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Show Where Women Lack Grace 5eted 8 to froi 5 for for 52. . ta GORGEOUS CEREMONIES MARK THE GRAND DURBAR AT DELHI. INDIA Carelessness in Walking and Sitting Too Common Among the Fair Sex-- Old Fashioned Rule Should Be Remembered. 5 T A TIME when skirts were rather short and with the feet easily and daintily crossed, on a footstool if here were no graceful Just peeping from below possible, and frills to swish around the gown would have beenthe hem of indecorous the feet and hide un- to a degree. movements, a This was a restriction of freedom gain! of charming American girl besince has who nt come an Italian countess said that if a man would never Urtin love with her she account allow him to see her J or to see her going up or down jjiirs. gte considered three-mont- either act as it Is performed quite enough to In illusion the most ardent swain. out of ten are Mtb seven women wiarif awkward in the use of their is largely owing to the etj Which never heard of or ,ct that they have rule ire forgotten the ,t in walking or climbing whenever on the ground at the le feet are should he placed as ie time they together, heels as possible josely out. jchiDg. toes slightly turned re-- j 4 few trips up and down stairs jots of clumsiness in this respect women who are otherwise pretty ,(IJ4Hy eott' jj itep, ijher Instead of a springy graceful. each foot set trimly next the with heels touching for the in-j- t they are together, it is much to see a laborious plodaing, jore usual L which the feet come down at Cslte ends of the stair with toes The Strong-MindeGirl. movement perhaps, but at the same time it insured an always graceful attitude. d panic-stricke- PRANKS OF ROMAN STUDENTS. Youths Make for Themselves .All Kindt of Diversions. They still tell the story at Villa Medici, Rome, of a nouveau student, Two hundred and twenty of the hugest elephants in Asia trumpeted 1 who, when presented to M. Schnetz, a salute to the Viceroy of the Kaisar-l-Hin- d FrancW famed to. himself boldly tapped him on the chest as be and his American wife in not that is only walking s for a) But it and to the Joy of the "ancient stu- made their state into the ancient entry Iwomen seem not to have recognized dents exclaimed, I know that joke, capital of the Moguls Dec. 29. . fact that the proper management old chap. No use on me! it trying Since the days of the great Aurung-sebtBeir feet is of as much importance The joke is the richer since It marks the descendants of . the dressing of their hair. the passing of one of the best jokes India, has seen no such Tamerlane, In sitting they are guilty of a num- splendor as at this famous institution. For years the pageant around the Jumma of sins of awkwardness, particular Musjid had been it the custom for the older when the ruling Princes filed past the unifestations of which seem to be-ito have one of their number Viceroy and the students Emperors brother. to special types. in a dress coat presented with all due Each monster elephant, almost hidThe small women with short legs solemnity to the new students. den in the gorgeous embroideries of loes some very funny things for which Still joke is tor the older Cashmere, iridescent with It is students another silver, erhaps she is hardly to blame. to capture a couple of new- pearls and precious Btones,gold, raised his of her ie mlsfertune physique. comers and, after conducting them to trunk and as his trumpeted a either has to sit with her small their rooms, thrust them in and lock royal master raised his homage scimiJeweled an in absurdly helpless dangling jt the door, leaving them face to face tar to his turban in salute to the abnj or else to perch herself on the with a donkey tied between the beds. sent Emperor. ige of a seat with the toe of one foot Each year the salon of the villa Is At the head of the elephant procesSlouching the ground and the other transformed into a gala place, and the sion rode Lord and Lady Curzon on hooked round the ankle of the finds himself in the midst of the state Grand Tusker, twelve feet spectator Irst. This latter is perhaps the best a country fair, an old time Roman high, the largest elephant in India. ,laa she can adopt, but she has to or the holdup of a family of Their howdah was decked with gold lit a little sideways to bring it about carnival English tourists, in which a young and silver, and the elephant Itself was ad usually shows the effort it costs woman, who, by the way, wears a almost hidden beneath a gold worked luxuriant mustache, is oorne off in trick HiHi umph by a band of the blackest ban of gral GREAT WESTERN WRITER DEAD. dits ever painted. e, g i tea The Dog Knew. retriever not long ago was sent into a ditch to bring out a winged The dog picked up the partridge. scent, rushed along the bottom of the ditch under the brambles, and after a little groping about emerged on the bank with an old rusty kettle, holding it by the handle. Laughter greeted tnis performance. Stop a bit, said the dogs master. And Here, Rover, give it to me. the dog brought the kettle to him. Taking it from bis mouth, his master put his hand into the kettle, the lid being off, and took out the partridge. Chased by the dog, it had crept into the kettle to hide and the dog, not being able to draw it out, just brought A say thi his fve camj mllei paring to has beat Ited to i .he lowe suit of ai on, has an rising place to, ee the ia. 4 laa bes The Lean and Lank Way. Where there Is any choice of tut she should rapidly pick out the tar. lowest chair in the room and manage wrnehow to get it. The woman who grows fat almost of thelt always develops a tendency to sit very lefinlte); muarely with feet planted aoout a toot apart and toes turned out If you the sab couldnt see another bit of her you t Vi'.' would know at once from her feet t cut to tilt she was more than passing esult o! itout But the lean, i of tha woman ah ral Bar m has odd ways of disposing of her toot. She it is who commits the aetieti itrodties of winding them around the 0 kgs of her chair In opposite directions, a ret ay d crossing her legs and winding them lound and round each other until her a i ie lead feet seem Inextricably mixed up and her crossed feet out in 62t offrontsticking of her. uy, The mannish girl either sits with 3 kgs stretched out, heels touching tne s vibe ground and the soles of her shoes In toll view or with tar!: legs frankly crossed, ouch as man would and she has even U ieen known In moments of abstraction to put one foot up on the other knee. but It The timid woman always sits with thoJ feet well drawn in either with toes net touching the floor close together and tow up or with feet tightly crossed to the same way. The nervous woman always trots or topa her feet, than which there is noth- i govern long-legge- d t ini the lot Wealthiest Girl In the World. There can be but little doubt that the Grand Duchess Olga of Russia, who has just attained her seventh birthday, is the wealthiest little girl in the world. Immediately after her birth something like a million pounds was settled upon her, the huge sum being safely invested in England and France. If she lives to reach her majority her marriage settlement is likely to be the largest on record. No one knows the extent of the white czars wealth; it is doubtful if he himself does. He is far and away the largest landowner in the world, and he foas gold and other mines in Siberia which bring in a revenue, the amount of which is never made public. Possibly the belief may have arisen from the fact that winds capable of turning leaves over very often precede or follow rainstorms. New Fire Pump. The chief of the fire department in Rouen, France, has invented a fire pump which can be operated by tapor ping the current of any street car is The pump system. electric light small enough to be drawn easily by cart, one horse in a light, but sufficiently powerful to throw a stream of water 100 feet high. In a trial the new pump developed its full energy in three minutes, while a steam pump required fourteen minutes to get up the same pressure. d X , f of 'flu re- - wa ed :d xi Native Generosity. "Are you catching any fish, little boy, may I awsk? "Not a blame fish. Are you aw getting anyi bites? ' "Nary bite. The Way They Ciimb Stairs, Have you been fishing here long? tog more All day. aggravating to the average ferson. It beats the devils tattoo. Do you expect to catch anything? The future women have the best of Nope. tor with the unconsciousness that Then why, little boy, do you conXiongs to girlhood of having any feet tinue to fish? all they are never troubled as to Sos you kin hev somethin to put to dispose of them gracefully. in yer book on Ameriky, mister. to a pity they cant be trained a bit the awkward age approaches so as The Worlds 8moklng Bill. J1 avoid some The world now consumes 6,300,000,-00-0 of the objectionable ftits illustrated. pounds of tobacco yearly, or 2,812,-60-0 tons. This is worth 200,000,000, Tfrey did these things better in the toad old In other words, the world's smoke bil days when there was a rule as to the proper disposi-o- f is Just 5,000,000 a week. a womans feet Those were Jews Allowed to Acquire Land. days when a little foot and a fine Permission to acquire land has Just were admired as much as a totty taco, and to sit otherwise than been granted to the Jews in Russia. well-tofro- Literary World Loses Leader in Mrs. Mary H. Catherwood. reCatherwood, Mary Hartwell garded as the foremost writer of western historical romance, died at Chicago last week. Mary Hartwell Catherwood was born in Luray, Ohio, Dec. 16, 1847. Her parents died when she was 10 years old. She was educated at the Womans college, Granville, O., from which she graduated In 1868. She settled at Hudson, Newburg, N. Y., on the where she earned her living by writing stories for the New York weekly papers and later for the magazines. Her earliest stories were for children and were published in Wide Awake. Mrs. Catherwood came to Illinois in 1877 from her New York home and located at Hoopeston, 111., where she was married to James Steele CatherFrom wood twenty-fiv- e years ago. Hoopeston the Catherwoods removed to Indianapolis, but returned to Hoopeston in 1885, where they lived until 1900, when they went to Chicago. Her first great success was achieved through a historical romance called Romance of the Dollard, founded on events in' Canadian history, and her last and most famous book, Lazarre. In her short stories, some of which are published in a volume entitled Queen of the Swamp, Mrs. Cather Mistaken Notion About Leaves. It is true that people often say that the turning up of leaves is a sign of rain, but the sign does not seem to be a very true one, declares the Monthly Weather Review. There are many popkinds of trees like the silver-lea- f lars, In fact all the poplars, the maple and some of the oaks, which turn their leaves up whenever there is a fairly strong steady wind, but they do it as much in clear weather as in rainy. J . Surrounding them were footmen in scarlet and gold liveries and bearing massive silver stages. The Duke of Connaught, who represented King Edward, and the Duchess of Connaught followed. Their elephant was equally gorgeously caparisoned. Then, in order of precedence, came the Nizam of Hdyerabad, the Maharajah of Travancore and other ruling chiefs, seventy in ail, their huge elephants forming a line a quarter of a mile in length. The route was entirely lined by British and native troops From fhe battery posted at the fort commanding the Lahore gate, guns thundered out a royal salute as the Viceroy passed with the heralds and trumpeters sounding at intervals spirited fanfares. In the rear of the procession rode General Lord Kitchener, the in India, surrounded bj a brilliant staff and followed by the heads of the provinces, with escorts of Indian cavalry and tribal leaders fiom beyond the border line. Down the main street moved the cortege through lines of saluting soldiers and excited, surging throngs of natives; through the ancient eity, with the balconies and housetops teeming with life, and through the Moree beyond. gate into the open park march, the eleThere, after a four-mil- e phants of the Viceroy and the Duke of Connaught halted side by side, and the pageant was concluded with the great Princes filing by, their elephants trumpeting a salute. The Viceroy was in state uniform; Lady Curzon was dressed in gray, the Duke of Connaught wore a field marshals uniform and the Duchess of Connaught was in blue. They received a flattering welcome at all points. A touching feature of the spectacle is said to have been the presence of a descendant, by the female line, of the last King of Delhi, whose sons were executed by the British for their part in the Indian mutiny of 1857, the King himself being sent into life exile, and dying a few years later. WORK OF CHICAGO SURGEON. DEATH OF MRS. FREMONT. saddle-cloth- mis-er- kelnj mad when a young man presumed to tell him his name upon meeting him and saying How do you do. But the fact that he could not remember faces was made manifest when one time, while he was Secretary of State, one of the Senators who had sat in the Senate with him right at his elbow for a number of years called upon him. The Ohioan remarkIt made, I record the I'm proud of ed that he knew the young man and said then astonished his caller by asking I helped In a righteous cause; It was part through me that tne slaves where Senator Carter, who was interare free- -. ested in the matter in hand, could be For I went to the front with Hawes, found. The yqung man he addressed Yes, he wore the blue and chevrons, ' ' was Carter. too. Though he was but nineteen; And I served him well until he fell. Civil War Teamsters. Said the gun to the old canteen. There were teamsters and teamsters, said the Captain, Some of the Ah, yes, I know, cried the old canteen. meanest and most heartless men I I moistened his lips that day: ever knew, and some of the best, were should friend I did all I could as an old teamsters. Even Andersonville didnt Whiie he there dying lay; And I stayed with him till his eyes grew cure the meanest ones of their tricks, dim- -- i the fact that they were in 'Twas the knapsack hanging between. although them a standing as good heard gave prison it all of That recorded each word soldiers. Some of the worst stamFrom tha gun and the old canteen. n Dan W. Gallagher. East Boston. pedes of the way were caused by teamsters, and 1 never blamed Blood Stains Lasted Long. wagon-master- s for their raids on tha Capt Ira B. Gardner, who attended companies for good men. I remember the G. A. R. encampment with the one case in which two or three frightveterans from Maine, related a most ened teamsters precipitated a panic on Interesting story to a reporter shortly the road from Bridgeport to Chattabefore his departure for his home In nooga, in which over twenty wagons Potted, Me. He said: were broken up or overturned, forty 1 lost my arm at the battle of mules crippled or killed, and thouCreek, Va., SepL 19, 1864, sands of dollars worth of sadly needed while serving under Gen. Sheridan. army stores destroyed. 1 Immediately after I was wounded In fact, the stampede was almost was taken to a nearby farmhouse and as disastrous to the army as a defeat laid in a hallway to await the arrival In battle, and there was no excuse for of the surgeons to amputate my arm. it, as there was for the stampede of The floor was a very uncomfortable the teams on the second day at 1 I dont suppose any one who resting plac for my head, and asked the woman of the house for a pillow, saw the horrible confusion in the big for which I gave her 5. In due time cornfield on that day had much pride the surgeons arrived and performed for the time being In the human race. the operation, and I was sent to Win- But even in that stampede there were chester, from which place I was re- scores of teamsters who kept their turned to my home. heads, extricated their teams under Last year my wife and I came terrific fire, and, being well acquainted down to Virginia and looked over the with the roads, watched their opporbattlefield at Accoquan Creek, where tunity and reached Chattanooga. While I was so seriously injured. Chicago Inter Ocean, walking about I found the house in which I was laid after being wounded, , Charged With Selfishness. and the woman who ministered to my over there?"1 see "Do man that you bewants and gave me the pillow. I said the old veteran, pointing out an gan to talk to her about the war, and man who was resplendent In a elderly been had she said that although there coat frock and silk hat between 300 and 400 soldiers treated , He quite occupies the foreground, in her house only one had ever given his friend; I dont see how I her any money. She said that if she said remembered right it was a Capt. Gard- could help seeing him. hes the most selfish man I ner, of a Maine regiment, who made everWell, knew. her informed her a present of 5. I "Isnt that a rather harsh charge to that that was my name, and that I Ive! was the officer she referred to. She bring? said the friend again. In men some selfish known my pretty would she said if I was Capt. Gardner show me something that would inter- time, and so have you. He looks most ' est men. She led my wife and me generous." I what he did until tell Wait you I had back to the spot upon which We' been laid thirty-seveyears before, to me, said the old veteran. same were in civil the war, she regiment, out stains which, and pointed said, were caused by my blood. The same company. He was in the front, woman said she had tried many times rank, I in the rear. At the battle of to wash away the blood stains, but Manassas we were standing in rank I gave the woman waiting for orders. That distinguished without success. over there stood 10 then and mailed her a check for looking individual I related just in front of me. He stepped out 25 upon my return home. the fact of finding the woman to my of line for a minute why, the Lord father, who also mailed her a check only knows. Any way, a Johnny Reb for 25, and we agreed that the woman bullet came along and plowed through should not want as long as either of us my cheek. You see the scar. Hes a selfish man, and no mistake. , lived. Capt. Gardner, who earned the rank The Fourth Army Corps. of brevet lieutenant colonel for serThe very flower of American youth vices during the war, said he thought it most remarkable that the blood was enlisted in the Fourth Army stains should remain on the floor thirty-se- corps, says an Eastern exchange. Its ven dead marked every battlefield from years. Washington Star. Fort Donelson to Nashville; through feur years of war, undaunted by i Patriotic Union Women. Frank Miller was the name taken bloody battle, participating in every by Frances Hook, 14 years old, who engagement from Chattanooga to Atenlisted with her brother in Chicago lanta, it gained for itself an enviable during the civil war. The pair took record among the organizations of the volunteer army. After the death of up their fortune with the Sixty-fifth- , known as the Home Guard. They Gen. McPherson on July 22, in the' served three months and were mus- battle before Atlanta, Gen. Howard tered out. Again they enlisted in the was transferred to the Army of the Nineteenth Illinois, and the brother Tennessee and Major General David was killed at Pittsburg Landing. His S. Stanley became commander of the sister remained in the regiment and Fourth Army Corps, and Brigadier did her duty until near Chattanooga, General Nathan Kimball took comwhen she was taken prisoner. While mand of the first division. After the battles of Franklin and attempting to escape she was shot in the leg and her sex was discovered Nashville, the Fourth corpir was sent The brother of an Ohio girl enlisted to the Rio Grande in Texas, to aid in and his determination to fight for the enforcing the order of the state deflag was followed by his younger sis- part for the French to evacuate Mexter. She marched out with the ico. Here, the French having retired, Third Ohio. At Camp Dennison she the corps was mustered out assisted in all the duties of forming An Old Military Roll. the camp; then learning that there were two Camp Dennisons and that her While preparing a part of the build brother was at the other, she made ap- ing at No. 41 Milk street, corner of plication for a transfer, but failed. Arch street, for occupancy by the Milk She wanted to leave the 'camp - so Street Cut Flower company, T. E. Watmuch that Col. Morrow questioned her ters, the manager of the company, and learned her secret Without much who was directing the work of cleanceremony she was dismissed and sent ing and renovating the place, came home. across a valuable military relic, the exScores of women besides these ac- istence of which had been known, companied their husbands to the war while its place of concealment, since for a few weeks, but few of them went trace of .it had been lost, was unIn male attire. known. I This relic will be of fast interest to Popularity of Gen. Sickles. military men, because it is the enlist There was no other figure in the ment roll of the old New England crowds in attendance upon the Na- Guard, formerly one of the three tional Encampment of the Grand Army crack military corps of this state. Th , that attracted more attention than the roll was drawn up in this city and erect form of Gen. Daniel Sickles, now bears the date of February, 1814. It an There la not really is in the form of a letter to "boy. a gray hair in the head of the Gen-eia- l, Caleb Strong, the Governor at that and as he appeared to the thou- time, yet It Is to all Intents and pun sands who saw him walking up Penn- poses an enlistment roll Bouton sylvania avenue just before the big Transcript parade, going to his place on the Piesidential reviewing stand, he did Col. Olin'a Record. pot look to be over 45 years old. How CoL William M. Olin, the new se he carried bis years and all - the vice commander-in-chie- f of the Gi troubles he has had so lightly to one Army of the Republic, was bon of the mysteries that no man can find Massachusetts in 1845, and in 1862 v out, says an Eastern exchange. listed in the Thirty-sixtMassa Everybody in Washington seemed to setts, which was In Potters divl know the General. Like the craft of the Ninth corps, and served t politician and diplomat he is, the Gen- the end of the war. He then v eral made the motions to Indicate that into the newspaper business. He be knew each one of the thousands elected secretary of state for who saluted him.' The only Infirmity state of Massachusetts twelve y the General will confess is a slight in- ago, and has been continuously to remember rames. He is elected ever since. He has ability sure that your face is very, familiar taken great interest in the statealv to him and he ia sure he remembers tla, and was .lieutenant colonel i meeting you here only a short time A. A. G. of the First brigade, Ms ago, but for the life of him he cannot ehusetts V. M, from 1882 to 1889, at the moment recall the name. It is colonel on the staff of the governc a fine bluff the fine old gentleman Massachusetts for four year. He works, A similar one used to be tried adjutant general of the Grand A by the late John Sherman, who was of the Republic under Commande never able to remember either names Chief Merrill and Inspector Gen or faces. He used to appear to get under Commander-In-Chief Waike The Gun and the Old Canteen. That old rusty gun hanging there on the wall, With Us muzzle all battered and beat; one day. It was carried away to the warmen went. When the first was Its and aim new It was then brand true, And the knapsack that hangs between Recorded each word of all it heard. When it spoke to the old canteen. Dr. Coakley Makes Valuable Discovery in Heart Stimulation. Dr. W. Byron Coakley of Chicago Brilliant Woman Practically Unknown to Present Generation. The announcement of the death of expects to demonstrate before the na Jessie Benton Fremont in California, with whose early fortunes both she and her husband, Gen. John C. Frewill mont, Were closely identified, hardly affect the present generation, which knows little about this once brilliant woman. Indeed, the interest In her life now is purely reminiscent; but her death will bring up many interesting memories to those whose recollections go back half a century and who will recall her as the handsome, dashing, high spirited wife of LieuL Fremont and daughter of Senator Benton. She was the young lieutenants support ' and inspiration in that famous exploration which made him known all over the country as the Pathfinder. She was the wife of the first Republican candidate for the presidency, and had Fremont been elected she would have had a brilliant court at the White house, over which she would have presided in queenly style She was honored at European courts, where her wit and beauty made her a social sensation. She was the belle of many cities, a general favorite in an unusually wide circle of tional medical congress in Madrid, distinguished acquaintances, and a Spain, next April, that the heart as born social leader, but the defeat of well as other internal organs may be her husbands political ambitions and reached and treated locally. He has other misfortunes which overtook him designed an instrument which he calls an organotone, a tubular golden needle by which he claims to be able to pierce the heart and inject through the tube any solution. The solutions to be injected are handled in an intricate machine, which is termed an organome-ter- , and by it the operator can regulate the quantity, temperature and pressure of the solution. Why Reed Appointed Dingley. St. Clair McKelway, editor of the Brooklyn Eagle, once asked Thomas B Reed why he made Nelson Ding-lechairman of the ways and means He replied: Some men would like to sit in a sumptuous parlor with a young, lovely and coquettish girl and be petted by her. You and I wouldnt do it, but we would like it. Now. Dingley, in preference to doing that, would be ..appier sitting on the bottom of an upturned bucket, in the darkest corner of a deep cellar, at midnight, with only the light of a stump candle by which to cipher out wood depicted country life ia Ohio, on rough brown paper the proper Kentucky and Illinois with an art and schedules fer a tariff bill. That is of fidelity equal to the New England why I wanted him for chairman 4 character drawings of Mary Wilkins. ways and means. y Plana of Boer Generals. Gen. Botha has written the Holland Society of New York on behalf of Gen. De Wet and other Boer leaders, saying they will not at present visit America, believing that they can best serve their people by meeting Secretary Chamberlain in South Africa and helping to let him see the devastated condition of the Transvaal. Gen. Botha says he regrets to see that many of his fellow countrymen areI busy raising funds in this country. wish to remark, he says, that no one our there (in America) represents from mission Is nor there any people our people or in any way connected with us and our mission. - nA Good Service Rewarded. Cooper, whose Rear Admiral P. diassignment to the command of a been has station Asiatic of the vision announced, has selected as his flag lieutenant Lieut Victor Blue of South Carolina, the young ofneer who discovered the Spanish fleet in the harbor of Santiago from a bluff three miles away. For that service Lieut. Blue was awarded ten numbers by the war board. a Governor Not Seeking a Wife. All the women who have written to the bachelor governor of Kansss pro- posing marriage will receive com nous replies, but not from the pen of Gov. Hailey. His private secretary has begun declining with thanks the offers, saying to each that Gov. Bailey is not In quest of a wife. About fifty photographs will be returned to the senders. Sixty-sideclinations will go to New York women and more than 109 to New England states. Not one of the proposals came from a Kansas woman. x Has Few d Moments. Mrs. Albert Burns of Laurens, S. C., ..as bad a very busy life. In twenty-tw- o years she has raised thirteen children. In addition to this she has started and run a sawmill, run a ginnery, which in the busy season she feeds nerself ; does general teaming, her own housework and takes in sewing. Vicissitudes of a Life. Alexander Hamilton, once a prosperous planter in Cuba, but now old, crip-ule- d and penniless, was forced to ap-ol-y to the charity board of Cincinnati or food and shelter on Christmas dav. He. JESSIE BENTON EPEMQNT deprived her of the opportunity to fill positions in which she would have shone. The Boclety queen, once dethroned, is soon forgotten, and such was Mrs. Fremonts fate. Boy Respected Truth. Congressman Hepburn was very busy at his desk in thq house one morning when a page announced; A gentleman in the lobby to see you sir. Tell him Im not in my seat,' said Hepburn after looking at the c?rd- boy sturdy looking did not move. chap, But you are in your seat, sir, he answered in matter-of-fact tones, and I cant say you are not The Iowa man looked at the lad angrily, but seeing that ae was In earnest moved into the vacant chair of his neighbor. Now tell him not in Im my seat Yes, said the boy briskly and went tosir,deliver the message. J9 Cut a Lot of Ice. Representative Beidler came out of the house and met Representative Nevin going in. What are they doing in there, Jake?- - asked Nevin. Amos Allen of Maine has got a bin that cute a lot of Ice. Nevinupwas Interested. Is that so? he inquired. What to It about? It provides for an Icebreaker in the Penobscot river Washington Correspondence New York World. Chick-amaug- n ' h a. |