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Show TEE SEH-WEERL- t T. PROMINENT CHICAGO MEN NATION. Y INVOLVED IN SCANDAL. UDC, rabliahM LOGAN. The Hungarians an? acting American. w. Bo In 11 The sultan of Bacolud wants Mil Mill get it. a la lli'ii. Sherinar- - "Tile Father of the Amerk an Navy, as Paul' Jones has been railed, was lie IVary is thoroughly convinced that a Nile is there to lie found anyway. Russia is preparing a coup anil Turkey is in it. TlianlvKi v Iuk is emu It'S- - Mall ('nine Is coniinK to thin emin try, lull mil, let it lie understood. Iiy request. Ilefore betting on the lloeota let's be the Padilla isn't manned with Americans too. Mire born a Scotchman. When he was a lad he was called John Paul after his father, but later In life he took the name of Paul Jones. This odd changing of his ratne came about in the following way: Little John Paul's father had a distant cousin who had migrated to America and became a Virginia planter. The good man bad no family, and be, therefore, adopted as his heirs two jatte jjiRcrr,r children of his relatives, the Pauls, who were back in the western A scandal which threatens It was the story which Dr. Rush to inof Scotland. One of these heirs volve men of prominence in Chicago told the one jury that he had just was little John Paul. finished telling tir? other and that led is coining to light in the trials tesult-mBut John Paul, if he accepted the to the indictments. trim the allege attempts at property of his family's cousin, must in that c ii y. The latest man In effect it was that for $20,000 Wilalso accept his cousins surname. with the case liams assured Dr. Ru.-- he could get a Such is the story of how John Paul brought into conni-rtif!- i is Janies If. Gorinley. president of the receipt in full for th? taxes, amounting became John Paul Jones, or Paul Masonic KraternMy Temple Associato $20,770.17. Dr. Rush protested Jones as he is more often called. tion. who was indicted by the grand acainst signing the check because he But to this story of his boyhood. His didn't want to get into any mote en- father, in his occupation as a gardr.er, jury on the charge of ronspiiary will. Kdward Williams. I.uke tanglements about tlie taxes. re lived some twenty-fivCaptain miles from Wheeler and James B. Hoy to defraud numbering some trouble experienced Whitehaven, then an important seaCook county. A capias for the arrest two years before. It could be accomport. A ship owner and merchant of of Gornih-was at once issued and plished. the story ran. by paying the Whitehaven was in toe neighborhood placed in the hands of the sheriff. money to "Mr, Raymond, or his right-han- of John Paul's home one day in the Dr. E. G. Bush, a director of the summer of 1759, and hiB errand was man, wncever that might be. same association, and formerly Its secThe protesting secretary was finally to find sailors for one of his ships retary and treasurer, told the jury in convinced, he raid, that he should be about to sail for America. That afternoon a stiff northeast Judge Chet Iain's court room a story a "good Roman and signed the check, which proved the last st:aw in the made payable to E. (!. Mallnn, bookwind began to blow and the weather del case of Manager Williams and the keeper and earhier, and it was conn- - became squally. Over the Solway, far in the distance, a small yawl was alleged "tax fixer." Whce'.cr. on trial tersigued by President Janies 11. charged with the same crime. ley. battling with wind and wave, and trythe little ing to run to the shelter harbor creek Peonear the by village. IN LOVE WITH AMERICAN GIRL. POSSIBILITY OF THE FUTURE. ple gathered to watch the progress of the boat. Among tiein was the ship Electricity Likely to Develop Won- Crown Prince of Siam la the Latest owner from Whitehaven. drous Freight Service. Royal Victim. The suggestion of Sir Alfred Jones According to a report from Philadelthat the Canadian ideal of a fast phia the crown prince of Siam, who steamer service to Liverpool would not In? reached until eggs laid in the Dominion in the morning were on sale in England on the evening of the same day, was received, as designed, with shouts of laughter by the members of the Provision Trade association at London. But what has electrical science to say? The latest electric parcel railway sceme would cover the distance between Canada anil Liverpool in fifteen hours, so that only the laying of the tube on i" floor of the ocean is wanted. Fantastic as such a proposal apiiears, the laying of an electric cable may be found to have prepared the way for the tube. As the little yawl sailed nearer tht land the onlookers saw that she was steered by a boy. who was also handling the sheets, and commanding; a man aboard merely trimmed the boat by sitting on the weather rail. When John Paul. Sr., who was among the crowd, saw the crew, to the ship owner and said: low'-lan- g It has been discovered that li;;lu nii'K will not strike water. Always drink your chaser. I "tax-fixing- " h It now transpires that the boxers are led by a woman. And yet tlu-say China is backward. e This is the fouth&ll season, and In con sequence of the scarcity of ( ual nearly everyone Is kicking. The Duke of Marlborough says he will never set foot in America again. Please accept our best thanks. What a terrible lot of thinking a man docs about himself when he lies awake at night! Atchison Globe. The Kaiser's tariff commission has decided that tooth brushes arc luxuries. So are soap, water ami towels. We can't understand how anybody who lives in the climate of New Or- leans ever gets up energy enough to riot. With beef going up in Germany and already up in America, the cause of so vegetarianism never has lieeu strong. If people would save up ail they are saying about coal and put the language in the furnace it would be hot enough. What is this? Girl strikers In a riot? Are men to have no rights whatever that are sacred from the other sex? Victory seems to have perched upon d c-- f P . ! trust has been formed to operate in China. The Chinese wall will soon have a coping of barbed wire. Has Been III Used. Miss Louise Montague, who has sued John A. Davidson, president of the Miss Eleanor Wilson, is now in this country, is in love with Miss Eleanor Wilson, daughter of Gen. James II. Wilson of Delaware, who was a member of the American em- bassy to King Edward's coronation. The prince met Miss Wilson In London and his attentions to her there were marked. He wrote a play and dedicated it to her. One of the prince's first Journeys in this country was to Wilmington, Del., where he was the guest of Gen. Wilson. Miss Wilson is 2) and a blonde. The crown prince is 22 and is thoruoghly European In education and manners, lie is already the author of several books of history iu English. He has been educated in England, principally at Oxford. Steamers coming back from Bering sea report a poor cstch of seals. Now, of course, your wife will insist on a new sack of skin. Fire put to flight a wedding party Probably there hadn't the house for so long that the bride got scared. in Hoboken. been one in IVary says that the pole can lie reached by a Miflleient outlay of money. But just now Pierpont Morgan doesn't need the pole in his busi- ness. HEAD OF NEW COMBINE. French scientist has discovered that a man may lie alive long after his heart l.as ceased to beat. That's true, too; our banker is that sort of a man. Fears ate entertained on tills side of the waVr that Count Boni do Castellano will got scratched in sonic of those Krenca resulting from oias death. diu-l.- i Nearly sixty thousand Italians emigrated to Argent Inn last year. Tl.e glad soiled of the street piano is probf ably cheering Cue people of tuat land far-of- surrounded by a flo 1; of these winged robbers on the lookout for booty. They fly in at the windows.rummage and carry off glnveB and handkerchiefs. 1 hey even open tied packages and examine their contents. Acan to observer, cording they nave been known to extrart nails. A pleasure party assembled in a garden Wrere startled by seeing a bloody knlfn A raven had fall in their midst. stolen it from the kitchen and dropped it among the merrymakers. The Australian satin birds are more discriminating and take only objects suitable for the embellishment of their nests. The natives are so well acquainted with this habit that when an amulet or a pipe is missed it is sought and generally found in the nest of the satin bird. The magpie has long been notoriAnother notable collector is the ous for stealing things, hut he is a arbor bird, which inhabits parts of the saint compared to some Asiatic birds. interior of Australia which the foot 1 he ravens, which abound in Indian of mau seldom treads. This bird cities, steal by wholesale and take builds long arbors of twigs thatched anything they can lay their beaks on wlt.li grass and secures them against whether they can make use of it or being blown away by weighting them not. Jerdon. an Engiisa writer, says with stones built in at regular interthat in some places every house is vals both in the walls and in the roof. Louise Montague. The fair plaintiff, who is now in the Fast, alleges that she broke her theatrical contracts and closed her stage (nicer on the strength of promises of the defendant to buy tier a handsome home in New York city and have his life heavily insured, making her the lier.cliciary in the jmiicy. The basis of the suit is failure to do either of these tilings. Martin Kingman of Peoria, HU Chosen for High Position. Martin Kingman, who has been elected president of the National Association of Agricultural Implements and Vehicle Manufacturers, Is the president of the Kingman Plow Company of Peoria, 111., and one of the wealthiest men in that part of Illinois A There are kinds of birds several that go through a regular movement to which the term dancing may properly be applied. Some of them even accompany their movements with notes uttered in a way to make one think they know-- the connection between dancing and music. The jacanas, a species of rail bird, feed in flocks, and every now and then they stop anil rush to a certain spot, from six to twelve in a cluster, and then all move about with their wings raised. Those who have seen them They build Immense rafts, some of them two or three acres in ana, and construct on them complete farm establishments. Then1 are houses, barns for grain and fodder, stables for horses ami cattle, and pig pens. As the journey is long often from GOO to 9oo miles, they take along a store of osiers and employ the great tlm In plaiting all sorts of useful and orns mental articles. STATE TO BE ENVIED. Seme wise observer has discovered lliat close proximity to electric lights How thlii would will cause baldness. interest the Prophet Elisha and the late Julius Caesar. Grand Duchy of Finland Practically Without a National Debt. In respect of its national debt, the Grand Duchy of Finland appears to be an enviable state. With an area four Pullman porters have formed an times that of Ireland and a population is It is high of fully a.oiiii.iiiHi. its national debt association. alas in described latest the report time measures were taken to check being about the practice of forcing tips on a most infinitesimal, which is far more than balcitiof and class unassuming worthy anced by the vnlue of the state railzens. ways nlone, not to mention the immense landed property and vast for After flfty-siyears of married life, ests. etc., belonging to the governMartin Kingman. a Chicago couple advise tliclr friends can raise He is Interested in a number of manuThis ment. moreover, state, to remain single. The surprise of the at 3 per rent, and Its loans art facturing and banking Institutions and matter la that they managed to live money for the natural ifr has always been a leading member of used yeara In lha sourest of developing together for fifty-siUo country. the association. Wiady City. g x say that the sight is not only unusual, but strikingly beautiful, as the jacana. has greenish-golfeathers under the wings, which flash vividly. There is a species of lapwing that has a performance of the most remarkable nature. It consists of a regular ceremonial for the reception of a visitor. The birds live in pairs, but one will now and then leave its mate and approach a pair. The pair advance to meet the visitor, and place themselves side by side behind them. Then ail three begin to march In that order, the leader uttering loud notes at regular intervals, and the pair keeping up a constant sound, like the roll of a drum. Suddenly all three stop; the leader raises ids wings and stands erect and motionless, still uttering loud notes, while the other two, with puffed-out plumage anil standing exactly abreast, stoop forward and downward until the tips of their beaks touch the Pound. Sinking their voices to a murmur, they remain for some time in that position. d to-da- anti-tippin- work-baske- ts sMfdsy John A. Davidson Brothers Marble company of Chicago, in the Superior court for $Uo,ono damages, was a few Henry .lames Kltxroy, earl of Graf- years ago the celebrated "$l0.0n ton. has been declared bankrupt. It beauty" traveling with Korepaugh's takes a lot of money to live up to a circus. She won her title in a beauty name like that. ontest thrown open to the world. A That is my boy hardling the yawl. He'll fetch her up. This is a small flurry for him!" After the boy mad the boat fast, his father introduced him to the ship owner, who praised hint for his sailor's knowledge and at once asked hint to become master's apprentice in onu of his fine vessels. Thus began his earner, for not many days after little John Paul sailed from Whitehaven for America. IffiptOTOflflfcC the banners, of both armies in Vene- FAMOUS BEAUTY ASKS DAMAGES. zuela, and it will be necessary to light the war over. . Miss Louise Montague Considers She An iron ..and steel Paul Sailed in the Boat. Of all the strange things In China none is more remarkable than the way in which the farmers along the great river Yangtse-Klantransport thair stock and produce to tie various ports g On arriving at their destination they sell everything. When the animals, grain and other produce and th basket ware have been disposed of thr buildings are sold and Anally the raf itsoif is broken up and sold for huilm ing material or firewood. Tlie prr. coeds of the expedition must serve for a long time, for sueh an Argosy is not launched and freighted every year. |