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Show ff A .l,i - - 4 t THE LATE GEN. GIBBON kffh liu-l- t lie t iMitiufuJer. regret bv 18 the1 of the a I L.exioii m er dea'h of Oeti- eral John Cmnoti of Baltimore General Gibbon was rorsmiaiul- -i of the and fO)al and was highly es- ' teemed He was a ttiihUri man. xery educated thoioiighly aggierHhe and at the same time u congenial comiauioa In arms to everyone alio cauie in contact with him. Hu vi as much beloved by the members as a frit nd and highly esteemed as a sol dier. Genera Gibbon was appointed biic idler general of the re4.il.tr aim , to the July 10, 188.".; and was command of the department uf the Columbia. In 1889 he was placed in ommand of the militarv dit ision of the Iaeifir and he retained this command until his retirement by operation of the military law in 1891 He wi from his Born in youth designed for a subtler Pennsylvania In 189 7. h was graduated at the age of 20 from the milnr.ty atad-emy- . Ho was on the tiny of his graduation made brevet second lieutenant. Third artillery, and in September, 1817, nas made second lleutenint. fourth ar- 1 Dei:! I yS'U'; lifil K.ltraVti--- Mini,!: A Life. MR8. RO. UtT J. LOWRY AND HLR DEEDS OF CHARITY. T '!h t l ul r Id I Atlanta orU,lj but lux l- Mu.t xiu-l- T 'it- - 'us Woman's Norwegian Will Mart for AntarcUc Keck.n a Seplanther Next HI Irevlon lm i ta I nr hoot been lorftrlrt f All .l u. lb ot I'rin Aid , . yng iort Ross, at the mouth of Russian u'pr. In Sonoma county. Some otter are -- RDM raptured off the California coast ami here are a few small vessels es-la:iy engaged off the California coast P( 1 hunting, but Alaskan waters Of supply of this animals. Sea otters are alwavg found afloat and the hunter ran capture them In no other way than by shooting. The deeper and colder the water they are found In the better the fur and the higher the price the hunter secures for the pelt. A flret-claea otter skin In the raw is worth 1500 o the hunter. The best sea otter pelts taki n off the California coast will yield I2.VI t aoh to the hunter.. There may lie elements, however. In the pelt which mav reduce fhe value of the Alaskan pelt to $20 and that of the California coan to $."1. The coast of Japan has been a good hunt lug ground for eea otter and duiing the past twenty-fiv- e yeses several small craft have sailed from San Frmclgco and San Diego to Japan nuiflttrd for otter hunting. Almost all sea otter skins are marketed tn Russia, where the fur is in great demand. Next In value to the sea otter is the fox among the animals of the Pacific coast. Six kinds are htmtod for their pelts, which range in sea-ott- re the chief flazs of g ls u sa J I j J j ; , g l Ipt ls i con-tlne- nt i LOVE MATCH. Victoria. Crown Princess of Rournania. is one of the most popular royal personages of is unaffected of Tuaiinef ami sweet of disposition, and It is asserted as a strange thing in her set that the marriage between herself and her husband was a love match. The Princess Marls Is the eldest daughter and second child of the Duke and Duchess of Gotha, and is one of Queen Victorias favorites among her numerous grandchildren. Princess Marie was born Oct. 29, 1875, at Enstwell Park, wlVce her father and mothr lived w hen they were English folk the Duke and at Berlin Duchess of Edinburg. in 1892. when she was just 17 years old, that Marie met the handsome young "Crown Prince of Rounianla. They were mutually attracted, and without objee-tio- n they were married early in 1893, The King of Roumanla belongs to the older line of the Ilohenxoilern family arlc Alexandra M Saxe-Coba- i; rg t K. -, jC- MRS. ROBERT She has all the chama that make attractive and she inspires with r.w J-' VEST OF MISSOURI. II Beerntly . n(t a Attack a lb XallMil Administration. The latest member of the United States senate to hurl thunder at the President and some of his friends Is George Graham Vest, of Missouri. The senator U a man of whom Missouri is very pvoud, althongh ha la not a naGTC and further polished by travel. It Is the of that state. He has. perhaps, the practice of the South American families bitterest tongue of any man that Misto send thoir children to Europe or souri ever sent to Washington. His attar k on Secretary Morton, which was Spain for educational training, or imtrained teachers In case It Is de- pointed with a few slings at President port sired to keep the children at home. Ven- Cleveland, was a really elever hit of ezuelan women to the charms of their G&tlre, Senator Vest comes from Kanminds invariably add the attractiveness sas O j, He was born at Frankfort. of personal beauty. There are few ugly ones in the country It mar be the effect of toe climate, or merely the perpetuation of the graces of their great-gra- n dmotbers of Andalusia. The blondes areJfew and are almost wi parentage. wajs of Anglo-Saxo- n e Feocbatl la Caflaad. Football has been played in England for more ttan five hundred years. Formerly it was the custom to kick the ball; but latterly England finds so many other things to jtlck at, that the ball la now carried through the game as tenderly as If tt were a baby or an obsolescent egg except when the 'A Any 1 feqtiirwwserter xigen.iea-otthwgaev- e- princess Victoria. Kaiser that from which the helm descends. $fhan -- of ground and lofty tumblings. Wil- one bor sincerity and candor. far-aw- ay t -- ,'fe of Boston Transcript - Dft Mat Hall. society of deaf motes tn New York ilodtoBOf at Klghty-Slheld its annual ball the other night - The arrival of the eighty-sixt- h annl- - The ball was practically the same as versary of his birth found Mr. Glad- - any other, with the exception thnt the stone in good and almost jovial spirits, music was somewhat louder than usual, and in comparatively excellent health causing greater vibrations, for it Is by 't v.for one of his advanced age. When he these vibrations alone that the deaf entered the railway station in London mutes are enabled-tkeep time with the on his way to BiarriU, a smile on hla music. J face and a fresh flower la his buttonMrs! 'Sarah PJptA of Essex, Conn., Is hole, he looked a fine figure of a rugged old man, and the crowd of spectators 94 years old and has been a persistent smoker for seventy-fou- r - iheered him - with nnresttwlned enShe years. mokes a pipe and smokes It regularly thusiasm. Hit interest In fmbllc affairs after each meal. T, continues to he nnabtd. A x. J. LOWRY. talus from 20 cents to 90 sach in the raw." These are the silver, cross, red, blue, gray and white. Something very raro among foxes is a black-coate- d animal and the fur of such n fox commands a fancy price, often running a high as $150. To supply the demand for black fox fur furriers prepare an Imitation by dyeing the fur of the red fox, which is the cheapest pelt of the fox family, the best red not being worth to the trapper more than $2.25 per akin. If ttcepf the natural black fox the highest priced fox pelts are the sil-vand the blue. A trapper gets fer h perfect silver fox pelt as he strips it from tho carcass about $90 and for the test blue fox pelt about $22. Fewer of 014 sad Mw Mxvy. The old Constitution could, with her beat guns, at 1.000 yards, pierce twenty-tw- o inches of oak, about tbe thickness of her own hull at tbe water line.- - Tbe of an Inch steel covering at ths tbe Atlanta's water line had same resisting power as ths Constituinches pf Oak- - Tbe tion's twenty-tw- o gun will, at 1,000 Atlantas six-inysrds. bore throisgh a surface having twenty times the resisting power of her own or tbe Constitutions bull at water line. At the same range her eight-inc-h guns pierce fourteen Inches of Iron. President E. B. Andrews in Scribner's five-eight- hs rrly ch w er .w I,t SOO Vmir. Salt Case which lasted 300 years has astlj come on for hearing In a Bavarian ccurt. It la waged between the market ccxaoaanlty of Burglnn at Cnterfrank-c-a. ia Bavaria, and the lords of Thur-t-Ee- a. The case was commenced on the 3 A 2iat of June. 1595. when the legal visers of this community appeared JSU ad- the legal tribunal which then held Its eKtlng in 8pe!er, against the loads cf Thurlngn tor 'a sum of 2,000,000 Stark as owners Tf a forcat of noble oak and beech trees. Century by century death thinned the rank on each ttCo, but other took np the cause, and when the case came on for trial the other day matters seemed as fresh as ever, ft is hoped, however, that the 21at of J aacijag, win. see the iMtof thla venerable suit . world. really and truly up la the werld, you see a man whq pas worked hla way up. There is nelthef man nor woman at the top In any department who did not; have to climb there with blistered,' hands and bleeding feet The leading merchants, tbe leadlag Insurance manj the leading physicians, lawyers, educa-- i tors, all climbed patiently to eminence Plants get up, tree get up, men and, get up, all In ' one way by Flshburn. 11. AtrBr. A Fair The career of Marta Mitchell gave the"" public good evldene- - of the aptitude of women for tbe severely mathematical requirements of astronomy, and if any, further demonstration were needed it has been furnished by Mrs. Fleming, of the Harvard observatory. During the! last ten yearsshshas discovered four new stars, the last, la the constellation! Centaurus, on December 131895. Tbe significance of her feat is shown in the Bterjr ef The Ansrto. fact that only fourteen new stars have MRUts brother Pierre, who is now been discovered in the last three cenin this country, ha given a Boston reMrs Mary C. Haskins, formerly Allas turies. SENATOR VEST, porter the Interesting Information that Mollle Runyon, daughter of tbe late K In 33 In 1845 fc was giadimud the celebrated painting, The Angelua, I Assarts1 Ort Actor. Ambassador Runyon, has made a froes Cent College, Kentucky, gad In which Is now valued at one hundred promising beginning la a literary way. Joseph Jefferson was sixty-seve185$ took- fils degree In law from t h thousand dollar .wa originally offered Under the name of Clement R. years old on the twentieth of Febrnary.j to g Booton merchant and art lover for The house in which he was born, Iu( Transylvania University t clever arrangement Marley," The same year be removed to Haoutl ifcrae hundred and sixty dollara. ' of the letters In her own name, Philadelphia, has become more and, and entered th practice of ar jp l ha Through some miscarriage of the aa "Mary Clementine Runyon, she has giv- more an object of Interest, and recently! rxntrat portion of the ototo, jj the offer was not accepted, and en two contributions to fiction that a bronxe tablet commemorating the, on thsj been in politics many years, fg $64 h, the painting wa sold to a Belgian colhave attracted much attention and event of his birth whs placed lector door. on drnno of elector for six the wall the hundred house above "A th comment some dollars. pye44nHaJ Thej They are, Pierre caused Millet has an excellent reputation a a Social Meteor," and Richard Forrest aged actor is Just now enjoying excel- -j grstj tie! vat. He 0rtM n the cf k Jdleaouri jeg1iAtW in t'jal pint, and wa for some years a resi-fe- ht Bachelor," Th latter book was pub- lent health, and his amlabl personal- He FAS of poaton,- - He was the artlata lished only a few months ago sad mad taeober of the Ity grows more marked aa tbe yearn, 1 Model fof Tho Angelua," cyegrees fof tw year and of the 1 real sensation In Newark, from among roITon. nego-iUtte- i Kanyo. loocaw. to get up in the When you sea n man who ia It is always hard climbing up. Rev. W. 1 o ChMitla The above is a portrait of A. J. Hopkins as member of tbe Illinois delegation In congress. He in a candidate for governor of the ate, subject to action of the republican state convention. women be-fe- ra - - nrl -- tory. Alexandra Vktorn, lrlncr Koumaala, Love Her lludnad. - d, Se-no- ra Mrl wbos,r peofite IU characters ire sap- pored to have been drawn, A local, physician Is supposed to be the bero ami a naval widow one of the prlnct-- 1 Mrs. Haskins has been but a pals short time In Berlin, but long enough to become widely known as one of the moat beautiful women about the Gee-ma-a court. Her beauty la of the soft, melting, Irish type, large violet eye ami perfect complexion. She was with her father when he died. The late in E G E B E R G bassador left a younger daughter Borchgrevlnk ia the Helen, almost as beautiful as her sis. . nams of the sturdy ter. . V- Norwegian t who was the first Boeltr at tli Capltak man known J? to It aould be interesting to hare th & have set foot on g ier opinion of Charles James Fbx, of Hen-- , the great continent ry Clsy, of Alexander Hamilton, or of that surrounds the a dosen other great statesmen of former south pole. He U times, whose names readily occur, on now' on a visit to Senator Hills proposal to send all the America, but will ladles away from Washington and abolnext September start out as a leader of ish all social dissipation at the capital, an expedition whose purpoa la to fully so that members of congress may give exploit the antarctic continent, and, It more attention to problems of state. fortune favors him, become the discov- Macaulay has described Fox leaving erer of the south magnetic pole. No the gaming-tabl- e to mak a speech of land on the face of the globe Is so magical eloquence Is parliament, and mysterious as the south continent, and then, the speech ended, turning to band the results of this expedition will be a lady to- - her carriage wKh a whisawaited In deep interest by the torld pered word of flattery in her ear. And of science. His former effort was not Clay and Hamilton found leisure In ths completely successful This time Mr, intervals of social frivolity to sett! Borrhgrevlnk will travel Inland 1,160 every Important political questions. miles on snowshoes and sledges, with three Norwegian companions. Its says I.lf !anruf la Franc. it' will take more than two years to do A new scheme of life Insurance it He has already raised money In growing in France founded upon ratheris England, wtlch country claims the con- peculiar Under this noyel tinent, to back him. Eleven scientists plan the principles. a man is enamount that will accompany tbs expedition and Dr. titled to dlmlnishee the longer he lives. Ths Idea is that it a poor man die young he will leave hla wife dependent and his children unable to earn a living, while itbe lives long hla wife will At probably be dead, or, U she survives, the children will be old enough to support themselves and their mother too. Under this plan a poor man gets' hla policy cheap, because of tho fact that the amount due him dlminiabes aa he fr- I' grows older. He get moat when It will do the moat good, and lew and less as It becomes leas needed. i H IXVxS 9 v vW Y, Satolll' Dully Xloutln. Apart from the dignity and official state of bla high place. Cardinal S atoll H routine of life is aa simple as g priest's. To retire shortly before midnight and rise at five, breakfasting frugally two hours later and eating a mid-da- y dinner, is not conducive to the t CE. BORCHGREVlNlv. living that might bo supNansens arctic steamer has already luxurious a been chartered for the project. By Nor. posed to be tie privilege of prelate. hi tn residence Although Washington, 1 the party will have arrived at Adare. ia handsomely and even elaborately Borchgrevlnk aaya he is certain the the greatest evidences of luxfurnished, land suroundlng the pole Is a great In It are to be found In the private ury and not a mere island. Ilo Is tn which fhe cardinal celebrate traditionally, a well aa physically, fit- chapel mass every morning. for ted the great task, hi father being a Norseman and bis mother English. He ia 32 years old, hardy, strong-willeficrtax, IIoraeleRS carriage are by no mean modest nnd ambitious. Jig rpenks of Y wr me memo as tn'voiwtne were bis coming Journey lightly as if it bewy s summer tour through northern Eu pedla Britannlca, published In Edinburgh in 1810, there are diagrams an rope. a description of a horseless carriage Invented by Mr. Richards, a physician la ffiknt AMrln WomMb While Hall Caine was in Philadelphia Rochelle. The machinery by which ths he took occasion to any that he con- movement was effected was placed ia sidered American women clever and a box In the rear of tbe carriage. more cultivated" than their British sistwfmiau llopUlu Illinois ters, and this opinion be has recently reiterated with empbasia to an Interviewer in London. He considers them prettier, too, than English women, but not so beautiful. Tbe author appears not to have bad a single unpleasant experience in eept bad quarter of as hour, result jng from a reporters rolsreprcacntatlQ of his views He liked us, frankly and openly, and without The certain condescension observable In some, transatlantic visitors. " most prei ions of all Pacific coast f'ua isthe sea otter, says the San Fran-tiv- o Chronicle. Tbeie was a time when this animal wag very plentiful off ( ttilfornia oast. The Russians are respoiKibSe for their destruction at the unie rti-founded a settlement -e 'J lb famous -- A O. TRIP. ''tPM, HEROINE OF POLE-HER- borchcrevink will explorer MAKE ANOTHER AND OTHER SKINS. V 1 v fish-bal- -- 1 v Did you eiei know anj-ing u ichiion. one who iontd iomei.-- e hrill)ini .it 'I hi. bn (pifstioi in a good one. bays the Rot t. ster Post Expi- -. Win, Indetd ahould not eouvei nation be brilliant at the hr akfunt table, u ben the brain is fresh, e.etrdayfi worries have all been slept over and have yet to un,e And were not the gmlai "AutOtr.it, Professor and Poet, speakers at a breakfast table where snre'y the conversation w.s lieallv akin to brilliant j There a:e otlnr h.mks that give as early morning talk conversations winch tl.cir auilior- - think worth printing, ami now and then In tlie journ il or the letteis of a gnat nittn there is a lefeiem e to a breakfast table disi vission Yet, what one of us has ever reallv come In contact with the brillnint talk "at 8 a" m.? The very and buckwheat cakes are humble, lowlv, leas.sni ing viands that somehow do not inspire the eloquence that comes with the pungent flavor of the venison, the ool suggested by the orange ice, the epigrammatic te.r.eiihs of the after-dinne- r coffee, the genial sunnlness of the fruits and the sweetness of the candies Even clothes make a diffpienee, for more or lpss wo alwavs talk 011 the level of w hat we wear unconsciously , perhaps - and it is one thing to eat with a watch in your hand and the work before you, and another with the watih In your pocket and the work accomplished which Is the difference to most inen between their breakfast and late dinner. AVe are reminded, to be sure, that tilt re are social functions known as breakfasts," and tlie talk must he somewhat inlet est.ng and elever or fish-bal- A SOUTH a Society. It Is "remarkable, if for no other reason, every one of 1 s accomplished 80 U members Charitable hoiuugiiiy in earnest. Sork is sometimes, though sorry to re--; !aie. a fad lin ked up by society women who find in it novelty and diversion fioin the usual round of receptions, teas and cotillions, and it also serves well to kill time during the Lenten season, when gaieties of fashion are put aside. But it is not that sort of charitable woi k in which these women of Atlanta arc interested. They aiiu siiwerely to make life happier and easier and brighter for'the unfortnuatesvof their tity. At the head of the Womans Aid Society u the brilliant Mrs. Robert J. Lowry, known throughout Georgia as a belle and leader of the exclusive set of the capital city. She has gathered aiouud her a number of charming worn- goodness and noble charity, will doubtless make that success in their undertakings which Mrs. Lowra good example and her Interest alwavs accora-plrd- i. Mrs. Lowry's beauty of face is acknowledged in Atlanta they would. hap long ago died out. as genet-niBut these . breakfasts" take place at as her beaut of mind and character noon, and" the link wheat cakes and have been privately and individually served to the gues.s some hours before, i ml so ihe ie hu.vk-f- . .11 name 01m . Tbeic is, too. an:& other evidence that the animal t.aMiie has the better of the spirit u.m ally at the breakfast nour In the cireutm t ince that the French, who could not hear to be conversationally dull at a meal, 'ake the first one of the day iu bed! How very clever they are, and what a reputation for unfailing geniality, qulckuesi and fascination this one custom peihaps has given to them! We believe that GEN. JOHN GIBBON, the most glowing description of a brillttllery. He eaw service tn the vrnr with iant talker would be that he (or she Mexico and in garrison at Fort Monroe was so at the breakfast table. in 1848. He was ordered to Florida and participated in the hostilities with A VENEZUELAN BEAUTY. the Seminole Indians. After that he went to Texas and was in serv iee there Merrede Tovar dr 1HBtlng, Who I ( elo- until 1S52. In 1859 he sas made a bntrd for Her Charm. captain and when the war came on he enezuela, the South American rewas on frontier duty iu Itah. In tto public which has excited much symwinter of Gl-- 2 Captain Gibbous served pathy and discussion, is celebrated chief of artillery in General among travelers for the beatill of Its division and in Uiesprir.g of women. They are graceful as young '62 frag appointed brigadier gr neral of a deer, with velvet skin and eye that brigade in the department of the Rap- could give brilliancy to the stars. Ono pahannock. He took part in the cam- of the regal beauties of Caracas is paigns of the army of the Potomac Mercedes Tovar de Panting. She and in many other important engage- i3 fall, of queenly bearing, and eyes and ments of the war until he was wounded hair of a shade of blackness that is in 18G3. He left the war a brevet major said by returned travelers to make the general and was appoinie. colonel in ravens plumage yellow by comparison. the Thirty-sixt- h Infantry in 18G5. Hir, The Senora Mercedes, like all wealth? p battles with the Indians a e recent his- Venezuelan women, is highly educated n fad. rate senate fyr half that length of t.me He took hla seat In the I'nited Siau-- .eiute n March, 1879, and Bas re elected in is$J aud 1890. The tena-a- n was g friend and "thum" of the late ' but Chester A Arthur. WOMAN. t.ut Not in the Buffalo Courii r ic.ire-shbem eo ne as taking thi- - lntei fat- thief u TlunvItUt! , A vw Her Ill tircuDtDrat u.M U iilripre.! borrow Throughout Clift funks of the el Legion, of H a ni HE WAS A BORN SOLDIER AND BORE MANY SCARS. I 18 BREAKFAST CONVERSATION. - H T n, ! |