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Show farm near Philadelphia. He has fallen heir to the estate of his aunt, Elisa Sophia Lindhardt Pontoppdan. She died Jan. 15, 1895. He also had three children. I have lately become a widow and it is, therefore, of the greatest interest to me that the missing heir is found or proof of his death be secured, because the laws of Denmark permit of no division of the estate till such is done. Also, the authorities of Helmigen requested me to find him, if possible, or his children. If you insert an advertisement for him in the papers it may find him. It will be some time before he will be able to do anything Mmself toward securing the money. His illness is of such a character that it will be several weeks before he can leave the hotel. Just' what is the present worth of his aunts estate he does not know, although he knows it is large. Her husband, at the time of his death, had large shipping interests and was the largest individual ship owner in North Europe In addition he had large landed interests. The expectant heir to all this property is in very moderate circum, stances. Wealthy, but One of the most conspicuous business men of New York, who is the extensive head of a company with many millions of assets, said recently that he had not taken a vacation in ten years. He is a flERTWNTYYEARS man thought to be dead, C TURNS UP. I A I , - In Denmark, nls Aunt Died Recently Worth Over Him Property tearing Would Bring Most AnyMillion One body Back to Lif. the hrough efforts of J. N. Wal-le- 0f m, royal vice- Denconsul for mark at Philadelphia, Sophus Lin- hard, now lying ill in the Burnett house, Stroudsburg, has been made aware of the fact he is the heir at $1,000,000 estimated an estate near Elsinore, Denijnark. Linhard, who is an .intelligent man, came to this country over 20 yers ago and engaged a. in farming not far from Philadedel-phi- His letters) to his relatives in Denmark were few and soon they lost sight of him entirely. Some time ago Hard-Worke- d. taken seriously ill and went to the Burnett house in Stroudsburg, where he had friends. It was while he was a p,atient here that one day a copy he. was i School, and takes quite an interest in (Brighton, Ilk, Correspondence.) This place is noted for the beauty of musical culture. Its women as well as for the chivalry of Miss Jessie Dain Is an alumnus of the Its men. The town is full of them, and High School, and adds to the entertainher surrounding 'hills and valleys, and ment in social functions. She is the her smiling prairies, bloom and bloss- eldest daughter of Capt. E. T. Dain, a om with young womanhood that is the Veteran Indiana soldier, who fought pride of the Prairie State. through the war. Miss Jessie is' an inMiss Josie Lash is the daughter of Mr. teresting conversationalist and enterGeo. W. Lash, one of the e grain tains her friends genially. Miss Mabel Martin is the daughter of buyers of Brighton. Miss Josie lives a Quiet home life! with her parents in the late Dr. Frank Martin, who died South Brighton. She was educated at upon the threshold of a brilliant career the Brighton High School, and is an ac- in medical science. Miss Mabel inherits the magnetic qualities of her father complished and genial young lady. Miss Meda Merrill is one of the leadiand is loved by her many friends and old-tim- ng society girls here, and in all entertainments her presence is sought for. She is the daughter of W; C. Merrill, of the firm of Merrill & Chase, and our present postmaster,', a graduate of the High School and at Jacksonville, 111. She is well educated and accomplished. Miss Marcella Glenny is the daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Holly Glenny, the first odder of the Brighton News, and widely known for his newspaper work in thi3 section. Miss Glenny i3 the soprano singer in the M. B. choir, and a general favorite In Brighton society. She i3 also a graduate of Brighton High a newspaper was handed him. M admired by all. Miss Addie Robertson is the daughter of the late Daniel Robertson. She resides with her sister, Mrs. Marshall Dickerson, and is a prominent character in social functions. She is cultured and genial, and her amiability and happy disposition draw about her many friends. Miss Hattie Robings resides with her parents in their beautiful home on North Main street, her father, Mr. A. Robings, being an old citizen and veteran who fought as a private through the war. Miss Hattie is accomplished. , -- vice-cons- ul r- 1' at-H- Pn nt r-cci- ml " CX", I 'T cf rmtien f r. V. cf , rcth a c: At t' lili r, er -- 't to you w, -la w t ii: I rhu j. lw rd a lie: to C THE BIG SHIP CANAL. The Exceedingly Remarkable Performance of a Skilled Chinese Ventriloquist. WILL IT CHANGE THE COURSE A man who witnessed the performOF GREAT LAKES? ance gives the following description of what a ventriloquist in China said: The ventriloquist was seated behind a screen, where there were only a chair, a table, a fan and a ruler. With the ruler he rapped on the table to enforce the silence, and when everybody had ceased speaking there was suddenly heard the barking of a dog. Then we heard the movements of a woman. She had been wakened by the dog, and was shaking her husband. We were just expecting to hear the man and wife talking together, when a child began to cry. To pacify it the mother gave i food; we could hear it drinking and crying at the same, time. The mother spoke to it soothingly, and then rose to change its clothes. Meanwhile another child had been wakened and was beginning to make a noise. The father scolded it, while the baby continued crying. By and by the whole family went back to bed and fell asleep. The patter of a mouse was heard. It climbed up some vase and upset it. We heard the clatter o t the vase as it fell. The woman coughed in her sleep. Then cries of "Fire! fire! were heard. The mouse iha upset the lamp; the bed curtains were on fire. The husband -- hemal and well educated, and takes a great interest in She is also a product of the High School and a splendid scholar. Miss Eva Short is a graduate of the High School, and the only daughter of the late Capt. Robert Short, who went into the army as a private, and was mustered out at its close as a captain. Miss Eva is a bright, fascinating, cultured young lady, and makes hosts of friends in social life. She Is connected with many of the principal old families of Macoupin and Greene counties. Misses Edith and Clarabel Potter are sisters who have been prominent in social circles here, since their graduation at the High School. They 'are daughters of Mr. Asa Potter, who was postmaster for three terms. They are popular entertainers and have a host of friends. The above list of young ladies have grown and developed into womanhood here In Brighton. They are fitted, like their many friends unmentioned, to adorn society and embellish the home. Wealth could not add to their qualities of true womanhood. They may be said to be a fair type of the American cultured woman, who is with our country. Sunday-schooT'Wor- k. ive It millionaire, and his statement Indicates and wife waked up, shouted and Belief That it Will Eventually Dry Up , the Falls of Niagara Engineers and ' Scientists Are Now Becoming: Alarmed to 15e Ready in 1896. HE Philadelphia If Press says: are contracts kept the great canal which is to connect Lake Michigan with the Mississippi river will be finished in 1896, and one of the greatest projects of modern times will be brought to completion. The enterprise was suggested many years ago and a number of plans were proposed, but it is only in recent years that it was undertaken seriously. It has been pushed with vigor, however, the improvement in dredging machines and in blasting methods enabling rapid progress to be made. It will serve not only as a ship canal, but as a drainage channel for There are In realChicagos sewage. ity two canals, one extending westward from Chicago to La Salle on the Illinois river, where it is met by another canal, which extends eastward from Rock Island, on the Mississippi river. With the completion of these canals in' sight the problem of supplying them with water is causing much discussion. The canal running eastward from Rock Island will draw its supply from the Mississippi river, but as this water flows into the Illinois river and so Is returned to the Mississippi river a few miles . north of St. Louis, no harm to the navigation of' the Mississippi river" Is anticipated. The same confidence is not felt in respect to the source from which the canal running westward from Chicago will draw its water supply. This supply must come from Lake Michigan. The canal is 160 feet wide at the bottom, where it is cut through rock, and 200 feet wide through earth cuttings, and it is intended to furnish a depth of 18 feet of water, although y;s full capacity may not at once be utilized. r The quantity of water necessary to supply the canal at first it is calculated will be 300,000 gallons a minute, and, as it must all be drawn from Lake Michigan, the extent to which it will lower the level of that body of water and all the other lakes also is a matter of grave moment. Some engineers estimate that there will be a general lowering of three inches in all the lakes, while others estimate that five or six and even nine inches is ijearer the quantity that will flow off. If such a material lowering of the lake levels takes place it may disastrously affect commerce, especially in dry years. Many harbors now having a sufficient depth of water for the largest lake vessels would be shallowed, and the St." Clair and Detroit rivers would not be navigable for heavy draftvessels. It is calculated also that the water now running over Niagara Falls would be diminished by 5 per cent at once and ultimately by 10 per cent. Professor Wright has estimated that the basins of Lakes Michigan and Huron are so delicately poised that it peeds only a displacement of a few feet of rock and gravel at Chicago to spill them Into the Mississippi valley. Lakes Huron and Michigan are about on the same level and elevated 580 feet above the sea, while Lake Erie is 8 feet lower. Lake Superior rests in a basin of its own, 20 feet higher. The drainage area of the four lakes is about 250,000 square miles, with an average annual rainfall of 31 inches. There have been theories that these great bodies of water are supplied by hidden springs, and the rise and fall of the lakes at times could be explained on this theory. But It is not generally accepted. The question of how much water will be drawn from the lakes into the canal Is of sufficient importance to demand a definite answer before the canal is opened. The commerce of the Great Lakes must not be allowed to suffer, although every one will sympathize with Chicago in its effort to obtain a water channel to the Mississippi and a The drainage outlet for its sewage. over of is the lake carrying capacity tons, and the value of the merchandise carried annually is many million dollars. The government has spent much money in deepening channels, and is now completing costly improvements at the Sault Ste. Marie Falls. Care should be taken nothing is done to injure this great commerce or to lessen the usefulness of the improvements made. 30,-000,0- 00 Gibbons Seven Autobiographies. Gibbon wrrote bis Roman history once; but the history of his own life he wrote no fewer than seven or, indeed, eight times. The manuscript versions themselves have been preserved among the Gibbon papers, which since the historians death have remained in the safe custody of the Sheffield family. These seven autobiographies, together with Gibbons journal and correspondence, are now to be published, and make one of the most interesting and important items in John Murrays announcements for the autumn publishing season. The publication is a valuable result of last years Gibbon centenary. The earl of Sheffield, who has an herediSisters Raid a Saloon. to the post, will edit these reFive daughters of John Granninger, tary title and contribute a preface. of East St. Louis, 111., made a raid on mains a saloon where their father got drunk A Little Too Loving, and smashed up things considerably. Bride My dear, this hat has been They left word that the dose would be more crushed if beyond redemption, and I must repeated whisky was sold to have a new one. Groom Very well, their father. rp are probably few clerks in Lew my darling. Ill stop in somewhere on w! o work harder than this mil-ir- e, fteen-stcr- y new A be to hours is my way home and buy you one. (Bride may building e.ca though their ffan erected the Francisco Calk faints with horror.) by rwer. New York Sun. under which men paper he had seen for the high pressure comthere he learned for the who manage the affairs of big -- st time that the Danish panies sometimes work. During the M Philadelphia was advertising to as- summer his family live in their cottage I am able to get on the Jersey coast. certain. the whereabouts of Sophus Lin3:30 in the afterker d. away from my office at Ha well kneW when ho left Denmark noon, he said, by making use of my to my cottage. I S0 that he tad an aunt and time on the trip down Hr. and Mrs. J. S. Pontoppdan, go by boat and I take my stenographer am able to clear i.3 were very wealthy, but the last with me. In this way Ion the way down. that entered his mind was the up nay correspondence to New once at J Hht that they were after him. At My stenographer returns I find office he was inclined not to pay any York, and when I reach my to the ndverti-cmcand he let the letters that I have dictated the for my signature. fitter go by lor a day or so. night beforemeready about an hour a day. "thy he determine I to write to Con-- 1 That saves a vacation. I and in reply received a Vacation? No, dont take ''aen, do that, but I M r! a letter which had beta rent to My clerks and assistants ' me to get for on June 2. It was from find that it is impossible ih PephH Pcntcppdan, cf Port-- y awa. There are many little details tre,, nnd nnonq other things said: that I have to attend to personally, and 3 wid cf :i. Lirr-n- , DarMi ccn- - I cr n't turn them over to any other was the first esine time and HERES REALISM FOR YOU. screamed, the children cried, thousands of people came running and shouting. Children cried, dogs harked, the walls came crashing down, squibs and crackers exploded. The fire brigade came racing up. Water was pumped up in torrents andissed in the flames. The representation was so true to life that every one arose to his feet and was starting away, when a second blow of the ruler on the table commanded silence. We rushed behind the screen, but there was nothin there except the ventriloquist, his table, his chair and hi3 ruler. CORSICAN BANDIT! TRAINING C Annul R-P- CON IG r. ; IIow They Aro They Are Tolerated and. Liked by Tbelr Fellow Inlanders. t to Act irt f r (. j? r j r re. DcYv itt C. Lock wo z vrlt"i - n z ' The bandits of Bellacoscia reside at count of the CaiTh cf PcalA their ease in the picturesque gorge of Catalina, the Monte describing dOre, "rapid : Pintica, on the side of service established some t'tv.trn the above the town of Bocagnano, E 1 - I miles from Ajaccio. They have lived here since 1850, and always in defiance of the law. Their history is interesting, if only because it tells how powerless France has shown her-tee- lf to suppress the Corsican scourge of banditism. So long ago as. 1848 Antonio, the elder of the two brothers who carry the nickname of Bellacoscia (literally a fine leg, which they have so often shown to the pursuit of the law), committed his first blood crime. He shot the mayor of his commune because the honest man refused him a false certificate of exemption from military service, and, further, demanded rent and taxes from him as a settler upon communal land. A few years ago the bandits were judicially condemned for using force in the senatorial elections. But one sentence more makes no difference to them, and their candidate is always successful. They, with their wives and children and certain relatives who find it convenient to live in seclusion, make up a population of about thirty souls. There is never, therefore, any lack of sentinels in the gorge. No one can approach within a mile or two without being seen. The houses of the banditti are strong, and adapted to stand a tight siege if need be; but the bandits themselves rely for defense more upon their moral influence over their neighbors. The signals that pass between them and Bocagnano keep them posted in the doings of the world, and especially such as concerns them. As a last resort there is a cerv tain cave, the secret of which is well kept, and thither by a fearsome track athwart the porphyry steps of Monte dOro, they can betake themselves in perfect seeurityj Why not, it may be asked, send a column of soldiers against the Bellacoscia, and starve thenqout? Pintica ought not to be impregnable after Badajoz and Sebastopol. In effect it has been tried. In September, 1886, no fewer than 186 armed men assailed the gorge and blockaded it. Of course it surrendered in time. But meanwhile, where, think you, were the Bellacoscia? Safe in the house of-- a certain mayor of a village, one of the creatures of their own election. When the soldiers at length withdrew the bandits reoccupied Pintica. Such are the famous bandits Bonelli, or Bellacoscia. It really seems as if France were proud of them, and did all in its power to preserve them as remarkable specimens of lawlessness for the diversion of visitors. With a little management it is no hard thing to get introduced to the rogues and their home. The old men are civil enough to a stranger, and especially If he is rich and an admirer of eccentric types. They will give him the kiss of peace and bid- their pretty daughters fetch wine-cup- s that they may drink his health. If they are asked to furnish proofs of their skill at musketry, to oblige him they will shoot at gold pieces, or lift the cork from champagne bottles at a respectable number of paces, until the visitor Degins to find the diversion expensive; but they must be treated with a becoming amountof respect, or there Is no knowing what such despots may take it into their heads to do. They have received presents of value from ladies and gentlemen with royal blood in their veins, and they stand toward the rest of the world not a little like Napoleon himself in the height of his fortune. They are by no means ordinary beings. Heaven only knows whether they will die, as they have lived, out of the pale of the law; but it may safely be said that their end will not be a violent one. The district would revolt rather than suffer such a wrong to be done upon Its heroes its lords and masters. If certain local politicians are to be believed, Corsica has already lost much of its regard for the republic, simply and solely because M. Carnot confessed himself personally willing enough to pardon the Bellacoscia, but, in deference to the law, unable to do so. The Bellacoscia are the type of a kind of Corsican bandit, but not the worst. They do not seem ever to have Indulged inr Indiscriminate brigandage. Doubtless if they were forced into a corner they would not miDd kidnapping a lord and holding him for ransom, or even lifting a purse like an ordinary highwayman. Tragedy Told by a Tombstone. Under a hickory tree in an old graveyard at Mexico, Mo., Is a tombstone with the following unique inscription: In memory of John W. Ricketts, who was assassinated about sunset in Audrain county on the 24th day of February, 1857, in the 38th, year of his age, on his return, and within sight of his home. He was born near Flint Hill, Va. The victim of a conspiracy in youth, haunted and traduced in after years by those who should have been his friends, and at last shot down by a murderer clandestinely. He was a man of mind, and energy, true to his friends, and forbearing to his enemies. A good brother, a kind and affectionate husband and parent, and a useful citizen. Dedicated by an affectionate wife and brother. Requiescat in pace. places in the September St. NicLoIoJ He says: It must be understock!, bat.'- ever, that in certain pigeons, tr; cci-l- ly those known as the Belgian vari tyj the homing instinct is developed in u remarkable degree; and it is the birdh intense love cf home, and the almc.t unvarying certainty of their return, thither after having been taken sent distance away and then releared, which makes them valuable as carriers. TLp methods used in training a pigeon fer special service are not by any meanr similar, as many persons seem to think to those employed in training a deg tr run after a stick, or a white-spotte- d pony to dance the polka. A carrier' education consists in conveying him away from home and letting him go,, when he simply files back to the lei? where he belongs.This sounds almost ci thrilling as the story of the enterprising mouse that first ran up the clock and then ran down again, and of eourr? it conveys no idea of the immense amount of care and patience involved in the rearing and breeding of the birtir the special cultivation of those qualities which produce the best results, and so on. In training the birds for Catalina three or four were usually placed together in a pasteboard box, perforated with holes about the size of a quarter of a dollar. They were carried to r spot a mile or so from the loft, in s direct line for the coast of Catalina, and released. A. few days later the same birds were taken a greater distance away say three or four miles from home and liberated. In this manner the several succeeding journeys were gradually lengthened until San Pedro; the seaport of Los Angeles, twenty-tw- o miles distant, was reached. Then the pigeons were taken aboard the steamer and set at liberty a few miles out at sea. Increasing the distance upon the four occasions that followed, until at last the end of the route was reached and the birds would fly, without fail, across tin: sea and over the land to their home. twenty-fiv- e WEDDING DRESSES TO HIRE- New York Girls Can Dave Nice ar 20-fra- nc A Novel Rashness. selves. One of the ferry lines just started at New Ycrk City is obliged to pay so annual rental of 122.000 g Loaned for State Occasions. From the New York Herald: Madison street braces up a little dawx-nethe police station and thereabout is a nest of curious shops. One of therm has in the window. In English and Hebrew, this sign: Wedding dresses to hire. I went into this shop the other dayv explained after a struggle that I wa? prompted by curiosity and not by a do-s- ire to prepare for approaching nuptials, and asked just what the sigm meant. The proprietor led me into a rear-rooa stifling closet that reminded one of a Turkish bath lifted the lid T a big chest and pointed out a pile oV white satin garments, a little faded, but. wonderfully beflounced and bedizened.. There, he said. And do women who are to be married come here and hire these dresser and return them after the wedding? - An enterprising firm has gone into a novel business, namely, the renovating of dres3 skirts. The badly-wor- n skirts are thoroughly cleansed, faced and bound with velvet binding, and when pressed look quite like new, all for the cents. This has sum cf seventy-fiv- e proved to be a boon to women who are or engaged in business and have little no time to do such repairing for them- Tromr-seau- Many do. Why? Well, most women here cant afford.' a nice wedding dress, but they all want: to look beautiful on their wedding dayj-s- o I have these dresses and so they come to me. Then one of these dresses has been, worn by several women? Maybe a hundred. One dress costae them a dollar, a better one two or three-- It Is a great risk. They are not always, careful. Some, however, are very good L and bring the dresses back to me witlL their own hands the next day. Ido not. think there is much money in the traded, though. Perhaps not so many get married now. Is the East side getting rickl that it can afford wedding dresses of? Its own, or poor that it cannot afford?, to marry? And I, not knowing, had to leave hlrr struggling with his own problem. HUMOROUS. Mistress Have yon a stranger dhrem there, Bridget? Bridget N, mtna. its Con Calaban; sure. OI knew hiziN in th ould cotmthray! Puck. The farmer said one of the little-pig-s was sick, so I brought it some suSugar! "Yes, sugar. Havent gar." hamsT" ever heard of sugar-cure- d you j ) Truth. The Princes tutor J "What-ca- n your' Tbe highness tell me about gold? Prince is silent. Tutor Quite rightj. your highness. Silence is golden! Fliegende Blaetter. "Do you think, said Chappie, ths a gentleman ought to speak to his bar ber when he, meets him on the street?" "Certainly," said Briggs. Its about the only chance he has to get a word! in. Indianapolis Journal. "The highest elevation attained by man, said the professor, is about 2G 000 Meet. "Hm, whispered JTnder-gra- d, I got so high on hard cider ones get day down on the farm that I didnt back to earth for four days. --Cincinnati Enquirer. Im perfectly convinced, said the ambitious young man, that I cam write the greatest novel of the period. Why dont you go ahead and do it: Oh, I would not think of sneko then? a thing. I am happy In my belief oa the subject Wheres the -- good of Ysshlng-to- n risking dlsapointment? Star. Student I learn that there are casern In which people have had from childhood an uncontrollable desire to eat What is the cause of that?" soap. Learned professor They are victims of sappessomania. Student Urn vrhat doc Fappcssomania mean? Learned professor A desire to tzO New York Weekly. eo&p. - nr f |
