supply These Chinese eat comparatively little American food, -.and the Chinese groceries, of which there Phe World's M ews ~~ >-<¢ A A Chip CURRENT from Passing Events with ‘Life.”’ that Sparkles On the steamer “La Champagne” from Havre was a Mrs. Schaeffer whose hus- these jostling crowds for hours without ‘hearing one word of English or suspect: ing that such a tongue was known were it not for the patent medicine advertise ments, which where, and carry the are seen language here every in profusion. setting forth their merits in both tongues, and reaping, it is said, great store of shekels from the pigtailers. who dote on stuff of the sort and pay fortunes to their own nostrum sellers for the style of meh cines which were in vogue in Europe in the middle ages. In every grocery hangs three or four pairs of antlers in the velvet, and the powder obtained by pounding a fragment of them in a mortar with a sliver of Chinese ginseng root makes a dose which would go on a silver quarter, costs anywhere from $40 to $75, and is taken once a year by any one who PORNOME OO can afford it with the firm conviction that it has power off possible year. to not only cure disease during the but ward coming The method of getting prescriptions is simple but somewhat haphazard. A Chinaman who feels that something is seriously wrong inside goes to the joss house, sets up two incense sticks in the incense burner, takes a small jar full of narrow bamboo slips in his hand, bows three times and begins to slowly shake the jar from side to side. In the course of a minute or two one of the slips works its way out from the others and falls on the floor. It has a number on it, and that number corresponds to a prescription to be found in a tattered and dingy ‘‘oracle book” haiiging on the wall. The patient secures that prescription from his chemist, and takes it with full faith in the Joss’ diagnosis and remedy. Jack of these people go they clatter Chinamen down to through Nearly every man that the society gaze at curiously as the narrow streets among the stands where salted peanuts ‘and Chinese cabbage and cucumbers are sold, is a washerman. There are 2,000 laundries in New York alone, 900 in your city and 200 in Jersey City, which is called in the Confucius ‘‘musquito land.” Each laundry has from two to five men working in it, and most of them make money, for the Chinese exclusion bill keeps away competition and gives them a sort of laundry trust of it. One young woman, who has lately ‘been on an expedition of this sort, when she acquired this piece of information saw in it the explanation of a fact that had greatly puzzled her—which was that every Chinaman she saw was clean. She had gone into little rooms crowded to tie doors with Orientals, where the windows were shut and the gas burning, and yet there was not the smallest hint of unpleasant odor. She had dens and found snowiest stockings feet, and explored every smoker she came on home his opiwin with the unslippered much amazed having had some previous experience among the lower classes of other nations Possibly the laundry profession being so widely diffused explains their cleanliness. They not only wash themselves, however, but the Melican mancan go into their bar ber sheps any evening and see the barber brush out and braid up their long quénes, shave away all the hair around the face and neck, remove all traces of beard and. manicure their nails, his customers com. ing out from his hands as fresh and clean as a yellow rose. Of all the places in Chinatown the most interesting are the restaurants, of which there are eight. The Delmonico’s is Hong Ping Lo’s, where one can order a ‘‘3;-read™ of forty courses, which it takes two days to eat and which can be had for the s:1m of $50, of six. Chinese had tea, of wine, and provides enough for a party Here’sa meal for three at tie Delmonico’s and the prices. We samsu (rice brandy), two ‘tind: a dish of chow-chop-sucy, wuich is a pungent and palatable conecptivn of chicken livers and gizzards, fungi. bare bce _buds, bean sprouts, water chestnuts and ‘all manner of savory spiccs stewed ‘ogether; a dish of cuttlefish, one of Cucis’ breasts. chickens’ wings, pigeons’ wises. a bowl of rice and a mooncake hy wey of sweets, and for this, with ali ibe attend- ant dishes of sauces and condiments, cre pays $1.25. A full, square meal, deli ciously cooked, dainty and delizate, far about forty cents apiece or less. because there was enough on the dishes to have fed three or fuur more people. This fact is becoming known, and over five hun. chairman, it is and vice-chairman department. The understood, the agreement would be a than Commissioner had Mountains. a distant relative girl wanted the money of Mina’s appear, be reported dead and the hus- Mrs. Schaeffer «ould return to her hus- band to enjoy the love of their youth in the heart of luxury. It took along time to plan the simulated death, longer in fact than the real one which was to fol- low. But Mrs. Schaeffer went to visit some friends and while there an accident occurred on a local railway in which several people were killed. She heard of it, telegraphed her husband that she had started by that train and hurried to Havre. She came to America and lived for a time’at Brooklyn. Meantime ‘search was made at the scene of the railroad accident for her remains. They could not be identified but the telegram proved that she was one of the killed. Schaeffer was a widower for alittle less than the customary period and then married Mina Weiser. She was madly in love with him. He simulated a similar passion in return. Atthe same time he was carrying out the preconcerted plot of slowly poisoning her and hoyved to'join, with her wealth, his first wife in the new world. This simulated passion. however. became too much for him. His passion became realand the thought of Josing his Mina became death to him. He sent to Coblentz, to Berlin even, for physicians to remedy the effects upon her of the poison he had administered. The girl recovered and in his happiness he forgot it.. But Mrs. Schaeffer did not. She often went to the general delivery window of the Brooklyn postoffice for the letter that never came. .A year passed and there was no news of the girl’s death. She could contain herself no longer. She went to Europe and when she found the true state of the case she partially lost her reason. Maddened by jealousy she told the whole plot. Schaeffer was arrested, tried and-con- victed.—Tribune Dispatch. be terms of greater man Fink -virtually, hav- drawn through A St. Louis paper says: “Although, be learned, local cieties have not trades so- received any intimation from Chicago of the organization of the eight-hour movement to be carried through at the American Federation of Labor, which is to meet in this city De- cember llth, there is no doubt that the movement is well under way. Circulars, explaining and urging it, have been sent out to all organizations supposed in fa- vor of such ascheme, and it will probably be the leading work of the convention. American socialists are the pushers of the scheme, and it is their idea to have it come to a focus in 1890, probably the result of which will be a general strike.” : —_—-—_—_»e——__——- Be Milwaukee _on the east; St. Paul and Minneapolis on the north; Colorado, New Mexico and Wyoming on the west, and Arkansas on the south. All existing freight and is left of the Marine Railroad and the Er st End depot, will go at the next high tide if the storm continues. as Ye Are E. H. “Johnson, or Cottages and buildings have been upheld by the judges of the first division of wealthy New Yorkers have Lossis from $150,000 to $300,000. Every bulkhead from Long Branch to Seabri ht has heen torn out or badly damaged. The beach from Sandy Hook to Barnegat Bay is covered with debris and wreckage. The Long Branch ocean pier was damaged by the heavy timbers hurled against ‘t by the surf. The bluff at Long Branch has been heavily cut out in places. At Deal Beach, the, life saving station is in danger, nearly all the vottagers lose their clothing and many of them the summer houses they had erected on the Bluff. Boulanger And The Patriotic League. At a meeting of the Patriotic League, Paris, on Saturday, Boulanger made another of his characteristic speeches. Tae work. “Scue,” as he was popularly known in this Territory, was a candidate for a local office at the recent “T am more a I ardently patriot desire than a soldier. peace, not the peace that is demanded, but the peace imelection in a northern county, but was posed by a firm and dignified attitude; defeated. His name was upon the ticket that is the only peace acceptable to as E. H. Johnson, and half the voters French hearts.” He inveighed against could not think who he was, and conse- the policy which divided the forces of quently voted for his opponent, but the country, causing misleading appearmany stated :afterward that had they ances of weakness, misleading because known it was “Scue,” he would have got the least appeal to the country would Moral—When you are run-| Cause all internal dissension to vanish their votes. ning for office, if you are known by a like a bad dream. He strongly denounced nick-name, get it on the ticket in some Ferry for wasting the country’s resources way, even if it be “mud.”—N. W. L. 8. in Tonquin, while cognizant of the perils which threatened France. Journal. The meeting was held in a restaurant, and access to outsiders was barred by the police. Some arrests were made. THE WIND AND THE WAVES. The Government is threatening to disA Fearful, and Destructive Storm Along the solve the League. — Eastern Coast. Chicago Anarchists are still at They are now crying fora de- fense fund for Hrouck, Chlebourn and Sevick, whose trial is now 1n progress. Hertenstein, President of Switzerland, who underwent an amputation of the right leg last week becauseof a disease of the arteries, 1s dead. THe London News regrets Lord Salisbury’s decision to delay the appointment of a successor to Sackville. It thinks it may provoke President Cleveland to withdraw Minister Phelps. It is reported that Jay Gould has bought the telegraph lines of the Atchi- son, Topeka $300,000. & Santa Fe Company : for The question regarding the fugitive harbored by the mission station at Mombasa has been settled to the satisfaction of the natives. The arrangement se- cures the freedom of 1,500 slaves. A Chicago grand jury has indicted Thomas Tallmas, cashier of the defunct Trader’s Bank, on the charge of embezzlement for accepting about $300,000 deposits knowing the bank to be insolvent. THe grand Council at Saigon has opened negotiations for a loan of 100,000000 frances to be guaranteed by China. The first money is to be expense of the used to cover the establishment of colonies in Tonquin. Said he: Known. ‘ of the Court of Sessions. away, and the lawns of the summer been swept into the ocean. PowbDeErR.ty has been elected General Master Workman of the Knights of Labor. His former salary was left at $0,000 a year. He declines to accept more than $3,000, and states remaining $2,C00 will be left at posal of the order. that the the dis In Detroit on Monday Policemen Albert W. Thayer was shot and instantly killed shortly after ten o’clock, near the corner of Fort and The only clue satchel found Lafayette streets. to the murderer is a near the scene of the tragedy, coutaining a complete set of burglar’s tools. Word comes from Fort Smith of a ter- ooo A destructive snow storm raged on Monday along the Leaboard of New England and the Middle States. At New York many ships dragged their anchors and had to be towed into safer quarters. The Signal Station at Washington re- ported the gale as having reached 80 eects Chicago and as what houses Gigantic Eight-Hour Scheme. as far as can the air and destroyed the other. Immediately at the west end of the was swept into the sea few minutes more, fully track of the road was also carried away. Brighton Pavillio2 was partially carried away and it is feared the rest of the building, as well storm. miles an hour at Black Island. In the Mohawk Valley the snow fell six inches, and Erie Canal was blockaded with tows GIGANTIC RAILROAD TRUST. fearing to move. In Massachusetts and The Heavy Weight Magnates Engaged in a New Hamshire the snow was equally “Big Game.”’ | severe prostrating many of the wires. The damage to shipping is immense, A Chicago paper says: For several weeks past Jay Gould, C. P. Huntington, and many lives have been lost along the Thrilling scenes with rescuing Charles Francis Adams, W. B. Strong coast.. and other raiJroad magnates interested in parties are described in the dispatches. western railroads have been holding An associated press reporter at Cape Teng conferences in New York in which May gives the following graphic account Chairman Midgely, of the Southwestern of what occurred at that point: The seas are beating heavily against Railway Association, takes prominent part. The object of the conference has the new bulkhead of the new Mount Vernon tract. The spray is flying over been kept a profound secret. On Saturday the announcement was the board walk at the lower end of the made that the conference had come to city higher thanhas ever been known. an end and that an agreement was made The iron ocean pier remains yet. Above whereby the troubles among the south- the city the sea has cut away the beach western railroads will be ended and from ten to fifteen feet. The sight is a rates be advanced from 25 to 35 per cent: magnificent one, and is witnessed by al-. assoon as possible, but this announe- most the entire population of the city. ment is no nearer the truth than pre- The Half-way House, just within the vious reports regarding the mysterious city limits, is completely wrecked, and the ground. The conferences. The railroad magnates evi- now lies flat upon dently desired to keep everybody in ig- board walk, or the boulevard, owned by city, extending from Michigan norance of the actual importance of the the almost entirely proposed agreement until all arrange- Avenue to Chelsea,is ments have been perfected, and the new carried a‘vay.. The beach is strewn for miles with scheme put in operation. It has been A strong wind’ had a clear learned. however, that the project con- debris. templates nothing more nor less sweep at the water in the thoroughfare than te formation of a gigantic as it rolled toward Baltic Avenue this railroad trust or clearing house, morning, in a most alarming volume. comprising allthe roads west of a line Residents along the greater part of the ee thrown high in from one end to after, the depot marine railroad bodily, and in a one-third of the torn but band would marry the girl. Then he would slowly poison her after which to | Another reporter at Long Branch say:: management, so have been undermined and concerned, of all. Cottages Chicago and the Rocky . carried out to sea piecemeal ducing this roads between named Mina Weiser, who was an.orphan: with a large property. Schaeffer and wife is J. W. Midgely, who, under the ing full control of the far as traffic affairs are are thirty or forty, do a thriving trade, | did not know how to get it. Finally it drawn from all the cities within easy aiswas, decided Mrs. Schaeffer should distance, many of the grocers being worth anywhere from fifty to a hundred and' fifty thousand dollars. You will find their stock is nearly all importedi’they keep very few American products, and you will wander among freight department of the passenger to 20 yearsimprisonment for bigamy and attempted murder. Schaeffer a few months ago lived near Coblentz. He of WEEKLY. house,” and the other as vice-chairman of the band has just been sentenced in Austria charge a entire attention to the affairs of the “Clearing house,” and to be intrusted in all.matters connected therewith. One of the three is to be <elected chairman of the “Clearing two to be known ROMANCE. rt avenue were compelled to use boats to get away from their flooded homes. The tempest reached its highest strength at Manhatten Beach on Monday atl p.m. Then the tide being very high and the breakers tremendous, with passenger associations within the terridred Americans are regular customers 44 tory named will be abolished and merged } a strong northeast wind driving them on the Celestia! eating house They do not want them there, either, because they are ° in the new trust or “Clearing house,” as the Esplanade, which runs along the too cheap. They study matters closely, it is named. There will be a: executive whole of the Manhatten Beach. Comand manage to get their meals for abow4 board of three, which shall devote its pany’s property, about 750 feet, was ten cents,. while the. Chinese, who are all high livers. snend their monev freelv.-- — rr aT General Crook before the Small Fry. General Crook was induced by the directors of Sunday schools to address 12,000 Chicago street urchins at a rable shooting affray at Vian, I. T., which resulted in the death of four Cherokee Indians. Geo. Starr, Isaac Gertie, Jesse Laudrum and Boot Henzen. The three last named were drunk, and Starr was one of the posse sent to arrest them. The shooting beame general and Ed. Starr, a brother of George, was shot through the hand. Thanksgiving dinner, the subject of the The Chinese Times, San Francisco, states that the first: railway in China address to be his experience with the Indians. The result was amusing to all vember. but the noted Indian fighter. Almost before he knew it the General had abad case of stage fright, the little street sav- ages receiving him with such paralyzing yells and other lke manifestations of deviltry extraordinary that the subduer of redskins lost his voice completely and was obliged to retire to his seat looking as fatigued as though he had just come back from a six days’ fight with Geronimo. ‘Nevertheless the dinner was the greatest success of the kind that ever took place in Chicago. ‘The World A BANQUET Officially opened on the Highty-one completed miles Over. been Lutal and Tongshan. The line will be continued to Pekin in one direction and in time also to southern and northwestern China. The Paris correspondent of the Lon- don Chronicle telegraphs that De Lesseps, in the event of the Credit Foncier refusing to assist him in obtaining the Panama loan, threatens to publish | an account of every step he has been forced to take in the course of the Panama crusade. The revelations will The of Mr. Struss, Ameri- 9th of No- have from Tien-Tsin to affect several members of Deputies. was given at Yieldez Kiozk, Turkey, in honor was of the steamer “Boston,” which arrived at quarantine in New York harbor on Saturday, has been reported to the Navy Department as having yellow fever | aboard. The “Boston” had been at Port-au-Prince, Hayti, on a diplomatic Tur Judson Female Institute, one of mission, but left on the 15th, when the the oldest female colleges in the south, fever appeared. Four men died of the has been consumed by fire. — oo disease, and Surgeon W. J. Simon and 000. can Minister. . ComMmoporE Cicero Price of the United. two men are now sick. A TRUNK containing the corps of Herr. Navy, died recently, of pneuHis daughter, Lillie, is now the | H. Telesberg, the forwarding agent of States monia. Duchess the of Marlboro. A cat has been issued for a constitutional convention at Jamestown Dak., on December mission 5th, to further the early ad- of the two Dakotas into the Union. Hamburg American Packing Com- pany, was discovered in the Baaken dock on Saturday, The skull was fractured and a watch and $750 in money missing. A steward named Dow been arrested at was has Cologne charged with being the murderer. A FIRE in Findlay, O., has destroyed: A PRIVATE person living near Nottingthree four-story brick blocks. Loss ham, England, has received a letter $100,000. The safe in Rhen Brothers’ signed “Jack Ripper’s Pal” stating that was opened and $800 in money taken. both the writer of the letter and “Jack” Burglars are supposed to have set the building on fire. Tur Judgment in the against Times the Times, committed the recent murders at White- chapel district. case of Parnell from appealed, has been which the unanimously — Chamber is a Bavarian The writer says “Jack” whom ship returning from he first met America exercised a mesmeric influence. aboard and who . |