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Show A Story of the Day:-O- n the 14th of December, 1861 England was called upon to mourn the death of Albert, prince consort of tueen Victoria. The cations grief v as sincere, as he was held in universal C'ts'in. The story of his I betrothal tothe qutH-- ot Great Rritian n Lint-resting- . mat h was It is thought thutthe arranged at an interview Habits ant Disposition of kimo Dogs. An organization has nnvntly been During the wonderful sledge jour formed in this country, formed of men ney from Hudson bay to the Arctic and women the latter preponderatocean Frederick S iiwatka had abun- ing whose motive and creed are as dant opportunity to learn the habits simple as they are lofty. To become and the disposition of Esquimaux dogs. He started out with sixty of them, using them to draw the sledges, and only nineteen were alive when he returned to Hudson bay. The others had died, mostly of stai vation. He says: They were through all this horrible time perfect respecters ot their human allies, and the little children used togoamongtliem and play with them by pelting them over the hack with their whips: and yet the same dogs were starving, and should one of them die his comrades would eat biin. I noticed this particularly as some sensational writers have tried to make their readers believe that the Eskimo docs are liable to become dangerous fellows, even to a powerfully built man, w lien simply hungry, and to he worse than wild beasts when ravenous. Any onslaught ot Eskimo dogs is unknown among th northern natives where I traveled. It was pitiable in the extreme to see their sufferings as they so devotedly helped us along, many of them up till the very minute they had to be taken from the harness and abandoned on the road. As they dropped out along the way we harnessed ourselves in their plat es to the sledge-traceand it was thus we were not compelled to leave important parts of our load. between them in 1836, hut it was jiot until three years later that the flair was settled. Albert became of age in 1839, and in October of that year he visited England. Thegiaces jnd accomplishments ot the prinee airly won the heart of the young queen. On a certain occasion, at one of the palace halls, the queen presented her bouquet to the prince at the conclusion of a dance. Ills close uniform, buttoned up to the throat, did not permit him to place the boucompliquet where the Persian-likment would dictate, hut hedrevv forth a ripped a hole in the luva-of his coat, and placed the Powers there. On another occasion, when ho was thanking the queen lor the very kind and gracious reception which he had met with in England, suite replied: If, indeed, your so much pleased with this country, perhaps you would not to remaining in it and making These details are it your home. obtained from the prince consorts memoirs, and while they may possibly not he strictly correct, they leave no doubt as to the affection that existed between the royal couple. Tne queen soon after these events ivanspiml called together the members of the privy council, and formally announced to them her intention of marrying Prince Albert of Saxe Her Mothers Ghost. toburg Gotha. The wedding took A marriage which was to have Feb. 10, 1840, and the pair place lived happily together until the taken place at Catnpden the other death of the prince twenty-onyears night, was interrupted in an unexda ter. pected way. The contracting parties, Henry Brown and Miss Mary MorA Kite Draws a Wagon. gan, stood before Itev. Mr. Clayton, to becoming man ami Arthur and Leon Bunnell, Burton preparatory wife. A portion of the service had .A. Andrews, John II. Dieter, and been alreadj- read, about fifty witWallace E. Cook, who call themselves nesses being present, when the bride the ;,A. D.C. club, own what is prob- uttered a loud scream. All eyes were fixed upon her. She was ably the largest kite in the country, immediately and one day last week when there seen to raise her hand and point towas a fine breeze they sent it up. The ward a corner of the church. The kite is 16 feet high and 12 feet wide. next moment she fell on the floor in The frame is bolted together with iron a swoon and had to be carried out. r bolts and is covered with Physicians worked with her for nearan hour before she was restored to To canvas. balance of this ly yards weight requires a tail 140 feet long, consciousness. When fully recovered weighing fifty pounds. The canvas she gave a curious explanation of her is attached to the frame by hooks conduct. Her mother, wliodied four and can readily be removed, the months ago, was opposed to her frame folded up and transportation marriage with Brown. The marriage made easy. It is proposed to give was for a time delayed, hut after the whole a coating of asbestos to Mrs. Morgans death arrangements and in summer to for it were pushed. Miss Morgan says render it utilize it to give exhibition of fire- that just when she was about to proworks, which can he so arranged as nounce the binding words she raised to be discharged in mid air with the her eyes and saw her motli r's ghost; then she fainted. The wedding was aid of a slow match or a fuse. The trial trip took place last week. postponed for several days. New A Imavy clothes-linwas attached Y'ork Journal. and fastened to a light road wagon, in which the five young men seated themselves. A good, stiff breeze was The Odd Ending of His First Case. blowing, and the immense kite rose gracefully into the air. It, required My first case in San Francisco, the combined strength of the five to said Attorney- - James K. Wilder to a hold it. When it had reached a height of 2,000 feet it was held there reporter yesterday, was the defense hind the wagon was pulled over the of a young fellow charged with stealcountry roads for four miles at the ing a watch belonging to a catholic rate of about nine miles an hour. priest. I was appointed by thecourt, 'The shafts of the wagon had been re- because the prisoner said he had no moved and the ingenious arrange- money. ment of ropes was used to guide it The jury returned n verdict of not by. New York Sun. guilty, and as the defendant was I called him leaving the court-rootte Disestablishment in England. hack, and just as a joke handed him my card and told him to bring me en' English church disestablishment is around the first $50 he got, I' 'coming faster and faster tothe front Next day ho walked into my office 'le!I of political discussion by the highest and planked down two twenties and n? authorities. At a great meeting in a ten. Where did get all that monGlasgow' recently Lord Itoseberv ey? I demandedyouas soon as I got I approach the question in a said: over my surprise enough to speak. ted spirit perhaps somewhat different Sold the priest6 watch, he reego Irom some ot those who are here he bowed himself out. as San plied, night. I know many think that an Francisco Examiner. is a national injury ;rei and a national injustice. I cannot was take that view I do not A Relic of Early Days. altogether. hi- consider that an established church is While quarrying for building-stonIt either a necessity or an outrage. If in the near the old St. as I may say so, a church of some a is a for a crjption necessity Marys college, yesterday, Edward even if it were not a necessity Lougliry found among some loose rev r man himself. But of the necessity drabier an establishment the nation and rock on the surface a ttlr i he state itself should he sole judge. goon pistol, bearing on the butt plate the date 18.10 and the letters church is a necessity, but the U. B. surmounted by the English iablishment is a superfluity. It is a crown. It has been altered to a prethat superfluity in which, in my opinion, cision lock, the nipple being far forngt the state the nation has aright to ward on the barrel and the brass in t( indulge if it chooses; but it isasuper-Irie- t socket of the flash-pastill remainfluity without which it can very well ing. The stock is of reddish wood s Bfdo if it pleases. and has evidently been w hittled out Not with a knife, the rougli surface left by '10 ACharming Duel of Politeness. the chipping being plainly visible, as the stock has never been painted or Old Judge Fernald of Santa, varnished. The trigger is broken off. has the reputation of being the The ot the lock is still sound in man He California. never and spring inibpolitest the hammer falls with a vicious Rioses an opportunity to dofi his hat snap suggestive of the days of 49. or to offer some slight attention to San Francisco Chronicle. men and women. One le R wayfaring as he was about no take a train reap day The Length of The Day. for San Francisco he reached the 0i, 'lle Cast car ear f At London. England, and Breas diit,l 8P3 just they ,ritwere approached by a young priest. men Prussia the longest day has 16 After the cloth, said the ehival-ai- e hours. At .Stockholm, Sweeden, it is judge, stepping back with a court18 hours in lengnth. At Hamburg, bow. ly lisF Gray hairs have the preference, in Germany, and Dantzic, inRrussia, the priest, with a splendid the longest day has 16 hours. At 'wave of the hand, St. Petersburg, Russia, and Tobolsk, in. The church alwayslias the 8iberia, the longest is 19 hours and the shortest 5 hours. At Tornea, retorted the judge, taking b other backward step bat in band, Finland, June 21 bringsa daynearly The church follows in the i 22 hours long and Christmas one less 9 y of the fathers, replied the than 3 hours in length. At Ward-buro priest, bowing lowand indicatingthe Norway, the longest day lasts from May 21 to July 22, without into the steps. ire tr The duel of politeness was not half terruption; and in Spitzbergen the neither yielding an inch, longest day is 3 months. At St. flat. through, When the train pulled out, leaving Louis the longest day is so:newhat p, tAth bowing and smiling on the less than 15 hours, and at Montreal, platform. San Francisco Examiner. Canada, it is 16. St. Louis Republic. 1 ty e d liigh-jib's-i- ob-je- -j ct s, e - filty-fou- fire-proo- f, e m vil- to-R't- w - e foot-hill- dis-sf- states-offiira- n, f-- flint-loc- k es-i- oa n UStT Bar-pattLa- ra . 3 preced-ldd-'cnc- INSULT TO INJURY. Help Your Neighbor. Es- e, an-W- foot-indisP- v, a member and subscribe tothe tenets of this organization, it is necessary to agree to one thing, to be pledged to one act. It is that each member shall, each, and every day of his life, preform at least one act for the good of a fellow being. In thisageof selfishness it is refreshing to learn that an assemblage of human beings can lie found whose watchword is altruism, and who bind themselves to forget sell at least once every hours The age in which twenty-lou- r we live seems one in which the plant unselfishness finds a poorsoil indeed. It grows sporadically, not generally, and is too often a stunted and weakly affair. And yet the need of altruism, of self forgetting, is more widespread every year. The rich grown richer, and, vice versa, the poor grown poorer. Selfishness, on the one hand, and sorrow on the other are growing quantities. Any measure that will lead toward warming into life the chilling embers ot altruism must have the sanction and support of all right minded men and women. It is a small thing, indeed, to devote one impulse, one act each day, to the lightening of some other mortal's life burdens. Opportunities offer to all of us at home and in the hustle and whirl of business life. There are heavy hearts all about us that we may make brighter; there are gloom and despair, and thereare gray days that we can render more endurable by the sunshine of a kindly deed or sincerely spoken words. It is not necessary to bear the badge of the Red Cross society to bind up the wounded or alleviate pain. The keenest hurts do not flow blood, and the sorest bruises are not those of the flesh. They can be reached and cured by the exercise of the diine qualities of sympathy and unselfishness, and can be healed by those that never graduated in a school for trained nurses. In every eighteen hours of waking life there are at least aa many opportunities for the display of a practical, unostentatious hit of unselfishness that will make the recipient happier and the bestower happy as well. The organization referred to is one that should find encouragement from all that can realize what it is to be poor and friendless and hopeless. And even if they can not, it will at least bo possible to give intelligent sympathy, to perform a small act of pure unselfishness for the mere pleasure which such doing confers. They will find that a little bit of altruism has power to bestow a happiness not purchasable and a delight beyond the scope of a bank note or a check to bestow. The sum of human liapni-nes- s is not so great that individuals may not add thereto, and it is far easier to do this than most people imagine. Pittsburg Bulletin. Relieved from Jury Duty. when a "Wisconsin Circuit Once Judge was empaneling a jury, he said that if anyone w ished to be ex' cused from service reason should be given at once, and their sufficiency would be duly considered. One man had a sick child and another had a sick cow. Presently after considerable rumination, an Irishman arose. His lace and attitude bespoke a heavy sorrow and a reverent humiliation to Divine Providence. His words were few and simple: Jedge, me woites did, with a stomachic emphasis on the did. Well, my good man, I guess well have to lot you go. The Irishman slowly took his hat and went. When he had gotten his body well out side of the room he poked his face back through the nearly closed door, with a triumphant grin, and said: Yis, sor; an she's been did fliorty year. The Sheriff was told to let him go, for the Judge was Irish himself. Milwaukee Evening Wisconsin. i Leprosy in the Northwest. a Norwegian Dr. Armaur Hansen, savant, recently visited this country, and in Wisconsin and Minnesota ex. amined a number of lepers who had emigrated from Norway. He arrived at the interesting result that of 100, of such emigrants the offspring has remained free to the third generation. This, the author believes, shows emphatically that leprosy is not a hereditary disease. He thinks thatthe different mode of life in the new country does not afford the same opportunity of contagion ns given by the peculiar condition ot life in Norway. Chicago Tribune. Obtuse. itforgranted, Miss Laura, said young Dr. 8midgley, that you condemn, as all sensible young women do, the nnwholesome and bartia rous practice of tight lacing. On the contrary, Mr. Sinidgelv, returned Miss Laura, with a wistful, I take yearning look in her glorious dark eye, I think a compression of the waist to a reasonable extent not only harmless but at times positively exhilerating. And that dense, stupid, woodenheaded youth sat there for an hour and argued with the young lady on the evils of tight ladng.Chieago Tribune. A : piMfrvor love.) a prettv Hint t (if of m ienfi o b.i, mU, '1 as thus hf atbiwil !- ,My I.ff work on thf .rci. :i ll'itcan lias inf o! our brii;.it uus. aa I'm a I altiog ruu-M- 0, sharp an'." ? my toil ad faraf, mo't lovely tiu-ma- wom- lea-lin- T was thus he saej hrr. The merrrnary male answer r: 1 rea.iv !pj,r I mu-- t. s r. m that light chile to view you: Although jua cause me pnvle and preat tion. I cannot web nbore my mental station, out 1 become, 'or a i oi.sideiation, Asci-tToll. Harvard l.aniuoon. T m-- n, 1 ela- 11 er t- - nan roKKAxsoii. JJ l'j had been out from Melbourne two days, V. journeying toward the new town ofMur-Pjiray ('ill-- , on Murray river, and we were ,. only two miles from ,, yj r- gyL aa post statof ion, w here mounted guard police had their head quarters, when the driverofthe stage or wagon suddenly brought, his horses to a dead stop. This was in the days of thirty year atm, before any part of Australia waskalfeiviliz-eby the English, and before the big island had been more than half surveyed. There were plenty of bushrangers hunting every highway, and every stage was usually accompanied by a guard. In our case five of us had put together and hired a private It was one of the usual conveyance. 6tages, but making a special trip for our benefit. Of the five three were Englishmen, going np to the valley of the Murray to locate land, the fourth was an American, who had been in the country two years, and I had landed in Melbourne only the week before. My compatriot was named Davis, a widower, and he had his only child along a bright little girl eight years old. He was going up to in partnership with a friend already settled, and he could not bear to leave his child behind him in the town. The five of us were well armed and every hour since leaving Melbourne we had been ready to defend ourselves. As we had met with nothing to alarm us thus far, and as we knew we were eiose upon a station, no one was prepcd lor what happened. The stage Wd no sooner stopped than two men came up on each sjde. covered us with revolvers, and agruff voice announced: Now, then, the first move and off goes yer heads! 8tep out here one by one! I was the first one out. It was just at sundown, and on a portion of the road between two ridges. The two men on that side were rough, fellows unkempt, desperate-lookinfair samples of the other two and the instant I saw them I knew we were in for trouble. When we were all out they ordered the driver" to turn into a blind road to the right, wad we followed after the wagon, is we were ordered to follow the the leader of the gang said: No foolishness now! The four of us have our pistols looking right at b - d sheep-ranc- h g ve-nic- le ye! After going thirty rods we were ns well hidden from the highway as if we had gone ten miles, ami were brought to a halt in a little glade. As there were five to four, you may wonder that we did not make a break. The first man who had moved to pull his revolver would have been shot in the back. Davis could not have been counted on anyhow, as his anxiety for his child took all the fight out of him. The driver, if not in league with the rangers, was at least treated as neutral. While lie was armed, he took matters so coolly that he saw he was out of the scrape. The five of us were placed in a row, and while three men stood behind us the fourth disarmed us and went through our pockets. We were crowd. The $30 a poverty-strickethey took lrom me constituted my worldly wealth, while Davis and the others had been too sharp to trust their money to a stage ungarded. The whole amount did not pan out over 150, and the bush rangers were furious. Why, you bloody bloke! shouted the leader, you alone ought to have at least 200 with you! Do you think Im carrying my money about the country for such as vicyou? protested the tim. Im you hadnt got a blasted penny! added the second. The idea of it! Youll nil be hung for this! growled the third. Davis and I had nothing to say. We didnt see that the case could be helped by protestations. The words s of the Englishmen provoked our to a white heat, and they were knocked about unmercifully the next five minutes, Then the lender, speaking to the two of us, asked: You are not English? No; Americans. I thought so. Where are you bound for? We gave him onr destinations. Well, were a hit sorry to take your money, small as it is, and so delay vour journey; but weve got to do both. These three roves is rich, and we aint going to let em off with shillings where we ought to have pounds. n hot-lieade- of the men went over to the driver and held a consultat'on with him. and the result was that heturnrd his team about eml ill the direction of the highway. We were then ordered to proceed in a northerly course through the scrub, one man and the others bringing up the rear. Nut a word has been addressed to little Eva by any of tin although all had looked at her with softened expers-sion- . She realiOtl what was going on, but went through it bravely, and when wo started through the scrub her fat her carried her on his shoulder. We traveled for six or seven miles before halting, and then came upon a camp lire, with a litu bushranger sleeping beside it. lie was rudely awakened, and I then saw that he had his right arm in a sling having been wounded or meeting, with an accident. The camp v.as a thicket, with a temporary shelter of brush to sleep tinder. The live of us were ordered to sit down under this shelter, anil then every mans feet were tied together, at the ankles and a guard took a seat b 'fore us. Then the lire was rcplt nished, and the bushrangers gave us sin li a supper as they could afford, which consisted solely ot roast mutton and a flour cake baked in the ashes. When wo hud eaten this and been offered a drink of waterall around the leader sat down bero re us and said: Now. genis, business is business the world over. We have got to have money. We want it to convert these ere natives from the error of their ways, and, it will take a heap to do it. Y'ou first gent who was so ready with your tongue, how much are you worth? Its none o yer blasted business, you scoundrel, you, was the hearty d cap-tor- While we were held undier guard one reply. "Well, mebbe not. Bein ns you is so poverty stricken Ill put you down tor only 300. Now you second gent. I eoukl raise 100 if in Melbourne. That means 200 for you, then. Youll lie a half or more. Now, you third gent. Ill see you hanged for this days work, wus the reply. Mebbo you will, but not after I sees your money. You also go down for 300. Now, the fourth gent. Youve got my last dollar, I reI landed in Melbourne only a plied. week ago. Thats bad for all of us. but I guess you tell the truth. Now, you fifth gent. 1 might possibly raise 5 if up at the ranch, replied" Davis, but that would he all. I am poor aud just making a start. Is that your little gal? Yes. Wheres the mother? Dead. Shoo! the Thats too bad. gals name? YVhat's Eva. Mighty sweet. Say, gal, come and kiss me. She went over to him and kissed his bronzed and bearded cheek without the slightest hesitation, and lie held her for a moment and looked her over and said: Sweet as honey! I wouldn't hurt you for all the gold in the big world! She was allowed to return to her father, and the leader then said: We shall hold you three peppery gents until you raise $800 for us, and as these Americans might give the alarm we shall be obliged to hold them ns well. Sorry to do it, but business is business, and if we dont look out for ourselves no one will. Each one of the Englishmen swore by all that was good and great that hed never pay a cent, hut the bushrangers only laughed at their words. At a late hour we were ordered to go to 6leep, and the last thing I saw before my eyes closed was the guard sitting on a rock at my feet. The night passed quietly and as soon ns we had breakfasted in the morning the leader took pen, ink and paper from a box and said to the Englishman: Now, then, heres the chance to write to your friends to raise the rocks, and Ill see that the letters reach them. Each one of the three refused point blank to make any attempt to raise money although it was plain they had a desperate lot to deal with and that they would suffer for their obstinacy. Well, some other day will do just as well, laughed the lender. But I want it understood that each day of delay adds 25 to the ransom. YYe werethen untied, gi von a few minutes to get over our stiffness of limb, and then we all set off over u rugged, scrubby country toward a range of hills. We traveled steadily until noon, and then came to a very secure stronghold among the hills. By placing as in a natural enclosureof about an eighth of an aere we were surrounded by rocky walls on threesides and on the fourth the bushrangers built their fire and made their ramp. As we were penned in here the chief of the bushrangers announced to the Englishmen that lie would give them two days in which to make up their minds to send for the money. If they held out at the end of that time he would take his own measures to extort the money. One of the Englishmen was a large in Australia, another was a civil officer at Melbourne, the third was frehh from England, and was intending to start a manufactory of land-own- er villainous gang on never looked at. ( in the morning of the third day, without having annoyed us in tho least during the interval, the chief called for their decision. Each Englishman curtly replied that he would never get another dollar of their money. The civil officer was the leader and most independent. He was seized, tied hand and foot, and alter his hoots and stockings had been removed he was placed with his feet to a lire. He stood the torture until he could smell the odor of his burning eo!es and then gavein. The other two followed his example without waiting lor the torture. Each one wrote a note to a lriend in Melbourne worded by dictation. YVhile the chief was a rougli looking fellow, lie proved to have a very fair education. When tlw letters were ready lie took them and started, presumably to find a messenger to act ns There were four left to guard us, and after the chief had gone one of them bruised some herbs and kindly tied up the Englishman's ieet. Our three fellow prisoners rather shunned Davis aud myself during the afternoon, seeming to be put out because we were not called iipon to ransom ourselves. But we afterward recalled that they made much of the child, and had her with them a good share of the time, Each outlaw also had u good word for her whenevershe came near, and she was permitted to run about without restraint. At 4 o'clock in the afternoon this was the situation: Three of the asleep hevond the fire. guards weresat-oThe fourth the ground, with his back to a rock, reading a novel, while he had a rifle across his knees, Davis and 1 lay close together talking matters over, and the Englishmen were ten steps away. Little Eva was ruuning about, shouting and playing. All at once we heard the pop of a revolver, followed by a death cry, and ns we sprang up two of the Englishmen, each with a pistol in hand, dashed past us. In sixty seconds more every one of the bushrangers was dead. They had coaxed Eva to bring them the pistols, which were lying on the far sine ot the camp, and she had passed behind the guard and made two trips. As soon as they had the weapons one of them shot down tho guard, and then the others were slain before sleep was fairly off their eyelids. The smoke was still hanging over the camp when we began the construction of a litter, and within half an hour we were headed for the highway and carrying the victim of torture along with us. YYe kept going all night, as we had to go Blow, and about daylight eameout attlia stage station. A sqnad of mounted police set off for tho camp, and on their way to it came across an I killed the leader of the bushrangers, thus wiping out the last ot a bad gang. hull-aslee- p Scheme that Didnt Work. A assistant city physicians paid a visit to the YVashington school, tho other morning which they will remember to the longest day they live. 8o will 16 joung misses who rank nearly or quite ns young ladies. Irof. Ridgeway had a hand in the affair, and, deeply appreciative of a good joke, lieenjoys the telling of this one. There is some sort of a law about tho vaccination of children, and the young medicos railed at the school with a request that a number of the pupils be brought out for examination ns to whether their sears were of a recent enough date. Their pockets were stuffed with points ready foruse, and they were eager and anxious to experiment. lrof. Ridgeway, the obliging principal, told them they should have all the subjects they wnnted, and stepping into a recitation room, spoke to the pupils of the seventh grade. Then they filed into the hall, 1 6 as fair young ladies ns one could wisli to see. The doctors stood aghast, while the young ladies stood up in lino with wondering interest, lrof. Ridgeway introduced the young specialists, and tersfly explained t he object oftheir visit. The youngladies blushed and hesitated. The young men blushed and looked for a means of escape. One briirht young miss, with a convenient pair of scissors, quietly cut a slit in the left sleeve of her dress, and this brought the young ladies to the giggling stage, which threatened to become hysterical as a Don't start companion whispered, that fashion! Mine isn't on my arm. Then the young medicos fled wildly, the girls went into convulsions, anti Prof. Ridgeway erased every black mark against everybody for the day. Kansas City Times. - j 1 Remarkable Surgical OperaTwo young tion. It rather an unusual oeeurence to remove part of the thigh bone by the aid of a chisel and hammer, but is such on operation was successfully accomplished the other day at 8t. Marys hospital by Dr. D. J. Hayes. Stephen McGurty, of Franklin township, Manitowoc county, had his riglit leg injured two years ago. Inflammation set in, and finally tho disease developed into necrosis of the bone. Then a new growth of bony tissue, an inch in thickness, soon incased the diseased structure, and prevented the young man from walking. The contiguous tissues became at Melbourne or Sidney. I both labored with them perforat vitb fistuke, from which flowto make them realize the situation ed disagreeable pus. Thesurgeon opbut they were dgheaded and obsti- erated on the new bone with a chisel nate declaring that it was all a bluff, and h ammer, and after two hours laand that the rangers would not dare bor removed every vestige of the strucproceed to Extremes. YYe believed ture. The young man has rapidly some sort Davis and shortly be able differently. They were escaped con- improved and will YVisconsin. victs, cadi one outlawed, and a more walk. Milwaukee to |